Software

Former PlayStation boss says gaming price hikes are inevitable, but lack of value is the real issue

Editor's take: Game prices are climbing to $70 and beyond, with publishers blaming inflation and rising development costs. However, players are pushing back against the price hikes because current big-budget games consistently fail to deliver comparable value. Current prices are a symptom of a much bigger problem.

Android 16 beta reveals new desktop mode to turn your phone into a PC

Android is getting a new look with Google's Material 3 Expressive

Original Fallout source code survived thanks to "rogue" Interplay co-founder

Over 250 tech leaders push for computer science and AI course requirements in US schools

Hacker breaches TeleMessage system used by US officials, raising security concerns

Despite rising game prices, 2025's best-reviewed titles are budget hits

A hot potato: Video games are becoming more expensive – Microsoft announced last week that it would be selling some of its upcoming titles for $80, while Nintendo will be doing the same with Switch 2 releases. One of the companies' arguments for this increase is that games now have enormous budgets with massive teams, all of which supposedly benefit the players, yet the three best-reviewed games of 2025 so far are all budget titles.

A laptop GPU now leads the Valve Steam survey, AMD CPUs reach all-time high

DOJ confirms it wants to break up Google's advertising tech monopoly

Apple revises App Store policy, allows third-party payments 'without tax' after losing in court

Someone tried, and mostly managed, to run Linux in an Excel spreadsheet

DaVinci Resolve 20 brings AI animated subtitles and smarter editing

Here's why Windows 7 took so long to boot with solid color backgrounds in 2009

What was the first computer program to have AI (and on what hardware did it run)?

Meta, Spotify, and others unite to challenge the Apple-Google app store duopoly

After studying 19 billion passwords, one big problem: Over 90% are terrible

TL;DR: A new study analyzing more than 19 billion passwords from relatively recent data breaches between April 2024 and 2025 has found that the vast majority are weak. Alarmingly, only six percent of the leaked passwords were unique, leading researchers to describe a widespread epidemic of weak password reuse.

CEO Satya Nadella says up to 30% of Microsoft's code is now written by AI

Court orders Apple to open App Store to competition, Epic Games wins

A hot potato: A federal judge in California has delivered a decisive blow to Apple's longstanding control over its App Store, ordering the tech giant to immediately halt practices that have limited competition and maintained high commissions on app sales. This ruling concludes a five-year legal battle initiated by Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite, which challenged Apple's dominance in the digital app marketplace.

Google Play shrinks by 47 percent following Android's store policy overhaul

Microsoft brings hot patching to Windows Server, reboot-free updates

Greedy patching: Hot patching is a way to quickly install security updates without requiring an OS reboot. Microsoft has offered the feature for years through its Azure cloud platform, but it's soon coming to non-cloud versions of Windows Server. It won't be free, but Microsoft's target audience is enterprise customers.

Google research exposes ongoing global risk from zero-day vulnerabilities

EA lays off around 300 employees – including 100 at Respawn – scraps new Titanfall game

Bitcoin mining no longer profitable as costs soar

Original Fallout creator was ordered to destroy source code, then Interplay lost its official archive

Developer ports compact Llama 2 LLM to DOS in weekend hackathon