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• This free font can trick AI scrapers into swallowing gibberish instead of your content
  By Zo Ahmed, July 31, 2026
• Intel is giving a startup the keys to its x86 (Atom) CPU kingdom
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 31, 2026
• X settles with advertising group after accusing it of coordinating a boycott
  By Skye Jacobs, July 31, 2026
• A third of physical PS5 games and half of Xbox Series discs need downloads to work properly, report shows
  By Rob Thubron, July 31, 2026
• Amazon spent $1.8 million on a failed AI project, and didn't notice the overrun for five months
  By Skye Jacobs, July 31, 2026
• PwC just got caught trying to pass AI slop as authentic research
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 31, 2026
• AI is finding so many Chrome security flaws that Google may start updating it twice a week
  By Skye Jacobs, July 31, 2026
• Qualcomm's humanoid robot demo went hilariously wrong when the machine just dropped dead on stage
  By Rob Thubron, July 31, 2026
• Meta's Reality Labs division lost $4.6 billion in Q2 2026, pushing total losses toward $88 billion
  By Daniel Sims, July 31, 2026
• More Americans now support banning phones all day at school, not just in class
  By Rob Thubron, July 31, 2026
• Google plans to produce up to 15 million AI chips by 2028, rivaling Nvidia's total accelerator volume
  By Skye Jacobs, July 31, 2026
• Longevity-obsessed millionaire Bryan Johnson wonders whether his bid to live forever has gone too far
  By Rob Thubron, July 31, 2026
• Absurd GPU Pricing Update Mid-2026: What Graphics Cards Cost Around the World
  By Tim Schiesser, July 31, 2026
• iPhone and Mac sales surge push Apple's quarterly revenue to $109 billion
  By Daniel Sims, July 30, 2026
• Meta is bragging about how its AI keeps people on Instagram, while facing lawsuits over addiction
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 30, 2026
• Seagate aims to launch 50TB HAMR hard drives in 2027
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 30, 2026
• Perplexity brings its Personal Computer AI agent to Windows
  By Ivan Franco, July 30, 2026
• Online fraud is a $150 billion nightmare for Americans, but most crimes go unreported
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 30, 2026
• Dust off those Nintendo 64 cartridges: M64 brings classic games back to your TV
  By Shawn Knight, July 30, 2026
• Google's Pixel 11 teaser hints at a mysterious new light around the camera bar
  By Skye Jacobs, July 30, 2026
• This smart ring can measure your blood sugar using sweat, no needles required
  By Rob Thubron, July 30, 2026
• Samsung is locking in five-year chip deals as AI demand shows no signs of slowing
  By Skye Jacobs, July 30, 2026
• Keychron wants to bring open-source firmware to gaming mice
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 30, 2026
• Europe is preparing to hit Roblox and ChatGPT with its strictest platform rules
  By Rob Thubron, July 30, 2026
• Xbox keeps sinking while Microsoft's AI business keeps soaring
  By Daniel Sims, July 30, 2026
• Study shows excessive time online is associated with stress, bad moods, and abandoning enjoyable activities
  By Rob Thubron, July 30, 2026
• A missing underscore in a username sent an innocent man to prison for 18 months
  By Daniel Sims, July 30, 2026
• Microsoft still doesn't know why the Xbox outage stopped physical games from working
  By Rob Thubron, July 30, 2026
• Hugging Face's CEO isn't suing OpenAI over the AI hack, he wants $100 million in compute instead
  By Skye Jacobs, July 29, 2026
• These fake download websites look real and rank high on Google, until they swap the links for malware
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 29, 2026
• The Neo Geo AES is coming back, right down to real cartridge support
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 29, 2026
• Telegram literally gives Russia the middle finger after founder Pavel Durov is charged with aiding terrorism
  By Rob Thubron, July 29, 2026
• The US just banned Chinese humanoid robots and power inverters over security fears
  By Skye Jacobs, July 29, 2026
• Samsung's passport-style Galaxy Z Fold 8 design is winning over reviewers
  By Ivan Franco, July 29, 2026
• GrapheneOS says its data-wiping "duress" password is perfectly legal, after user faces federal charges
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 29, 2026
• Logitech to ship mice with replaceable batteries in Europe only, following Nintendo
  By Daniel Sims, July 29, 2026
• EU will require companies to label AI-generated content starting Sunday
  By Skye Jacobs, July 29, 2026
• Framework Laptop 13 Pro reviews: Premium modular computing comes at a cost
  By Ivan Franco, July 29, 2026
• AI firms are quietly buying and destroying millions of printed books to train their models
  By Skye Jacobs, July 29, 2026
• United and Delta are banning humanoid robots from flights
  By Rob Thubron, July 29, 2026
• Apple Upgrade now lets you lease iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Watches, starting at $18/month
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 29, 2026
• Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over law banning nudify apps
  By Rob Thubron, July 29, 2026
• 4GB GPUs might return with AMD's Radeon RX 9050
  By Daniel Sims, July 29, 2026
• OpenAI's rogue AI agent did more than hack Hugging Face – it compromised accounts across four services
  By Rob Thubron, July 29, 2026
• Apple is the most valuable company in the world, again
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 28, 2026
• Hundreds of shared Claude chats, including resumes and health details, showed up in Google search
  By Skye Jacobs, July 28, 2026
• Microsoft explains what caused the Xbox outage and how it plans to prevent it from happening again
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 28, 2026
• WhatsApp adds seamless call transfers, web calling, and more
  By Ivan Franco, July 28, 2026
• Apple's latest security update fixes nearly 200 vulnerabilities across Mac, iPhone, Safari, and more
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 28, 2026
• Waymo robotaxis crashed 68% less often than human drivers in independent safety study
  By Skye Jacobs, July 28, 2026
• Microsoft laptop with Nvidia RTX Spark leaked and benchmarked before launch
  By Daniel Sims, July 28, 2026
• Ace Combat 8 requires ray tracing GPU, 32GB RAM, and 125GB storage for recommended settings
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 28, 2026
• You can now play Morrowind directly in your browser, no installation required
  By Skye Jacobs, July 28, 2026
• Graphics card prices jump by up to 20% in China as shops stockpile Nvidia and AMD GPUs
  By Rob Thubron, July 28, 2026
• Lossless Scaling lets a second GPU handle frame generation, reviving dual-GPU gaming without SLI
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 28, 2026
• Ubisoft is bundling free PC copies with 13 Xbox games, including Rainbow Six Siege and Valhalla
  By Daniel Sims, July 28, 2026
• Teacher arrested for clapping in support of speaker opposing data center
  By Rob Thubron, July 28, 2026
• An artist is suing an AI meme generator for selling his viral comic as ad templates
  By Skye Jacobs, July 28, 2026
• Sam Altman says AI won't shorten the workweek because humans secretly enjoy being busy
  By Rob Thubron, July 28, 2026
• The Best 4K Gaming Monitors: OLED Leads, LCD Fights Back
  By Tim Schiesser, July 28, 2026
• The Odyssey got bootlegged on X, but the internet cared more about the memes
  By Julio Franco, July 27, 2026
• The US Air Force used over 1,000 game consoles to build a supercomputer in 2010. Which one did they choose?
  By TechSpot Trivia, July 27, 2026
• China's CXMT surges nearly 500% in explosive Shanghai stock market debut
  By Shawn Knight, July 27, 2026
• Samsung lands Broadcom AI chip deal worth more than $200 billion through 2030
  By Skye Jacobs, July 27, 2026
• Mojang changes Minecraft system requirements after 17 years, recommends 16GB of RAM for "Fancy" graphics
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 27, 2026
• It's not just you, Xbox is down again, and physical games aren't safe either
  By Julio Franco, July 27, 2026
• GrapheneOS brings enhanced security and privacy to Google Pixel phones
  By Ivan Franco, July 27, 2026
• AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D is now available at a record-low $569
  By Ivan Franco, July 27, 2026
• Modder rigs his Steam Deck with spikes and an automated taser to stop family members from borrowing it
  By Rob Thubron, July 27, 2026
• Firefox's New Tab page is getting a daily crossword built from AI-summarized news
  By Skye Jacobs, July 27, 2026
• California's largest AI data center is suing for access to 287 million gallons of Colorado River water a year
  By Rob Thubron, July 27, 2026
• 007 First Light removes Denuvo DRM just two months after launch
  By Skye Jacobs, July 27, 2026
• Apple's smart glasses are delayed as company wrestles with privacy concerns
  By Rob Thubron, July 27, 2026
• Boox is making a tiny e-reader to compete with Xteink's pocket-sized devices
  By Skye Jacobs, July 27, 2026
• Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32 students cheating on their midterm with AI
  By Rob Thubron, July 27, 2026
• GTA 6's "physical" PS5 codes in Japan will expire after 170 days
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 26, 2026
• Intel is reversing course and bringing hyper-threading back to its server chips
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 26, 2026
• US prosecutors charge Atlanta man after GrapheneOS phone wipes itself during airport search
  By Skye Jacobs, July 26, 2026
• Qualcomm's chip price hikes could make phones, wearables, and laptops even pricier
  By Daniel Sims, July 25, 2026
• AMD's Helios rack is finally shipping, and it's coming for Nvidia's AI dominance
  By Bob O'Donnell, July 25, 2026
• Microsoft is using TPM chips to crack down on pirated Windows activations
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 25, 2026
• AMD confirms Zen 7 Epyc "Florence" for 2028 and previews Zen 8 Epyc "Ravenna" for 2030
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 25, 2026
• Leak details Ryzen 7 9800HX3D, AMD's first affordable 3D V-cache laptop CPU
  By Daniel Sims, July 25, 2026
• Intel just posted its best growth in 15 years – and burned billions to make it happen
  By Rob Thubron, July 24, 2026
• Nvidia is challenging 20 years of datacenter CPU design with new Vera chip
  By Julio Franco, July 24, 2026
• Microsoft steps in after LG monitors were found auto-installing apps with McAfee ads
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 24, 2026
• What was the first consumer device powered by a Li-ion battery?
  By TechSpot Trivia, July 24, 2026
• Nvidia's Jensen Huang joins X, defends Chinese AI: "Open-source models that are excellent should be used"
  By Julio Franco, July 24, 2026
• OpenAI's rogue hacking incident sparks bipartisan bill giving the government an AI kill switch
  By Rob Thubron, July 24, 2026
• Microsoft is testing free Xbox cloud gaming with ads, no subscription required
  By Daniel Sims, July 24, 2026
• Atari signs deal to turn Pong, Centipede, and Asteroids into movies
  By Rob Thubron, July 24, 2026
• Google now lets you sign into your account using a selfie video
  By Daniel Sims, July 24, 2026
• First-responder drones are spreading rapidly across the US, and privacy groups are worried
  By Rob Thubron, July 24, 2026
• The AMD Radeon Settings You Should Actually Be Using
  By Tim Schiesser, July 24, 2026
• This $299 flip phone is the anti-smartphone, promises to save you from doomscrolling hell
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 23, 2026
• Geekbench 7 debuts with a smarter multi-core benchmark and CUDA support
  By Ivan Franco, July 23, 2026
• Tails 7.10 improves shutdown reliability, upgrades Tor Browser
  By Ivan Franco, July 23, 2026
• Steam Deck price hike has completely destroyed sales, new data suggests
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 23, 2026
• Apple's App Store is on pace to add 1 million new apps this year, most are AI slop
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 23, 2026
• The EU just fined Google $1 billion for favoring its own services in search and Play Store
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 23, 2026
• Lego brings The X-Files to life with a 1,478-piece set including Mulder and Scully minifigs
  By Shawn Knight, July 23, 2026
• Apple's rumored leasing program could restrict apps, lock down iPhones if you miss payments
  By Rob Thubron, July 23, 2026
• A new brain-computer implant is helping blind seniors see again, and it just got approved in Europe
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 23, 2026
• Xbox backwards compatibility now available on PC, starting with four original Xbox games
  By Daniel Sims, July 23, 2026
• Framework nearly doubles Laptop 13 Pro memory prices overnight after suppliers demand more than twice as much
  By Rob Thubron, July 23, 2026
• OpenAI says its AI models went rogue and hacked another company
  By Daniel Sims, July 23, 2026
• Google records its first negative free cash flow since going public as its AI spending explodes
  By Rob Thubron, July 23, 2026
• Nvidia reveals Vera CPU details, claims its custom Olympus cores outperform AMD Epyc Turin
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 23, 2026
• Gig economy workers and Amazon staff are increasingly dependent on food stamps and Medicaid, says federal report
  By Rob Thubron, July 23, 2026
• Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and other US tech giants are hiding $1.65 trillion in AI debt
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 22, 2026
• Amazon orders Robocop TV series as franchise heads to Prime Video
  By Shawn Knight, July 22, 2026
• Palworld's 1.0 launch is bringing back nearly a million players
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 22, 2026
• Firefox 153 ESR arrives with major productivity, privacy, and enterprise upgrades
  By Ivan Franco, July 22, 2026
• The Marines' new AI gun can track and target people, even though it's marketed as anti-drone
  By Rob Thubron, July 22, 2026
• Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Fold 8 Ultra debut with Flex Titanium displays and Snapdragon 8 Gen 5
  By Bob O'Donnell, July 22, 2026
• Nvidia's first Windows on Arm GeForce driver confirms RTX Spark configurations
  By Ivan Franco, July 22, 2026
• Data centers on track to consume 20% of US power by 2035
  By Shawn Knight, July 22, 2026
• Reddit and major publishers consider blocking Google as AI search continues destroying web traffic
  By Rob Thubron, July 22, 2026
• TSMC plans up to 10% price increases on advanced and mature nodes starting in 2027
  By Daniel Sims, July 22, 2026
• Iran claims it destroyed Amazon's main data hub in Bahrain. Nobody has confirmed it
  By Rob Thubron, July 22, 2026
• Watch Samsung unveil the Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 at Galaxy Unpacked
  By Rob Thubron, July 22, 2026
• AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Review: The Budget 3D V-Cache King
  By Steven Walton, July 22, 2026
• France just voted to ban kids under 15 from social media, but Australia's ban shows how hard that is to enforce
  By Daniel Sims, July 21, 2026
• One in six Windows PCs still runs Windows 10, and the vulnerabilities are piling up
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 21, 2026
• Der8auer converts $7,000 RTX 5090 Lightning Z to custom water cooling, drops temps by 11°C
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 21, 2026
• OpenAI's ambitious ad revenue goals look like AI-generated money, analysis says
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 21, 2026
• Fiat's new $15,000 mini EV is now on sale in the US, but it's not yet legal to drive
  By Julio Franco, July 21, 2026
• Microsoft just open-sourced the app that made Comic Sans famous
  By Ivan Franco, July 21, 2026
• NAND shortages could finally ease in 2027, but ADATA warns the DRAM crisis may last another 10 years
  By Rob Thubron, July 21, 2026
• Samsung finally has its own credit card, seven years after Apple
  By Shawn Knight, July 21, 2026
• Fire departments are testing autonomous drones that fight wildfires before crews even arrive
  By Daniel Sims, July 21, 2026
• Nvidia is giving developers more control over DLSS 5, after accusations it turns games into "AI slop"
  By Rob Thubron, July 21, 2026
• Sony's digital-only future angers fans, but physical PlayStation games are barely selling
  By Daniel Sims, July 21, 2026
• Anthropic's landmark $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors wins final court approval
  By Rob Thubron, July 21, 2026
• What was the world's first digital and programmable robot?
  By TechSpot Trivia, July 21, 2026
• Refuse a data center transmission line on your property, and power companies may force it through anyway
  By Rob Thubron, July 21, 2026
• Researchers create a drone that becomes almost invisible by spinning 25 times per second
  By Rob Thubron, July 20, 2026
• New Ryzen 7 7700X3D drops to $279, just days after launch
  By Ivan Franco, July 20, 2026
• 7-Zip patches a flaw that could run malware just from opening a bad file
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 20, 2026
• FluentCleaner ditches the bloat with a new 3.5 MB Classic edition
  By Ivan Franco, July 20, 2026
• Windows 11 bloat proves too much for Microsoft's new 8GB Surface Laptop
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 20, 2026
• Marvel drops the first Avengers: Doomsday trailer, set to open against Dune: Part Three this December
  By Julio Franco, July 20, 2026
• A new coding contest challenges developers to fit an entire game onto a 1.44MB floppy disk
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 20, 2026
• Rufus improves Windows installs, adds RISC-V and UEFI:NTFS fixes
  By Ivan Franco, July 20, 2026
• CD sales are up 16%, but half the buyers don't even own a CD player
  By Shawn Knight, July 20, 2026
• AWS billing goes haywire, hits customers with bills as high as $7.8 trillion
  By Rob Thubron, July 20, 2026
• Samsung cuts hundreds of US jobs while AI boom sends chip profits soaring
  By Rob Thubron, July 20, 2026
• Valve's Steam Machine may be selling between 12,000 and 15,000 units per week despite its high price
  By Rob Thubron, July 20, 2026
• Indie Gaming's Next Big Wave Is Coming From Outside the West
  By Arjun Krishna Lal, July 20, 2026
• FBI arrests 21-year-old accused of infecting 8,000 PCs with malware through fake Steam games
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 19, 2026
• Nvidia may have RTX 5000 Super GPUs ready, but costly 3GB GDDR7 is holding them back
  By Rob Thubron, July 19, 2026
• Bethesda confirms Fallout 5, Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters, and new Obsidian Fallout game
  By Daniel Sims, July 18, 2026
• India fined HP $14.4 million for rigging government bids and fixing ink and toner prices
  By Skye Jacobs, July 18, 2026
• GameStop now makes more money from Pokemon cards than video games
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 18, 2026
• San Francisco warns Apple and Google to stop profiting from AI nudify apps
  By Rob Thubron, July 18, 2026
• iPhone owners hit 87% loyalty rate this year, Android-to-iPhone switching drops to 12%
  By Daniel Sims, July 18, 2026
• Spotify is deleting millions of AI-generated music tracks to fend off spammers
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 17, 2026
• Chinese memory maker CXMT's output has grown from 40,000 to 720,000 wafers in a few years, and it's closing in on Micron
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 17, 2026
• OnePlus confirms exit from US and European markets, will replace OxygenOS with ColorOS
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 17, 2026
• Japan's first national AI factory will use 27,500 GPUs across 382 Vera Rubin racks
  By Skye Jacobs, July 17, 2026
• Apple's OLED iPad mini could arrive this October, kicking off a major iPad overhaul
  By Daniel Sims, July 17, 2026
• The EU is forcing Google to give rival AI assistants the same access as Gemini on Android
  By Skye Jacobs, July 17, 2026
• This Lenovo laptop is the first to use inkjet-printed OLED, a technology that could make OLED screens cheaper
  By Daniel Sims, July 17, 2026
• Over 4,500 Google workers demand layoff protections as Alphabet's value hits $4.3 trillion
  By Rob Thubron, July 17, 2026
• A Doom developer says Microsoft "destroyed an immense amount of value" at id Software
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 17, 2026
• GTA 6 hacker who was sentenced to life in a secure hospital is moved to prison ahead of retrial
  By Rob Thubron, July 17, 2026
• Researchers synchronize 105,000 tiny magnetic oscillators in 45 nanoseconds, pointing to faster, low-power computing
  By Skye Jacobs, July 17, 2026
• New York school will deploy AI teaching robot from company linked to sex bots
  By Rob Thubron, July 17, 2026
• AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition Review
  By Steven Walton, July 17, 2026
• The PS3 emulator that shouldn't exist can now play 75% of the console's game library
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 16, 2026
• OpenAI's first hardware product is a $230 mini keypad for AI coding
  By Shawn Knight, July 16, 2026
• Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday fixes 570 security bugs, but some Dell PCs will have to wait
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 16, 2026
• TSMC plans include at least four more 2nm fabs in $100 billion Arizona expansion
  By Rob Thubron, July 16, 2026
• Ryzen 7 7700X3D delivers the gaming performance, but not the value
  By Ivan Franco, July 16, 2026
• This PC gamer turned old SSDs into gorgeous cartridges for Steam games
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 16, 2026
• To fund Apple's first computer, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs sold...
  By TechSpot Trivia, July 16, 2026
• Netflix celebrates 10 years of Stranger Thing with a VHS-quality version of the first season
  By Shawn Knight, July 16, 2026
• Woman discovers a hidden AI camera in her rental car recording her and warning about unsafe driving
  By Daniel Sims, July 16, 2026
• This retro-style home phone lets kids call friends without apps, browsers, or social media
  By Rob Thubron, July 16, 2026
• Steam Machine benchmarks show SteamOS and Windows 11 within a few frames of each other in most games
  By Daniel Sims, July 16, 2026
• George Lucas says rejecting AI is like choosing the horse and buggy over cars
  By Rob Thubron, July 16, 2026
• Stripe and Advent offer more than $53 billion to buy PayPal and create a payments giant
  By Skye Jacobs, July 16, 2026
• Linus Torvalds tells AI critics to fork Linux or walk away
  By Rob Thubron, July 16, 2026
• Nvidia and Sega are teaming up again, 30 years after Sega saved Nvidia from bankruptcy
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 15, 2026
• IBM's stock just had its worst day since 1968
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 15, 2026
• LibreWolf is a Firefox-based browser focused on privacy and security
  By Ivan Franco, July 15, 2026
• Samsung introduces Flex Titanium, a new foldable screen tech with reduced creasing
  By Shawn Knight, July 15, 2026
• Microsoft deleted a hacked user's 25-year-old Xbox account, along with his OneDrive baby photos (Updated)
  By Daniel Sims, July 15, 2026
• Boston Dynamics tests Spot as a delivery assistant that carries packages
  By Rob Thubron, July 15, 2026
• Enthusiast project turns the Steam Controller into a cross-platform gamepad
  By Skye Jacobs, July 15, 2026
• Ubisoft endured a review-bombing campaign, then made $1 million from Black Flag Resynced's controversial DLC
  By Rob Thubron, July 15, 2026
• Riot is reviving old League of Legends even as it prepares the game's biggest overhaul ever
  By Daniel Sims, July 15, 2026
• The US just sanctioned a VPN for the first time, accusing it of helping ransomware gangs
  By Rob Thubron, July 15, 2026
• Microsoft finally patched Secure Boot bypasses that were hiding in plain sight since 2013
  By Skye Jacobs, July 15, 2026
• Repair shops are booming during heatwaves as people keep putting phones in fridges
  By Rob Thubron, July 15, 2026
• Testing AMD's EXPO Ultra Low Latency Memory
  By Steven Walton, July 15, 2026
• SoftBank boss says the AI revolution will cost $5 trillion a year, also, there's no bubble
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 14, 2026
• Samsung launches new SSD 990: reviews praise the performance, question the price
  By Ivan Franco, July 14, 2026
• HWMonitor restores hotspot temperature monitoring for RTX 50 GPUs
  By Ivan Franco, July 14, 2026
• The Blood of Dawnwalker director says delayed next-gen consoles could benefit smaller studios
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 14, 2026
• Windows Search is getting the cleanup users have wanted for years (more like decades)
  By Skye Jacobs, July 14, 2026
• Christopher Nolan believes Gen Z will push back against generative AI and its growing influence
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 14, 2026
• Intel's Starfire SoC combines 18A CPU, Intel 3 GPU, and NPU for space-grade computing
  By Skye Jacobs, July 14, 2026
• China's courts say your digital game items are inheritable – Steam and The West disagree
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 14, 2026
• Black Flag Resynced is a smash hit, but 51 Ubisoft Barcelona developers are still being laid off
  By Rob Thubron, July 14, 2026
• UChicago Law bans laptops and phones for first-year students, mandates in-class exams starting this fall
  By Skye Jacobs, July 14, 2026
• GigaWiper malware can wipe your hard drive, spy on you, and stream your screen live
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 14, 2026
• Sega's Virtua Racing hits PC and Xbox for the first time, with 8-player online
  By Zo Ahmed, July 14, 2026
• AMD's Zen 6 Epyc chip packs 256 cores, promises up to 1.7x faster AI
  By Skye Jacobs, July 14, 2026
• OnePlus could be exiting the US and European markets as soon as this week
  By Rob Thubron, July 14, 2026
• Black Flag Resynced is a hit, but its always-online requirement just proved it's not really offline
  By Daniel Sims, July 14, 2026
• The studio behind MindsEye is flying fans in for playtests, all while laid-off workers protested outside
  By Rob Thubron, July 14, 2026
• Steam just made $11 billion in the last 6 months, and most of it came from older games
  By Skye Jacobs, July 14, 2026
• 12 states sue to block Paramount's $110 billion Warner Bros. deal, warning of a "media behemoth"
  By Rob Thubron, July 14, 2026
• Dell Alienware AW3426DW Review: The New Ultrawide OLED to Beat
  By Tim Schiesser, July 14, 2026
• Apple's iOS 27 public beta arrives with Siri AI, faster app launches, and more
  By Daniel Sims, July 14, 2026
• Zimbra patched a flaw that let hackers hijack accounts just by sending an email
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 13, 2026
• This GE Appliances plant couldn't keep workers until it built an app, like an Uber for factory work
  By Skye Jacobs, July 13, 2026
• Firefox is switching to a faster release schedule, just like Chrome and Edge
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 13, 2026
• Apple is reportedly skipping M6 Pro, Max, and Ultra chips to fast-track AI-focused M7 Macs
  By Skye Jacobs, July 13, 2026
• SK Hynix predicts memory crunch will peak in 2027 and continue through 2030
  By Shawn Knight, July 13, 2026
• Claude's new Reflect feature is Spotify Wrapped for your AI habits
  By Julio Franco, July 13, 2026
• New York hospital replaces 12 nurses with AI, prompting warnings over patient care dangers
  By Rob Thubron, July 13, 2026
• PeaZip 11.2.0 brings quality-of-life improvements across the app
  By Ivan Franco, July 13, 2026
• TSMC posts blowout $39 billion quarter, raising the same old AI question: is this sustainable?
  By Skye Jacobs, July 13, 2026
• ChatGPT Atlas lasted less than a year, but AI browser alternatives remain
  By Julio Franco, July 13, 2026
• Swedish startup unveils foot-long drone-killing interceptor that can exceed 220 mph
  By Rob Thubron, July 13, 2026
• An abandoned IBM campus became a TikTok sensation, now it's a magnet for trespassers
  By Skye Jacobs, July 13, 2026
• EU says it can't stop Sony from ending physical PlayStation game releases
  By Rob Thubron, July 13, 2026
• Europe is testing air conditioners that don't use any refrigerants at all
  By Skye Jacobs, July 13, 2026
• New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices and force companies to offer easy cancellation
  By Rob Thubron, July 13, 2026
• Samsung is building a dedicated AI chip for PCs, and HP and Lenovo are already testing it
  By Julio Franco, July 12, 2026
• This gamer had to sue Microsoft to get his hijacked Xbox account back
  By Daniel Sims, July 12, 2026
• A tiny London startup built a CUDA compiler that reportedly beats AMD's own tools on AMD hardware
  By Skye Jacobs, July 12, 2026
• Microsoft's patch for a Windows Defender 0-day may have created a new attack path
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 12, 2026
• This ransomware negotiator was paid to fight hackers, he was secretly working with them instead
  By Skye Jacobs, July 11, 2026
• EA's College Football 27 is getting review-bombed over hidden single-player microtransactions
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 11, 2026
• WhatsApp desktop turns your PC into a full messaging hub
  By Julio Franco, July 11, 2026
• This MIT robot flies through the air then dives underwater using the same wings
  By Skye Jacobs, July 11, 2026
• Apple is suing OpenAI, alleging former employees stole trade secrets to build AI hardware
  By Daniel Sims, July 11, 2026
• Steam now has 50% more users than PlayStation, and Sony's own decisions might be pushing more players there
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 10, 2026
• Federal Reserve taps Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead jobs task force days after Microsoft laid off 3,200 people
  By Rob Thubron, July 10, 2026
• Nvidia's rumored GeForce RTX 5090 SE promises flagship power for $500 less, if you can find one
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 10, 2026
• SK Hynix raises $26.5 billion in massive US share offering
  By Shawn Knight, July 10, 2026
• Tiny11 trims Windows 11 down to 8GB, no bloat included
  By Julio Franco, July 10, 2026
• Ubisoft defends $85 day-one DLC after AC Black Flag Resynced gets review-bombed
  By Rob Thubron, July 10, 2026
• Data shows physical PlayStation games can be up to 90% cheaper than their digital versions
  By Daniel Sims, July 10, 2026
• FCC approves giant mirror satellite designed to beam sunlight to Earth after dark
  By Rob Thubron, July 10, 2026
• The EU just revived a law that lets Meta and Google scan your messages – critics call it mass surveillance
  By Daniel Sims, July 10, 2026
• Redditor finds "16TB SSD" for $30 that was actually a microSD card with weights glued on
  By Rob Thubron, July 10, 2026
• Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced: 50 GPU Benchmark
  By Steven Walton, July 10, 2026
• Space Marine 2 sold million of copies, and now Saber Interactive has to turn down projects
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 09, 2026
• Cash App reaches $45 million settlement over alleged failure to protect users from fraud
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 09, 2026
• Nvidia launches free GeForce trading card collection featuring 14 designs from NV1 to RTX 2080 Ti
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 09, 2026
• Minecraft joins Doom in the "can it run?" hall of fame with Game Boy Color port
  By Rob Thubron, July 09, 2026
• DLSS Swapper creator issues malware warning over user-submitted DLLs
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 09, 2026
• New York becomes the first state to ban smart glasses in courtrooms
  By Shawn Knight, July 09, 2026
• Interpol arrests 5,811 people, seizes $293 million in global scammer crackdown
  By Julio Franco, July 09, 2026
• After losing about $1 billion in Reaper drones over Iran, the US wants a disposable alternative
  By Rob Thubron, July 09, 2026
• Professor's chart exposes the scale of AI cheating in college exams
  By Daniel Sims, July 09, 2026
• Budget smartphones are the next victim of the memory crisis
  By Rob Thubron, July 09, 2026
• Microsoft tells Obsidian to pause or cancel Avowed 2 and make a new Fallout game
  By Daniel Sims, July 09, 2026
• Japanese firm reverses Blu-ray drive exit after securing parts, but prices jump up to 51%
  By Rob Thubron, July 09, 2026
• Philips Evnia 27M2N5500XD 1000Hz Monitor Review
  By Tim Schiesser, July 09, 2026
• Meta's new AI tool can generate images of you using your Instagram photos, and you're opted in by default
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 08, 2026
• A new satellite wants to prove nuclear power can work in space without solar panels
  By Skye Jacobs, July 08, 2026
• This dog tracker uses Starlink to keep tabs on your pet, even without cell service
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 08, 2026
• Samsung unveils fastest PCIe Gen 6 SSD, capable of transferring 40GB LLMs in just 1.4 sec
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 08, 2026
• Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced modernizes the fan favorite with revamped combat and visuals
  By Ivan Franco, July 08, 2026
• Xbox Game Pass has lost 4 million subscribers since its price hike backfired
  By Skye Jacobs, July 08, 2026
• Starlink just doubled its prices for private jets, and hardware now costs $200,000
  By Rob Thubron, July 08, 2026
• This tiny robot could help dentists prepare crowns in a single visit
  By Skye Jacobs, July 08, 2026
• Cheyenne suspends datacenter wastewater after rare bacterium traced to Meta's AI site
  By Rob Thubron, July 08, 2026
• Nintendo to ship Switch 2 with easier-to-replace batteries in Europe later this year
  By Daniel Sims, July 08, 2026
• Meta will disable your smart glasses' camera if you tamper with the recording light
  By Rob Thubron, July 08, 2026
• Hardware hacker is building a homemade GPU from 64,000 tiny RISC-V chips
  By Skye Jacobs, July 08, 2026
• Bryan Johnson, the millionaire biohacker who wants to live forever, diagnosed with incurable autoimmune disease
  By Rob Thubron, July 08, 2026
• An indie developer says Steam's refund policy cost his well-reviewed game 55,000 refunds
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 07, 2026
• LG monitors caught auto-installing Windows app that acts like adware
  By Daniel Sims, July 07, 2026
• This German drone just hit 699 km/h, and its maker wants the world record to prove it
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 07, 2026
• Keychron is stepping outside keyboards with a $349 Thunderbolt 5 dock aimed at power users
  By Skye Jacobs, July 07, 2026
• The Steam Machine now has official Windows drivers
  By Zo Ahmed, July 07, 2026
• Intel's troubled 18A chip process is finally running smoothly
  By Skye Jacobs, July 07, 2026
• Australia's teen social media ban stumbles as platforms skip age checks
  By Rob Thubron, July 07, 2026
• The FBI and Google just took down a botnet that hijacked 2 million smart TVs
  By Skye Jacobs, July 07, 2026
• Microsoft confirms Windows 11 bug can steal over 500GB of storage – here's how to check and fix it
  By Rob Thubron, July 07, 2026
• A free app lets Sony headphones do head tracking for racing and flight sims
  By Daniel Sims, July 07, 2026
• The open-source, DRM-free Open Printer shows off a working prototype
  By Rob Thubron, July 07, 2026
• Fake tech support, bogus crypto, and a gold pickup: how scammers stole $673,000 in three days
  By Skye Jacobs, July 07, 2026
• Nvidia RTX 5080 Super with 415W TDP appears in Seasonic PSU calculator
  By Rob Thubron, July 07, 2026
• AMD X870 Motherboard Roundup: 53 Motherboards Tested
  By Steven Walton, July 07, 2026
• Microsoft is cutting 3,200 Xbox jobs and spinning off four game studios
  By Daniel Sims, July 06, 2026
• Steam Machine owner reports a "Red Line of Death" days after launch, but it fixed itself
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 06, 2026
• Microsoft has a hidden Windows 11 edition that supports 6TB of RAM and 256 CPU cores
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 06, 2026
• Nvidia Profile Inspector 3.0 modernizes the popular driver profile editor
  By Ivan Franco, July 06, 2026
• Why Gen Z is falling in love with film photography – and rejecting the algorithm along with it
  By Julio Franco, July 06, 2026
• Philips' new "triple-mode" monitors go all the way down to 720p for maximum speed
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 06, 2026
• Samsung will earn more profit in 2026 than it did over the previous 40 years combined thanks to the AI boom
  By Shawn Knight, July 06, 2026
• SpaceX intentionally burned up 260 Starlink satellites in the last six months, with hundreds more set to follow
  By Skye Jacobs, July 06, 2026
• One of Windows' most hated features just helped catch a 19-year-old hacker
  By Zo Ahmed, July 06, 2026
• The Supreme Court just ruled that police need a warrant to use phone location data
  By Skye Jacobs, July 06, 2026
• Nvidia's RTX 3060 returns to store shelves at its original 2021 price
  By Rob Thubron, July 06, 2026
• Researchers built a tiny diving suit for cyborg cockroaches to survive underwater
  By Skye Jacobs, July 06, 2026
• Sony clarifies that it will still make PlayStation discs after 2028, just not for new games
  By Rob Thubron, July 06, 2026
• Tesla launches a longer six-seat Model Y to replace the Model X for many buyers
  By Skye Jacobs, July 06, 2026
• Intel Nova Lake-S midrange CPUs could be bringing AMD's X3D cache trick to more affordable chips
  By Skye Jacobs, July 05, 2026
• Bending Spoons bought Vimeo, Evernote, and AOL instead of chasing AI, it just had a $25.7 billion IPO
  By Skye Jacobs, July 05, 2026
• Google is testing a webcam CAPTCHA that scans your hand, but it's already been bypassed using a photo
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 05, 2026
• Microsoft's new EU disclosure shows exactly how tech giants separate profits from where the work happens
  By Skye Jacobs, July 05, 2026
• Lenovo laptops are now shipping with YMTC SSDs, a sign of Chinese NAND entering the mainstream
  By Skye Jacobs, July 05, 2026
• The US now has three microreactors running – and data centers are watching closely
  By Skye Jacobs, July 04, 2026
• SpaceX is reportedly showing investors a phone prototype, months after Musk said "we are not developing a phone"
  By Skye Jacobs, July 04, 2026
• Meta's Pocket app lets you vibe-code games with zero coding knowledge
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 04, 2026
• Amazon's satellite internet service is finally ready for real users – sort of
  By Skye Jacobs, July 04, 2026
• Microsoft reverses stance and adds Google account sign-in to Edge browser
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 03, 2026
• Jensen Huang's signed leather jacket could sell for up to $60,000 at charity auction
  By Rob Thubron, July 03, 2026
• US homeowners installed a record amount of battery storage this year, and it's reshaping the grid
  By Skye Jacobs, July 03, 2026
• In old PCs, what was the function of the "Turbo" button?
  By TechSpot Trivia, July 03, 2026
• Tesla driver charged with manslaughter after car in FSD mode crashes into Texas home
  By Skye Jacobs, July 03, 2026
• iFixit is creating a repairability scoring standard for US electronics
  By Rob Thubron, July 03, 2026
• Video Game History Foundation founder says piracy remains the only viable game preservation method
  By Daniel Sims, July 03, 2026
• Singapore charges two people over a scheme to smuggle Nvidia chips to China through a $42 million property deal
  By Skye Jacobs, July 03, 2026
• Concorde-style supersonic flights could return to the US, as long as they're quiet enough
  By Rob Thubron, July 03, 2026
• A leaked Microsoft experiment reveals a new OS built entirely around Copilot and AI agents
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 02, 2026
• Someone finally built a working Game Boy emulator for E-ink screens
  By Daniel Sims, July 02, 2026
• Meta is using old DDR4 memory in DDR5-only AI servers to save on hardware costs
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 02, 2026
• A new attack uses a BioShock-style puzzle to convince AI browsers they're not in the real world
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 02, 2026
• OpenAI may give the US government a 5% stake, following Trump's Intel playbook
  By Skye Jacobs, July 02, 2026
• Dell just overtook HP as the top PC maker in the US as the entire market shrinks
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 02, 2026
• Google just lost its final appeal over Android, $4.7 billion EU fine stands
  By Skye Jacobs, July 02, 2026
• Intel raises prices on the Core Ultra 200S Plus CPUs people actually liked
  By Rob Thubron, July 02, 2026
• Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone with zero AI features
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 02, 2026
• Apple expects its $2,500 foldable iPhone Ultra to sell 10 million units this year
  By Rob Thubron, July 02, 2026
• As Sony exits physical media, Microsoft is testing a way to link your Xbox discs to digital licenses
  By Daniel Sims, July 02, 2026
• Former PlayStation boss calls Valve's Steam Machine "meh," asks if he's "going back to PS4 days"
  By Rob Thubron, July 02, 2026
• A Microsoft Defender flaw is now being linked to ransomware attacks
  By Skye Jacobs, July 02, 2026
• Apple's Hide My Email feature may be exposing users' real addresses anyway
  By Rob Thubron, July 02, 2026
• Testing AMD Radeon's Biggest-Ever Software Upgrade: FSR 4.1 on RDNA 3
  By Tim Schiesser, July 02, 2026
• Amazon says restricting Fire TV sideloading is about safety. It's also about piracy
  By Daniel Sims, July 01, 2026
• OCCT 17 introduces a redesigned modular Memory Test
  By Ivan Franco, July 01, 2026
• Former PlayStation exec says PC ports were about marketing, not money – and Sony's new leadership disagrees
  By Alfonso Maruccia, July 01, 2026
• Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 specs surface, Z Flip discontinuation rumors, Galaxy rollables may arrive in 2028
  By Kishalaya Kundu, July 01, 2026
• Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast, low-cost AI image generation
  By Skye Jacobs, July 01, 2026
• Sony will stop making physical PlayStation games starting in 2028
  By Shawn Knight, July 01, 2026
• Google Chrome 150 rolls out with 382 security fixes
  By Ivan Franco, July 01, 2026
• SpaceX offers half-price Starlink to Memphis residents while facing a lawsuit over data center's pollution
  By Rob Thubron, July 01, 2026
• WinRAR 7.23 fixes bugs, jokes that users are finally paying for it
  By Ivan Franco, July 01, 2026
• Steam Machine benchmarks show single RAM stick setup can cost up to 20% performance
  By Skye Jacobs, July 01, 2026
• Cinder City becomes the first PC game to recommend 64GB of RAM, and at the worst time (Updated)
  By Rob Thubron, July 01, 2026
• AMD Zen 6 leak reveals third core type, corroborating rumored Sony handheld SoC codenamed Canis
  By Daniel Sims, July 01, 2026
• Apple's fight with Epic over App Store fees reaches the Supreme Court
  By Rob Thubron, July 01, 2026
• Anthropic's Fable 5 shutdown ends with tougher safeguards and federal approval
  By Skye Jacobs, July 01, 2026
• More companies are rehiring workers they replaced with AI after automation fails to deliver
  By Rob Thubron, July 01, 2026
• Intel Arc Pro B70 Tested: The Gaming GPU Intel Never Released
  By Steven Walton, July 01, 2026