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News Archive for October 2026

• Steam is on track to top $20 billion in revenue for the first time
  By Skye Jacobs, October 04, 2026
• Sony's quiet PS5 Slim revision shows how consoles keep changing long after launch
  By Skye Jacobs, October 04, 2026
• RuneScape 4 is officially in the works, and it started as a Dragonwilds expansion
  By Skye Jacobs, October 04, 2026
• Florida woman used Claude as a diary, then Anthropic reported an entry to police
  By Rob Thubron, October 04, 2026
• The Best 1440p QD-OLED Monitors for Less Than $500
  By Tim Schiesser, October 04, 2026
• Steam's latest survey shows 32GB RAM overtaking 16GB despite the massive price surge
  By Kishalaya Kundu, October 03, 2026
• A Riot ban followed a used Ryzen CPU to its new owner, but something is not adding up
  By Daniel Sims, October 03, 2026
• Some iPhone 18 Pro Max owners are losing cell service, and Apple's fix is an entirely new phone
  By Skye Jacobs, October 03, 2026
• Federal judge calls Flock search unconstitutional, as AOC and Bernie Sanders introduce bill to ban license plate readers
  By Daniel Sims, October 03, 2026
• Sony's new PS5 Pro lottery requires 60 hours of playtime just to apply
  By Alfonso Maruccia, October 02, 2026
• Europe is building its own payment network to finally compete with Visa and Mastercard
  By Alfonso Maruccia, October 02, 2026
• Fairphone 6+ reviews: a repairability champion, but $650 is a tough sell
  By Ivan Franco, October 02, 2026
• Scammers are selling fake Blu-ray drives to PS3 emulation fans
  By Alfonso Maruccia, October 02, 2026
• Critics call Star Wars: Galactic Racer one of the best arcade racers in years
  By Ivan Franco, October 02, 2026
• This industrial mini PC pairs Intel Panther Lake internals with near-silent AirJet cooling
  By Skye Jacobs, October 02, 2026
• A Florida county discovered 14 Flock cameras nobody authorized, and 11 remain unclaimed
  By Daniel Sims, October 02, 2026
• Buying an RTX 5090 from Micro Center now means signing a form promising it won't leave the US
  By Rob Thubron, October 02, 2026
• The Singapore government built its own dating app and is testing it with public officers
  By Skye Jacobs, October 02, 2026
• The base PlayStation 5 can now do AI upscaling, and it actually looks great
  By Daniel Sims, October 02, 2026
• New York City's click-to-cancel rule takes effect, making subscription cancellations as easy as sign-ups
  By Rob Thubron, October 02, 2026
• A forensic tool claims it can stop seized iPhones from locking down after 72 hours
  By Skye Jacobs, October 02, 2026
• OpenAI's rogue agent problem is bigger than Hugging Face, over 100 organizations and counting
  By Rob Thubron, October 02, 2026
• "The Big Short" investor says he's rooting for a crash just to stop OpenAI and Anthropic's IPOs
  By Alfonso Maruccia, October 01, 2026
• Micron says robots will keep RAM prices high, even if the AI bubble pops
  By Kishalaya Kundu, October 01, 2026
• HP joins the MacBook Neo fight with colorful OmniBook 5 laptops starting at $699
  By Shawn Knight, October 01, 2026
• A court just ruled that training an AI on someone else's editorial work isn't fair use
  By Skye Jacobs, October 01, 2026
• AOC Agon Pro AGP257FT hits 1,000Hz, overclocks to 1,050Hz, launches next year
  By Alfonso Maruccia, October 01, 2026
• McDonald's has been using AI to decide how much you should pay for a Big Mac
  By Daniel Sims, October 01, 2026
• Nvidia rolls out security update for GeForce GTX 700, 900 and 10 series GPUs
  By Ivan Franco, October 01, 2026
• Amazon refreshes Kindle with aluminum, faster page turns, and a $35 Bluetooth remote
  By Rob Thubron, October 01, 2026
• A hack of Pentagon personnel data went undetected for nine months, exposing 3 million people
  By Skye Jacobs, October 01, 2026
• AI is getting cheaper faster than almost any technology in history
  By Skye Jacobs, October 01, 2026
• A man could face a decade in prison for a fake crocodile photo he made with Gemini
  By Rob Thubron, October 01, 2026
• Apple's long-rumored smart home hub might finally arrive next month with a 6-inch display
  By Daniel Sims, October 01, 2026
• Bill Gates says robots should pay FICA taxes when they replace human workers
  By Rob Thubron, October 01, 2026
• Some Pixel owners can't unlock their phones after the latest update
  By Skye Jacobs, October 01, 2026
• The Pentagon is creating a new command just for autonomous and robotic warfare
  By Rob Thubron, October 01, 2026
• QR Codes Explained: How They Work and Why They're Everywhere
  By Mark Turner, October 01, 2026