81-year-old Dodgers fan shut out by smartphone-only season tickets

A hot potato: It might be difficult for some people to believe, but not everyone owns a smartphone. Those who can't or won't use a handset often find today's digital society difficult to navigate. Just ask the 81-year-old Los Angeles Dodgers fan who can't get a season ticket because the team no longer prints paper versions.

Intel isn't done with Raptor Lake, will keep 14th-gen chips in production

AI is now taking over game servers, and Stormgate is the first casualty

Facepalm: Multiplayer servers for the real-time strategy game Stormgate will go offline at the end of the month after the infrastructure provider that hosts them was acquired by an AI company and began winding down its gaming services. The shutdown shows how AI infrastructure expansion is now affecting not just PC hardware supply, but also the backend services that many modern games rely on.

Microsoft Office is down to $35 for a lifetime license

TL;DR: If you're looking for a powerful productivity suite without paying any subscriptions, Office 2021 is now available for just $35. All the essential tools you need for work or personal projects at over 80% off the regular price.

Russia's attempt to block VPNs is causing widespread banking outages

Microsoft now has 80 different "Copilot" products, and counting

The big picture: Thanks to Microsoft's massive promotional campaigns around everything Copilot, most people are now aware that the product is integrated into Windows, Office, and virtually everywhere else. However, many are probably unaware of the full extent of that integration.

Windows 11 will be force-updated to version 25H2 using machine learning

Netflix's Void AI can remove objects from video and show how scenes evolve without them

For a limited time, grab a Windows 11 Pro license for $12

World's largest battery maker is taking EV tech to the seas

Samsung may add a "Pro" model to Galaxy S lineup, matching Apple's strategy

Target puts customers on the hook for AI shopping assistant errors

New 3D-printed microrobot mimics worm-like motion at microscopic scale

And Yet It Moves: Designing microrobots that combine complex motion with practical size has long forced a tradeoff: devices tend to be either small and rigid or large and flexible. Researchers at Leiden University are now exploring a different path, proposing a nature-inspired design that begins to blur that boundary.

Florida school to deploy security drones designed to stop school shooters mid-attack

Forward-looking: When classes resume this fall at Deltona High School in Florida, students might find an unusual addition to their campus security system: ceiling-mounted drones designed to respond to active shooter threats. The machines – called Black Arrows and built by Austin-based startup Mithril Defense – can race through school corridors at speeds up to 100 miles per hour, emit piercing alarms, flash strobes, and even spray pepper gel at an attacker.

Samsung Messages is officially on the way out, pushing users to Google Messages

Japan's Rapidus ramps up 2nm chip plans while eyeing factories on the Moon

Iran threatens to "annihilate" Stargate AI data center backed by OpenAI and Nvidia

Banks chasing SpaceX IPO were told by Elon Musk to buy Grok subscriptions

This Android phone can run Windows games locally, no PC required

Nvidia shows neural compression can cut VRAM usage from 6.5GB to 970MB

A new OnlyOffice fork is Europe's answer to Microsoft Office

Sony quietly removes PC mentions from PlayStation Studios pages

Italian court says Netflix must refund customers up to $576 over price hikes

This Wi-Fi receiver can work inside a nuclear reactor, keeping robots connected

Highly anticipated: A team in Japan has developed a Wi-Fi receiver capable of operating in the extreme radiation inside nuclear reactors, an advance that could help robotics teams safely decommission aging power plants. The receiver, developed at the Institute of Science Tokyo, demonstrated resilience under radiation doses roughly 1,000 times higher than what typical electronics can withstand.

Steam could soon show estimated FPS based on crowd-sourced player data

The takeaway: Valve appears to be preparing a new feature that could make one of PC gaming's biggest uncertainties – performance – more transparent. Newly uncovered code in the Steam client suggests players may soon see estimated frame rate data for each game derived from real-world gameplay metrics shared by other users.

New Rowhammer attack can grant kernel-level control on Nvidia workstation GPUs

Microsoft's AI in its own terms: "use Copilot at your own risk"

Visa processed 106 million disputes last year, now wants AI to take over

US military deploys low-cost "Lucas" drone built from reverse-engineered Iranian tech

Nearly half of US data centers planned for 2026 are facing delays or cancellation

Cutting corners: American AI companies are racing to build as many data centers as they can, but limits in domestic manufacturing and energy supply are slowing progress. As a result, only about half of recent projects are meeting completion targets, and it remains unclear how many more will stay on schedule this year.

MLB's robot-assisted strike zone is exposing umpire errors in real time

Google's Gemma 4 AI can run on smartphones, no Internet required

Toshiba starts shipping SMR MAMR enterprise hard drives offering up to 34TB of storage

Ford GT Mk IV sets Nürburgring record for gas-powered cars