Steam stopped taking photo ID as proof of age in Australia this week. Instead, Valve is asking players to hand over a credit card. Starting around September 23-24,…
Microsoft’s September 22, 2026 round of Xbox layoffs cut 268 jobs across the gaming division, and the studio that took the deepest hit wasn’t one of the marquee…
A small Chinese motherboard maker just did something Intel never officially offered on the desktop. ERYING has started selling two motherboards built around Intel’s embedded Raptor Lake processors,…
A single missed reentrancy check drained 124.5 million tokens from Hemi’s Genesis Drop event earlier this year, a $255,000 loss that a five-minute static analysis pass would likely…
A two-billion-parameter AI model just got small enough to live inside a pair of glasses. On September 24, 2026, at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit in Pasadena, California, Caltech spinout…
Jensen Huang picked a fight with the AI industry’s regulation camp on September 23, 2026, and he didn’t do it quietly. In a nearly two-hour sit-down with Ezra…
Citrix NetScaler is in trouble again. On September 26, 2026, security research firm watchTowr said it had found two new unpatched remote code execution flaws in NetScaler ADC…
Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles spent the past week defending his government’s data-security record after confirming that an OpenAI artificial intelligence agent gained unauthorized access to a…
Satya Nadella called Xbox’s latest round of job cuts “great to see” during a podcast interview published this week, and the line has traveled faster than almost anything…
Every time a browser loads a padlock icon, a phone unlocks with a passkey, or a Bitcoin wallet signs a transaction, one of two aging mathematical ideas is…
A 2.5-billion-parameter language model just beat a 4-billion-parameter rival on a 34-benchmark test suite, and the gap that matters fits in two numbers: 53.9 versus 51.1. OpenBMB released…
CISA has confirmed that ransomware gangs are actively exploiting a critical remote-code-execution flaw in JetBrains TeamCity, the CI/CD platform used by more than 30,000 development teams worldwide. The…
Australia has sent written requests to Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, asking the chief executives of OpenAI and Anthropic to appear before a Senate inquiry in Canberra on…
Mobile gaming pulled in $6.57 billion worldwide in August 2026, according to fresh data from mobile analytics firm Sensor Tower. That figure dropped 1% from July, even as…
Kubernetes 1.37 shipped on August 26, 2026, under the project’s internal codename “Garhwal,” and buried inside its 67 enhancements is a feature that has nothing to do with…
A $40 million line item just reopened one of gaming’s oldest arguments. Bloomberg’s September 18 report on The Blood of Dawnwalker, the dark-fantasy open-world RPG from Polish studio…
Asus has quietly widened the lineup for its Panther Lake-powered ZenBook 14, adding two cheaper chip options in China just weeks before a fresh Intel price hike is…
DeepSeek pushed a new model onto its API on September 10, 2026, and buried the real story in a pricing table. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, a 552-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model built by…
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