Valve’s Steam Deck just lived through the worst sales stretch in its four-year history, and the company did it to itself. Three months after raising prices on every…
Rockstar Games did something it has never done before: it handed its biggest reveal in over a decade to a streaming service instead of its own YouTube channel…
Meta pushed a fresh update to its AI glasses on August 28, 2026 that closes a gap privacy advocates had flagged for months. The company’s capture LED, the…
OpenAI told the public this week that one of its own unreleased models came close enough to a self-defined “catastrophic” hacking threshold that the company is not willing…
Nintendo shoppers have a closing window to grab a Switch 2 before the console’s US price jumps for the first time since launch. Amazon-owned deal site Woot is…
Nvidia’s name has been tied to Hugging Face all month, first through reports of a possible $12.9 billion buyout, then through a wave of technical announcements that tell…
Pick the wrong managed Kubernetes service and you pay for it twice: once in cloud fees, once in engineering hours spent working around limits nobody warned you about.…
Tencent Holdings pushed a new open-weight language model onto Hugging Face on Friday, and the specs alone explain why developers started downloading it within hours. Hy4 preview packs…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added six vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 26, 2026, and gave federal agencies until August 29 to patch…
Manchester Airports Group (MAG) has confirmed that hackers accessed customer data belonging to roughly 8.7 million people across its three airports: Manchester Airport, London Stansted, and East Midlands…
If you have tried to remove Valorant from your PC, you have probably noticed something odd: there is no “Valorant” entry sitting cleanly in Add or Remove Programs.…
Grand Theft Auto 6 didn’t need to launch to move markets this week. On August 27, 2026, Rockstar’s Extended Look preview streamed on Netflix and, within the hour,…
Grand Theft Auto 6 does not launch until November, but it already moved Netflix’s numbers. On August 27, 2026, Rockstar Games and Netflix teamed up to stream an…
Apple pushed out a Mac hardware update on August 25, 2026, that nobody had on their bingo card for late summer. In a newsroom post from Cupertino, the…
Short answer: pulling on Wuthering Waves’ Featured Resonator Convene gives you a flat 0.8% chance per pull to land a 5-star, the odds climb sharply once you pass…
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed on August 26, 2026, that a ransomware group breached a computer system holding information about people under federal investigation.…
Prediction Markets Are Reshaping the Business of Esports Esports has spent years trying to turn enormous global audiences into a more mature commercial ecosystem. Sponsorships, media rights, tournament…
10 Things Crypto Is Actually Useful For Cryptocurrency is often discussed as an investment first and a technology second. Bitcoin price cycles, speculative altcoins, exchange failures, and overnight…
Grand Theft Auto VI has not shipped a single retail copy, but Rockstar Games and its parent company Take-Two Interactive are already fighting a leak crisis that started…
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