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Month: September 2026

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Steam Deck Price Hike Hits 46% as DRAM Crisis Grows [2026]

Valve’s Steam Deck OLED now costs up to 46% more than it did a year ago, and the company that builds it says the pressure has not eased. On September 15, 2026, Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais confirmed that an industry-wide memory shortage has not derailed Steam Deck 2 development, but he stopped short of promising…

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Set Up Pulsar Editor, Atom’s Successor: 13 Steps [2026]

Atom’s official archive notice from GitHub has been up since December 2022, but the Atom code editor never really died. A community fork called Pulsar picked up the codebase, kept shipping monthly releases, and by August 2026 had pushed its stable build to version 1.132.1. If you still have muscle memory built around Atom’s keybindings,…

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MCHOSE ACE75 vs Wallhack vs Corsair AIR 99: $180 Gap [2026]

Three keyboards launched within a six-month window in 2026, and each one bets on a different theory of what a “premium” keyboard should be in 2026. MCHOSE priced its ACE75 Hall-effect board at $99 and put it on Kickstarter on September 17. Wallhack machined the K-001 out of 6063 aluminum, co-developed a magnetic switch with…

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RuneScape Dragonwilds Hits Console: 25-Year PC Streak Ends [2026]

RuneScape turned 25 this year without ever putting a controller in a player’s hands. That changed on September 15, 2026, when Jagex shipped RuneScape: Dragonwilds in full 1.0 form on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC simultaneously — the first console release in the franchise’s history. It is a small game…

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BambooToken Malware Hid 3 Years Using MQTT, DLL Trick [2026]

A malware family stayed hidden inside enterprise networks across Asia and South America for more than three years by doing something almost no defender was watching for: talking over MQTT, the lightweight messaging protocol built for smart thermostats and factory sensors, not spyware. Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs disclosed the campaign on September 18-19, 2026, naming…

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Elgato 4K X vs AVerMedia vs Razer Ripsaw: $170 Gap [2026]

A capture card decision used to be simple: buy whatever Elgato sold and move on. That stopped being true once PS5 and Xbox Series X started shipping 4K120 output with variable refresh rate, and once AVerMedia and Razer built cards aimed squarely at that gap. In September 2026, three products define the console and PC…

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Xenia vs Xenia Canary vs Xenia Edge: 18,100-Search Xbox 360 Gap [2026]

Xbox 360 emulation has quietly split into three competing camps in 2026, and the split is confusing enough that Reddit threads about it get relitigated every few weeks. Mainline Xenia, the project that started this whole research effort back in 2013, has not shipped a tagged release since February 2026. Xenia Canary, the fork that…

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