Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulation
Microsoft president Brad Smith calls for urgent AI regulation, saying milk and washing machines have more oversight than AI companies.
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HelixSR mod brings NVIDIA's DLSS 3.7 to AMD-based gaming handhelds
HelixSR is a new mod that gets NVIDIA DLSS 3.7 working on AMD hardware by presenting it through FSR 3.1 compatibility. Early testing on handhelds such as the ROG Ally X suggests promising performance, including lower upscaling times compared with FSR 4 in one test.
Gears of War: E-Day is playable on PS5, thanks to a homebrew xCloud app
A new homebrew app called PSBox Cloud Gaming allows jailbroken PlayStation 5 consoles to access Xbox Cloud Gaming, giving PS5 owners another way to play Xbox titles, including exclusives such as Gears of War: E-Day.
I tested ASUS' Googlebook 14: So, how does it feel to a lifelong Windows user?
Windows Central’s Senior Editor Ben Wilson goes hands-on with the ASUS Googlebook 14 and shares his first 24 hours with Google’s own operating system.
Let’s Encrypt Cuts Default Certificate Validity to 64 Days Ahead of 45-Day Switch
Beginning February 2027, all newly issued certificates will have a 64-day validity period by default. The post Let’s Encrypt Cuts Default Certificate Validity to 64 Days Ahead of 45-Day Switch appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Bill Gates Warns AI Will Erase Jobs, Urges US-Led Rules [2026]
Bill Gates used a rare primetime interview to deliver one of his bluntest AI warnings yet, telling NBC’s Meet the Press that artificial intelligence could wipe out jobs faster than new ones appear, and that the United States needs binding rules, not corporate promises, to keep the technology from spiraling into catastrophe. The Microsoft co-founder’s…
4G Beats 5G for Calls: Seoul Hits 1.06s Setup [2026]
A new report from Ookla®, published October 4, 2026, is upending a core assumption of the 5G era: that newer radio technology automatically means better phone calls. Ookla’s study, titled “The 5G Voice Paradox: Why VoNR Isn’t Always Better (Yet),” found that in most markets tested, the decade-old VoLTE standard running on 4G still connects…
NexPhone’s $549 Triple-OS Phone Misses Q3 Target [2026]
The NexPhone, a smartphone that promises to run Android, Debian Linux, and Windows 11 on the same piece of hardware, has missed its original shipping window. The device from Nex Computer, which has also been linked in coverage to the NexDock brand, was supposed to start reaching reservation holders sometime in the July-to-September stretch of…
Claude Opus 5.5 Edges GPT-6 Astra by 0.9 Points [2026]
Claude Opus 5.5 has taken the top spot on the Epoch Capabilities Index, the composite AI benchmark run by independent research group Epoch AI, edging out OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra by less than a single point. The index, which stitches together more than 50 separate evaluations into one score, put Anthropic’s flagship model at roughly 167…
SharpEmu vs KyTyPS5: PS5 Emulators at 17 of 55 Games [2026]
Sony has never shipped a PS5 emulator, and it probably never will. That gap is exactly why two scrappy open-source projects, SharpEmu and KyTyPS5, have spent 2026 racing each other on GitHub to see who can boot a modern PlayStation 5 game first. Neither one lets you play Marvel’s Wolverine at launch quality. Neither one…