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Valve raised Steam Deck OLED prices by up to $300 in May 2026. ASUS answered with a $1,299.99 OLED handheld that launches October 15. Lenovo has spent the past year selling an 8.8-inch, 920-gram alternative that beats both rivals on raw horsepower. The gaming handheld market that used to be a two-horse race between Valve…
Amazon pushed a new open-source model onto Hugging Face and GitHub on October 1, 2026, and it does something most AI releases don’t: it refuses to write a single sentence. Strands Decider 2B, built by the Strands Labs team inside AWS, is designed to do one job — pick an option from a list, score…
Amazon pushed a new open-source model onto Hugging Face and GitHub on October 1, 2026, and it does something most AI releases don’t: it refuses to write a single sentence. Strands Decider 2B, built by the Strands Labs team inside AWS, is designed to do one job — pick an option from a list, score…
Pokkén Tournament DX never got an official PC release, and Nintendo shut down the Wii U’s online services back in April 2024, so the only way to play Pikachu Libre or Shadow Mewtwo in anything close to full resolution today is through emulation. Cemu, the open-source Wii U emulator that has powered most “play Wii…
A ransomware group has put a dual-listed insurer on notice, and the insurer is pushing back on the word “confirmed.” On October 3, 2026, Insurance Business reported that Tower Limited, the New Zealand insurer known as Tower Insurance, is investigating a claim from a cyber-extortion group that says it stole company data. Tower told Stuff…
A corrupted MDF file is one of the more stressful things a database administrator can run into. The MDF is the primary data file for a SQL Server database, so when it will not attach, throws I/O errors like 823 or 824, or leaves the database marked “Suspect,” the data inside can feel locked away.…
Google shut off Imagen 4 inside the Gemini API on August 17, 2026. Any app still calling imagen-4.0-generate-001, imagen-4.0-fast-generate-001, or imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001 now gets a hard failure instead of a picture. The replacement, Nano Banana 2 (officially Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), uses a different endpoint, a different method name, and a different response shape, so a…
A ratings page that briefly surfaced online and then vanished has reignited the loudest conversation of GTA 6’s pre-launch run. According to a report published October 3, 2026 by IBTimes UK, a deleted PEGI listing reportedly described “detailed decapitation and dismemberment,” frequent illegal drug use, and the ability for players to snort cocaine “directly from…
An exercise in Indonesia offered a preview of the military’s high-tech future—and the kinks that still need ironing out.
Instant gratification from short video clips makes it hard for people—particularly kids—to understand how the present affects the future, according to a study.
