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Vanguard vs EAC vs BattlEye vs VAC: 1 of 5 Runs 24/7 [2026]

Every major multiplayer shooter now ships with a kernel-level driver installed alongside the game itself. Riot Vanguard, Easy Anti-Cheat, BattlEye, Ricochet, and Valve Anti-Cheat sit deep inside Windows, reading memory and watching for tampering before a match even starts. That arrangement protects fair play, but it also hands five different companies a privileged foothold on…

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Apps

Claude Opus 4.8 vs GPT-5.6 Sol for Coding: 69.2% vs 64.6% [2026]

Anthropic and OpenAI have both put out new flagship coding models within weeks of each other, and developers now have to pick a side without much time to test either one properly. Claude Opus 4.8 landed on May 28, 2026, and GPT-5.6 Sol followed on July 9, 2026, and both companies are marketing them as…

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Technology

The weird and wonderful headphones of CanJam 2026

I’ve been reviewing headphones for a long time, and I’ve listened to everything from the barely serviceable to multi-thousand-dollar open-back headphones. But recently I’ve been uninspired by the state of mainstream options. Most are perfectly good – great, even – but they lack a distinct character. Something to remind me why I fell in love…

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Apps

AYN Thor vs Steam Deck: $310 Gap, 260g Lighter [2026]

Valve’s Steam Deck OLED has spent nearly three years as the handheld every PC gamer measures new hardware against, and after its May 2026 price hike it now starts at $789. AYN’s Thor takes a completely different route to the same shelf: a clamshell, dual-screen Android device built around a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2…

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Technology

HPE Stock Surges 7% as Nvidia Vera CPU Server Debuts [2026]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise shares were on track to open at a fresh record high on Friday, September 4, 2026, after the company put a new Nvidia-powered server at the center of its pitch to enterprise customers racing to deploy autonomous AI agents. HPE stock rose more than 7% in premarket trading, according to Stocktwits, as…

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AI

OpenAI admits to German wiki ‘incident’

OpenAI says it needs to overhaul how and when it reports instances of AI models attacking real-world targets. The acknowledgement comes as the company manages the fallout from reports that a swarm of its out-of-control agents hijacked a German wiki site. Regarding the “‘wiki incident,’ where our agents wrote to several internet sites,” OpenAI wrote…

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Technology

Robotaxis enter their villain era 

It’s Bullitt meets Christine meets Waymo. A new short film imagines a San Francisco car chase where the other driver isn’t human – and the car may be trying to kill you. That a robotaxi can now be cast as the villain with almost no explanation says something about the present moment. Autonomous cars have…

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