According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), CD sales exploded in the first half of 2026. A new report from the organization says 17.5 million CDs were sold in the first six months of the year, up from just 12 million during the same period in 2025. That’s a jump of 45.7 percent,…
Windows Subsystem for Android went dark in 2025, and the fallout is still reshaping how people run Android apps and games on a PC in September 2026. Microsoft stopped distributing WSA on March 5, 2025, and pulled support entirely a few months later, pushing millions of users back toward third-party tools. That reset created an…
The two companies that make most of the world’s memory chips just admitted, in the driest possible language, that they no longer trust Washington’s export rulebook to stay put. On September 5, 2026, the fallout from a policy shift that took effect at the end of last year is still working its way through the…
Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor on Friday disclosed that another 67,000 customers from the U.S. have been impacted in a breach at its shipping provider ShipMonk. The exposed information includes customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses, and order numbers between November 2019 and August 2021. The breach does not affect the security of the…
Three release notes landed in the same six-week window this summer, and together they reset the meta-framework conversation for 2026. Astro shipped version 7.3.0 on September 3. Next.js pushed 16.3.4 on August 31, days after the 16.3 line introduced Instant Navigations and a Turbopack cache that Vercel says cuts production build times by up to…
Andy Holloway cohosts the Fantasy Footballers podcast with his friends Jason Moore and Mike Wright. The show is one of the premier fantasy sports podcasts, netting over 2 million monthly listeners and numerous awards, including Best Sports Podcast from iHeartRadio and People’s Choice at the Podcast Awards four years in a row. Holloway’s goal has…
During Naomi Osaka’s match against Anastasia Zakharova at this year’s US Open earlier this week, a gaggle of ring light-wielding influencers who were packed in a luxury suite became enough of a distraction that the umpire paused the match and repeatedly asked them to quiet down. Elsewhere in the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis…
The Atari 2600 turns 49 this year, and its emulation scene is arguably in better shape than it has been in decades. Stella, the open-source project that has served as the reference Atari 2600 emulator since 1996, is still shipping updates, still cycle-accurate down to the TIA chip’s quirks, and still runs on a Raspberry…
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…