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Getting a ROM library into Steam used to mean adding each game one by one as a “non-Steam shortcut,” typing out launch commands by hand, and hunting down box art on Google Images. Steam ROM Manager automates all of it. Point it at your emulator folders, and it scans your ROMs, matches them against the…
Three frontier AI models shipped inside a single ten-day window this month, and the price gap between the cheapest and the most expensive one now runs past 80x for the same million output tokens. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra landed on September 3, 2026, priced at $50 per million output tokens and carrying the company’s first-ever Critical…
Amazon spent the first four months of 2026 tearing Luna apart. It killed the game store on April 10, cut off access to purchased titles by June 10 with zero refunds, and quietly turned what used to be a Netflix-for-games pitch into a free perk bundled inside Prime. Then, on September 10, Amazon added a…
Most AI image generators still hand back a file barely big enough for a phone wallpaper. FLUX.2 defaults to 1024×1024 and tops out around 4 megapixels before Black Forest Labs’ own pipeline starts downscaling it back down. Midjourney’s raw output sits near 1 megapixel. Even Stable Diffusion 3.5 was trained at 1024×1024, so anything you…
An Elgato Stream Deck sits on a desk as a grid of small LCD keys, and on paper that looks like a toy for people who already have too many gadgets. In practice it is the fastest way to stop fumbling for hotkeys mid-stream, mid-recording, or mid-boss-fight. Press one key and OBS switches scenes. Press…
AGI in 5 Years? Manifold Bettors Put It at 62% After the GPT-6 Astra Launch. A Manifold Markets contract asking “Will AGI be achieved in the next 5 years?” is trading at a 62% implied probability of YES as of September 19, 2026, one of the busiest questions on the platform this week. The jump…
Russia-NATO invasion odds sit at 9% on Manifold as traders react to Warsaw’s warning of “accidental” strikes. A prediction market asking whether Russia will invade any NATO country before 31 December 2026 saw roughly 31% of its all-time volume trade in a single day, one of the busiest 24-hour windows the venue tracked. The spike…
Every backend team building a new service in late 2026 hits the same fork in the road: Node.js, Bun, or Deno. The question used to have an easy answer — Node, because it was the only mature option. That is no longer true. Bun’s 1.4.x line is now running production traffic at companies that once…
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The Nvidia chief makes the case for engineering solutions—not new laws or industry speed bumps—to address AI safety concerns.
