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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…
Xbox’s cloud gaming hourly limit rates have been met with derision in the fanbase, and have highlighted gaps between other services.
There are only a few days left in Best Buy’s Labor Day sale, which means you still have time to take advantage of this 50% discount on the HP OmniBook X Flip 2-in-1 laptop with a 16″ 2K OLED Touchscreen, AMD Ryzen AI 5 430 (2026) CPU, and 16GB RAM.
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…
