The Edge of the Cyber World See the latest
Riot Games is walking away from its first fighting game less than a year after launch. On August 20, 2026, the studio announced that active development of 2XKO, the League of Legends-branded tag-team fighter formerly known as Project L, will end in December 2026. Servers stay online, one more content patch ships in October, and…
Sony flipped a switch on August 31, 2026, and turned the PlayStation 5 into something it has not been since the death of PlayStation Vue: a free television set. “Live TV on PS5” went live that day for U.S. players, delivering more than 100 free, ad-supported channels straight from the console’s Media section, according to…
Three companies now sell a “pro” controller above $80, and none of them agree on what premium should mean. Nintendo’s answer is the Switch 2 Pro Controller at $84.99, a controller built almost entirely around battery life. Sony’s answer is the DualSense Edge at $199.99, a controller built around modular hardware you can repair yourself.…
Electricity may be getting its own embedded-finance moment. Light, an Austin-based energy startup founded by former Plaid product chief Baker Shogry, has raised $46 million in Series A funding to let companies sell electricity directly inside their own products and […] The post Plaid alum’s energy startup Light raises $46M to make electricity an embedded…
The surge in AI adoption is transforming everything from chatbots to content generation. Still, a common pain point remains: How can organizations confidently…
Double Fine Productions has launched a new Kickstarter campaign in which one of the stretch goals is that they’ll make Brütal Legend 2 if it reaches $100M. As a fan of the original Brütal Legend who’s been waiting for a sequel to this underrated gem for years, it’s a cause worth backing.
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a set of 13 malicious Composer theme packages on Packagist that are designed to inject JavaScript into Vietnamese movie and comic streaming sites that install those libraries and initiate the deployment of spyware aimed at unpatched iOS devices. “The injected code runs two operations against a site’s visitors: a mobile ad-fraud…
Sonos is cramming AI into its software because it’s “very hot these days.” The new features, which include agentic automation, are opt-in.
Perplexity today launched hybrid compute for its agentic platform, Computer, a system that lets a single AI agent split its work between frontier models running in the cloud and smaller open-weight models running locally on Apple silicon Macs — routing sensitive data to the local machine so it never leaves the device.The company says it…
Fambot is building an AI “chief of staff” to help families manage the emails, calendars, school updates, sports schedules, and other logistics of raising kids.
