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Valve has quietly turned a two-year side project into the default operating system option for the entire Windows handheld category. SteamOS 3.9, which began rolling out to non-Valve hardware in April 2026, now installs natively on the ROG Ally line, and Asus’s own “enhanced support” listing has effectively become a green light for millions of…
Sony’s PS5 Pro now carries a US sticker price of roughly $699.99, unchanged from its original 2024 launch price, while the standard PS5 Slim sits at $499.99 for the disc model and around $449.99 digital-only. That $200-$250 gap is exactly why so many PS5 Slim owners are stuck deciding whether the upgrade is worth it,…
Manchester Airports Group (MAG) has confirmed that hackers demanded a ransom after breaking into systems tied to Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports, and that the company refused to pay. The disclosure, made public on August 27, 2026 and still developing as of August 29, shifts the story away from the raw scale of…
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic joined 113 other companies on August 27, 2026, to sign an open letter warning that AI cyberattacks are about to get much worse, and that governments, tech firms, and critical infrastructure operators have only a short runway to catch up. The letter, first reported by Politico and confirmed by the BBC…
The Commodore 64 sold somewhere between 12.5 million and 17 million units during its production run, and in 2026 more people are running C64 software than at almost any point since the machine went out of production in 1994. That’s thanks to three emulators that have taken very different approaches to recreating a 1982 8-bit…
The proliferation of man-made material circling the planet is raising concerns over potential collisions.
I used to be an avid hiker and would try to go backpacking a few times a year. I always dreamed of thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, but life kind of got in the way. (Turns out jobs, wives, and children aren’t thrilled with the idea of you disappearing for three months.) But I’ve been longing…
Alt-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos was arrested by ICE on Thursday, and today the Department of Homeland Security confirmed to Reuters and the Washington Post that he had been deported to the UK. Yiannopoulos came to the US legally in 2019, but overstayed his visa. After he failed to appear in court for an immigration hearing,…
Sony Music and Warner Chappell have filed suit against Anthropic in the US District Court for the Northern District of California seeking damages for “tens of thousands” copyrighted works. The companies are asking for up to $150,000 per work, plus up to $25,000 for each instance when identifiable copyright data was stripped. In total, the…
BYOK is a no-frills, single-purpose gadget that 90 percent of people will find absolutely frivolous. But for those who spend a significant chunk of their lives putting words to virtual paper, there is an obvious allure. Personally, I think it’s at its best when you just stick to the bare minimum, focusing on pure text…
