Your phone may soon be able to shut down or restart your PC with just a couple of taps
Hidden code hints that Link to Windows will soon let Android users remotely shut down or restart their PCs or put their PCs to sleep.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI
Some of the world’s largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution that they say can ward off a new generation of cyber threats.
Google’s new Fitbit Air brings Pokémon Sleep to your wrist
Google teamed up with the Pokémon Company to introduce a special-edition Fitbit Air that works with the Pokémon Sleep app.
Revolut US Dollar Stablecoin 2026: What the Prediction Market Odds Say
Traders are betting on whether Revolut launches a US dollar stablecoin in 2026, and the odds just woke up. A Manifold market asking “Will Revolut launch a US Dollar stablecoin in 2026?” sat at roughly a 44% implied probability of YES as of August 27, 2026, with top-tier 24-hour volume for its source. The move…
Kimi K3 ‘Societal Chaos’ Market: Why Bettors Put 2% on Widespread Disruption
Kimi K3 ‘societal chaos’ market: bettors are watching, but the odds stay low. A Manifold market asking whether Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 will cause “widespread societal chaos” has drawn heavy recent trading, yet the crowd puts the chance of a YES at just 2% as of August 27, 2026. The activity tracks a run of…
Best PS2 Emulator 2026: PCSX2 Hits 98%, 4 Rivals Tested
PS2 emulation in 2026 is no longer a one-horse race. PCSX2 still runs the show on desktop, but Android and ARM64 users now have real, actively maintained options instead of a single abandoned app. NetherSX2 picked up where AetherSX2 left off. ARMSX2 showed up as a native ARM64 fork with its own compatibility claims. And…
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5: Free 30B Model, $89B GPU Bet [2026]
NVIDIA gave away a frontier-class AI model on August 11, 2026, and investors are treating it as a GPU sales pitch. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model, shipped with open weights, open training data and a permissive commercial license, according to NVIDIA’s developer blog. Anyone can download it, modify it and run it in…
Google Flow brings new creative control features to enhance video editing.
At Google I/O, we launched Gemini Omni Flash in Google Flow, bringing new video editing capabilities to creatives. Today we’re rolling out updates via Gemini Omni 1.1 Fl…
So much for "fans" as Xbox Series X25 sells out in seconds with a good chunk going to horrible scalpers
Xbox Series X25 preorders went live today, and judging by community feedback it did not go well. Meanwhile scalpers seem to have come out laughing.
Releasing Windows 11, version 26H2 to the Release Preview Channel
Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are making this year’s annual feature update, Windows 11, version 26H2 (Build 26300.9278), available in the Release Preview Channel for customers to preview ahead of general a The post Releasing Windows 11, version 26H2 to the Release Preview Channel appeared first on Windows Blog.