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DOS gaming never really died, it just moved into three competing forks of the same open-source project. DOSBox, the original emulator that has powered digital re-releases on GOG and Steam since the mid-2000s, has not shipped a new stable build since June 2019. In the vacuum, two active forks took over: DOSBox-X, a monthly-release project…
Three companion chatbots now dominate the AI relationship category, and their 2026 pricing tells three completely different stories. Character.AI charges $9.99 a month for its only paid tier. Nomi AI sits in the middle at $15.99 a month. Replika, meanwhile, quietly rolled out a $120-a-month Max tier this year, on top of its existing $19.99…
Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8 have pulled arcade sticks back into the mainstream, and the shopping decision in August 2026 comes down to three very different machines. The Hori Fighting Stick Alpha is the $199.99 tournament standard that Sony itself licensed for PS5. The Qanba Titan sits in the middle at $179, built from…
McKesson Corporation, the pharmaceutical distribution giant that moves roughly a third of the prescription drugs sold in the United States, confirmed on August 28, 2026, that it suffered a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to third-party applications and theft of data. Hours after the disclosure, the extortion group ShinyHunters told BleepingComputer it had pulled roughly…
A ransomware crew that built its reputation on mass file-transfer hacks has pulled off something different this month. Cl0p, the extortion group behind the 2023 MOVEit breach, has spent August 2026 naming Shell, Philips, General Electric, Fiserv and roughly 45 other companies on its dark-web leak site. The common thread isn’t a shared vendor for…
Hundreds of unionized video game developers stood outside Xbox studio buildings in Austin, Dallas, Seattle, Rockville, Hunt Valley, Montreal and Minneapolis on August 18 and 19, 2026, holding signs with a blunt message: stop the cuts. The rallies, organized under the banner “Save Our Devs,” mark the second coordinated protest wave against Microsoft’s plan to…
The leaker behind this month’s Grand Theft Auto 6 footage dump appears to have finally shown its hand. On August 27, 2026, blockchain investigators traced roughly $270,000 in transactions out of wallets linked to the anonymous group known as Cyberleek, the same entity that spent the previous two weeks flooding the internet with GTA 6…
Evaluating AI agents that use external tools requires realistic test scenarios that capture how practitioners compose tools and iterate across conversation turns. Constructing such scenarios by hand demands deep domain expertise, does not scale across tool ecosystems, and produces static benchmarks that cannot track evolving APIs. We observe that tool specifications—function names, natural-language descriptions, and…
Modern AI systems are being deployed in complex domains such as medicine, science, and law, where there is often not a single correct answer given the observed evidence. Such systems must be able to represent and update uncertain beliefs about the world as new evidence arrives to make rational decisions. We introduce the novel technique…
Apple pushed out two new chips overnight on August 25, 2026: the base-tier M6 and the high-end M5 Ultra, according to Apple’s own newsroom announcement and coverage from 36Kr. The new Mac mini and Mac Studio configurations built around them go on sale September 22, 2026. But the more consequential story sitting underneath the spec…
