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OpenAI’s biggest math announcement of the year lasted less than a day before it needed a correction. On October 6, 2026, the company published 722 preprints to a public GitHub repository, each one claiming progress on one of 372 unsolved or hard mathematical problems, generated with help from an internal mathematical-reasoning system. By October 7,…
Anthropic and Microsoft are fighting over the same desk. One company wants to be the model you reason with. The other wants to be the assistant already living inside Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams. As of October 10, 2026, that fight has a name: Claude vs Copilot, a search term that now pulls roughly 1,900…
Two flagship Windows gaming handhelds landed within weeks of each other this fall, and for the first time, the choice isn’t AMD versus AMD. The ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X20, ASUS’s first OLED gaming handheld, went up for pre-order on September 25, 2026, with a release date of October 15. The Acer Predator Atlas 8,…
Japan’s cybersecurity agencies have a number that tells the story on its own: 600. That is how many unauthorized-access incidents Japanese companies and local governments had disclosed publicly between January and the end of September 2026, according to security firm Trend Micro. It already beats the 593 cases logged across the entirety of 2025, with…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing credential-theft campaign that has compromised two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts to push a malicious workflow into over 340 repositories. “Using the account of Takashi Kitao, author of the 18,400-star game engine pyxel, the attacker pushed a malicious workflow to 27 repositories starting at 13:20 UTC,” StepSecurity
It looks like Google is getting ready to take the wraps off its rumored Fitbit Edge next Monday. In a post on X, Google posted a picture of what appears to be the side of the fitness tracker, with the caption: “Get an Edge on your health. 10.12.26.” A trove of Fitbit Edge leaks has…
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Microsoft is offering up to $1,000 cash back to MacBook Pro owners who switch to the new Surface Laptop Ultra, and that’s on top of trade-in value.
Analysts at IDC and Omdia recently published findings regarding a massive drop in Q3 2026 global PC shipments. What’s scarier is that we’re probably at the start of a downward trend that continues into Q4 and beyond. Here’s what you need to know.
Owlcat Games has announced it is delaying the release of its Steampunk, samurai-themed CRPG, Shadow of the Road, to next year to give the developers more time to refine gameplay and iron out issues.
