Microsoft has announced that Windows 11 version 26H2 is now available to test in the Windows Insider Release Preview Channel, which means general availability is imminent.
Google will start policing memory-hungry Android apps as a direct response to the RAM crisis. Spotted by TechCrunch, the company yesterday published a memo addressing the Play Store’s role in enforcing new memory-usage restrictions. The post emphasizes the importance of meeting new memory usage limits for apps, in order “to help developers navigate industry-wide hardware…
GPT Image 2 sits at the top of the Artificial Analysis Text-to-Image Arena with an Elo score of 1357 as of the site’s August 2026 leaderboard update, and it now extends what OpenAI calls its “quality and ecosystem crown” into the API layer. That matters if you build products rather than just chat with a…
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.
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: 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…
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 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…