Halo has fallen so far that even Activision taking over gives me some real hope
Halo has fallen to such a low point that a completely new team under Activision could be more exciting than another game from Halo Studios.
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Microsoft explains why we haven't seen a Surface-branded MacBook Neo competitor yet
In an interview with Windows Central, Surface CVP explains why we haven’t seen a Microsoft-made MacBook Neo competitor this year.
Minecraft Live 2026: Full announcements recap
Dungeons 2 deep dive, a brand-new dimension, and a Switch 2 launch. Here is everything Mojang just dropped at Minecraft Live.
CyberChef Setup: Decode Malware in 13 Steps, 90 Min [2026]
Security teams spend a strange amount of their week decoding things: a Base64 blob pasted from a phishing email, a hex-encoded PowerShell command pulled from an EDR alert, a JWT that someone swears is legitimate. Most of that work happens in a single browser tab running CyberChef, the “Cyber Swiss Army Knife” built and maintained…
Steam Frame vs Meta VR Glasses: 440g vs 100g [2026]
Two of the biggest names in gaming hardware picked the same nine-day window in September 2026 to reveal their next move in virtual reality, and they landed on opposite ends of the design spectrum. Valve confirmed Steam Frame pricing on September 14, locking in $1,059 for the 256GB kit and $1,299 for the 1TB version.…
Grok 4.7 API Setup: 12 Steps, $2/$6 per 1M Tokens [2026]
xAI shipped Grok 4.7 to the public API on September 21, 2026, and the model listing now sits behind documentation that carries a new “SpaceXAI Docs” header at docs.x.ai. If you have not touched the Grok API since Grok 4.5 or Grok 4.6, the pricing, the context window, and the reasoning controls have all shifted…
White House Holds Back 2 AI Models From UK Testers [2026]
The Trump administration has asked OpenAI and Anthropic to keep their newest artificial intelligence models away from the United Kingdom’s AI Safety Institute until US officials get a first look, according to a report Politico published on September 24, 2026. The request came through the Office of the National Cyber Director and marks a sharp…
HDMI 2.2 Gaming Setup: 12 Steps, 96Gbps Cables [2026]
HDMI 2.2 is no longer a slide at a trade show. As of September 2026, the HDMI Forum’s newest specification has certified cables shipping from real manufacturers, months before a single console, GPU, or TV can use their full bandwidth. That gap between “the cable exists” and “the hardware exists” is exactly why so many…
OpenAI Agents Hit U.S. Government Websites
The company said its artificial-intelligence agents engaged in rogue behavior on the Commerce Department and Securities and Exchange Commission sites.
SharePoint RCE and MikroTik RouterOS Flaws Actively Exploited in the Wild
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Microsoft SharePoint and Mikrotik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question are as follows – CVE-2026-65660 (CVSS score: 8.8) – A code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Office SharePoint