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Multiplayer studios have spent the past year watching their game-server hosting options shift under their feet. Hathora, once a popular pick for indie and mid-size teams, announced in March 2026 that it was joining Fireworks AI and would wind down game hosting entirely by May 5, 2026, pushing customers toward Nitrado’s GameFabric. That shakeup left…
Microsoft has confirmed a fix for a bug that broke the built-in File History backup feature on millions of Windows 10 and Windows 11 machines, closing out a nearly two-week saga that started with the September 2026 Patch Tuesday rollout. The company’s support documentation, updated on September 22, 2026, says the problem is resolved in…
Have I Been Pwned now tracks 1,038 breaches and roughly 17.8 billion pwned accounts, and the site added two new incidents in the week before this article was written: a 17.8 million-record LimeLeads leak on September 22, 2026, and a 4.7 million-record Chess.com breach dated August 2026. Most people find out their credentials are circulating…
Ban numbers get thrown around like trophies these days. Riot boasts millions of Vanguard actions, Activision touts six-minute bans, and BattlEye trackers spit out daily counters. But what do these figures actually tell you about whether cheats work in 2026? For background, see our recent coverage. Anti-cheat detection rates are climbing across almost every major…
Nintendo’s original Switch quietly passed the Nintendo DS family’s lifetime sales record in 2026, putting a hybrid console at the top of a list that dedicated handhelds had owned for two decades. That single data point reopens an argument gamers have had since the Game Boy launched in 1989: what actually counts as the best…
The ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X20 went up for US preorder on September 24, 2026 at 6:00 a.m. Pacific, priced at $1,299.99 for the standalone unit and $2,499.99 for the ROG 20th Anniversary bundle. It is the fastest handheld ASUS has shipped under the Xbox banner, and it is also the most confusing one to…
We introduce a new method to guide flow matching models. Our approach, which we call probe guidance, uses the frozen internal states of an existing diffusion model to construct a guidance signal. This works using a similar principle as autoguidance, but eliminates the need for an additional forward pass at inference time and provides a…
Google is reportedly nearing the launch of its long awaited Gemini 4 model, after dawdling behind rival developers on flagship AI releases. Speaking with The Information during his first media appearance as the leader of Google’s DeepMind division, Koray Kavukcuoglu said that Gemini 4 is currently in its refinement stage, and that the company is…
This week, world leaders descended on Manhattan for the UN General Assembly. It’s also New York Climate Week—investors, policymakers, advocates, and journalists are colliding at panels, talks, and fancy dinners. With so many climate voices in one place, the discourse can feel a little louder than usual. This year, the unavoidable topic is artificial intelligence.…
Stardock’s new Snipboard app brings a pinned, searchable clipboard dock with cross-PC copying to Windows 11.
