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Saudi Arabia’s state-backed AI company HUMAIN and Qualcomm used the opening day of LEAP 2026 in Riyadh to unveil the Horizon Ultra, a Windows laptop built around Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite platform and pitched as an “agentic AI PC” that runs large models directly on the device rather than shipping every query to the cloud.…
Microsoft quietly rewrote how Xbox Game Pass describes its own catalog this month. Starting with the September 2026 Wave 1 update published on Xbox Wire on September 1, every new release listing now carries four platform columns instead of three: Cloud, Xbox Series X|S, Handheld, and PC. That fourth column, absent from Game Pass release…
NVIDIA just handed cloud gaming its biggest ecosystem update of the year. At Gamescom 2026, the company confirmed that GeForce NOW is coming to Valve’s Steam Machine and will natively support the new Steam Controller, first on Steam Deck and Steam Machine, with Windows and macOS support to follow later in 2026. Pair that with…
Shadow cloud gaming was built for a desk, but most people who buy it end up wanting it on the biggest screen in the house. Streaming a full Windows PC to a TV sounds simple until the picture stutters, the controller won’t pair, or the router chokes the connection the moment someone else starts a…
Running a Valheim server for six friends and a Palworld server for a Discord community used to mean two separate boxes, two separate billing cycles, and two separate headaches every time someone forgot to update the mod list. In 2026, that math no longer makes sense. A single modestly-sized cloud VPS running Pterodactyl Panel can…
Every multiplayer game backend used to mean the same miserable stack: a game server written in one language, a Postgres database for persistence, a Redis layer bolted on for real-time state, and a pile of custom WebSocket code to keep clients in sync. SpacetimeDB throws that stack out. It merges the database and the server…
Qualcomm has confirmed it will unveil two new flagship mobile chips at Snapdragon Summit 2026, running September 22-24 in Maui, Hawaii, and the early details are already reshaping expectations for next year’s Android flagships. According to GSMArena, the chipmaker teased “Dual 8 Elites” in social posts published August 19-20, 2026, confirming for the first time…
Breakthroughs in computing become real through the experiences developers create. Our goal is to have Windows be the best platform for developers. That means pairing the latest in hardware innovation with software optimized for development. At <a hr The post Announcing Project Zenith: The ready-to-code Windows experience on developer-class devices appeared first on Windows Blog.
Thomson Reuters disclosed on September 2, 2026, that an unauthorized party accessed files from its C-Track court case management platform, exposing sensitive records tied to courts in 11 US states, the US Virgin Islands, and three courts in Ontario, Canada. The disclosure lands in the same week as reporting on a separate 153 million driver’s…
Pokémon ROM hacks like Radical Red, Unbound, and Emerald Kaizo have turned into their own subgenre, with harder trainer AI, updated movesets, and post-game content that rivals official titles. But almost every guide to playing them skips the part that trips people up first: the patch itself. ROM hacks aren’t distributed as playable files. They…
