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Valve has quietly turned a two-year side project into the default operating system option for the entire Windows handheld category. SteamOS 3.9, which began rolling out to non-Valve hardware in April 2026, now installs natively on the ROG Ally line, and Asus’s own “enhanced support” listing has effectively become a green light for millions of…
Sony’s PS5 Pro now carries a US sticker price of roughly $699.99, unchanged from its original 2024 launch price, while the standard PS5 Slim sits at $499.99 for the disc model and around $449.99 digital-only. That $200-$250 gap is exactly why so many PS5 Slim owners are stuck deciding whether the upgrade is worth it,…
Manchester Airports Group (MAG) has confirmed that hackers demanded a ransom after breaking into systems tied to Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports, and that the company refused to pay. The disclosure, made public on August 27, 2026 and still developing as of August 29, shifts the story away from the raw scale of…
OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic joined 113 other companies on August 27, 2026, to sign an open letter warning that AI cyberattacks are about to get much worse, and that governments, tech firms, and critical infrastructure operators have only a short runway to catch up. The letter, first reported by Politico and confirmed by the BBC…
The Commodore 64 sold somewhere between 12.5 million and 17 million units during its production run, and in 2026 more people are running C64 software than at almost any point since the machine went out of production in 1994. That’s thanks to three emulators that have taken very different approaches to recreating a 1982 8-bit…
What do you want from a flip phone when it’s closed? A simple interface, perhaps notifications and a widget or two, for handling the basics? Or a fully fledged Android experience shrunk down for the Flip form factor? For years, Samsung has insisted on the former, even as some fans – and Razr rival Motorola…
As audio-focused generative tools and platforms have gotten more sophisticated, the internet has become increasingly filled with AI-generated music whose melodies and vocals are algorithmically derived from the work of human artists. While some of the people pumping out this kind of content immediately own up to using AI, others have denied using the technology…
Heroku’s slow decline pushed an entire generation of developers toward three platforms that promised the same “git push to deploy” simplicity without the baggage: Render, Railway, and Fly.io. By August 2026, all three have grown up in public, and not always gracefully. Render closed a $100 million Series C extension in February 2026 that valued…
Atlassian stopped selling new Opsgenie licenses in mid-2025 and set an end-of-support date of April 5, 2027, pushing thousands of on-call teams toward a forced migration decision. That single calendar date has turned a routine tooling comparison into an urgent budget conversation for any engineering org that still routes pages through Opsgenie. Meanwhile PagerDuty closed…
Every enterprise security team eventually hits the same wall: dozens, sometimes thousands, of vendors touching sensitive data, and no realistic way to audit each one by hand. That’s the gap that security ratings platforms were built to close, and in 2026 three vendors dominate the conversation whenever a CISO asks “which third-party risk management (TPRM)…
