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Valve spent a decade telling anyone who asked that it had no interest in building another console. Then, on November 12, 2025, it announced the Steam Machine anyway, and on June 29, 2026 the box actually shipped. Eight months later, the question that matters to most buyers isn’t whether Valve pulled it off technically. It’s…
AAEON has shipped the first mini PC built around Intel’s new Panther Lake chips that runs without a single fan blade. The UP Xtreme PTL Edge Air, announced October 1, 2026 and reported by Tom’s Hardware on October 7, pairs Intel’s Core Ultra Series 3 processors with Frore Systems’ AirJet solid-state cooling module, a technology…
CPUID has quietly shipped ARM64 builds of CPU-Z and HWMonitor that recognize NVIDIA’s RTX Spark platform, days before the compact AI desktop’s broader retail push. The update, flagged by VideoCardz, Notebookcheck, and Tom’s Hardware, gives reviewers and early buyers a way to verify and monitor the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip at the heart of the…
A power blip during a boss fight is annoying. A power blip while SteamOS or Windows is mid-write to your NVMe drive is a different problem entirely: corrupted saves, a botched filesystem, or a drive that needs to be reimaged from scratch. With NAND prices climbing through 2026 and high-end rigs pulling more current than…
Snowflake has publicly denied that its platform was breached, directly contradicting the claim hackers made in a rogue push notification sent to ASOS app users on October 6, 2026. The dispute, confirmed by the BBC and Hackread, leaves ASOS customers caught between two conflicting accounts: a threat actor calling itself the Xuanye Group says it…
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The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has identified more than 100 compromised websites that have been injected with malicious JavaScript to serve an information-stealing malware called LunexStealer (aka Psychedelic Stealer). The activity, which was observed by the agency in September 2026, has been attributed to a threat cluster dubbed UAC-0277. It did not…
Anthropic on Tuesday said it’s expanding a program that allows vetted cybersecurity professionals to test its advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models with reduced safeguards and blocking classifiers, as the company claimed its Project Glasswing initiative uncovered at least 129,000 verified software vulnerabilities between April and July 2026. The company said it also found an additional
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Weight-loss drugs show signs of slowing biological aging, say drugmakers Popular weight-loss drugs may do more than help people shed pounds. They might also slow the aging process. Drugmakers Eli Lilly…
