Prime Day hasn't started, but the XPS 13 is already $200 off
Prime Day hasn’t started yet, but Dell’s XPS 13 is already down to $799 with a $200 discount. There’s even a model for just $599 if you can live with 8GB of RAM.
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We've finally got some actual details on Modern Warfare 4's DMZ mode
Activision has finally pulled back the curtain on Modern Warfare 4’s DMZ, the mode many of us are putting our hopes in for this year’s game. Here’s a brief overview of what’s going on.
The US needs a real plan to defend its water systems
Here’s what it would take: stronger defenses for large utilities, hands-on help for smaller systems and federal support to make both happen. The post The US needs a real plan to defend its water systems appeared first on CyberScoop.
Shield TV Pro vs Google TV vs Fire TV: $240 Gap [2026]
NVIDIA quietly rewrote the economics of cloud gaming on the living room TV this week. On October 2, 2026, the Shield TV Pro jumped from $199.99 to $299.99, a 50% increase on a box that first shipped in 2019, while the standard Shield TV was discontinued outright. That single price change turns a settled market…
Sam Altman Claims AI Singularity Arrived: “Awesome for World” [2026]
Sam Altman told the world the singularity is here, and he sounded thrilled about it. On a late-July appearance on the podcast Relentless, the OpenAI chief executive said, “We are now, like, in the singularity,” and followed it with a line that has since been quoted everywhere from cable news chyrons to Discord servers: “I’ve…
How to Enable G-Sync and FreeSync: 13 Steps [2026]
Screen tearing ruins fast-paced games before you even notice frame rate numbers. A diagonal split across the display during a 360-degree turn in a shooter, or a stutter mid-pan in an open-world title, almost always traces back to one thing: the monitor refreshing on its own clock while the GPU renders on a different one.…
SupaBoy vs Analogue Pocket vs FXPak Pro: $99 Gap [2026]
Original cartridge gaming just got a new contender. Hyperkin’s SupaBoy Crimson and Prime handhelds are shipping October 28, 2026, at $129.99, promising something software emulation can’t: a slot that accepts a real Super Nintendo or Super Famicom cartridge and plays it with no ROM file, no account, and no firmware update involved. That launch reopens…
Penny Blood Still Has No Publisher, Machida Vows On [2026]
Four years after its Kickstarter campaign closed, Penny Blood still doesn’t have a publisher. On October 2, 2026, series creator Matsuzo Machida gave backers and fans the update nobody wanted but most expected: the Shadow Hearts spiritual successor remains without a publishing partner, and the main game’s production has not moved forward. As AUTOMATON reported,…
Oracle Cloud OKE: Agones Game Servers in 13 Steps [2026]
Most tutorials about running dedicated game servers on Kubernetes point at the same three clouds: Google Kubernetes Engine, Amazon EKS, or Azure Kubernetes Service. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure rarely comes up, even though Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) is CNCF-certified, ships a genuinely free cluster control plane tier, and has been an officially documented installation…
Broadcom-Samsung Chip Pricing Deal Matches Nvidia Terms [2026]
Broadcom has locked in a chip-pricing arrangement with Samsung Electronics that mirrors the terms Nvidia commands from its own memory suppliers, according to media reports cited by ad-hoc-news.de on October 4, 2026. The agreement builds on the $200 billion memorandum of understanding Samsung and Broadcom signed on July 25, 2026, and it puts Broadcom’s custom…