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Google shut off Imagen 4 inside the Gemini API on August 17, 2026. Any app still calling imagen-4.0-generate-001, imagen-4.0-fast-generate-001, or imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001 now gets a hard failure instead of a picture. The replacement, Nano Banana 2 (officially Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), uses a different endpoint, a different method name, and a different response shape, so a…
Kakul Srivastava is the CEO of Splice, the sample platform countless producers rely on for one-shots and melodic loops. Samples pulled from the service have found their way into massive hits like Lisa’s “Money” and “Espresso” by Sabrina Carpenter. (The original samples are here and here, for the curious.) Before that, Kakul held executive roles…
The best key switches you could ask for pair with a drift-proof TMR thumbstick, but it needs a few Synapse app updates to earn its highest potential praise.
I visited Ubisoft Montreal for a first look at one of the most promising new MOBAs in a decade. March of Giants is something special.
The offensive cyber operations startup looks to evolve red teaming beyond traditional methods to simulate attackers’ increasingly advanced capabilities.
A critical flaw in Fortinet’s FortiMail secure email gateway is now confirmed under active attack, and the window for patching it is shorter than almost any similar bug this year. CVE-2026-104286, rated 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scale, lets an unauthenticated attacker write arbitrary files to a vulnerable FortiMail appliance using nothing more…
Matchmaking is the part of online game infrastructure that nobody notices when it works and everybody complains about when it doesn’t. Players expect a fair, fast match within seconds, but the backend logic behind “find me four other people my skill level, on my region, who want the same game mode” is a distributed systems…
Microsoft is rolling out Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) to every NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPU this month, extending a feature that until now only worked on AMD’s RDNA graphics cards. The DirectX team confirmed the expansion in an October 1, 2026 blog post, writing that it is extending ASD “to additional Windows devices powered by Intel,…
Apple II emulation does not get the attention that Nintendo or Sony emulation gets, but the numbers tell a different story. “Apple ii emulator” pulls roughly 720 monthly searches in the US, and the three programs fighting for that traffic, AppleWin, Virtual ][, and GSplus, take almost completely different approaches to keeping 1977-era hardware alive…
Ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity the same open-ended research question on October 03, 2026, and you will get three different experiences before you see a single word of the answer. One spends up to half an hour reading dozens of sources before writing anything. Another comes back in under four minutes with a shorter, heavily…
