Razer Tartarus V2 Pro review: I loved playing with this, but it needs a patch
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.
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FortiMail Zero-Day: CVSS 9.8, 3-Day CISA Deadline [2026]
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…
Set Up Google Open Match 2 Matchmaking: 13 Steps [2026]
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…
NVIDIA RTX Gets Shader Delivery After AMD’s 96% Cut [2026]
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,…
AppleWin vs Virtual II vs GSplus: $31 Price Gap [2026]
Apple II emulation does not get the attention that Nintendo or Sony emulation gets, but the numbers tell a different story. “Apple ii emulator” pulls roughly 720 monthly searches in the US, and the three programs fighting for that traffic, AppleWin, Virtual ][, and GSplus, take almost completely different approaches to keeping 1977-era hardware alive…
ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Perplexity Deep Research: 15x [2026]
Ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity the same open-ended research question on October 03, 2026, and you will get three different experiences before you see a single word of the answer. One spends up to half an hour reading dozens of sources before writing anything. Another comes back in under four minutes with a shorter, heavily…
No$GBA Pokémon Setup: 13 Steps, Free Debugger [2026]
Most Pokémon emulation guides point you toward melonDS, DeSmuME, or mGBA, and for good reason: those projects ship frequent updates and handle modern hardware well. No$GBA (short for NO-CASH GBA) rarely gets the same attention, yet Martin Korth’s emulator and debugger is still the fastest way to boot a Game Boy Advance Pokémon ROM on…
iPadian vs Smartface vs Corellium: $9,985 Price Gap [2026]
Type “iOS emulator for PC” into Google and you will land on a crowded field of download buttons promising an iPhone inside a Windows window. Almost none of them deliver what the search implies. After testing the three products that actually show up with real documentation, pricing pages, and support channels in October 2026, the…
Announcing new builds for 2 October 2026
Hello Windows Insiders, Today, we’re releasing new Windows 11 Insider Preview builds to the Beta and Experimental channels. New builds this week Select your channel below to view its release notes: Beta: <a href="http The post Announcing new builds for 2 October 2026 appeared first on Windows Blog.
Tesla will now let you drive off mid-charge if there’s an emergency
Tesla introduced a new feature to enable drivers to escape quickly while charging their vehicles in response to a mass shooting at a Supercharger location in Idaho in August that left seven people wounded and four dead. When a Tesla vehicle is charging, the plug is locked to the charging port and driving is disabled.…