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Shadow PC Hour Caps: How to Avoid Lockouts in 12 Steps [2026]

Shadow PC quietly rewrote its own rulebook in July 2026. For years, the French cloud-gaming service sold itself on one promise that its rivals couldn’t match: a full Windows machine in the cloud, with no hour limits, no session timers, and no library restrictions. That promise is gone. Every current Shadow plan now caps your…

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How to Deploy AWS SAM Apps: 12 Steps, 90 Min [2026]

Every serverless tutorial eventually runs into the same wall: you can write a Lambda function in five minutes, but wiring it to API Gateway, DynamoDB, IAM roles, and a repeatable deployment pipeline is a different job entirely. That gap is exactly what AWS SAM (Serverless Application Model) was built to close. As of August 2026,…

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How to Encrypt Files: 12 Steps, 90 Min [2026]

A stolen laptop with an unencrypted drive hands over every file on it the moment someone pulls the SSD and plugs it into another machine. No password prompt, no login screen, nothing to bypass. Full-disk and file-level encryption close that gap, and in 2026 the tools to do it are free, built into every major…

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Announcing new builds for 31 August 2026

Hello Windows Insiders, Today, we’re releasing new Windows 11 Insider Preview builds for Windows 11, version 26H1 to the Beta and Experimental channels. Please see the release notes for each channel below: Beta (26H1): <a href="https:// The post Announcing new builds for 31 August 2026 appeared first on Windows Blog.

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What Shipped in OpenClaw 2.0

OpenClaw shipped version 2026.8.1 on August 31, 2026, and the project is calling it OpenClaw 2.0 — the biggest single update since the open-source AI assistant exploded onto GitHub in 2024. The release closes out a development cycle of nearly two months, a sharp break from the project’s usual cadence of shipping a new build…

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OpenClaw 2.0 Ships: 16,000 PRs, Credential Lockdown [2026]

OpenClaw shipped version 2026.8.1 on August 31, 2026, and the project is calling it OpenClaw 2.0 — the biggest single update since the open-source AI assistant exploded onto GitHub in 2024. The release closes out a development cycle of nearly two months, a sharp break from the project’s usual cadence of shipping a new build…

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VBA-M Setup for Pokémon: 12 Steps, 40 Min [2026]

VisualBoyAdvance-M just quietly became one of the more interesting Pokémon emulators to watch in 2026. The project shipped stable release 2.2.3 on October 25, 2025, and nightly builds kept landing through November 2025 and into this year, with a fresh Git compile on August 26, 2026 that fixed background input handling and cleaned up a…

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Firewall Security Is Really About Controlling Trust Paths

Firewall Security Is Really About Controlling Trust Paths Source: Canva Firewalls are often judged by what they block. That is understandable, but it is not the most useful way to evaluate them. In a modern environment, much of the dangerous traffic is technically permitted: HTTPS to a cloud service, an administrator connecting to a management…

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Waydroid vs Anbox vs Genymotion: 30-Month Gap [2026]

Linux users looking for an Android emulator run into a different problem than Windows gamers do. BlueStacks, LDPlayer, and MuMu Player don’t ship native Linux builds at all, so the search for “android emulator for linux” keeps surfacing three names instead: Waydroid, Anbox, and Genymotion Desktop. Only one of those three has shipped a real…

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Star Wars Zero Company PC Test: 90 FPS to 25 FPS Gap [2026]

Star Wars: Zero Company landed on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on August 27, 2026, and the reviews tell two different stories at once. Critics are calling it one of the best Star Wars games in years, with an aggregate Metacritic score around 86 and an OpenCritic rating of 87 with 89% of…

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