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Biren Technology, one of a handful of chipmakers trying to build a GPU business outside the Nvidia-AMD duopoly, posted first-half 2026 revenue of $183.9 million, up roughly 1,998% year over year from about $8.665 million in the same period of 2025, according to Tom’s Hardware. The Shanghai-based company also booked a $56.2 million net loss…
Stable Diffusion WebUI is still one of the most searched local AI tools on the internet, and the ecosystem around it has split into four distinct paths in 2026: the original AUTOMATIC1111 repository, the once-dominant Forge fork, the community-driven reForge project, and Forge Classic, which is now the most actively maintained branch of the family.…
OpenAI pushed its image stack forward on September 8, 2026, replacing the single GPT Image 2 model with two distinct options: GPT Image 2.5 Flare and GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst. The split matters more than a version bump suggests. Flare targets speed and everyday generation, while Sunburst trades latency for editing precision across multi-step workflows.…
Valve has broken its long silence on the next Steam Deck. In a September 2026 interview with IGN, Valve engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais confirmed the company is actively building a successor to its handheld gaming PC, even as a global RAM shortage drives up the cost of nearly every device that competes with it. The catch,…
Konami dropped a free demo for Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse on October 1, 2026, and within hours players testing it on Nintendo Switch 2 noticed something Konami’s own spec sheet didn’t promise: the frame rate roughly doubled. Nintendo Life reported that the 30 fps performance Konami lists for the original Nintendo Switch “actually gets a hefty…
Valve quietly pushed one of the more useful PC VR updates of the year in September 2026: a public beta that lets Steam Link talk to a Meta Quest headset over a plain USB-C cable instead of relying only on Wi-Fi. For anyone who has fought a router for a stable SteamVR session, that’s a…
For most of the last decade, the DisplayPort vs HDMI argument was a rounding error. Both connectors could push 4K at a reasonable refresh rate, and the choice came down to whichever port happened to be free on the back of your GPU. That changed in 2026. HDMI 2.2 is now a finished specification with…
The Pentagon has started notifying millions of current and former U.S. military personnel, civilian employees and family members that their personal data was stolen in a breach that ran for roughly nine months before anyone caught it. According to TechCrunch, unauthorized users exploited a vulnerability in a file-sharing system tied to the Defense Manpower Data…
A 15-year-old high school student in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, used ChatGPT to help finish a program that knocked Bandai Namco’s anime streaming service offline for more than six weeks, according to Tokyo Metropolitan Police. The case, publicly disclosed on July 6, 2026, has become one of the clearest examples yet of how generative AI lowers…
A fresh round of industry reporting is pointing to Naughty Dog’s next project after Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, and the word circulating among insiders is one PlayStation fans have waited nine years to hear: Uncharted. Multiple outlets published versions of the same claim on September 30, 2026, citing insider sourcing rather than any statement from…
