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A wave of “ChatGPT 7” headlines hit search results this week, claiming OpenAI’s next model is already targeting Google’s Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash and Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 on multimodal performance. The claims are circulating fast. They are also, according to the outlets actually covering OpenAI’s roadmap, not accurate. As of September 16, 2026, OpenAI…
Every week, a fresh thread lands on r/PS5pro and r/PS5 with some version of the same question: should I upgrade? The replies are all over the map. One Redditor with a 65-inch Samsung S90D calls the jump “absolutely worth it.” Another, staring at a 1080p bedroom TV, says flatly that it’s not worth the money.…
A hacker who goes by the alias IAmNotAVillain says the Revolut data breach that Financial Times, TechCrunch, and Reuters reported on September 12, 2026, was only the opening chapter. In new claims surfacing on September 15, the same actor says they spent six months inside multiple Italian law-enforcement systems, walked away with roughly 147GB of…
CenterPoint Energy, the Houston-based utility that delivers electricity and natural gas to roughly 7 million customers across Texas, Indiana, Minnesota, and Ohio, has confirmed a data breach affecting an unknown portion of its customer base. The company disclosed the incident in a Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 14, 2026,…
Valve opened the doors on its most ambitious hardware bet in over a decade on September 14, 2026, when reservation sign-ups for the Steam Frame VR headset went live at steamframe.com. The device carries a starting price of $1,059 for a 256GB configuration and $1,299 for 1TB, positioning it well above every mainstream VR headset…
Roblox spent most of 2026 fighting child-safety lawsuits, a bipartisan Senate probe, and a bruising second quarter on Wall Street. Now it has a new problem, and this one comes from Brussels. On August 31, 2026, the European Commission designated Roblox a Very Large Online Platform (VLOP) under the Digital Services Act, placing the gaming…
Buy a game on Xbox in 2026 and there is a real chance you can also play it on a Windows PC, keep your save file, and match up against a friend on PS5 the same night. Buy the same style of game on Nintendo Switch 2, and the outcome depends entirely on which publisher…
Ugreen has launched the LinkStation Pro, an upgraded external GPU dock that swaps its predecessor’s USB4 connection for Thunderbolt 5 while keeping the OCuLink port that made the original a favorite among handheld and mini PC owners. The dock went on sale in China on September 14, 2026, according to Notebookcheck, HotHardware, and other outlets,…
OpenAI pushed a second voice model into its API on September 10, 2026, and most developers still cannot tell it apart from the Realtime API they already use. The new model, gpt-live-1, handles the microphone and the speaker. A separate backend, either an OpenAI Responses model or your own agent, handles the thinking. That split…
Google’s laptop pre-orders finally have a hard date. Starting September 21, 2026, shoppers in the US will be able to reserve the first wave of Googlebook devices, the Gemini-powered laptop line Google unveiled back in May and has spent the summer refining with hardware partners. The announcement, confirmed by Engadget, 9to5Google, Android Central, VideoCardz, and…
