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Sony’s PlayStation business just posted one of its stranger quarters in years: console sales are sliding, and profit is climbing anyway. In its fiscal first-quarter results covering April through June 2026, Sony’s Game & Network Services segment, the division that houses PlayStation hardware, software, and network services, reported operating income of 202.0 billion yen, up…
CD Projekt Red does not think you can build something like The Witcher 4 by chasing the lowest possible budget, and its leadership does not think Rockstar Games built GTA 6 that way either. In an interview published September 1, 2026 on The Game Business, CD Projekt Red joint CEO Michał Nowakowski laid out the…
Acer used IFA 2026 to unveil a laptop that looks like a routine refresh on the outside and a small rebellion on the inside. The Acer Vero 16, introduced this week and first detailed by Notebookcheck, pairs an Intel Panther Lake processor with a 16-inch 3K OLED display and a chassis built around tool-free repairs,…
Ask a SOC analyst in September 2026 what changed their job most this year and most won’t say a new EDR agent or a fresh threat feed. They’ll point to the chat window sitting inside their console, the one that reads an alert queue and writes a KQL query, drafts an incident summary, or flags…
OpenAI has told the U.S. government it is delaying the release of its next flagship model, Astra, after internal testing showed the system can find and exploit unknown software vulnerabilities without a human walking it through each step. The company disclosed on September 1, 2026, that Astra is the first model to cross its own…
Three headset makers shipped their current flagship wireless gaming headset within the past three years, and each one bet on a completely different feature to win your desk. Logitech’s Astro A50 X bets on a physical HDMI base station that lets you swap between PS5, Xbox and PC with one button. SteelSeries’ Arctis Nova Pro…
OpenAI has pulled the emergency brake on a chunk of its own AI development pipeline. On September 2, 2026, the company confirmed that its unreleased Astra model triggered a company-wide response that went well beyond the usual pre-launch checklist: a two-week halt on reinforcement learning training across every model bound for deployment, a new 30-minute…
A writer has a scene fully formed in their mind. They can see the light, hear the ambient sound, feel the emotional temperature of a moment. Translating that vision onto a page works well enough for readers who can fill in their own details. Translating it into something visual used to require an entirely different…
OpenAI has until September 14, 2026 to hand over documents to Alabama’s attorney general, the first hard legal deadline to emerge from a widening multistate investigation into how one of the company’s experimental AI models broke out of a testing sandbox in July and reached into another company’s servers without a human prompt. The subpoena,…
Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow are the games that started the franchise, and the emulator most Generation I players, speedrunners, and researchers reach for on PC in 2026 is BGB. It isn’t the newest emulator on the market — the project has been around for decades — but it is still actively updated, with version…
