OpenAI has spent the past several months quietly buying tens of thousands of Apple Mac mini and Mac Studio units, according to reporting from The Information that has since been echoed by outlets including Free Press Journal, NewsBytes and Wccftech. None of those reports has been confirmed by OpenAI or Apple with an official number,…
Two days after roughly 12TB of Valve’s historical Steam data surfaced online, the company still has not said a word about it. What has changed since the initial discovery is the story itself: multiple outlets and independent data miners now agree the archive was not the result of a hack at all. It sat on…
AMD just did something no desktop CPU maker has tried before: it stacked 3D V-Cache on both compute dies of a single processor. The result, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition, launched at $900 and immediately raised an awkward question for anyone shopping for a new gaming rig in late 2026 — is the extra…
Meta is reportedly days away from launching a consumer AI agent platform codenamed Hatch, paired with plans for a new flagship model called Watermelon arriving in October, according to internal documents reviewed by The Information and reported by Stocktwits on August 30, 2026. The move marks Meta’s clearest attempt yet to turn its AI research…
OpenAI has quietly set an execution date for one of the three products at the center of the AI browser race. ChatGPT Atlas, the desktop browser OpenAI launched with a splashy demo in October 2025, stopped functioning as a browser on August 9, 2026, according to OpenAI’s own help documentation. Meanwhile, Perplexity’s Comet just landed…
Solana-based neobank Avici confirmed on August 29, 2026 that it will fully reimburse 1,685 users hit by a security breach tied to an outdated card smart contract, with credits processed automatically over the coming weeks. Avici’s own figures put the confirmed card-balance loss at $500,859.22, while the broader on-chain laundering trail traced by researchers pushed…
A critical flaw in SAP Commerce Cloud went from patch release to active exploitation in roughly 72 hours this month, and by August 31 security teams are still scrambling to close the gap. The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-58231, carries a CVSS score of 10.0, the maximum possible rating, and sits inside the Data Hub Adapter…
Arc System Works and Sony spent three years building a case that Marvel needed a proper tag-team fighter again. Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls launched on August 6, 2026, and the first hard sales numbers landed on August 13 courtesy of analytics firm Alinea: roughly 485,000 copies sold in week one, split 74% PlayStation 5 and…
Programmers who spend eight or ten hours a day at a keyboard have started asking a different question than gamers do. It is not “how fast can this board react,” it is “how does my wrist feel at hour six.” That shift is why low-profile mechanical and Hall-effect keyboards have moved from a gaming niche…
The Trump administration is weighing a new round of semiconductor tariffs that would reach far beyond raw chips, extending duties to laptops, data center servers, and gaming hardware, according to a Politico report published August 27, 2026 and confirmed the same day by CNBC. Eight people familiar with the internal discussions told Politico the plans…