AMD just joined the $1 trillion club, beating Intel to the milestone

Nvidia eclipsed the $1 trillion valuation mark in May 2023, and has not looked back since. The company has continued to tack on value driven largely by the AI boom. Currently, the chipmaker has an incredible market cap of roughly $5.48 trillion, making it the…

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Internet Explorer is finally, truly dying, and Microsoft wants you ready by 2029

Microsoft retired support for Internet Explorer 11 years ago, but the ancient browser is still lingering in modern Windows releases through the IE Mode feature. By the end of 2029, even IE Mode will finally be gone, along with IE's ancient web engine…

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Silent Hill: Townfall debuts in a haunting return to psychological horror

Silent Hill: Townfall takes the series to a remote Scottish setting, blending first-person gameplay with the psychological horror and storytelling the franchise is known for. Its gripping mystery, sound design, and fresh ideas make it one of the most…

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This one-command trick can put your localhost on the internet, no port forwarding required

"Put localhost on the Internet," was the new pitch for an old feature that had Cloudflare at the top of Hacker News and X's dev circles for the last few days. The tool has existed since 2021, and let's you run one command: cloudflared tunnel --url…

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Comfy Desktop makes running local AI models on your PC much easier

Comfy Desktop lets you generate AI images and video locally using your own GPU, with popular models such as Stable Diffusion, SDXL, Flux, Wan, and others. It wraps the powerful ComfyUI workflow system into a desktop app that handles installation…

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CD Projekt CEO reveals why the company decided to use Unreal Engine for The Witcher 4

The next chapter in The Witcher's fantasy saga won't run on CD Projekt's proprietary graphics engine. According to the company's co-CEO, that decision was actually made years ago, and it's expected to pave the way for more frequent releases in the saga going…

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Apple Mac mini M6 debuts: more performance at a higher price

The new M6 Mac mini delivers a strong performance boost in the same remarkably compact and quiet design, with reviewers praising its CPU and GPU performance. The catch is price: the new $899 starting point is $300 higher(!) than the previous generation…

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iPhone 18 Pro teardown highlights mechanical camera aperture and a major thermal redesign

The iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max are the first smartphones from Apple to ship with a variable aperture. Samsung experimented with a similar mechanism years ago with some of its Galaxy and Note devices, but that run was short lived. Apple's implementation…

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Putin's awkward online video shows him running an unactivated copy of Windows on a US-made Dell PC

In the clip, the Russian president was casting his vote online in the country's State Duma elections, which were held between September 18 and 20 to elect members of the lower house. Read Entire Article

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Another major GPU leaker says Nvidia's RTX 6000 series won't arrive until 2028

Kopite7kimi, one of the most renowned leakers when it comes to graphics cards, previously predicted that the Rubin-based GeForce RTX 6000 series cards would launch sometime in the second half of 2027. Read Entire Article

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Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI face lawsuit claiming AI slowdown harms subscribers and violates antitrust laws

The proposed class action was filed on September 18 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, reports the Associated Press. Four paying users of ChatGPT, Claude, Grok or Gemini are seeking to represent subscribers nationwide. Read…

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Hackers use fake coding tests to infect 30,000 devices and steal $10 million in crypto

The agencies refer to the group behind the activity as WaterPlum. It targets web designers, software engineers and people working in cryptocurrency and Web3. The group contacts victims while posing as recruiters, then sends what appears to be a coding…

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US and China could start warning each other about dangerous AI incidents under new proposal

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the proposal was part of weekend discussions ahead of talks at the White House taking place this week between President Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping. Read Entire Article

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This new ultra-compact FPGA Game Boy clone costs just $90

FunnyPlaying has launched a smaller version of its budget-priced rival to the Analogue Pocket. Slightly cheaper but with the same software capabilities, the FPGB Mini might be as small as a faithful Game Boy clone will ever get. Read Entire Article

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Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes

The filing points to a possible ad-supported model for PC and console games that is less disruptive than the approaches commonly used in mobile titles. Read Entire Article

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Gemini hacked three companies during security tests, and Google kept it quiet for months

The incidents, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, took place in May during an evaluation by AI security firm Irregular. Gemini was supposed to work with fictional companies in a controlled test environment. However, an unintended internet connection…

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Meet Jev: A New Kind of AI Model From One of ChatGPT's Co-Creators

Jev doesn't chat, write code, or explain itself. It just makes decisions, fast and cheap. Here's why a ChatGPT co-inventor thinks that's the next big step for AI. Read Entire Article

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Researchers found a way to eavesdrop on headphones from 30 meters away, and encryption can't stop it

The research comes from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Guangzhou and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The team presented its paper, "Injected and Leaked: Actively Inducing Side-Channel Leakage Using Electromagnetic Injection and…

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Valve open-sources Lepton, its Android compatibility layer for the Steam Frame

The code is now available through Valve's GitLab repository. Read Entire Article

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An AI hallucination nearly started a war between the US and China

Sources connected to the US military recently told CNN that the US nearly moved to intercept a Chinese vessel in the Middle East this spring based on false intel from an AI-assisted report. The report was based on an inaccurate chatbot response that…

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Apple's new hardware chief says seeing screen protectors used on iPhones makes his "skin crawl"

Apple introduced the material with the iPhone 17 lineup and also uses it on the new iPhone 18 Pro and the outer screen of the new iPhone Duo foldable. Read Entire Article

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GlobalFoundries and Marvell are scaling up silicon photonics efforts as data centers outgrow copper wiring

GlobalFoundries and Marvell Technology have announced an expanded partnership in manufacturing novel connectivity solutions. The multi-year agreement centers on GlobalFoundries' silicon germanium (SiGe) technology, with the company increasing production…

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Samsung Galaxy S26 FE reviews: a decent phone, awful price

The Galaxy S26 FE gets plenty right, including a bright AMOLED display, good performance, capable cameras, and seven years of software updates. The problem is value: reviewers find few meaningful upgrades over the S25 FE, while the higher price puts it…

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EA FC 27 scores solid reviews as gameplay improvements take center stage

EA Sports FC 27 builds on the familiar formula with sharper gameplay, smarter player movement, improved Career and Ultimate Team modes, and the new social The Grounds mode. Reviewers highlight the improvements on the pitch and deeper progression, though there…

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Almost 86% of Japanese game developers are using AI in their workflows, up from 51% in 2025

According to a survey conducted by the Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association (CESA), there has been a massive surge in AI adoption among video game developers in Japan, with 85.8% of respondents reporting that they use generative AI as part of their…

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Ghostrunner's studio is pricing its Soulslike "Valor Mortis" at $40, but it's worried you'll think that's too low

One More Level (OML), the studio behind the critically acclaimed first-person "runner" Ghostrunner, is almost ready to launch its new game. Valor Mortis will apply the developer's experience with first-person games to the Soulslike genre and will apparently…

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This startup believes smaller, modular data centers can solve AI's infrastructure bottleneck

The funding round values Crusoe at about $30.9 billion after the investment, Chief Executive Chase Lochmiller said. Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, and Mubadala Investment co-led the round. Other investors include Founders Fund, TPG, and several…

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Control Resonant reviews praise its spectacular world and bold new direction

Control Resonant takes Remedy's supernatural series into a semi-open-world Manhattan, with Dylan Faden replacing Jesse as protagonist. Reviewers like the reality-bending environments, art direction, story, and exploration, while reactions to the redesigned…

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Microsoft exec says AI training might be the "largest labor theft in human history"

Brent Hecht, Microsoft's director of applied science, predicted that people worldwide would view large language models as theft on an unprecedented scale, according to court documents released Thursday. The comments appear to counter Microsoft and OpenAI's…

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Senators urge FTC to investigate whether Amazon and Walmart chatbots bury "Made in USA" products

The request follows a July report from Columbia University's Center for Law and the Economy. The report said the two AI systems did not consistently surface information about domestic-origin claims, even though they could provide information on goods made in…

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