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Google's new AI 'world model' has seemingly spooked videogame investors, but it's hard to know what it will actually lead to

Anthropic's apparently starting to learn that it can't have its cake and eat it when it comes to working with the military

Darren Aronofsky wages war on art with his new AI-generated American Revolution drama series, presented by Salesforce

Google says Chrome's new 'auto browse' feature is 'a powerful agentic experience that handles multi-step chores on your behalf'

Meta lost $19.1 billion on VR last year despite the mother of all pivots to AI including plans for AI-generated gaming

The AI money merry-go-round shows no sign of stopping as Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia, Amazon and Microsoft linked to deals worth nearly $200 billion

'We can fix the internet' says Tim Berners-Lee—just don't ask what he thinks about AI

There's a hot new personal AI in town that can send texts, check your calendar, come up with business ideas, spend your money and leak your data—all depends on how you use it

'Vibe coding kills open source' claims new paper, as its authors lament the lack of 'human attention' towards OSS products

Mozilla says it's building a 'rebel alliance' to challenge Big Tech and what it's doing with AI, which is wild but I'm kind of here for it

Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome

Firefox is rolling out new privacy features to stop sites from giving you a hidden digital ID by fingerprinting your system

Surf the web to save the ocean—Wave Browser turns clicks into cleanup

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Critics claim the latest judgement against Google is a 'feckless remedy to the most storied case of monopolisation of the past quarter century' while the US DOJ says 'we're not done'

Google will not be forced to sell Chrome, despite its near-monopoly, as its dominance is not 'sufficiently attributable to its illegal conduct'

UK secretary of state for science, innovation and technology says you're on the side of 'extreme pornographers' and 'predators' if you want the Online Safety Act walked back

Fresh zero-day vulnerability in Chrome found to be actively exploited by hackers in the wild

Microsoft tweaks Edge to give it "significant performance improvements" though you're only getting up to 9% more oomph

Microsoft is apparently now going to focus on 'improving system performance, reliability, and the overall experience of Windows' which is better than more AI

Microsoft says the Windows 11 boot failure bug is linked to another buggy update: 'This issue can occur on devices that failed to install the December 2025 security update and were left in an improper state'

A whole bunch of different Linux gaming distros are teaming up to 'improve the open source gaming ecosystem'

Nvidia GeForce Now is officially on Linux, and after testing it I'm equal parts impressed and optimistic for the future of non-Windows gaming

France is banning government officials from using Microsoft Teams and Zoom 'amid rising geopolitical tensions and fears of foreign surveillance or service disruptions'

Microsoft says Windows 11 now has one billion users, 'up 45% year-over-year', which is probably no surprise after Windows 10 was put out to pasture

Microsoft reports 'an issue in which devices are failing to boot' after downloading the latest update

Microsoft's Xbox app has been released for Arm PCs—just in time for Nvidia's new chip?

If you're tired of fighting with your mouse cursor across acres of multi-monitor screen space, Microsoft's latest PowerToys update has it all wrapped up for you

Hooray! Linux is GOG's 'next major frontier'. Oh no! It wants to 'Actively use and promote AI-assisted development tools'

GOG owns up to its poor handling of Devotion's delisting in 2020: 'We acknowledge that this decision understandably damaged the trust our users have in us'

Valve warms up for the Steam Machine with a client update bristling with gamepad fixes and, oh, the betas UI is fancier now if you're into that

In response to Epic CEO Tim Sweeney waging war on Steam, Larian's publishing lead says, 'Giving everyone everything for free might bump numbers but doesn't create a viable storefront'

Roblox codes for January 2025: Get free items with the latest codes

Steam now lets you gift 'complete the set' bundles to your pals, including relevant discounts

Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 19, 2026)

Steam sale dates: When is the next Steam sale?

Steam has finally got rid of those goddamn clown awards

'An unprecedented bombardment': Cloudflare claims a new world record for a 31.4 Tbps DDoS botnet attack it recorded late last year

Google says a WinRAR exploit for Windows is in 'widespread' use by government-backed threat actors 'linked to Russia and China'

Audio devices that use Google's Fast Pair Bluetooth tech are vulnerable to hacks that could track location or listen to the mic, according to researchers

It never rains, but it pours: A security bug with a maximum severity rating is putting many of the worlds' servers at risk

Cloudflare says DDoS attacks have multiplied to 1.7x last year's count and at points there's been about one attempt every second

This sneaky malware variant has been caught using fake Windows Update screens to trick users into installing info-stealing software themselves

Post-heist reports reveal the password for the Louvre's video surveillance was 'Louvre,' and suddenly the dumpster-tier opsec of videogame NPCs seems a lot less absurd

LastPass warns of a new phishing campaign involving death certificates and a nefarious email that demands you reply to it if you're not dead

Google claims the 'security breach impacting millions of users' is simply 'inaccurate reports stemming from a misunderstanding'