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UChicago Law bans laptops and phones for first-year students, mandates in-class exams starting this fall
Posted on Tuesday July 14, 2026
In its announcement, the law school said the changes are a response to the way AI is disrupting higher education. "With AI disrupting higher education, our commitment to rigorous legal education must also mean being open to rapid adaptation," the school said.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
GigaWiper malware can wipe your hard drive, spy on you, and stream your screen live
Posted on Tuesday July 14, 2026
Security analysts at Microsoft Threat Intelligence recently uncovered GigaWiper, a destructive backdoor assembled by combining several different malware families into one package.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Sega's Virtua Racing hits PC and Xbox for the first time, with 8-player online
Posted on Tuesday July 14, 2026
Virtua Racing was Sega's F1-style racer, and it ran on the company's Model 1 arcade board, the hardware Sega used for its first polygonal games.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
AMD's Zen 6 Epyc chip packs 256 cores, promises up to 1.7x faster AI
Posted on Tuesday July 14, 2026
Those speed gains come with a smaller increase in core count, from 192 to 256. The gap between core count and overall speed suggests the gains come from architectural changes as well as more cores.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
OnePlus could be exiting the US and European markets as soon as this week
Posted on Tuesday July 14, 2026
Reports in March claimed that OnePlus was preparing to withdraw from several global markets, including large parts of Europe and North America, while continuing to operate in a handful of Asian countries, including China and India. This followed similar rumors in January. However, OnePlus insisted at the time that its...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Black Flag Resynced is a hit, but its always-online requirement just proved it's not really offline
Posted on Tuesday July 14, 2026
According to complaints on Reddit and the Steam forums, the PC version of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced became unplayable over the weekend because Ubisoft Connect's servers experienced an outage. The incident locked players out of a single-player title that is supposed to have an offline mode.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
The studio behind MindsEye is flying fans in for playtests, all while laid-off workers protested outside
Posted on Tuesday July 14, 2026
The event, first announced on the company's Discord server in June, saw Build A Rocket Boy cover selected community members' flights to Scotland, two nights of hotel accommodation, and return journeys. Participants were also given the opportunity to meet members of the development team.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Steam just made $11 billion in the last 6 months, and most of it came from older games
Posted on Tuesday July 14, 2026
Alinea Analytics lists Forza Horizon 6 as the top-earning new game on Steam so far this year, with an estimated $197.7 million in revenue since launch. Resident Evil Requiem is close behind at $194.5 million, followed by Crimson Desert at $190.1 million. Those sales numbers highlight how a few big...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
12 states sue to block Paramount's $110 billion Warner Bros. deal, warning of a "media behemoth"
Posted on Tuesday July 14, 2026
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Sacramento on Monday, just a month after the Department of Justice cleared the deal without conditions. California is joined by Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Washington, all states with Democratic attorneys general.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Dell Alienware AW3426DW Review: The New Ultrawide OLED to Beat
Posted on Tuesday July 14, 2026
Dell's Alienware AW3426DW combines a refined 34-inch 280Hz QD-OLED panel with better text clarity, brighter HDR, and a lower price, making it the new ultrawide OLED to beat.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »