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Windows 10's free security updates now extend to October 2027
Posted on Friday June 26, 2026
Microsoft's support page explaining how to continue receiving security updates on Windows 10 now states that the company will continue providing patches through October 12, 2027 – a change made without a formal announcement. The update gives Windows 10 users exactly one additional year to decide whether to upgrade to...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Game designer Sandy Petersen recalls how Quake's development "broke" id Software
Posted on Thursday June 25, 2026
id Software and GT Interactive released Quake in 1996, marking a significant evolution in the first-person shooter genre just three years after Doom. Sandy Petersen, one of the studio's original designers from the Doom era, said that developing the first "true" 3D FPS took a heavy toll on the team.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Anthropic accuses China's Alibaba of stealing Claude's AI capabilities
Posted on Thursday June 25, 2026
In a letter sent to Senators Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren on June 10, Anthropic accused the Chinese tech giant of carrying out what it described as the largest recorded corporate espionage campaign against the company. It alleged that Alibaba sought to illicitly extract Claude's capabilities in order to train...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Micron CEO expects memory shortages to stretch beyond 2027 as AI spending surges
Posted on Thursday June 25, 2026
"We expect tight conditions to persist beyond calendar 2027 as a result of AI-driven demand across all segments coupled with structural supply constraints," CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said in the report.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Qualcomm unveils sweeping AI infrastructure strategy to take on Nvidia in the data center
Posted on Thursday June 25, 2026
Given the incredible explosion of interest in AI infrastructure and the chips that power them, it's no surprise that virtually every semiconductor company has been talking about how their offerings are an important part of the overall AI computing story.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
France's video game union is striking all summer as more than 1,000 workers lose their jobs
Posted on Thursday June 25, 2026
The French video game industry is in a critical state, and the STJV has called on workers to join a strike against studio executives and what it describes as irresponsible management practices. The union recently announced a new national strike on June 25, 2026, one month after a previous action....Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
All MacBooks and iPads just got $200 or more expensive – iPhones are the last holdout
Posted on Thursday June 25, 2026
Following last week's announcement from Cook that Apple wasn't totally immune to the AI-driven memory crisis driving up costs, Apple has now revealed new prices for many products.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
The creators of Tetris and the Rubik's Cube just unveiled a puzzle that combines both
Posted on Thursday June 25, 2026
Tetris creator Alexei Pajitnov and Rubik's Cube inventor Erno Rubik had never met before December 2025. In a recently shared video from Japanese toymaker MegaHouse, the two legendary designers discuss their creations and examine the first collaboration between the Tetris and Rubik's Cube brands.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
White House warms to Anthropic after replacing "weirdo" Dario Amodei in talks
Posted on Thursday June 25, 2026
Anthropic's negotiations with the Trump administration over the sudden Fable 5 and Mythos 5 ban are reportedly improving after CEO Dario Amodei stopped taking part directly.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
OpenAI debuts Jalapeño, its first custom AI chip to cut ChatGPT costs and reduce Nvidia dependency
Posted on Thursday June 25, 2026
By designing a chip around how tokens move through transformer architectures, OpenAI is trying to shift away from its heavy dependence on Nvidia hardware and toward a stack it controls end-to-end.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »