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Diablo 2 in VR looks like a completely different game from a first-person perspective
Posted on Thursday October 08, 2026
The mod comes courtesy of Reddit user Fantastic-Author2736. A clip shared on YouTube shows the modder playing as a sorceress in first-person view. The game's main interface is off screen, and key items like the map and inventory have been moved to the player's hand and belt. In the minute-long...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Wi-Fi 7 is expected to bring all of these improvements over Wi-Fi 6, except...
Posted on Thursday October 08, 2026
Is it more channel bandwidth, max throughput, or newer bands?Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Wikipedia says rogue AI agents from OpenAI edited its private wikis and hammered its servers
Posted on Thursday October 08, 2026
Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that hosts Wikipedia and other major wiki-based collaboration projects, is once again clashing with AI companies over their alleged abuse of its servers. In particular, the foundation said that OpenAI was "caught" performing unauthorized operations through its supposedly autonomous, and most certainly "rogue," AI agents.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Man who made $8 million using AI-generated songs and an army of streaming bots gets 18 months in prison
Posted on Thursday October 08, 2026
According to court documents, Michael Smith, of Cornelius, North Carolina, worked with co-conspirators between 2017 and 2024 to fraudulently inflate plays of AI-generated music on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, and YouTube.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nvidia and Microsoft say the "agentic PC" era starts with the Surface Laptop Ultra
Posted on Thursday October 08, 2026
At yesterday's big Microsoft-Nvidia launch event, Huang stated, with Nadella's strong endorsement, that the new Surface Laptop Ultra, along with all the new Windows-based PCs running Nvidia's RTX Spark chip, heralds the reinvention of the PC, marking the dawn of the agentic PC era.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Comfy Desktop makes running local AI models on your PC much easier
Posted on Thursday October 08, 2026
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, dependencies, and more, removing much of the hassle from running generative AI on your own hardware.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Memory crisis puts Samsung on track for the biggest quarterly operating profit in tech history
Posted on Thursday October 08, 2026
Samsung's preliminary guidance puts operating profit for July through September at 107.4 trillion won ($80.2 billion), compared to 12.17 trillion won ($9.1 billion) a year earlier. Revenue is expected to reach 195 trillion won ($145.6 billion), an increase of almost 127%.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft Office is down to $29 for a lifetime license
Posted on Thursday October 08, 2026
Word, Excel, and PowerPoint remain industry standards, but a Microsoft 365 subscription may not fit your budget. With Microsoft Office Professional 2021, you get a one-time purchase that includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher, and OneNote. This standalone license means no subscriptions or hidden fees, just a complete suite...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Ransomware recovery firm claimed it could decrypt files, but may have just paid hackers and pocketed the difference
Posted on Thursday October 08, 2026
The United States Department of Justice has charged Zohar Pinhasi, 50, also known as "Zack Silver" and "Zack Green," with fraud. He ran a Florida-based company called MonsterCloud that told ransomware victims not to pay attackers because it had a way of decrypting their files – for a fee, of course.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
"Software is over": Developer uses AI to build free Adobe clones after frustration with cancellation fees
Posted on Thursday October 08, 2026
As Ars Technica reports, developer Brandon Thomas is taking on seven of Adobe's best-known applications through Artcraft. The project extend beyond Adobe's famous photo editing program to video production, vector graphics, page layouts, and PDF tools.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »