Stop Killing Games is challenging the idea publishers can shut down a game without making sure it's still playable.

Samsung is expected to unveil its next-gen Galaxy Watches alongside its new folding smartphones, rumored to go official on July 22 at an event in London. Samsung hasn't confirmed how many smartwatches it will unveil, but the charging speeds of two of them have been revealed as they got 3C certified. The two Samsung smartwatches, bearing model code SM-L3550 and SM-L7150, have appeared in the 3C database with support for 10W charging. The SM-L3550 is believed to be the Galaxy Watch9, while the ..

PARIS, June 7 Video game publishers are reshuffling release schedules to avoid getting run over by feverishly an...

Friday the Open Source Initiative welcomed the EU's new tech sovereignty package, noting that "over a third of the 29-page document is devoted to Open Source." The nonprofit OSI maintainers of the Open Source definition submitted their official feedback in February, and notes that "many" of their key requests were addressed, "as well as some exciting new announcements!" One of the biggest barriers to Open Source adoption has been public procurement. Too often, tenders have been designed around ..

The Root reports: A New Mexico jury has found the Gila Regional Medical Center negligent in the death of Nichelle Nichols, who famously played Lieutenant Nyota Uhura on the hit television series "Star Trek." According to KRQE News 13, Nichols' family filed a lawsuit against the hospital last year following her 2022 admission for shortness of breath. Nichols' family claimed that she should have received a full cardiac examination, but the medical personnel sent her to the observation unit, and ..

California's attorney general Rob Bonta launched a probe into the deal shortly after it was announced.

Those ousted included ADA journal editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz

The Ladybird browser isn't opposed to AI coding tools, but it's just brought a new change to their code-contributing policies. February 23: "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI." Our first target was LibJS , Ladybird(TM)s JavaScript engine... I used Claude Code and Codex for the translation. This was human-directed, not autonomous code generation. I decided what to port, in what order, and what the Rust code should look like. It was hundreds of small prompts, steering the agents where ..

The gap between smartphone chips in 2026 is absurd. The fastest chip weve tested is roughly 15 times more powerful than the slowest one still found in modern smartphones. And yet both can run essentially the same apps, games and operating systems. Mobile silicon has become wildly diverse. Of course, raw performance isnt everything. Software optimization, thermal management, storage speed and app behavior all play a huge role in how fast a phone actually feels day to day. But when it comes to ..

Google partners with Voltus to aggregate household energy devices into a virtual power plant supporting data center electricity demand growth

Details for a potential deal haven't been finalized yet.

From Android Authority: Singapore-based BMX has announced that its SolidSafe magnetic power bank lineup, first showcased at CES 2026, is now available for purchase through its website and Amazon US, with prices starting at $59. What sets these power banks apart is their use of semi-solid-state batteries. Traditional lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries rely on liquid electrolytes to move energy between electrodes. Semi-solid-state batteries significantly reduce the amount of flammable ..

The AI industry is riding a tsunami of investment, but we're seeing signs of a real and growing backlash even in tech world.

Marc Andreessen says the latest frontier models have realized AGI tech leaders believe the boundaries are shifting.

It'll be available for PC and mobile, and maybe Nintendo Switch down the line.

The memo also prevents companies from altering AI models being used by the military without prior approval.

Plus, check out the new trailer for the cosmic horror game Penguin Colony.

New York lawmakers are looking to pass a one-year moratorium on data centers built in the state.

Bluesky's chief operating officer believes teen social media bans "risk entrenching Big Tech's dominance," reports CNBC: Rose Wang, Bluesky's chief operating officer, told CNBC on the sidelines of SXSW in London on Wednesday that the smaller open-source platform isn't opposed to regulation but that smaller players in the industry should be protected. "I support the protection and the safety of youth... The question that we have then is at what cost? Because essentially what I'm scared of is in ..

This week's science news.

Spry Fox's most adorable life sim hits the big screens.

An avalanche of selling on Friday crushed stocks. It was a dramatic reversal from record highs earlier in the week.

Scientists "have made a discovery that may help prevent some people from developing lung cancer," reports the New York Times, noting that lung cancer "kills more people worldwide than any other cancer." A team of more than 80 researchers working across four continents have identified a set of proteins in the blood that accurately predict lung cancers more than five years before diagnosis. The scientists also found early evidence that an existing anti- inflammatory drug could significantly reduce ..

A couple of new add-in cards exemplify the trend of slapping AMD's Promontory 21 chipset onto a card for extra I/O expansion.

The Avatar RPG has been put in an iceberg.

The unmanned ground vehicle (UGV)'s feat is one of many on a battlefield where both factions increasingly rely on robots and drones to handle some of their most dangerous tasks.

Security researcher Rasmus Moorats has demonstrated that Creative's Sound Blaster Katana V2X gaming soundbar can be hijacked over Bluetooth from up to 16 yards away.

OpenAI's new AI guidelines are clashing against the guidance written by the Trump administration.

Synology introduced updates to its DSM platform, ActiveProtect portfolio, surveillance ecosystem, collaboration tools, and Bee Series private cloud solutions at COMPUTEX 2026.

Cadence and Samsung Foundry have expanded their multi-year collaboration to support AI infrastructure, physical AI, and advanced semiconductor designs on Samsungs second-generation 2nm process technology.

An upcoming vote in a few weeks on America's cryptocurrency "Clarity Act" is "rattling Wall Street and consumer advocates," reports CNN, with its proposal to regulate the bulk of crypto markets through America's Commodity Futures Trading Commission. "It allows crypto companies to operate, at long last, in compliance with U.S. rules, rather than what they have been doing essentially running their businesses within a patchwork of state and federal legal gray areas." Even for Jamie Dimon, the ..

Even though power supplies and CPU coolers have remained unaffected by the AI boom, storage costs have skyrocketed, which makes this deal even more lucrative. You're getting a blazing-fast 2TB SSD, a genuinely solid power supply, and a decent AIO that can help you stop worrying about the small things and focus on sourcing cheaper memory and GPUs.

Acer introduced several new gaming products at COMPUTEX 2026, including the refreshed Predator Helios 18 AI and Nitro 16 laptop, as well as Predator Atlas 8 and Nitro Blaze Link gaming handhelds.

The trucker worked with Conspit to install a new seat, pedals, and other parts and accessories to level up their already insane semi-truck sim rig.

The Xiaomi Pad 8, launched in India in March, has received a price hike in the country. The 8GB/128GB and 12GB/256GB models of the standard Pad 8, launched in India at INR33,999 and INR36,999, respectively, are now priced at INR35,999 and INR38,999, respectively. The Nano Texture Display version, having 12GB RAM and 256GB storage onboard, is now priced at INR40,999, up from INR38,999. The standard and Nano Texture models bundled with the Xiaomi Focus Pen Pro, and having the same 12GB/256GB ..

The patent application for the floppy disk was granted to two IBM engineers on this day in 1972.

The Generated Awards were a first-of-its-kind award show for AI-generated advertisements. See the full list of winners.

An official trailer dropped this week for Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. It's "a full-blown remake of the original 1996 Tomb Raider game," reports Kotaku, "rebuilt from the ground up using Unreal Engine 5." Developed by Flying Wild Hog (with assistance/guidance from longtime Tomb Raider studio Crystal Dynamics), "it will also make some changes to puzzles, combat, platforming..." The game's Steam page acknowledges that AI-assisted tools were used during development "to support some early ..

NASA is targeting an August 30 launch for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which has 100 times Hubble's field of view.

Innodisk showcased new AI platforms, industrial computing solutions, memory and storage products, and connectivity technologies as part of its five-layer edge AI ecosystem at COMPUTEX 2026.