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Tech deals on Prime Day 2026: Our picks for PC hardware, laptops, gadgets, and more

23 June 2026 at 19:24

Amazon Prime Day is back, running from June 23 through June 26. While this year's event isn't overflowing with must-buy discounts, there are still a handful of genuinely worthwhile deals on laptops, OLED gaming monitors, SSDs, processors, headphones, and other tech we've tested, reviewed, or would happily recommend. We've done...

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Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs, admits AI is reducing its workforce

23 June 2026 at 16:48

The eliminations led to $1.8 billion in severance payments and other restructuring costs for Oracle, significantly higher than the $374 million restructuring costs it faced in the previous financial year. The software and cloud computing giant employed 141,000 people as of May 31, 2026, compared to 162,000 one year earlier, representing a 13% decline.

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The founder of Eidos-MontrΓ©al says the game industry has been taken over by spreadsheets and lost its soul

22 June 2026 at 22:56

D'Astous in a recent interview said that game development has changed significantly. The modern gaming business somewhat resembles the cyberpunk setting depicted in the Deus Ex series, with a handful of mega-corporations pulling the strings and controlling most of the industry's money. Unfortunately, C-suites are no longer interested in creativity.

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How Pixar recovered Toy Story 2 after a Unix command deleted nearly the entire film in 1998

22 June 2026 at 19:52

The studio's animation pipeline at the time ran across a network of Unix and Linux machines holding hundreds of thousands of production files. Artists and technical staff had broad access to both personal workspaces and shared production directories. The setup made collaboration easier, but meant a routine cleanup command could...

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The studio behind Fallout: New Vegas and The Outer Worlds is being sued over wage and hour violations

22 June 2026 at 17:33

The case, Victoria Turner v. Obsidian Entertainment, was originally filed in Orange County Superior Court in October 2025. It appears to have gone largely unnoticed until Reddit user macken_zee highlighted the docket and court documents on the r/pcgaming subreddit. An amended complaint was filed on January 12, 2026.

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Cyberpunk's disastrous launch still haunts CD Projekt Red, but hopes The Witcher 4 can win players back

21 June 2026 at 17:31

The Cyberpunk 2077 story is a familiar one. Following the disastrous launch in 2020, CDPR released numerous patches, eventually giving us the game we were expecting. The brilliant Phantom Liberty expansion briefly pushed Cyberpunk 2077 to an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam, something unimaginable a few years earlier.

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Scientists made espresso with sound instead of heat, and most drinkers couldn't tell the difference

21 June 2026 at 14:27

Developed by engineers and food scientists at UNSW Sydney, this new method is called "ultrasonic espresso" and replaces heat with mechanical energy. It runs at room temperature, using sound waves to pull flavor from finely ground coffee, and reaches espresso-level intensity in under three minutes despite the cold-water start.

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The Trump administration suspects an ASML chipmaking machine made it into China. ASML says that's impossible.

19 June 2026 at 21:15

EUV is the technology that underpins today's most advanced processors. The machines are used by companies such as TSMC to manufacture high-performance chips for Nvidia and Apple. They are roughly the size of a school bus, are produced in limited quantities, and require constant maintenance from ASML engineers.

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This month's Windows 11 update broke the Recycle Bin, OneDrive, and possibly your PC's stability

19 June 2026 at 20:34

According to Microsoft, users who have installed the KB5095051 update might encounter a strange Recycle Bin bug that replaces the names of deleted files with internal Recycle Bin filenames in specific situations. When permanently deleting a single file from the Recycle Bin, the confirmation dialog displays a cryptic internal filename,...

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Meta wants a child safety bill rewritten to shield it from lawsuits over harm to kids

19 June 2026 at 19:51

The proposal comes as lawmakers and courts increasingly scrutinize how social media platforms are designed and used by minors. Features such as infinite scrolling, activity notifications, and appearance-altering photo filters – key tools for driving user engagement – have become central to legal and regulatory battles over youth safety. Critics...

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Waymo is recalling almost 3,900 robotaxis for driving into freeway construction zones

19 June 2026 at 17:48

Waymo is recalling nearly 3,900 robotaxis following incidents in freeway construction areas. According to a safety recall report filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the company's fifth-generation automated driving system may enter and drive at speed in freeway construction zones under certain circumstances, either because it fails to...

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Kalshi calls itself a hedging platform now, but critics say it's still just sports betting in disguise

19 June 2026 at 17:16

The New York Times reports that Kalshi has spent the past several months preparing to transform itself into a platform for hedge trading by hiring trading specialists and collaborating with financial companies. Small businesses have already proven that, in at least some instances, betting on prediction markets can act as...

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Minecraft's Chaos Cubed update adds Sulfur Caves and the unpredictable Sulfur Cube

19 June 2026 at 00:12

Minecraft Java Edition 26.2 introduces the new Sulfur Caves biome, complete with sulfur and cinnabar block sets, geysers, and the quirky Sulfur Cube mob. The update also adds a Friends List system, experimental Vulkan graphics support, and new building and gameplay possibilities powered by the Sulfur Cube's unique physics-based interactions.



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Microsoft and Adobe team up and make Photoshop 20% faster on Windows

18 June 2026 at 22:41

Thanks to a close collaboration with Adobe, Microsoft engineers have significantly improved performance in certain Photoshop operations. Photoshop is a large, native desktop application written in C++ and compiled with Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler on Windows, which is why Microsoft focused on MSVC in an effort to extract additional performance...

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Cybercriminals have been distributing malware via Steam for a year, tens of thousands affected

18 June 2026 at 21:56

The attack reportedly abused Wallpaper Engine's "Application Wallpaper" executable, which runs as a standalone Windows program and can include community-developed games, planners, calendars, system monitors, and other widgets. However, because the app allows unverified third-party code to run on users' systems, it can be abused by threat actors to target...

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