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Xbox backwards compatibility now available on PC, starting with four original Xbox games
Posted on Thursday July 23, 2026
Four games from the original Xbox are now available on PC for the first time via the Xbox app on Windows 11. More titles are on the horizon, but Microsoft has not specified which games will be added or when they will arrive.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Framework nearly doubles Laptop 13 Pro memory prices overnight after suppliers demand more than twice as much
Posted on Thursday July 23, 2026
Framework's 32GB module has jumped from $439 to $800, an increase of 82%, while the 64GB option has risen from $849 to a brutal $1,600, up 88%. Linus Sebastian's favorite laptop company is keeping the 16GB module at $239 for now, but warns that price will also increase once its remaining lower-cost stock runs out.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
OpenAI says its AI models went rogue and hacked another company
Posted on Thursday July 23, 2026
OpenAI has confirmed that its large language models were responsible for an agentic cyberattack that impacted another AI company, Hugging Face, last week. The attack is notable because it was not human-directed – OpenAI's tools escaped from an isolated network and targeted Hugging Face on their own.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Google records its first negative free cash flow since going public as its AI spending explodes
Posted on Thursday July 23, 2026
Google said its free cash flow – the cash it had remaining after paying for operations and investments – for the three months to the end of June was at negative $5.9 billion. The revelation, combined with the announcement that it would be spending even more money on AI hardware...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nvidia reveals Vera CPU details, claims its custom Olympus cores outperform AMD Epyc Turin
Posted on Thursday July 23, 2026
Part of Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform, the Arm-based Vera CPU is designed to perform complex reasoning, facilitate tool execution, generate code, and plan tasks for AI agents. Developed as a multi-purpose chip, it can also handle scientific data processing and reinforcement learning, which demand more CPU power than typical AI...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Gig economy workers and Amazon staff are increasingly dependent on food stamps and Medicaid, according to federal report
Posted on Thursday July 23, 2026
The GAO report, which was commissioned by Senator Bernie Sanders, shows that the number of Amazon workers relying on food stamps and Medicaid tripled between the start of the Covid pandemic in February 2020 and September 2025.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nvidia's Jensen Huang defends Chinese AI: "Open-source models that are excellent should be used"
Posted on Wednesday July 22, 2026
The timing is what makes it interesting. Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16. Independent evaluators put it third on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, only behind Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, and first on LMArena's blind Frontend Code Arena board.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and other US tech giants are hiding $1.65 trillion in AI debt
Posted on Wednesday July 22, 2026
According to estimates from Nikkei Asia, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle have together amassed roughly $3 trillion in total debt, a large share of it tied to exorbitant AI infrastructure spending – long-term data center lease agreements, along with costly servers, graphics accelerators, and other computing hardware that has...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Amazon orders Robocop TV series as franchise heads to Prime Video
Posted on Wednesday July 22, 2026
Robocop has been entertaining audiences for nearly four decades. The first film in the series debuted in 1987, starring Peter Weller as a half-man, half-machine cyborg law enforcement officer. The movie is considered by many as one of the best from the 80s, spawning two sequels as well as a...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Palworld's 1.0 launch is bringing back nearly a million players
Posted on Wednesday July 22, 2026
Palworld 1.0 launched on July 10, and players showed their appreciation by flooding its monster-taming world in droves. SteamDB figures show the game peaking at 855,525 concurrent players over launch weekend, then climbing to 961,867 on July 19, its highest count since early 2024 to join in the fun.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »