Samsung's newly minted Galaxy S26 series is up for preorder and instead of an early adopter tax, there are actually some nice pre-release offers up for grabs, including a free storage upgrade and up to a $200 Amazon gift card. The best offer is tied to the top dog, the Galaxy S26 Ultra, but there are preorder deals to be had across the entire

Traditional cryptographic signatures that underpin HTTPS can be broken by a sufficiently powerful quantum computer using algorithms like Shor's, threatening the trust model of secure connections. To help protect against this threat, Google is rolling out a major upgrade to Secure HTTP in its Chrome browser. In a blog post published yesterday,

Can a set of lab-grown human neurons fused with silicon play Doom? The answer to that question is yes, and the proof of concept required a massive leap from the Pong-playing demonstration we saw a few years back. In some ways, this experiment mirrors the manner in which AI LLMs have been trained to play Doom. Of course, the use of biotech

You can expect a wave of laptops built around Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake chips that it revealed at CES, and one only need look at what Lenovo apparently just launched in China as proof. The launch includes new ThinkBook 14+ and ThinkBook 16+ laptop configurations that mate Core Ultra 300H processors with LPCAMM2 memory. We

Woot, the dedicated deals site that Amazon acquired way back in 2010 for a cool $110 million, is having a big sale on a range of Logitech peripherals, including discounts on keyboards, mice, headsets, speaker systems, and more. There are deals on over a dozen items, with savings going all the way up to 50% off, depending on the item. Let's

The AI money spigot shows no signs of being turned off any time soon, as OpenAI shared that it has received $110B of investment in a new round of funding. OpenAI says these investments will enable it to meet the demand for its services, and that “providing everyone access to our products requires three things: compute, distribution, and capital.” This

AirSnitch is a newly-revealed attack on Wi-Fi networks that work across all major router brands and firmwares, including DD-WRT and OpenWrt. In an alarming turn for cybersecurity, researchers revealed a form of Wi-Fi attack that can entirely bypass client isolation on Wi-Fi, which is typically the only thing preventing attackers from intercepting

You're probably expecting us to be talking about one of the extant Bartlett Lake processors based on re-reheated Raptor Lake silicon. Nope! This is a Core 9 273PQE, one of the long-rumored 12 P-core LGA 1700 CPUs. However, lest you accuse us of clickbait, we'll get the disappointing part out of the way early: it doesn't work in the board it

As triple-A gaming trends more and more toward graphically-intensive titles with ray tracing enabled, vendors are in a continuous march to improve upscaling solutions to offset skyrocketing performance demands. PlayStation is no exception, as it has now finally shipped an updated PSSR upscaler with the release of Resident Evil: Requiem, aka

De Tomaso Automobili has revealed the powerplant specifications for the P900 track-only hypercar mated to a beautifully organic V12 developed in collaboration with engineering firm Italtecnica. With 900 horses on tap, a screaming redline, and wings galore, it looks like we have a strong candidate for the next Batmobile. At the heart of

Even though PC memory and storage prices have gotten out of control these days, there are still some deals to be had, especially if you venture into the realm of prebuilt system. Case in point, Dell is serving up discounts on a range of hardware, including its Alienware Aurora gaming PCs and some nice gaming monitors. Let's get into it. Dell's

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled a striking new photo of the "Exposed Cranium" Nebula, a celestial structure that, as the nickname implies, bears a strong resemblance to a human brain encased in a translucent skull. Officially known as PMR 1, this nebula is a planetary shroud of gas and dust located roughly 5,000 light-years

Amidst drastic shifts from Xbox and the wider (PC) hardware market, Sony is reportedly considering a pivot away from its more recent strategy of eventually porting its single-player catalog to PC. As-is, Sony first-party exclusives already trend toward a delay of at least a year before a PC port releases, making most titles merely timed

Minisforum is having a sale on its MS-A2, a tiny system with some big hardware options, not the least of which AMD's Ryzen 9 9955HX Fire Range processor that was part of an onslaught of chip releases at last year's CES event. It also wields some impressive wired connectivity options for ultra-high-speed data transfers. Starting with the

Apple's iPhone and iPad devices running iOS and iPadOS 26, respectively, have become the first consumer-grade mobile devices officially approved to handle classified NATO information. This certification, announced by Apple following an evaluation by Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), allows personnel across all 32 NATO

For a short while, NVIDIA was pushing out a new Game Ready GPU driver release optimized for Resident Evil Requiem, one of the most anticipated games of the year so far. However, NVIDIA ended up pulling its 595.59 WHQL driver package, including both Game Ready and Studio builds, after gamers took to NVIDIA's forum to complain about fan and

Microsoft has quietly released its latest DirectX 12 Agility SDK (version 1.619 alongside the 1.719-preview), and while the patch notes are dense with developer jargon, the implications for PC gamers are massive. The Agility SDK allows developers to integrate new DX12 features directly into their games without requiring users to wait for massive

In what seems like a WarGames (1983)-inspired test, three leading LLMs (OpenAI's GPT-5.2, Google's Gemini 3 Flash, and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4) all displayed willingness to engage in nuclear war. All of the models considered the risk of using nukes preferable to "certain strategic defeat". To anybody reading that is familiar with the theory

AMD's FSR 4 is a massive evolution from the company's previous-generation upscalers, and the leap in quality is directly attributable to the use of AI versus the older deterministic upscalers. That doesn't mean AMD is resting on its laurels, though; the company is apparently preparing an improved version of the upscaler. We know that not because

Amazon upgraded its longtime digital assistant to Alexa+ with AI smarts last year, in an effort to compete with other tech giants participating in the AI race. While it launched in a state that didn’t quite match what Amazon had promised, Alexa+ has gotten several improvements since its rollout and with its latest update it should offer much

If you've been stressing out about Microsoft abandoning driver support for your legacy printer in Windows 11 based on messaging it relayed in its Windows Roadmap document, stress no more. In no uncertain terms, Microsoft confirmed that if your crusty old printer is currently working in Windows, it will continue to do so for the foreseeable

New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a major lawsuit against Valve, alleging that the company’s loot boxes in games like Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 constitute illegal, unlicensed gambling that targets minors. The complaint, filed in Manhattan state court, seeks to end the practice and demands that the Bellevue-based

Modern vehicle computer systems have become vectors for security and privacy hacking. However, who would've thought that the humble and not-very-high-tech tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) would be identified as vulnerability gateway? Basically, each TPMS relies on radio frequency (RF) signals transmitted by the small sensors located

Woot is hosting a massive sale on gaming products with deep discounts on games, systems, and peripherals of up to 84% off. That in and of itself is notable. However, to sweeten the pot, it's also offering additional savings with coupon code LEVEL20 knocking another 20% off (capped at $30) at checkout. The sale spans practically everything