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Microsoft exec. confirms Windows…

You know those clunky old dialogue boxes that get exposed if you click a few too many layers deep…
A Grok chatbot convinced someone it had become sentient, and that xAI was sending goons to kill him: ‘They’re going to make it look like suicide’

A Grok chatbot convinced…

The BBC has a substantial new investigation into people who have been deceived by various AI LLM models in…
Five new Steam games you probably missed (September 22, 2025)

Five new Steam games…

Best of the best (Image credit: Xbox Game Studios) 2025 games: Upcoming releasesBest PC games: All-time favoritesFree PC games:…
Mozilla, Stop Killing Games and more team up to tell the UK to stop making the internet worse

Mozilla, Stop Killing Games…

Multiple notable groups, including Stop Killing Games, Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and numerous others have come together to…
I spent a full week testing different VPNs and I’m changing my no-VPNs-while-gaming advice

I spent a full…

I’ve always been an advocate of keeping your personal data as private as you can to stave off the…
Elon Musk considered calling OpenAI ‘Freeman’ because of the bonkers rationale that the Half-Life protagonist represented ‘what we are essentially trying to achieve’

Elon Musk considered calling…

The ongoing legal fight between OpenAI co-founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman has seen the release of a treasure-trove…
Microsoft’s new Gaming Copilot AI tool promises to be ‘your personal gaming sidekick’ but it mostly seems to do the work of a Google search, with the potential for ‘hallucinations’

Microsoft’s new Gaming Copilot…

Microsoft’s Copilot AI is officially coming to the Xbox Game Bar on PC starting this week. The new “Gaming…
No, China hasn’t made it illegal to fire humans and replace them with AI—but yes it’s made it much more expensive for companies to do so

No, China hasn’t made…

China’s State Council has published a state media report through its Information Office concerning a recent legal case about…
‘A single 732-byte Python script can be used to obtain root on essentially all Linux distributions shipped since 2017’: Time to update your kernel

‘A single 732-byte Python…

Gaming on Linux has never been better—but that doesn’t mean your distros are free from security threats. Case in…
Linux century marches on as Discord brings updater parity with Windows and easy installs for more distros

Linux century marches on…

If you hang around with cool enough people, you might have heard it’s the year of Linux on the…