While sticking with Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC label, Dell is refocusing its messaging on gaming, build quality, and design. This signals a major pullback from the industry-wide AI PC push, highlighting a split among manufacturers.
With DDR5 RAM prices skyrocketing, a planned AM5 platform upgrade is on indefinite hold. The author details his journey manually overclocking his DDR4-3600 kit to 3800MT/s with tighter timings, netting a modest but free performance bump while waiting out the market.
Two malicious Chrome extensions, one with over 600,000 users and a “Featured” badge, stole complete AI chat logs and browser history. The data, siphoned to a command server, included proprietary code and business strategies. Both extensions have now been removed from the store.
The Verge’s tour of CES 2026 found AI slapped onto everything, often with dubious purpose. The highlights include a $399 AI picture frame for “slop,” AI-upgraded sleeping pills, and a modular phone concept where even the makers couldn’t explain the AI.
In a push to accelerate the ATSC 3.0 transition, broadcasters are promising sub-$60 converter boxes by this fall. They’re also showing off new whole-home DVR solutions that finally work with encrypted channels, aiming to address major consumer and regulatory concerns ahead of a potential FCC rule ch
OpenAI is making another strategic acqui-hire, bringing on the three co-founders of Convogo. The deal is all-stock and marks the ninth such acquisition for the AI giant in just one year.
Michelle Ragusa-McBain, a former Cisco and SonicWall channel executive, has been named global channel chief at DDoS protection vendor Corero Network Security. She aims to accelerate partner-led growth for Corero’s real-time DDoS protection solutions.
Naver Cloud has built South Korea’s largest AI compute cluster, packing 4,000 Nvidia B200 GPUs. The company says it will drastically cut AI model training times, aiming to bolster national AI independence. This is part of a much larger, multi-company plan to deploy tens of thousands of GPUs in the r
The most-played games on console haven’t changed since 2024, and they probably won’t in 2026. This stagnation is killing new live-service games before they can even get started. So what’s the way forward for developers?
A new startup called Spangle AI has raised a $15 million Series A to help retailers build custom storefronts in real-time. Founded by former Amazon execs, it’s already working with brands like REVOLVE and Steve Madden.
