Software

Meta to pay $375 million for 'thousands' of children's safety violations, a whole 0.19% of its 2025 revenue

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says of AI that 'open is not a thing, it’s proprietary and open', sparking a conversation about bot orchestras

Senator Bernie Sanders announces bill to pause US data center construction: 'AI and robotics will impact our economy, our democracy, our privacy rights... even our very survival as human beings on this planet'

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 director defends DLSS 5: 'No way haters will stop this'

OpenAI discontinues Sora video generation app, Disney pulls out of $1 billion investment deal

Mark Zuckerberg is building an AI co-CEO as part of his continuing mission to free himself from the burden of human interaction

AI gaslighting watch: Is there AI in my fridge?

Man pleads guilty to generating songs with AI then having bots stream them 'billions of times' to make over $8 million in royalties

First Grammarly cloned me without permission. Then another AI company asked if it could do the same—for $2,000

Firefox is finally ending support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, and urges users to upgrade or switch to Linux

'This marks a significant step towards addressing anticompetitive behaviors': Following a complaint from Opera, antitrust regulator launches an investigation into Microsoft Edge

'We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI' says Mozilla, as it introduces an AI blocking menu to upcoming Firefox builds

Mozilla says it's building a 'rebel alliance' to challenge Big Tech and what it's doing with AI, which is wild but I'm kind of here for it

Heroic former PC Gamer writer creates a script to banish all the AI features from Google Chrome

Firefox is rolling out new privacy features to stop sites from giving you a hidden digital ID by fingerprinting your system

Surf the web to save the ocean—Wave Browser turns clicks into cleanup

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Critics claim the latest judgement against Google is a 'feckless remedy to the most storied case of monopolisation of the past quarter century' while the US DOJ says 'we're not done'

Google will not be forced to sell Chrome, despite its near-monopoly, as its dominance is not 'sufficiently attributable to its illegal conduct'

Linux kernel maintainer says AI has suddenly become useful for devs: 'We can't ignore this stuff. It's coming up, and it's getting better'

Former Windows boss reveals previous plans to reduce Windows 11's memory and storage footprint by 20% and now I'm hoping Microsoft includes that in its new Windows 'quality' drive

Microsoft is 'working on' removing the online account login requirement for new Windows 11 installs and also 'reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points'

Microsoft might actually make Windows 11 good as the company promises to roll back AI features and improve performance

Gnome gets Nvidia performance boost, offering 'smoother window animations and general desktop fluidity' for Linux gamers

'C:\ is not accessible – Access denied': Windows 11 users locked out of own boot drive on Samsung PCs due to major issue

Google is adding official Chrome support for users running Arm and Linux and it's about time

This vibe-coded operating system looks like a nightmarish version of our AI OS future, although some of the function keys change the wallpaper so that's fun

'Without Intel, I don’t know if Windows would have happened… without Mac, I wonder whether Office would have happened' says Microsoft CEO

Discord hit with 'major outage' affecting voice chat (Update: fixed!)

'Golden goose' indie games get Gabe Newell's attention, says Steam expert: 'You're like a little goblin that has a magical power to turn straw into gold'

Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 23, 2026)

Steam sale dates: When is the next Steam sale?

Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 16, 2026)

Bluepoint tech boss suggests Sony's scared of Valve, not Microsoft, and that's why it's pulling back from PC: 'It would be quite ironic if Valve ultimately ended up winning the console war'

PlayerUnknown reckons he can take back the term 'metaverse' because 'It's just been co-opted by certain people… like, I still use Twitter because f**k [Elon Musk]'

French pirates adrift as major torrent site nuked by hacker who accuses it of hoarding user credit cards and DDoSing rivals: '6.6 million users. Years of lies. An empire built on extortion'

Five new Steam games you probably missed (March 9, 2026)

Google says it's preparing for the quantum apocalypse, when traditional encryption methods are broken by quantum computers, by 2029—which is much sooner than originally expected

The lyrics to the rap song about John McAfee, annotated

Malwarebytes says a fake Google Account security page is distributing 'what may be one of the most fully featured browser-based surveillance toolkits we have observed in the wild'

Google says it's disrupted a super-serious 'global espionage campaign' that uses *checks notes* Google Sheets to covertly intercept telecoms data

Security researchers claim Persona, the provider behind Discord's UK age verification 'experiment', performs '269 individual verification checks' on user data, including those for terrorism and espionage

Crypto scammer who reportedly stole at least $73 million through social media, calls, and dating services sentenced to a 'statutory maximum of 20 years in prison'

New ransomware spotted with a 'coding mistake' that means even the hackers can't decrypt the files

The Notepad++ website was hijacked by 'malicious actors' last year and security researchers are picking through the wreckage

'An unprecedented bombardment': Cloudflare claims a new world record for a 31.4 Tbps DDoS botnet attack it recorded late last year