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'Meta will need to reduce or possibly stop AI investment in datacenters, as it already has excess capacity': The AI infrastructure bubble feels the heat

'A wild testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI': Google's electricity consumption is exponentially increasing

Data centers reportedly targeted by cargo thieves, with over $1 million worth of copper and equipment found in two trucks in Chicago

Dragon Age setting creator says AI push is a delusion of the executive class that's a 'virulent plague' on games

Security researchers have leveraged bad maths to get around AI safety guardrails, naming the attack method after one of 2007's best PC games

EA exec says AI has helped drive 'a real rise of creativity' at its studios

Genshin Impact creator miHoYo has released an AI companion on Steam, an eternal student cursed to never obtain her piano degree

Data analyst finds 'AI stigma' on Steam can reduce the number of reviews a game gets by around 53%—and the reviews it does get are more negative

Former Dragon Age writer says AI could make gamedev 'frustrating as hell': 'How are we going to train up the next generation of devs if we eliminate every entry-level task?'

Google is raising an army of 32 million mosquitoes like some kind of Metal Gear Solid villain

Chrome is installing a 4 GB local AI model on some of your PCs without asking for permission and will just download it again if you delete it

'Defenders finally have a chance to win, decisively': Firefox CTO raves about Claude Mythos' bug hunting capabilities after it finds 271 vulnerabilities

Mozilla says 'Microsoft goes too far' with Copilot, right before reassuring that you can turn off Firefox's 'AI enhancements'

'I have crawled through depths of hell': One coder's suffering is a potential joy to every web user, as their project could make sluggish browsers a thing of the past

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

The latest SteamOS beta update includes a performance boost for GPUs with limited VRAM, though devices with iGPUs probably won't see any gains

Windows 10 gets yet another year of life as Microsoft extends security updates into 2027

I spent an entire day with a fan-mod of North Korea's homegrown operating system, and I'm sorry to say it's not a Windows killer yet

Windows 11 Search will soon see through your typos and actually find what you're looking for

Microsoft rolls out Windows Low Latency Profile, giving older PCs a bit more snap when opening the Start Menu and apps

It's only a little thing but with the latest Windows update, Microsoft has dragged its OS into the modern world of sharing audio streams

84% of you rightly practice good desktop icon hygiene, but it turns out 16% of PC Gamer readers are just plain monsters

Microsoft announces plans to give you more control over the Windows 11 taskbar and Start menu

'This game is extremely broken': The dev of VKD3D-Proton, software for running Direct3D 12 games on Linux, isn't enjoying Forza Horizon 6 very much

Roblox promo codes for July 2025: Get free stuff with the latest active codes

Steam sale dates: When is the next Steam sale?

Social media is awful but the UK under-16 ban won't solve anything: 'Instead of punishing children, the government needs to target the source'

Microsoft doesn't know what to do about the memory pricing crisis Microsoft is causing

Poll: Do you like the new Steam store design, or is it 'hot garbage'?

Gabe Newell reportedly snapped 'What the f*** do I pay you for if that's your opinion?' at Valve lawyer pushing for more content moderation on Steam

Steam Workshop now looks like it was designed in this decade

Steam killed its 'RPGMaker' user tag yesterday, and impacted devs are unexpectedly happy about it

Garry Newman acknowledges Gmod successor S&box had a bumpy launch, but is baffled by the number of people complaining about NFTs, which aren't in the game: 'I have no idea what this s**t is about'

A malware dev has committed a magnificent self-own after an AI-coded malicious package leaked its own GitHub private token

Web infrastructure company Cloudflare says Claude Mythos reasoning 'looks like the work of a senior researcher'

Interpol's 'Operation Ramz' has arrested over 200 people for phishing scams, malware threats, and security breaches

There's a devious hacking scheme that involves a hijacked Microsoft Teams account, a fake IT helpdesk, and a covert infection tool

Hackers are using fake job interviews to load applicants' PCs with a password-stealing Trojan

Canonical, the company that makes Ubuntu Linux, says its web infrastructure is under a 'sustained, cross-border attack'

State cybersecurity agencies around the world are advising extra care over home routers as they could be used in 'China-nexus' covert networks

Security researchers hacked the demo version of the European Commission's new age verification app in less than two minutes

A 17-year-old Excel vulnerability is currently being exploited by threat actors, and it's been flagged by the US' cyber defence agency