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BargainSteam sale dates: When is the next Steam sale?
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NewsOpenAI is now 10 years old, but how well has its mission statement to 'benefit all humanity' aged?
By Jeremy Laird Published
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Disney quaffs the Kool-Aid with a $1 billion investment in OpenAI that will see its most iconic characters used to generate AI slop
By Rich Stanton Published
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newsMcDonald's achieves AI apotheosis with a generative AI Christmas ad so miserable the production company responsible pulled a statement defending it after the ad was removed: This was 'an important learning,' McDonald's exec says, but what did we learn?
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NewsMicrosoft wants to make Windows 'the best place to game—no matter where you play' but Linux and Valve's SteamOS have other ideas
By Jeremy Laird Published
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NewsWindows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the true story
By Wes Fenlon Published
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NewsYouTube channel discovers a good use case for AI-powered robots: Shooting YouTubers
By Rich Stanton Published
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NewsOpenAI is now 10 years old, but how well has its mission statement to 'benefit all humanity' aged?
By Jeremy Laird Published
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Disney quaffs the Kool-Aid with a $1 billion investment in OpenAI that will see its most iconic characters used to generate AI slop
By Rich Stanton Published
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newsMcDonald's achieves AI apotheosis with a generative AI Christmas ad so miserable the production company responsible pulled a statement defending it after the ad was removed: This was 'an important learning,' McDonald's exec says, but what did we learn?
By Andy Chalk Published
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NewsYouTube channel discovers a good use case for AI-powered robots: Shooting YouTubers
By Rich Stanton Published
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NewsGood news and good news: Meta is reportedly hard at work on the Quest 4 and has delayed its mixed reality glasses to 2027
By James Bentley Published
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NewsAMD's Lisa Su doesn't believe there's an AI bubble: 'Emphatically, from my perspective, no'
By James Bentley Published
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NewsTwo men have been arrested for attempting to destroy government databases and they reportedly tried to cover their tracks with the help of AI tools
By James Bentley Published
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News'This is a race towards who can get more and more of the world’s 7.5 billion people to become subscribers': IBM's CEO says the AI industry isn't a bubble
By Jacob Fox Published
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News'Never bet against' Jensen Huang's 'ability to disrupt himself' says IBM chief
By James Bentley Published
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NewsFirefox is rolling out new privacy features to stop sites from giving you a hidden digital ID by fingerprinting your system
By Jacob Fox Published
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SponsoredSurf the web to save the ocean—Wave Browser turns clicks into cleanup
By Cole Martin Published
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NewsCritics 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'
By James Bentley Published
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NewsGoogle will not be forced to sell Chrome, despite its near-monopoly, as its dominance is not 'sufficiently attributable to its illegal conduct'
By James Bentley Published
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NewsUK secretary of state for science, innovation and technology says you're on the side of 'extreme pornographers' and 'predators' if you want the Online Safety Act walked back
By Harvey Randall Published
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NewsFresh zero-day vulnerability in Chrome found to be actively exploited by hackers in the wild
By Jess Kinghorn Published
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NewsMicrosoft tweaks Edge to give it "significant performance improvements" though you're only getting up to 9% more oomph
By Nick Evanson Published
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NewsSecurity researcher claims 35 Chrome extensions with 4,000,000+ installs 'include some kind of spyware or infostealer'
By Andy Edser Published
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NewsGoogle asks Trump's DOJ to please, please, please reconsider parting it from Chrome
By Jess Kinghorn Published
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NewsMicrosoft wants to make Windows 'the best place to game—no matter where you play' but Linux and Valve's SteamOS have other ideas
By Jeremy Laird Published
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NewsWindows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the true story
By Wes Fenlon Published
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NewsLooks like the Run dialog box is getting a sleek new look on Windows 11
By Jacob Fox Published
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NewsWindows is rolling out the ability to handle all app updates from just your OS, but with limited support right now
By James Bentley Published
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NewsThe father of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, says the reason why Windows has a rep for bugs and blue screens isn't down to bad code but bad memory
By Jeremy Laird Published
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NewsReports of Windows 10's death appear to have been greatly exaggerated as 29% of Steam users still cling on
By Jess Kinghorn Published
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NewsWindows 11's latest update includes a free File Explorer flashbang bug for dark mode users wanting to relive their early Counter-Strike days
By Nick Evanson Published
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NewsProving truly nothing is sacred, Microsoft has included the Copilot AI logo on this year's ugly Windows Christmas sweater
By Wes Fenlon Published
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NewsHooray, Microsoft is making File Explorer faster, but it's still slower than Windows 10 and consumes more RAM. Boo
By Monica J. White Published
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BargainSteam sale dates: When is the next Steam sale?
By Fraser Brown Last updated
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New on SteamFive new Steam games you probably missed (December 8, 2025)
By Shaun Prescott Published
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Dressed? ImpressedRoblox codes for December 2025: Get free items with the latest codes
By Jessica Orr Last updated
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New on SteamFive new Steam games you probably missed (December 1, 2025)
By Shaun Prescott Published
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newsAn outage briefly affected Fortnite, Arc Raiders, Battle.net, PSN, and more, but now appears to be resolved
By Tyler Wilde Published
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New on SteamFive new Steam games you probably missed (November 17, 2025)
By Shaun Prescott Published
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NewsLarian publishing director says Steam is dominant because 'It isn't providing a s*** service defined by public shareholder KPIs,' but concedes 'A post-Gabe world is a terrifying one'
By Joshua Wolens Published
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New on SteamFive new Steam games you probably missed (November 10, 2025)
By Shaun Prescott Published
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NewsIt never rains, but it pours: A security bug with a maximum severity rating is putting many of the worlds' servers at risk
By Nick Evanson Published
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NewsCloudflare says DDoS attacks have multiplied to 1.7x last year's count and at points there's been about one attempt every second
By Jacob Fox Published
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NewsThis sneaky malware variant has been caught using fake Windows Update screens to trick users into installing info-stealing software themselves
By Andy Edser Published
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NewsPost-heist reports reveal the password for the Louvre's video surveillance was 'Louvre,' and suddenly the dumpster-tier opsec of videogame NPCs seems a lot less absurd
By Lincoln Carpenter Published
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NewsLastPass warns of a new phishing campaign involving death certificates and a nefarious email that demands you reply to it if you're not dead
By James Bentley Published
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NewsGoogle claims the 'security breach impacting millions of users' is simply 'inaccurate reports stemming from a misunderstanding'
By James Bentley Published
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NewsChina accuses the US of attacking time—or being behind a series of cyberattacks on its National Time Center, anyway
By Andy Edser Published
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NewsPeople are falling for AI phishing attempts 4.5x more often than human ones but the solutions are the same as ever
By Jacob Fox Published
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NewsBig networking software hack seemingly backed by China poses a 'significant cyber threat targeting federal networks'
By Jacob Fox Published
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NewsYouTube channel discovers a good use case for AI-powered robots: Shooting YouTubers
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NewsLooks like the Run dialog box is getting a sleek new look on Windows 11
By Jacob Fox Published
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NewsGood news and good news: Meta is reportedly hard at work on the Quest 4 and has delayed its mixed reality glasses to 2027
By James Bentley Published
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