World of Warcraft’s Update 11.1 gives you better tools to track cooldowns and consumables
World of Warcraft players have a lot to anticipate with next week’s arrival of Update 11.1: Curse of Ula’Tek, including a new zone, storyline, delves,...
At least 37 people arrested in 2026 so far for protesting against data centers, most for breaking ‘petty rules’ — most taken into custody acted peacefully
Data center protesters are getting arrested for minor infractions, yet they continue pushing back against these projects. Aside from the arrests, there’s also at least 12 instances (probably more) where the police were called to intervene between politicians and protesters.
The Daily Grind: How many seasons of MMOs and multiplayer games can you play before you’re bored?
Last month, I was reading a Reddit thread from a Chinese MMORPG player whose comments leaped out at me. He specifically called out Diablo IV...
Lenovo LOQ Essentials 15 Gen 11 Review: A good display meets a low-power RTX 5060
The Lenovo LOQ Essentials 15 Gen 11 pairs an RTX 5060, 144 Hz display, and excellent upgradeability with a comfortable keyboard, but its low-power GPU configuration and outdated CPU leave it struggling against rivals at the same price.
‘Apple is getting this wrong,’ says OpenAI — startup blasts iPhone maker over lawsuit alleging it stole confidential information through ex-Apple employees
OpenAI denies Apple’s allegations in a blog post. The company claims that it doesn’t have and even doesn’t want its rivals trade secrets.
Chinese ship spotted lurking over Taiwan-US undersea cables — ‘research vessel’ seen loitering above the 8,000-mile Pacific Light Cable Network fiber-optic system
A new video shows Taiwan’s Coast Guard warning a 200-ft long Chinese-flagged research vessel, spotted loitering over a fiber internet cable, to change course.
China cracks down on copycat chip designs with new regulations and penalties — new guidelines enforce originality and independent development
China tightens legal protections for domestically developed chip layout designs by raising originality requirements and strengthening infringement penalties.
Grab a new Secretlab sit-to-stand desk for $699 — Save $50 as the Magnus Evo receives its first-ever discount
Secretlab has finally reduced the price of the Magnus Evo standing desk. In its first-ever discount, you can save $50 on a new sit-to-stand desk.
16GB GPUs and 8-core CPUs officially become the most popular configs on Steam — Latest hardware survey shows modern gaming’s growing hunger for more resources
For the first time in Steam history, 8-core CPUs have overtaken 6-core CPUs and GPUs with 16GB of VRAM have overtaken 8GB GPUs. Even though the hardware survey doesn’t represent everyone, it still indicates a paradigm shift for the mainstream market.
Three major PC makers now using Chinese memory to fight ‘unprecedented memory shortage,’ report claims — HP, Asus, and Acer using ‘small amounts’ of CXMT chips in limited number of notebooks for non-US market
A new report claims that HP, Asus, and Acer have started to use a small amount of CXMT memory chips in notebooks for non-US markets.