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Nvidia has confirmed that October 2026 will bring the last Game Ready driver built for Windows 10, with the following November release skipping the OS entirely. After that, Nvidia will only issue quarterly security patches for Windows 10 systems through October 2029, rather than the frequent performance and compatibility updates tied to new game launches.
Sony will pull Signalis, Big Walk, and Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition from PlayStation Plus's monthly free games at the end of August. Subscribers on any tier have only a few days left to add these titles to their libraries at no extra cost.
According to leaker Digital Chat Station, OPPO's upcoming Find X10 Pro Max will use 200MP sensors for its main, telephoto, and ultrawide cameras, making it the first phone with three such sensors. The same source has previously indicated a September or October launch window for the device.
Canada has hired 48 scholars away from top American universities in a coordinated recruitment push. The move brings established researchers and their expertise into Canadian institutions, bolstering the country's academic and research capacity.
FnScribe is a new open-source macOS menu-bar app that transcribes speech locally on the device and inserts text directly into whatever app is focused. Users trigger it with a push-to-talk shortcut (the fn/Globe key) or a hands-free mode, and it includes smart cleanup features like filler-word removal, punctuation commands, list formatting, and voice-based correction phrases like 'scratch that.'
Stripe and private equity firm Advent have dropped their pursuit of acquiring PayPal, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg. The pair had reportedly offered around $53 billion in July when PayPal shares were depressed, but PayPal rejected the bid and was said to be awaiting a higher offer before the talks collapsed.
Luanti's Android app was removed from the Google Play Store following a DMCA takedown notice filed by Tracer.AI on behalf of Microsoft, accusing the open-source voxel game platform of infringing Minecraft's copyright. Luanti's developers say the app contains no proprietary Minecraft code or assets, noting that Tracer.AI filed a nearly identical notice against them in 2023, which was successfully appealed, and has separately targeted another voxel-style indie game called Allumeria this year.
US electricity demand climbed about 1.7% annually from 2020 to 2025, more than ten times the growth rate utilities saw in the prior fifteen years, driven by data centers, EV charging stations and reshored manufacturing. Much of the transmission network carrying that load dates to the 1950s-1980s, causing sagging lines, overheating transformers and voltage drops as usage climbs.
ServiceNow issued fixes for three critical vulnerabilities in its AI Platform that could let unauthenticated attackers run arbitrary code, escalate privileges, or manipulate data via SQL injection, all without user interaction. The company also patched a separate high-severity sandbox escape bug that could allow low-privileged users to achieve remote code execution. ServiceNow says it has no evidence of active exploitation but is urging customers to apply the updates immediately.
X's Safety team identified a 200,000-account network of suspected inauthentic Chinese accounts, 200 of which spread AI-generated comics and posts criticizing AI data centers' impact on electricity prices and local power grids. The company said these posts used OpenAI-generated imagery and talking points that echoed illustrations from a June OpenAI report on similar China-linked influence efforts. X has suspended violating accounts but has not disclosed the identities of those involved or detailed the remaining 199,800 accounts' activity.
RhinoShield and Sent Into Space sent an iPhone 17 Pro fitted with RhinoShield's AirX case up on a high-altitude balloon from Kiruna, Sweden, then released it from over 30,600 meters. After a 25-minute fall through temperatures as low as minus 60 degrees Celsius, the phone landed intact in remote terrain and was later recovered, powered on, and used to make calls and take photos. Guinness World Records confirmed the feat as the highest drop of a phone in a case onto natural landforms.
Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency, via its Sovereign Tech Fund, is investing €508,640 into a two-year effort to improve Flatpak, the Linux app packaging and sandboxing system. The project is organized by Modal with Para-Real Ltd. as a supporting organization, aiming to close gaps in Flatpak's security model, including missing Portals for networking and VPNs.