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Buying used CPUs can expose users to existing bans from anti-cheat engines, and there's no way to check for violations before purchase — some anti-cheat engines enforce permanent bans, while others have an expiration date Who knew that saving money could potentially come with a h

Kelly Pedersen was recently surprised to find out his 14-year-old daughter had thousands of dollars sitting in her digital wallet. "She does all this entrepreneurial stuff. She has a lemonade stand where she's making — like on a Saturday she'll make four or five hundred dollars,"

This week on Tom's Hardware Premium: October 3, 2026 — AI Chip Design week, OpenAI Interview, and AI agent safety It's been a bumper week of coverage. Over at Tom's Hardware Premium, we've been publishing a slew of stories centered around our themed AI Chip Design Week, where you

Rather than downloading another app, a growing number of agents can simply be texted like an ordinary person. You text it what you need, and it can remember context, connect to the apps and services you already use, and complete tasks on your behalf. That can mean scheduling an a

Neko Health seems to be the hottest body scan in the world right now. The scan, co-founded by Spotify’s David Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne, uses advanced technology to screen for issues in the blood, skin, and metabolism. The company was founded in Sweden, has raised nearly $1 billion

New-age tech stocks remained under pressure this week, with 47 stocks declining as benchmark indices recorded their eighth consecutive weekly fall. Moneyview’s market debut this week took the number of new-age tech companies under Inc42’s coverage to 66. Despite the addition, the

Steam hits record $1.7 billion in September 2026 despite soaring PC hardware costs — platform approaches 21,000 new releases in 2026, on track to top $20 billion annually PC gaming stays strong. PC gaming continues to see an upward trend despite rising hardware costs, as Steam is

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How can a nascent prediction market company gain traction against established competitors like Kalshi and Polymarket? Bring in Hollywood's Sydney Sweeney. The 29-year-old actress starred in Novig's "Just Sports" racy ad campaign in which she highlighted the prediction platform's

With the first round of Brazil's presidential election taking place Sunday, Wall Street is gearing up with starkly different market predictions depending on the outcome of the neck-and-neck race. "The Brazil trade is: Does Lula win or does Bolsonaro win?" said Fernando Marengo, c

AI agents use 5x more tokens than humans as cached prompts explode, headed for 10x — agents are mostly rereading what they've already seen, skyrocketing KV cache demand threatens already-worsening RAM shortages OpenRouter has agents at 7.3 trillion tokens versus 1.4 trillion for

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is set to finalise its proposed framework for changes to the Closing Auction Session (CAS) mechanism after receiving more than 3,500 comments on its consultation paper, Sebi Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey said on Saturday. The capita

(This is the Warren Buffett Watch newsletter, news and analysis on all things Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. You can sign up here to receive it every Friday evening in your inbox.) Berkshire buys more Lennar shares, but pace of purchases slows Berkshire Hathaway added to

Homemade bomb part of alleged plot on Manchester's Jewish community, court told - Published Two Iranian men have appeared in court charged with terror offences over an alleged plot to target the Jewish community in Manchester with a homemade bomb. Rahman Salehi, 34, of Salford, a

Bambu Lab launches Halloween 3D printer sale with up to 30% off — P1S plunges to $399 alongside $250 off the H2D with AMS bundle, plus bulk spool discounts and pumpkin-themed bundles Grab a dangerously good discount on these top 3D printers Bambu Lab's brilliant 3D printers are o

As the AI boom becomes a major part of political debate, the public backlash against data centers in the U.S. is spreading to Europe and Asia — raising risks for investors. Across the Atlantic, negative sentiment is growing in Europe, which has more at stake due to its densely po

As the AI boom becomes a major part of political debate, the public backlash against data centers in the U.S. is spreading to Europe and Asia — raising risks for investors. Across the Atlantic, negative sentiment is growing in Europe, which has more at stake due to its densely po

The co-pilot of a FlyDubai plane who attacked the flight's captain with an axe this week was attempting a terrorist attack, the United Arab Emirates said Saturday. "The co-pilot began executing his plan during the flight, attacking the captain inside the flight deck using a crash

Malicious VPN config files can let attackers run commands on Asus routers — company’s patch also fixes a bug that lets a logged-in attacker switch on Telnet with root access Asus rates the VPN-file flaw as critical, scoring at 9.4 out of 10 on CVSS 4.0. A “crafted VPN client conf

'Incredible' Red Bull upgrade enlivens F1 in Malaysia - Published Even Lewis Hamilton, starting from his equal best grid position of the year in second place, fears Max Verstappen will be tough to beat in Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia. Verstappen has dominated the weeke

Nvidia is back in the spotlight after a sharp recovery from a brutal two-month sell-off that erased more than $1 trillion from the world’s most valuable company’s market capitalisation. The chipmaker’s shares surged as much as 3% on Friday, briefly touching an intraday record hig

India could emerge as a beneficiary if the global frenzy over artificial intelligence stocks cools, RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra said. A sharp correction in AI-linked valuations across developed markets could unsettle investors and trigger volatility, but it may also encourage in

Evidence the SaaSpocolypse is over? Okta is a good place to start. In April, Okta was one of the most hated names in B2B. On April 10, traders were rotating out of weaker software names, and Okta was setting a new 52-week low below all of its major moving averages. Last Friday it

AI - Anthropic's super bug-hunting model Mythos is hardcore good at math, as latest vuln under attack shows Exploitation attempts came from China-hosted IP, VulnCheck researcher says - Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter Grid connection awaits regulatory

Increasingly sophisticated vehicles are forcing repair shops to spend more on computers, software and calibration equipment — costs that mechanics say are reaching consumers. Auto mechanic Ralph Czeisler in Brooklyn, New York, said the rapid pace of technological change is forcin

At the Toronto International Film Festival last month, audiences saw "Wicked" star Cynthia Erivo return to the big screen for her newest movie, "Prima Facie." Behind the scenes, there was a notable difference. While "Wicked" was a massive Universal undertaking, Erivo's new movie

Meta's new artificial intelligence agent Muse promises to make everything from booking appointments to building playlists easier, but its rollout of agentic shopping, in particular, has the tech and retail realms buzzing. Shopping has quickly become one of Muse's biggest usage dr

Google freezes open-source bug bounty program amid flood of invalid AI slop submissions — product flaw submissions halted until 2027 as maintainers drown in hallucinations Engineers and open-source maintainers reportedly overwhelmed by thousands of sloppy reports Google has offic

Every boom is accompanied by a parallel boom in financial engineering and this one is no exception. The scale demands it. Estimates for AI infrastructure capex through 2030 range between $7.6 trillion and $8.0 trillion, and while bond markets are deep, they’re not that deep. Anal

$5,245 prebuilt RTX 5090 PC's connectors melt after sitting boxed for a year — Digital Storm and PNY deny warranty claims over expired coverage and third-party cables Everyone points at someone else. When a PC gamer's GPU with a 12VHPWR or 12V-2x6 power connector melts, it's ofte

Accenture’s fourth-quarter results have given global technology investors a fresh reason to look beyond the immediate concerns around artificial intelligence-driven disruption. Strong bookings, accelerating adoption of advanced AI projects and better-than-expected revenue growth

Vaishali Parekh's top 3 stock recommendations: In the truncated trading week, the benchmark indices corrected sharply. The Nifty 50 index ended down by 3.10%, while the Sensex fell nearly 2000 points. Among the sectors, almost all major sectoral indices saw profit-booking at high

This year, members of Seattle Mountain Rescue have been setting off into the wilds of the US Pacific Northwest wearing an unusual piece of kit. They’ve been hiking into the wilderness with powered assistive devices attached to their hips and legs. Designed to increase lower-body

California subpoenas OpenAI over rogue AI agents conducting hacking attacks — DOJ seeks to establish developer liability, targets containment failures and rogue kill-switch bypasses The California DOJ has got its eyes on OpenAI. The California Department of Justice (DOJ) has subp

Is China’s economy broken? Logan Wright, Jordan’s former boss (!) and a top expert on Chinese macroeconomics, says the financial system that powered China’s extraordinary growth is now constraining it, and that the old idea of US-China economic rivalry no longer fits. Brad Setser

Jim Leitner, head of Falcon Investment Management and a former member of Yale University's Investment Committee, has outlined several principles that can help investors develop a disciplined approach to markets. His views were discussed in an interview with Steven Drobny, publish

David Ellison has spent two years fighting to build his media empire. Now, he's bringing in a heavyweight to help him run it. Ynon Kreiz, outgoing CEO of Mattel, will serve as co-CEO of the combined Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, to be named simply Skydance, when

UK-Iranian dual national arrested over RAF Fairford released on bail - Published A UK-Iranian dual national arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts in connection with an incident at RAF Fairford has been released on bail. The 25-year-old man was arrested in the Lon

Amazon promises to spend $1 billion on communities close to its data centers, but critics push back — planned spend is just 0.1% of its 2026 AI infrastructure investments Some critics say this is nothing but a 'bribe' so that communities would say yes to data centers. Amazon anno

Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) returned to selling Indian equities in September after two consecutive months of inflows, highlighting a problem that goes beyond the ease of entering the Indian market. While the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has been working wi

AMD’s secret Zen 3 gaming CPU had 128MB of game-boosting L3 cache but never saw the light of day — canceled Ryzen 9 5900X3D breaks free from the chipmaker's vault Despite being on the market for four years, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D remains one of the best CPUs for gaming on the AM4 pl

The 2026 Conservative conference is big enough to justify using Birmingham's Symphony Hall as its main stage again. So, Kemi Badenoch will tread the same stage ageing rockers Marillion took last month - and where sequinned soprano Katherine Jenkins will perform next week. She'll

Jefferies India's top stock recommendation: Bajaj Finance shares are one of the beaten-down stocks in the Indian stock market. Bajaj Finance share price has fallen around 10% in one month. In YTD, Bajaj Finance shares have delivered a negative return, correcting around 2.50%. How