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Those who remember PC gaming in the days before Steam may have fond memories of the “big box” packaging that made those games stand out as shelf eye candy and sought-after in-home collectibles. Today, PC gaming platform GOG is hoping to reignite some of the nostalgia for those da

LIV files for bankruptcy protection with over $45m owed to players - Published LIV Golf has filed for bankruptcy protection with at least $45m (£33m) owed to players, who will now have the option to leave. A Chapter 11 petition, which LIV says is to "preserve the company's busine

AI - AI+ML Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlasSee, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad - AI and ML Am

Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold. It was only two months ago that Microsoft patched a then-record 570 vulnerabilities. Then, last month, Microsoft pat

On August 4, Grant De Swardt, an independent AI consultant in East Sussex, U.K., noticed something strange going on with his Claude Max 20x account. He hadn’t been working that day, yet his token usage was climbing. The next day, he disabled everything he had attached to Claude a

Cognition, the startup developing coding assistant Devin, announced it raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation. The round, which comes just four months after Cognition’s previous fundraise at a $26 billion valuation, was led by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Founders Fund, Gene

OpenAI says it found a solution to a major math problem that has remained unsolved for around 90 years, as reported earlier by The New York Times and Wired. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it discovered a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem — which relates to t

The queue to send objects into orbit is growing, but space infrastructure isn’t keeping up with demand. As the realization sinks in that Elon Musk’s SpaceX can’t be the sole answer, other companies are raising their hand — and money. These include The Exploration Company (TEC), w

AI agents can use Quill to talk direct to enterprise SQL databases RavenDB says its Quill AI context software means AI agents can access existing SQL databases without migrating the data to a new repository or building a custom AI software stack. RavenDB is an Israeli company shi

RNLI volunteers facing 'unacceptable' abuse, chief says - Published RNLI staff have faced "unacceptable" online and physical abuse since anti-migrant protests at the weekend, the charity's chief executive has said. On Sunday, police faced off with demonstrators who blocked roads

Crude oil is back above $90 and energy stocks in the S&P 500 index are approaching fresh 52-week highs as the group's year-to-date rally surpasses 40%. Despite energy stocks holding the title as the best-performing sector in the S&P 500 in 2026, options traders seem unconvinced t

AI - AI+ML Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlasSee, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad - AI and ML Am

Huawei and Xiaomi this week rolled out their latest foldable phones as the Chinese tech giants look to steal a lead on rival Apple, which is rumored to launch its first foldable iPhone on Wednesday. Xiaomi, the world's third-largest smartphone player, introduced the Xiaomi 18 Fol

Huawei and Xiaomi this week rolled out their latest foldable phones as the Chinese tech giants look to steal a lead on rival Apple, which is rumored to launch its first foldable iPhone on Wednesday. Xiaomi, the world's third-largest smartphone player, introduced the Xiaomi 18 Fol

Sixty years after television audiences first tuned in to see the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, an astronaut on board the International Space Station has paid tribute to Star Trek by flying the badge of the franchise’s latest fictional captain. Expedition 75 flight engineer

OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday and is adding a new way to tell ChatGPT what you want it to make an image of: by drawing a doodle. With a new feature called Sketch, you can just draw something right inside ChatGPT and then tell ChatGPT how you want it to make an im

The S&P 500 fell 0.58% to 7,673.94, while the Nasdaq Composite declined 0.31% to 26,423.69. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was the biggest laggard, dropping 1.16% to 52,797.10. Software stocks were among the main drags on the market. Salesforce, ServiceNow and Intuit fell, send

Qualcomm shares rose 3% on Tuesday after the company announced a data center infrastructure partnership with Amazon Web Services, a major win as the chipmaker tries to take on Nvidia in the artificial intelligence market. As part of the agreement, Qualcomm said in a filing with t

Qualcomm shares rose 3% on Tuesday after the company announced a data center infrastructure partnership with Amazon Web Services, a major win as the chipmaker tries to take on Nvidia in the artificial intelligence market. As part of the agreement, Qualcomm said in a filing with t

Late last week, word started leaking that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) had reached an agreement with the Department of Defense that would see part of the NIH’s budget used to fund research at the Department of Defense. So, on the Friday just prior to a US holiday weeke

First, Anthropic updated Fable and Mythos. Then came model enhancements from Meta and Google. OpenAI followed suit by releasing GPT-6 Astra. That was all this week, as a dizzying pace of modifications and upgrades hit the market from a handful of companies that are vying to stay

The News The nonprofit arm of Pod Save America’s audio empire is hoping to lure younger voters back to the Democratic Party by boosting ideologically aligned social video creators ahead of the 2028 presidential election. Crooked Ideas, the issue-focused partner organization of Cr

For research and development (R&D) organizations, the promise of agentic AI is not a better one-time answer. It is a new way to explore complex scientific and engineering problems: pursuing multiple hypotheses, validating them against evidence, learning from what does not work, a

Off the Wire Press Releases New superconducting digital program brings together foundries, system companies and hyperscalers around industry needs in next-gen HPC, AI, quantum computing, photonics and neuromorphic computing LEUVEN, Belgium, Sept. 8, 2026 — This week, at the 2026

* Yen strengthens past 153 before retreating * U.S. CPI eyed as markets gauge Fed's rate path * Oil near six-week high amid Iran threats * Canadian dollar strengthens after retaliatory US tariffs take effect By Chibuike Oguh and Sruthi Shankar NEW YORK, Sept 8 - The Japanese yen

Off the Wire Press Releases SAN DIEGO, Sept. 8, 2026 — Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. today announced a multi-generation collaboration with Amazon to enable customized silicon at scale for large-scale AI data centers, working together on AI inference. In addition, the companies are

In a victory for Republican campaign committees, the Supreme Court issued an order on Friday that forces broadcast TV stations to cut the prices of election ads purchased by political parties and joint fundraising committees. The September 4 ruling came in response to a petition

Off the Wire Press Releases MONTEREY, Calif., Sept. 8, 2026 — This week at the SPIE Photomask Technology + Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography conference, Intel Foundry and ASML highlighted continued progress in bringing High Numerical Aperture (High NA) Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) lit

(Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is set to reveal how far he’s initially willing to go restrain US bond yields via an expanded buyback program that has Wall Street dealers on edge. The Treasury Department is expected to announce on Wednesday the size of the next da

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The growing list of US credit busts, from subprime auto lender Tricolor Holdings to Broadband Telecom Inc., raises a troubling question: If such “cockroaches” proliferate — if many more enterprises collapse under the weight of excessive debt — who will ulti

The backlash against artificial intelligence data centers could prove a tailwind for real estate investment trusts in the sector. Protests have sprung up nationally as hyperscalers look to build data centers to train and run their AI models. Not only do the data centers take up l

Private equity (PE) giant TPG yesterday offloaded Shadowfax shares worth ₹200 Cr via an open-market transaction. According to BSE data, the PE major, via its entity NewQuest Asia Fund IV (Singapore), sold 80 Lakh shares of the logistics giant at ₹250.03 each to rake in the amount

Leading chipmakers Samsung Electronics and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. announced plans to adopt ASML’s latest chipmaking machines in the next several years—and they also joined Intel in agreeing to a crucial technology change that could boost chip production on the new

Meta introduced its AI personal agent app on Tuesday and is asking a subset of users to pay at a time when the company and broader artificial intelligence industry face intensifying scrutiny and public skepticism. The app, which was given the internal code name Hatch, is powered

Meta introduced its AI personal agent app on Tuesday and is asking a subset of users to pay at a time when the company and broader artificial intelligence industry face intensifying scrutiny and public skepticism. The app, which was given the internal code name Hatch, is powered

Sabalenka fights back to keep US Open defence alive - Published Aryna Sabalenka thought she had lost her US Open crown before leaving herself "speechless" as she battled back to beat Linda Noskova in three sets and advance to the semi-finals. Taken to a deciding set for the first