THREE GAMESPS Plus October lineup includes EDF, F1 25 and Hunt: Showdown 1896
Sony reveals the three games coming to PlayStation Plus Essential and other tiers this month, with availability starting October 6.
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Wednesday, 30 September 2026
THREE GAMESSTEAMOS FIXMinecraft Dungeons 2 Linux Fix Coming to Steam Deck
Microsoft is working on official SteamOS support for Minecraft Dungeons 2, following a community workaround for Linux users.
TEXT ORDERINGDoorDash lets you text an AI bot to order your usual
DoorDash is rolling out a text-based AI agent that can handle food orders and recommendations, expanding on its earlier in-app chatbot.
SKILLS UPOpenAI partners with SBDC to train small firms
OpenAI is teaming up with the America’s Small Business Development Centers to offer hands-on AI training and support for small businesses.
TRACKS ORIGINSGoogle DeepMind adds invisible watermark to AI proteins
DeepMind has demonstrated a proof-of-concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins without affecting their biological function.
LOCAL TRAININGDeveloper trains small AI on RTX 3080 Ti to 'play' Pokémon Red
A developer trained a small AI model on a single RTX 3080 Ti to discover button functions in Pokémon Red, achieving a modest success rate of 52 per cent.
MOBILE POWERMinisforum AtomMan G1 Pro-89A6 Mini PC Launches With RX 9060 XT
Minisforum has released a compact desktop powered by AMD's new RX 9060 XT GPU, built around a Ryzen 9 8945HX processor.
DEEPER EXPEDITIONSatisfactory goes underground in Core Values expansion
Coffee Stain Studios announces first DLC for factory sim, promising new tools and challenges below the surface.
SWAP BATTERIESSteelSeries launches ultra-wideband mice with swappable batteries
SteelSeries' new Rival Pro and Sensei Pro mice are super light and use ultra-wideband to avoid 2.4GHz congestion.
VISIBILITYReco Raises $55 Million for Agentic Security
New York-based Reco secures $55 million to map AI agents and enforce policies across enterprise environments.
SECURE FUTURECloudflare uses AI to map its post-quantum migration
Cloudflare is racing to be quantum-ready by 2029 and is building an internal tool called CryptoLabe to help it find and understand cryptography in its codebase.
NUC SYSTEMSASRock Industrial Launches Intel Core Series 3 Edge Systems
Compact NUCs and Mini-ITX boards bring integrated AI and DDR5 to industrial applications.
AI ATTACKSCloudflare tests WAF against frontier AI hackers
Cloudflare used frontier AI models to probe its own Web Application Firewall and found most attacks were blocked, but some vectors slipped through.
GOV REQUESTSGitHub expands reporting of government takedown requests
GitHub reveals a sharp rise in government takedown requests in its latest Transparency Center data, attributing the increase to expanded reporting rather than more moderation.
LOCAL ACCOUNTS ONLYSony Japan locks PS5 Pro sales to Japanese PSN accounts
Sony Japan is filtering PS5 Pro orders with a lottery system that requires a local account and 60 hours of playtime over two years.
INTEROP READYIntel's Nova Lake Passes USB and PCIe Compliance Tests
Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 400-series platforms have cleared interoperability hurdles at USB and PCIe standards bodies ahead of launch.
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Tuesday, 29 September 2026
AUTONOMOUS AGENTOpenAI's Jalapeño AI designs chip in nine months
OpenAI claims AI tools helped design a custom chip, improving performance and cutting area, as the industry moves from AI-assisted tools to autonomous design agents.
AUTONOMOUS AGENTSCloudflare unveils AI-era security framework
Cloudflare launches a connected application security system to defend against autonomous AI agents that can chain vulnerabilities and evade detection.
PER HOUSEHOLDDeveloper offers $10,000 checks to 4,500 households
NorthPoint Development proposes paying $10,000 per household in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, to approve a 1,300-acre data centre.
HIGH BANDWIDTH DEMANDSteam beta adds Pyrowave codec for low-latency Remote Play
Valve introduces a new codec for local streaming that cuts input lag but demands up to 10x the bandwidth.
PRE ORDER NOWGod of War Laufey digital edition details
Sony lists the extras for the Digital Deluxe Edition and confirms pre-orders start tomorrow.
RAPID BOOSTModder Boosts DLSS 5 Performance on AMD GPUs by 74%
A modder has rapidly optimised a workaround that lets AMD Radeon GPUs use Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering, bringing framerates in Cyberpunk 2077 from barely playable to around 50 FPS.
SECURITY AUDITGitHub AI finds 24 Android flaws with open source agent
GitHub Security Lab has released open source taskflows that use an AI agent to audit Android apps and find vulnerabilities, including a tracking bug in OsmAnd.
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