Apple appears ready to let iPhone users replace Siri with third-party AI assistants. The change would allow different assistants to be triggered via the side button. This is likely an EU-only feature tied to DMA compliance deadlines.
The legal battle between Subnautica’s former leadership and publisher Krafton has escalated with explosive new allegations. Court documents claim Krafton executives used AI to brainstorm ways to avoid paying a $250 million performance bonus. The situation reveals deep tensions as Subnautica 2 approa
Proton VPN has launched its Black Friday deal a month early with a 75% discount on 2-year plans. The company is transparently reinvesting sale proceeds directly into server infrastructure, recently adding 800 global exit nodes.
Valve is launching a new Steam Machine console in 2026 that runs Linux and doubles as a PC. This comes as Linux gaming hits 3% market share on Steam and nearly 90% of Windows games now run on Linux. The console could be the breakthrough Linux gaming needs.
Deepin OS features a custom desktop environment that makes it visually competitive with Windows 11 and macOS. The distro requires 64GB of storage space, which is unusually high for Linux. Despite some concerns about Chinese influence, it offers extensive customization without extra tools.
The Qt framework is moving away from direct hardware random number generation after performance testing revealed shocking results. RDRAND took 79.5 seconds to fill 1GB compared to just 1.5 seconds for getrandom. This change shifts responsibility for broken hardware RNG to the operating system.
Microsoft executives faced brutal backlash on social media this week while the company rolled out security updates and expanded Windows 11 version 23H2 availability. Meanwhile, Valve surprised everyone with new hardware announcements and Xbox Cloud Gaming finally reached India.
Mesa 25.3 has landed with substantial Vulkan driver enhancements across multiple vendors. AMD’s RadeonSI driver now defaults to using the ACO compiler backend for better performance. This represents a major step forward for open-source graphics on Linux.
ChatGPT maintains its dominant position in the generative AI market with over 70% of web traffic, but Google’s Gemini is making significant gains. The AI landscape has become increasingly competitive since ChatGPT’s 2022 debut, with multiple tech giants now vying for market share.
Sam Altman is celebrating that ChatGPT can now follow custom instructions to avoid using em-dashes. But this minor punctuation fix after years of struggle highlights how little control we actually have over AI systems. The probabilistic nature of large language models means even simple formatting pr
