Featured content

Sony’s canceled PlayStation PUGA was a prototype plug-and-play controller, recently resurfaced through developer Brian “Biscuit” Watson’s Retro Collective appearance, that reportedly put PlayStation 1 hardware inside a DualShock-style pad for Brazil before royalty negotiations killed it. The machine sounds like a collector’s fever dream, but the more interesting story is not that Sony could miniaturize old hardware. It is that the company had already understood, years before the...

Microsoft is considering a redesigned flyout for PowerToys Awake, a free Windows 11 utility that keeps a PC from sleeping during long-running tasks, according to a newly opened proposal in the Microsoft PowerToys GitHub repository reported by Neowin on July 5, 2026. The change is not a shipping feature yet, and that distinction matters. But the proposal says something important about where Microsoft’s best Windows tooling is headed: away from buried settings pages and toward small...

Buy a Copilot+ PC now only if your current device is already due for replacement and you expect to use AI-assisted capture daily; otherwise, wait and keep using the standard Windows 11 Snipping Tool. Microsoft’s most interesting upcoming capture feature, perfect screenshot, is tied to Copilot+ PC hardware, but that does not turn a working Windows 11 laptop into e-waste or make a smarter crop button worth a premature replacement cycle. The practical split is simple: Snipping Tool is already...

Australia’s Attorney-General’s Department has approved Microsoft Copilot Chat and Google NotebookLM for staff use on data classified up to the “protected” level, with assistant secretary Antony Spence disclosing the setup at Google Cloud Summit Sydney, according to reporting by iTnews. The move matters because it shifts public-sector generative AI from novelty to operational infrastructure. It is also a useful test case for every government department and regulated enterprise still trying to...

Intel’s first x86 processors with integrated NVIDIA RTX graphics are reportedly listed on an internal roadmap for the first quarter of 2028, with Igor’s Lab, VideoCardz, and Wccftech tying the leak to a platform name circulating as “Serpent Canyon” or “Serpent Lake.” The leak is not a product announcement, and Intel has not confirmed the codename, launch window, or silicon design. But it matters because Intel and NVIDIA already confirmed the underlying partnership in September 2025: Intel...

Penpot, an open-source design and prototyping app from Kaleidos, has emerged as a credible Figma alternative for wireframing in 2026 because it runs in the browser, supports self-hosting, uses open web standards, and removes the per-seat subscription pressure from basic design handoff workflows. That is the practical lesson inside Yadullah Abidi’s MakeUseOf piece, but the larger story is not simply that one free app can replace one paid app. It is that wireframing, the supposedly lightweight...

Thurrott.com published and updated its Windows 11 Field Guide virtualization material on July 5, 2026, centering the 2026 edition around Hyper-V, Windows Sandbox, and the broader virtualization tools built into modern Windows 11. The update is not just another how-to chapter refresh. It is a sign that virtualization has moved from specialist territory into the everyday Windows maintenance, security, and development story. That matters because Windows 11 now treats virtualization as plumbing...

Artificial Intelligence Saskatchewan launched 10K AI SK in Saskatoon on July 1, 2026, offering AI literacy training for 10,000 Saskatchewan residents and businesses through online courses and optional in-person sessions beginning in fall 2026. The program, first detailed by MooseJawToday and announced by AiSK, arrives at an awkward but useful moment: Canada is trying to sell itself as an AI nation while admitting that many Canadians still do not understand the tools now being pushed into...

Enterprises are spending heavily on AI in 2026, but the workforce layer most likely to determine whether those investments produce real business value is neither entry-level AI users nor elite model builders, but mid-career domain professionals in operations, finance, compliance, service, logistics, and quality. That is the central argument advanced in a recent Financial Express column by the chairperson of GTT Foundation, and it lands because it cuts against the dominant AI-skilling...

Ford has hired, promoted, or brought back roughly 350 veteran engineers, including many former employees, after its AI-heavy quality push failed to replace the judgment needed to prevent defects before vehicles reached production, according to Bloomberg reporting amplified by The Mary Sue and The Daily Star. That is not an anti-AI story, no matter how quickly the internet has tried to turn it into one. It is a management story about what happens when companies confuse automation with...

Foldable phones in 2026 distinguish themselves less by the hinge itself than by software behaviors that let apps, cameras, multitasking views, and cover screens change shape as the device opens and closes. That is the useful answer hiding inside BGR’s July 5 roundup of nine foldable-only features: the category is finally becoming a software category, not just a hardware stunt. The best foldables are no longer trying to win by proving that glass can bend. They are trying to make the slab...

Microsoft is rolling out a “Remove PC” control in the Link to Windows Android beta, letting users delete stale or unwanted linked computers from the phone-side app without returning to the original Windows machine. The change, reported by Windows Latest and now visible to at least some beta testers on version 1.26062.125.0-preprod, sounds small only if you have never lived with the mess it fixes. For Windows Insiders, VM-heavy testers, repair techs, and anyone who has reinstalled Windows...

A coalition of 35 publishers operating nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft in federal court in New York on June 24, 2026, alleging that ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot were built in part by scraping and ingesting their copyrighted reporting without permission or payment. The case, detailed in the complaint and reported by outlets including Bloomberg Law and the Yakima Herald-Republic, is not just another entry in the expanding docket of AI copyright fights. It is...

Windows 11 Pro for Workstations is Microsoft’s workstation-tier client operating system for high-end PCs, positioned above Windows 11 Pro and below Windows Server, with support for larger memory, more CPU sockets, ReFS storage features, SMB Direct networking, and persistent-memory workloads. It is not new, but TechPowerUp’s recent “Windows 11 Pro Max” framing usefully exposes how invisible this SKU remains to the audience most likely to obsess over Windows editions. Microsoft built a...

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, 2026, one week after Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, putting the two most visible frontier AI labs into a direct comparison across benchmarks, coding tools, subscriptions, APIs, and enterprise workflows. Mashable framed the matchup as a split decision: GPT-5.5 wins more headline tests, while Claude Opus 4.7 still looks unusually strong where software agents have to plan, edit, test, and recover. That is the right surface read, but the more...

OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 on June 26, 2026, as a three-model family called Sol, Terra, and Luna, but limited early access to selected API and Codex partners after a U.S. government request tied to frontier AI security review. That is the plain news; the larger story is that a model launch has become a test case for who gets to stand at the front of the AI line. As reported by Memeburn and separately by Axios, OpenAI is trying to frame this as a temporary safety compromise rather than a new...

A July 2026 OpenPR release distributed by CoinQuantWire promotes PepeNation and its $PNATION token as a Solana-based meme-coin presale for U.S. beginners, claiming community momentum, low-fee infrastructure, and “top AI” recognition as reasons it may be among the next breakout cryptocurrencies. The pitch is not unusual because it is bold; it is unusual because it shows how polished the crypto presale funnel has become. The real story is not whether PepeNation will “explode soon.” The real...

New Zealand’s Ministry for Regulation used AI in 2026 to help map more than 260 organisations in the country’s regulatory system for a May report, and BusinessDesk’s reporting shows the experiment has raised questions about accuracy, definitions, oversight, and public trust in AI-assisted policymaking. The uncomfortable lesson is not that officials touched a chatbot. It is that a government report can look empirical while quietly depending on machine-readable assumptions that most readers...

Microsoft has fixed a Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 bug that could break Explorer, Start, Search, Settings, the taskbar, and other XAML-dependent shell components on some provisioned enterprise PCs, with the repair beginning in the June 23, 2026 preview update KB5095093 and expected to reach broader deployment through the next monthly Windows update. Neowin surfaced the change this weekend, pointing to Microsoft’s KB5072911 support article and the June C-release notes as the paper trail. The fix...