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Pure Xbox's Craig Reid argues that 2026 has been a standout year for the Xbox console experience. It's an opinion piece, so "phenomenal" is his verdict. Xbox's own announcements and some independent coverage let us check which of his specifics hold up and which need qualifying. Several do, and a...

Week 41 had a clear theme: AI agents and local AI hardware. The biggest Windows story came out of Microsoft's October 7 event, where Surface Laptop Ultra and its agent-containment software were announced. Notebookcheck's roundup (Christian Hintze, October 9) adds six more items: Apple, Samsung...

Germany now holds a 28-year-old Russian national suspected of being a leading member of the Qilin ransomware operation. He was caught on a sightseeing trip, held in Osaka for months and handed over this month. That's a rare outcome for ransomware cases. The arrest is a real law-enforcement...

A federal magistrate judge has ruled on how much surrounding context a company must hand over when its Microsoft Teams chats become evidence. The answer is a three-day window of nearby messages, with unredacted threads where the objections were boilerplate. If you run Teams, retention or...

Forty-odd Xbox and PC releases are lined up for October 12–16, and the biggest is a Castlevania game that lands on Thursday. This guide goes through the week by day and picks out the details that matter to Xbox console and Windows PC players, such as Xbox Play Anywhere, Game Pass and Smart...

Bulkhead, the studio behind the PC shooter Wardogs, says getting the game onto next-generation consoles should be easy. That covers Sony's PS6 and Microsoft's Project Helix. The claim is the studio's own forecast. It is not a technical guarantee, and it arrives well before either platform has a...

Microsoft has issued a fix for CVE-2026-72982: Windows Netlogon Remote Code Execution Vulnerability, a Critical stack-based buffer overflow in Windows Netlogon. The flaw carries a CVSS base score of 9.8 and a CVSS temporal score of 8.5. Microsoft’s advisory states: “Windows Netlogon Remote Code...

Anytype has a Windows desktop client, and MakeUseOf's Adaeze Uche recently wrote a glowing review of it. The review has one problem: it calls the app "open-source," and Anytype's own materials don't use that term for its applications. For Windows users weighing a Notion-style alternative, the...

Formula V Line, a Taiwan-based PC hardware brand, has entered the US market with the Air Power G10. The case launched through Newegg and marks the brand's US debut. The G10 is a mid-tower ATX case. Its front fans sit on tilting brackets, so you can aim intake air instead of letting it blow...

Crash Team Racing: Turbocharged has landed on Windows and Linux, and the story is less about kart racing than about how the code got written. The project is a free, community-built PC port of the 1999 PlayStation racer. Its developer has said openly that large language models (LLMs) wrote parts...

A video of the PlayStation 5's system menu running on a PC has spread across X and Reddit. Some posts call it the entire PS5 operating system running on a PC, and that's not what it shows. It shows the console's menu layer running under emulation. That's still notable for PC emulation, and it...

A developer known as NullMoth has released an unofficial NVIDIA driver for macOS 15 Sequoia. It is a community project, not something Apple or NVIDIA supports. The project is for Intel Macs and OpenCore "Hackintosh" PCs. It targets NVIDIA Turing-and-later cards on Intel Macs and OpenCore systems...

ASUS Republic of Gamers has launched the ROG G1000 gaming desktop in Canada. It is a big, heavy, Windows 11 Pro tower with an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and a GeForce RTX 5080 inside. The price in the announcement changed, so the facts below come with that caveat. Everything here comes from ASUS's own...

Microsoft has released fixes for CVE-2026-72979, Windows DHCP Server Remote Code Execution Vulnerability, a Critical flaw in Windows DHCP Server. The vulnerability is a CWE-416 use-after-free issue: an unauthorized attacker could execute code over a network by sending a specially crafted packet...

Click to Do is Windows 11’s shortcut for the moments when text or an image is visible on screen but stubbornly refuses to behave like something you can use. Rather than retyping a paragraph from a PDF, hunting for a product in a screenshot, or manually copying an email address from an image, you...