Xbox Game Pass has lost 4 million subscribers since its price hike backfired Game Pass growth stalls as Microsoft rethinks its "Netflix for games" strategy www.techspot.com/news/113036-...

Cheyenne suspends datacenter wastewater after rare bacterium traced to Meta's AI site Another data center water scare gives AI opponents more ammunition www.techspot.com/news/113041-...

Hardware hacker is building a homemade GPU from 64,000 tiny RISC-V chips Forget Nvidia, this DIY GPU is powered by thousands of tiny RISC-V chips www.techspot.com/news/113032-...

Keychron is stepping outside keyboards with a $349 Thunderbolt 5 dock aimed at power users The dock delivers up to 120 Gbit/s bandwidth, dual 8K display support, 140W charging, and 14 ports www.techspot.com/news/113025-...

Australia's teen social media ban stumbles as platforms skip age checks Who knew kids would lie about their age? www.techspot.com/news/113024-...

The FBI and Google just took down a botnet that hijacked 2 million smart TVs How a publicly traded company's proxy network became a 2 million-device botnet for cybercriminals www.techspot.com/news/113021-...

Fake tech support, bogus crypto, and a gold pickup: how scammers stole $673,000 in three days Four scams in one Washington county reveal the same fear-and-urgency playbook www.techspot.com/news/113018-...

AMD X870 Motherboard Roundup: 53 Motherboards Tested 9 Months Later, We've Tested Every X870 Motherboard www.techspot.com/review/3143-...

Microsoft is cutting 3,200 Xbox jobs and spinning off four game studios Bethesda, id Software, and the Elder Scrolls Online team are among those absorbing deep cuts www.techspot.com/news/113017-...

Why Gen Z is falling in love with film photography – and rejecting the algorithm along with it Gen Z is buying film cameras, vinyl records, and VHS tapes – and it's not about nostalgia www.techspot.com/news/113014-...

SpaceX intentionally burned up 260 Starlink satellites in the last six months, with hundreds more set to follow Older satellites burn up in Earth's atmosphere as newer hardware enters service www.techspot.com/news/113006-...

One of Windows' most hated features just helped catch a 19-year-old hacker This teen hacker used a VPN and tunneling service to hide. A Windows tracking ID gave him away anyway www.techspot.com/news/113005-...

Supreme Court limits police use of geofence warrants for phone location data A 6–3 ruling says geofence warrants require constitutional protections www.techspot.com/news/113004-...

Researchers built a tiny diving suit for cyborg cockroaches to survive underwater The goal is to help search-and-rescue teams reach flooded rubble, drains, and narrow gaps robots can't access www.techspot.com/news/113002-...

Tesla launches a longer six-seat Model Y to replace the Model X for many buyers The Model Y Long Wheelbase adds a third row, captain chairs, and 325 miles of range www.techspot.com/news/113003-...

Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite for fast, low-cost AI image generation Google's new AI image model is built for speed instead of perfection www.techspot.com/news/112957-...

Intel Nova Lake-S midrange CPUs could be bringing AMD's X3D cache trick to more affordable chips Intel's Nova Lake leak points to a cache-first gaming strategy www.techspot.com/news/113000-...

Bending Spoons bought Vimeo, Evernote, and AOL instead of chasing AI, it just had a $25.7 billion IPO Can old Internet brands still make billions? www.techspot.com/news/112999-...

Microsoft's new EU disclosure shows exactly how tech giants separate profits from where the work happens Microsoft booked 40% of its profits in Ireland, where only 3% of its employees work www.techspot.com/news/113001-...

The US now has three microreactors running – and data centers are watching closely DOE-backed microreactors from Deployable, Antares, and Valar Atomics have now all reached criticality www.techspot.com/news/112994-...

SpaceX is reportedly showing investors a phone prototype, months after Musk said "we are not developing a phone" SpaceX tests slim AI device for xAI on its own network www.techspot.com/news/112997-...

US homeowners installed a record amount of battery storage this year, and it's reshaping the grid Home batteries are becoming a serious power source for utilities and AI data centers www.techspot.com/news/112989-...

Tesla driver charged with manslaughter after car in FSD mode crashes into Texas home Investigators say the Model 3 reached 73 mph in a residential neighborhood before slamming into the Texas home www.techspot.com/news/112990-...

Video Game History Foundation founder says piracy remains the only viable game preservation method The organization representing game publishers helped kill a preservation bill. Now it's being blamed for pushing archivists toward piracy www.techspot.com/news/112985-...

Singapore charges suspects over $5.7 million and $42 million property tied to Nvidia AI server smuggling route to China Prosecutors say the servers were routed using false claims and laundered funds www.techspot.com/news/112981-...

A leaked Microsoft experiment reveals a new OS built entirely around Copilot and AI agents Project Aion imagines a lightweight, web-based Windows shell where Copilot replaces the Start Menu and Taskbar www.techspot.com/news/112983-...

OpenAI may give the US government a 5% stake, following Trump's Intel playbook Altman says it's about sharing AI's wealth, not calming Washington www.techspot.com/news/112973-...

Dell just overtook HP as the top PC maker in the US as the entire market shrinks US PC shipments just had their worst quarter since 2023, and AI-driven memory prices are to blame www.techspot.com/news/112969-...

Google just lost its final appeal over Android, $4.7 billion EU fine stands The EU's top court found Google forced phone makers to bundle Search and Chrome to access the Play Store www.techspot.com/news/112979-...

A Microsoft Defender flaw is now being linked to ransomware attacks A researcher published 'BlueHammer' exploit details before Microsoft had a patch ready www.techspot.com/news/112962-...

Testing AMD Radeon's Biggest-Ever Software Upgrade: FSR 4.1 on RDNA 3 The Upgrade Radeon RX 7000 Owners Deserved www.techspot.com/article/3142...

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 specs surface, Z Flip discontinuation rumors, Galaxy rollables may arrive in 2028 The Galaxy Z Flip 8, Z Fold 8, and Z Fold 8 Ultra will be unveiled on July 22 www.techspot.com/news/112961-...

Steam Machine benchmarks show Valve's single RAM stick setup can cost up to 20% performance Valve's single-stick RAM choice is slowing down the new Steam Machine www.techspot.com/news/112959-...

Anthropic's Fable 5 shutdown ends with tougher safeguards and federal approval Anthropic brings Fable 5 back after fixing AI jailbreak flaw www.techspot.com/news/112955-...

More companies are rehiring workers they replaced with AI after automation fails to deliver Ford, IBM, and Commonwealth Bank are among the firms discovering that AI cannot always replace human www.techspot.com/news/112960-...

Intel Arc Pro B70 Tested: The Gaming GPU Intel Never Released What Big Battlemage Could Have Been www.techspot.com/review/3141-...

US bill against paid game server shutdowns fails as ESA declares private Minecraft servers "illegal" ESA calls private servers, allowed under Minecraft's EULA, piracy www.techspot.com/news/112951-...

This retro enthusiast forced Windows 11 to run on a Core 2 Quad Q6600 and AGP graphics The modded system ran "rock stable" despite the aging hardware dating back to 2003 www.techspot.com/news/112947-...

License plate cameras are scanning 20 billion vehicles a month, cities are starting to push back Flock Safety says its cameras help solve crimes. About 50 cities have disagreed and pulled the plug www.techspot.com/news/112940-...

The Comcast-NBCUniversal split is about betting on data centers over cable, and gaming over TV NBCUniversal eyes gaming as its next growth business after Comcast split www.techspot.com/news/112942-...

Amazon sued in Australia after Prime Video subscribers were made to pay more to remove ads The ACCC says more than 850,000 annual Prime subscribers had already paid upfront when Amazon introduced ads www.techspot.com/news/112943-...

A startup taught humanoid robots to retrieve packages, climb stairs, and unpack boxes – no human steering needed The robot isn't the breakthrough, the AI deciding what it does next is www.techspot.com/news/112938-...

RAM prices expected to rise another 40-50% in Q3 2026, and then 30% more in Q4 as AI demand outpaces supply Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron have been sued for price-fixing before. Now it's happening again www.techspot.com/news/112934-...

Microsoft's Windows Secure Boot certificates just expired – here's what you need to do Secure Boot protects PCs from boot-level malware www.techspot.com/news/112931-...

A hollow-core fiber cable just carried 51.3 Tb/s across 200 km It's the latest sign that hollow-core fiber is ready to move beyond the lab www.techspot.com/news/112935-...

South Korea is betting $880 billion that the next AI race will be won in hardware, not software South Korea is spending the equivalent of 5% of its GDP on AI www.techspot.com/news/112926-...

AI developers are building AI loops so agents can prompt themselves Forget better prompts: AI engineers are now focusing on building autonomous loops www.techspot.com/news/112923-...

SteamOS comes to a regular gaming desktop with Meta PCs' Steamroller Meta PCs is launching a prebuilt gaming desktop that swaps Windows for Valve's SteamOS www.techspot.com/news/112921-...

TechSpot PC Buying Guide: Four Smart Builds for a Difficult PC Market Four Smart Builds for a Difficult PC Market: Building a PC in 2026 means navigating inflated RAM, storage, and GPU prices www.techspot.com/article/3136...

Netflix now wants every profile to have its own email address, annoying users The change also means Netflix can share your email address with its marketing and advertising partners www.techspot.com/news/112920-...