Starting January 6, 2026, Intel will stop making certain older processors – specifically Core, Celeron G, and Pentium Gold Alder Lake CPUs – for both computer manufacturers (tray versions) and individual customers (boxed versions).
Lenovo’s Legion 5i (Intel 14th Gen) gaming laptop is currently on sale at Newegg for $1179.99, down from its original price of $1299.99 as part of an anniversary promotion.
Over the past year, OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, has made several moves hinting at a potential expansion into building its own hardware. This includes bringing on Jony Ive, a former top designer from Apple, to head up their hardware efforts, and acquiring his AI startup, io, for around $6.5 billion to strengthen their position in this area.
The new generation of hardware expected in 2026 feels out of step with current realities. AI companies have been aggressively buying up all available DRAM and now NAND chips (used for storage) to build their massive data centers, driving up costs. This raises a serious question: how will anyone be able to afford these new devices when the memory and storage alone cost as much as a whole laptop?
As an analyst, I’ve been tracking the rewards for consistently winning in Warzone, and it’s confirmed: achieving a significant win streak unlocks incredibly rare weapon camos – the rarest the game has to offer.
As a researcher following OpenAI, I noticed the recent introduction of ads in ChatGPT was met with a lot of varied reactions. It’s interesting because even CEO Sam Altman had previously suggested that advertising would only be considered if other options didn’t work out. He actually said that combining ads and AI felt particularly concerning to him, and that he viewed ads as a last-resort solution for generating revenue.
Both solid-state drives and traditional hard drives are now experiencing supply problems and increasing prices, just like many other tech components.
This new release is a major moment for Microsoft and Xbox, considering Halo has been the defining exclusive game for the console for most of its existence. The team at Halo Studios sees it as a way to expand the Halo universe and bring both new players and long-time fans together.
In a recent interview with GamesRadar+, the developer described their new game as significantly more ambitious than anything they’ve done before – about ten times more, in fact. Their main aim is to recreate the dynamic, player-driven experiences found in their top-down games, like the acclaimed post-apocalyptic RPG Wasteland 3 (released in 2020), but within a first-person perspective. Wasteland 3 is the newest installment in a long-running series that heavily influenced the Fallout games.
Notepad is getting an upgrade with better Markdown support. You’ll now be able to use features like strikethrough and nested lists. You can format text using standard Markdown shortcuts, or by using the formatting toolbar at the top of the app.