Xbox recently announced a number of changesto its Game Pass offering, lowering the price, for one, and it seems as though some open-source developers have grown tired of PC Game Pass being exclusive to Windows PCs and handhelds.

Some of the developers behind Heroic Games Launcher have started development on Xodus, a new open-source project designed to bring support for PC Game Pass games to Linux and macOS. At the time of writing, the project is still in its infancy, but it aims to use Valve'

Lenovo has officially unveiled the ThinkCentre Neo50q Gen 7, a desktop that it calls a "Tiny PC." The ThinkCentre 50q is being marketed as a versatile SFF desktop PC based on the Intel Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs, for use in anything from personal AI to business and home use, with multitasking productivity in mind. The ThinkCentre Neo 50q is not available just yet, but it is listed as "available soon" on Lenovo's online store.

The ThinkCentre Neo 50

A full Windows 11 Prolicense normally runs $199. Right now it's $11.23 with code Aug25, a one-time purchase that will add more value to your PC time.

Why You Need to Upgrade

• BitLocker for full-disk encryption
• Hyper-V and Windows Sandbox for running virtual machines and testing apps in isolation
• Azure AD support for connecting to business identity systems
• Snap layouts for multitasking
• DirectX 12 Ultimate for gaming
• Biometric sign-in backed by TPM 2.

NVIDIA is reportedly working with a group of major Wall Street firms to put together a $500 billion funding package for AI infrastructure, according to Reuters. The group includes some of the biggest Wall Street names such as Apollo Global, Blackstone, BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs, and KKR. The Financial Times reported the development first, and soon after that, NVIDIA shares fell over 3%. In June, the company tapped the debt market with a $25 billion

Going disc-less appears to be beneficial for AAA game titles, as a new report estimates that game publishers will save more than $10 per game copy sold through digital licensing instead of physical discs. According to the GameFile report, game publishers are paying Sony and Microsoft between 15% and 20% of the game's MSRP to manufacture physical game discs, which are then sold through retailers. For modern AAA games, this represents a significant cost-cutting effort as the industry pushes for digital adoption

TSMC reported its revenue for July, indicating that the company continues to increase its output capacity, customer commitments, and business execution. TSMC's July revenue stood at NT$467.58 billion, or about $14.49 billion at the time of writing. This marks a 5.6% increase from June's revenueof $13.75 billion and a significant 44.7% year-over-year growth. This suggests that TSMC nearly doubled its

Intel announced today that it will officially offer a $15 billion underwritten public offering of common stock to fund its capital-intensive foundry expansion. This move means the company is looking to dilute existing share ownership by issuing more shares to raise additional capital through its public offering. Supporting this deal is an elite group of investment banks, including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup, who are acting as joint book-running managers. Intel operates in one of the most capital-intensive industries, where maintaining

On August 4, FMS 2026 (The Future of Memory and Storage), a premier global event in the memory and storage technology industry, officially opened in Santa Clara, California. Beijing Memblaze Technology Co., Ltd. (Memblaze), a world-renowned provider of enterprise PCIe SSDs, showcased its PBlaze7 series products. Highlighting core advantages in high performance, ultra-low latency, high reliability, and high density, Memblaze is building a robust storage foundation focused on the evolution of AI infrastructure

Noctua produces a range of cooling solutions, from low-profile air coolers and massive dual-tower air coolers to AIO liquid coolers. When fitting a large tower air cooler inside a case, PC case manufacturers list the maximum cooler height their chassis can accommodate. Recent testing by Noctua has revealed that more than half of the tested cases deviate from their original specifications. The room for error varies from being 3.5 mm less than the specified CPU cooler height to providing up to an extra 10 mm of cooler height