Firefox 115 ESR is keeping Windows 7 support alive a little longer
Mozilla recently updated its official Firefox support article for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, giving users of these ancient operating systems six more months of safe, modern browsing. The change was neither broadcast by the company nor widely reported online, and it will likely affect a very tiny minority of...
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Honda scraps three US-built EVs months ahead of launch, warns of $15.7 billion hit
At CES 2025, Honda said the 0 Saloon and 0 SUV would begin rolling out in 2026, with North America first: the SUV in the first half of the year and the Saloon later in 2026.
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Google Maps gets conversational with Gemini-powered "Ask Maps"
For years, Google Maps has been able to surface nearby coffee shops and provide turn-by-turn navigation. What it couldn't do was answer complex questions that blend location, preferences, and timing. With Gemini built in, it can now.
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DR-DOS is coming back from the dead, rebuilt from scratch in pure assembly
A one-man company named Whitehorn Ltd. Co. recently announced that DR-DOS is coming back. The "new" text-based operating system has a proper website now, and claims to be carrying forward the legacy of Gary Kildall, whose work helped shape early personal computing. Kildall founded Digital Research in 1974, creating the...
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Oracle prepares new round of layoffs while doubling down on AI infrastructure
The expanded fund, disclosed in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission following Oracle's quarterly earnings report, has heightened concerns that the company's restructuring will carry a significant human cost. Oracle has spent roughly $982 million of the budget so far, largely on severance, leaving about $1.1 billion in restructuring...
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Game devs cash in: Nearly 6,000 Steam games earned over $100,000 last year
Speaking to reporters and developers on the sidelines of GDC, Valve's Tom Giardino noted that only around 3,000 titles earned over $100,000 at the height of the pandemic in 2020, when many people were spending their time indoors playing video games and consuming online content.
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Samsung's glasses-free 3D gaming monitor is getting more games
Samsung's Odyssey 3D monitor offers enthusiasts a renewed way to enjoy 3D gaming experiences. At the GDC Festival of Gaming 2026, the Korean company announced a major expansion of the gaming content available for the Odyssey 3D ecosystem.
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Valve says its loot boxes are more like trading cards than gambling
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Valve in February, arguing that mystery boxes in Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 constitute "quintessential gambling" because players pay for a chance to obtain rare cosmetic items that can carry significant monetary value and be traded for real money.
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It's come to this: V-Color to launch 1+1 DDR5 value pack with one RAM stick and one filler module
Fake memory kits that are used to fill empty DIMM slots have been around for a long time now, though V-Color's value pack is pretty unusual.
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Valve details performance targets for Steam Machine and Steam Frame
Unsurprisingly, Steam Machine verification requirements will be more lenient than those for the Steam Deck, since the Machine is expected to provide roughly six times more performance headroom. Meanwhile, verification requirements for locally installed games on the Steam Frame will be stricter.
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