LastPass customer names, emails, and support records stolen in third-party breach, vaults unaffected
The good news for anyone still using LastPass after its previous security disasters is that this was not a compromise of the company's password manager infrastructure. LastPass says customer vaults remain secure, and its products and services were not affected.
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James Webb Telescope uncovers salt clouds on a strange pink planet 57 light-years away
Using Webb's ability to isolate faint planetary light from the glare of a nearby star, a team led by Northwestern University captured direct spectroscopic data from GJ504b for the first time. What had taken countless observation attempts from Earth was accomplished in roughly two hours. More importantly, the data was...
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Startup sues US government for blocking access to Anthropic's Fable 5 AI model
Legion filed the lawsuit in Washington, D.C., federal court, challenging a June 12 directive from the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security.
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Sony's best-selling PlayStation games this year are mostly ones it never brought to PC
According to estimates from Alinea Analytics, games that launched in 2025 or earlier that have not received PC ports have dominated first-party PlayStation game sales so far in 2026. The numbers suggest that keeping these titles exclusive to PlayStation 5 increased their sales on that console, allowing Sony to keep...
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GTA 6 standard edition confirmed to cost $80, while the Ultimate Edition hits $100
Rockstar Games confirmed the prices ahead of preorders starting at midnight tonight. The studio also revealed that the game will be a "single-player experience" at launch, so it seems there won't be any new version of GTA Online when the next installment arrives in November.
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Virtuix launches Omni One for Quest with Meta, bringing full-body movement to traditional VR controls
The key difference is in how the system handles movement. Rather than relying only on thumbsticks or teleporting, Omni One keeps users on a slick, stationary base and tracks their steps in any direction. That setup ties a player's body movements more closely to what happens on-screen.
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Meta is building a prediction market app, but it will launch without real-money bets
The app, which is said to be called Arena, is in its experimental stages, reports The New York Times.
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Meta just launched its own-branded smart glasses for $299
Orders are now open for Meta Glasses, a new lineup launched in partnership with EssilorLuxottica and sold under Meta's own name for the first time. The AI-powered wearables carry over the core features from the earlier Ray-Ban and Oakley models but start at $299, undercutting the entry-level Ray-Ban Meta by $80.
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Valve is working with Intel, AMD, and Nvidia to make SteamOS run on any PC hardware
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Forward-looking: Valve's Steam Machine signals the company's willingness to push Steam beyond software and into a proper hardware platform. But hardware is only half the story. Alongside gaming devices, Valve has been quietly laying the groundwork for something potentially more significant: a version of SteamOS that runs on just about any PC you care to throw at it.
SteamOS has spent most of its life as a closed ecosystem
Microsoft is selling new 8GB Surface laptops that don't qualify as Copilot+ PCs
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What just happened? A week after launching the new Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 8 powered by the Snapdragon X2 SoC, Microsoft has expanded the lineup with lower-cost configurations built around an older chipset and 8GB of RAM. Neither qualifies as a "Copilot+ PC" as one of the requirements for that is a minimum of 16GB of memory.
The 8GB Surface Pro starts at $