First look: Microsoft is sticking with smaller, incremental Windows 11 updates, and its next release will follow the same pattern. There's no major feature rollout tied to Windows 11 26H2. Like version 25H2, it will arrive as an enablement package that toggles changes already present in the OS. On PCs already running Windows 11 24H2 or 25H2

Ripple effect: The RAMpocalypse has claimed another victim. Nothing has confirmed that its next budget phone, a follow-up to the CMF Phone 2 Pro, will not launch this year. The company confirmed the cancellation is because of skyrocketing memory prices that are disrupting the tech industry in a way not seen since Covid.

Nothing co-founder Akis Evangelidis, the executive behind the CMF line, said the firm had been working

TL;DR: More than a decade after its original release, Dark Souls II is set to receive a significant fan-made multiplayer update. A modder is currently working on a new "seamless" co-op mode that would theoretically allow the game to be played from start to finish in a single, soul-crushing session.

A well-known FromSoftware modder named "Yui" is working on a new seamless

WTF?! With the AI boom driving GPU prices to record highs, scammers are capitalizing by flooding the market with counterfeit graphics cards. A new report from China suggests that fraudsters are now gluing fake plastic GPU shells onto PCBs and selling them as genuine RTX 4090 graphics cards to unsuspecting buyers.

In a video posted on the Chinese social media platform Bilibili, well-known PC hardware dealer Brother Zhang claimed that

Crystal ball: The company accused of making Pokémon copycats "with guns" says it is not interested in using generative AI in its games. It argues that gamers are largely opposed to this kind of content, while noting that generative AI is likely to remain a controversial topic in the industry for a range of reasons.

The debate around AI-generated assets in games is heating up, and Pocketpair has already taken

TL;DR: ASML's most advanced chipmaking tools have become the focus of a renewed dispute in Washington over how far the US should go to keep cutting-edge semiconductor technology out of China. In recent months, the Trump administration has pressed ASML over whether one of its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines may have slipped past export controls and ended up in China. According to people familiar with the talks,

Facepalm: Microsoft has acknowledged a strange Recycle Bin bug affecting Windows 11 following this month's Patch Tuesday update. Users have reported several other issues since the June 2026 update rolled out earlier this week, but this is the only bug Microsoft has officially confirmed.

According to Microsoft, users who have installed the KB5095051 update might encounter a strange Recycle Bin bug that replaces

Rumor mill: According to a source familiar with the matter and proposed legislative language reviewed by Reuters, Meta has lobbied Congress to include a provision in the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) that would limit companies' exposure to child safety and privacy lawsuits. The proposal would grant platforms immunity from state-level child-harm claims involving users under 18, a change that could undercut thousands of lawsuits already filed.

The

Facepalm: MSI is expected to launch its latest gaming handheld very soon, but people will have to pay a high price if they want one. The Taiwanese corporation tried its best to improve the cost situation, but the supply chain issue in the memory market is not going to disappear anytime soon – and things could become even worse in the not-so-distant future.

MSI should start shipping the Claw 8 EX AI