Spotted at Newegg - a combination deal featuring a host of components that make up the majority of a new PC build. Having a look at the individual prices for these components highlights that this is a pretty decent deal with actual savings of a few hundred dollars. What's really good about this deal is that it's also featuring some of the best components you can buy for a super-powerful gaming rig that will crunch the zeros and ones to produce the highest framerates possible in
Silksong crashes Steam, Nintendo eShop on release day — highly anticipated indie video game took six years to arrive and is already one of the most played games ever on Steam

The biggest video game of the year, if not the decade, has arrived on the scene in a major way. Hollow Knight: Silksong, widely considered to be the most anticipated indie video game release of all time, crashed digital storefronts like Steam and the Nintendo eShop on release yesterday, immediately hitting the Steam Charts with the third most concurrent players in the world as a paid, single-player platformer.
Silksong, the sequel to 2017's Hollow Knight, is
TeamGroup MP44Q 2TB SSD Review: Another Budget Winner
Tom's Hardware Verdict
The TeamGroup MP44Q is a budget drive with good performance and power efficiency but with the typical QLC flash drawbacks.
Pros
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Reasonable all-around performance
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Good power efficiency
Cons
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Poor sustained performance

DIYer creates the PC gaming handheld of your widest dreams – 32:9 AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme device showcased in driving games

A Chinese electronics wizard had shown off what appears to be the widest screen PC gaming handheld we’ve ever seen. PureDIY on Bilibili showed a 32:9 screen handheld, which is purportedly AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme powered, playing a couple of contemporary driving games. In the videos, it looks pretty sleek and capable for a DIY effort, and the TechTuber is bold enough to claim it is “a leader in racing games.”
Portable 3D-printed device can produce enough drinking water from thin air for a family of four every day - Water from Air project can capture 1.6 gallons of drinking water per day

Two university graduates have designed a 3D printed vessel that can produce around six liters (~1.6 gallons) of drinking water a day, from nothing more than thin air. The aptly named ‘ Water from Air ’ project condenses water from air using 3D printing, advanced materials, and a phenomenon known as atmospheric water generation (AWG). Moreover, they aimed to achieve their goal with a portable and affordable device.
Lenovo shows off ThinkBook VertiFlex laptop and Smart Motion dock concepts at IFA – rotating displays and AI-powered docks that follow your every move

Lenovo is not a company that likes to play it safe when it comes to its products. It consistently pushes the boundaries of what form factors are possible with its products, as seen in the eye-catching ThinkPad Plus G6, which features a rollable screen.
As Lucas Rossi, Executive Vice President of Lenovo and President of the Intelligent Devices Group, told us in a roundtable discussion at IFA, "I think we have the credit for the company that takes more risks
Lenovo's IFA launches include 4K 240 Hz OLED gaming monitors — Legion Pro 7 laptops features Ryzen 9 9955HX3D with an RTX 5080

Lenovo’s Legion Go 2 packs Ryzen Z2 Extreme and an OLED display — thick gaming handheld starts at $1,049

Lenovo has announced a true successor to the Legion Go . The Legion Go 2 still has an 8.8-inch display and detachable controllers, but adds the new AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor , up to 32GB of RAM, hall effect joysticks, and more.
The design is very similar to the prototype shown at CES earlier this year, but now we know much more.
US offers $10M reward for snitching on trio of Russians that hacked critical infrastructure

A trio of Russian hackers is probably about to find out who their friends really are. The U.S. Department of State announced a $10 million bounty for information about the hackers, who "conducted malicious cyber activities against U.S. critical infrastructure on behalf of the Russian government," via its Rewards for Justice program.
The alleged hackers are Marat Valeryevich Tyukov, Mikhail Mikhailovich Gavrilov, and Pavel Aleksandrovich Akulovof. The State Department said in the X post announcing the bounty
Windows 11 August 2025 security update is causing unintended UAC prompts to appear for non-admin users — some apps are crashing

Microsoft 's latest August 2025 security update is wreaking havoc on non-admin users across several versions of Windows 10 and 11, preventing app installations from occurring in certain cases. Microsoft states that the August security update, meant to protect users from a privilege escalation vulnerability, is now causing unexpected UAC prompts to occur for non-admin users.
The security vulnerability that started this whole mess is CVE-2025-50173. This
