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- August 7
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- GPT-5 is here — giving you "an entire team of PhD-level experts," and it's available today for everyone
- ROG Xbox Ally Handhelds Reportedly Launching in October — and Prices Have Leaked, Too
- Xbox Starts Informing Its UK Customers About Mandatory Age Checks — Social Features to Lock In 2026 Without ID
- "I’d Rather Bing" — Trump’s Perplexity-Powered AI Search Engine Roasted by Reddit
- “We’ll Never Need to Work Again”: DeepMind CEO Predicts AGI Within 5–10 Years, Driving Radical Abundance 10x Faster Than the Industrial Revolution
- Exciting Changes Coming to Wobbly Life: 1.0 Update Introduces Space Exploration (and It’s Pretty Great)
- Microsoft Just Made Windows 10's $30 Extended Support Program an Even Better Deal — But You Need a Microsoft Account to Pay For It
- “What Have We Done?” OpenAI GPT-5 Could Launch in a Few Hours — But Have OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s Safety Concerns Been Addressed?
- Grounded 2 Patch 0.1.2: Major Gameplay Fixes and Improvements Now Live
- Stardock Unveils Ashes of the Singularity 2: AI vs Humans in Epic Strategy Battles
- August 6
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- MSI Showed Me Its New Mini-PCs, and It’s No Game — A Copilot+ PC Variant of This Cubi NUC Could Replace Your Desktop at Work
- Battlefield 6 beta menu screen draws in 40,000 concurrent, days before beta begins — This really could be make or break for the franchise
- Like Battlefield 6, Call of Duty Has Announced the Roll Out of New Anti-cheat Protections Utilizing TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot in Preparation for Black Ops 7
- "It was all PlayStation" — Helldivers 2 CEO comments on how the popular co-op shooter arrived on Xbox
- “Some Suspect They Might Already Exist” — NVIDIA’s Chief Security Officer Doubles Down on the Lack of Kill Switches, Backdoors, and Spyware in Its GPUs
- Xbox Design Lab Makes a Comeback After Six-Month Hiatus — Here's What's New
- Microsoft's Will Open Source Windows 11's Native UI Framework — Here's What to Expect
- Xbox Gear Store Offline: What's Behind the Restructuring and Future Plans?
- Microsoft Engineer Unveils Mystery Behind Windows' Blank Shutdown Blocker
- Xbox Silent on Forza Motorsport's Fate: Fans Seek Answers Amid Uncertainty
- Halo Infinite's Fall Update: New Features and Modes to Revive the Game?
- Bill Gates on AI's Impact: 'Be Curious, Read, and Use the Latest Tools'
- August 5
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- Copper just got another use in Minecraft’s latest snapshot — and it’s not what you might expect
- Have your Microsoft Rewards points streaks been killed off on Xbox? You're not alone — but don't worry.
- “Unstoppable?” ChatGPT Surges to 700 million Weekly Users as Rivals Race to Compete
- Xbox Game Pass Gets an Assassin's Creed Game and More in August — While this Awesome Co-op Title Returns to the Service
- OpenAI Unveils Two New AI Models: gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b — and run locally on Snapdragon PCs and NVIDIA RTX GPUs
- AWS Data Crisis: Engineer Restores 10 Years of Work Thanks to a Compassionate Insider
- Microsoft Launches Windows XP-Themed Crocs with Nostalgic Jibbitz
- ChatGPT Introduces Break Prompts Amid Concerns Over AI Dependency and Health Impact
- Ollama Launches User-Friendly GUI App for Effortless Local AI on Windows 11 — Here's What You Need to Know
- Microsoft Envisions a New Era — AI Integration in Windows 2030?
- Street Fighter 6 Outfit 4 pack arrives this week, bringing swimsuits for the cast — and we've got a new look at the next character joining the roster
- Microsoft CVP thinks we'll be ditching mice and keyboards in a future version of Windows in favor of AI chats — "The world of mousing around and typing will feel as alien as it does to Gen-Z to use MS-DOS."
- August 4
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- What Diablo 2: Resurrected's Chinese Release Means for Players Worldwide
- Raven Software QA workers ratify union contract with Microsoft — securing better pay and the "elimination of crunch time"
- New Xbox Releases: Mafia: The Old Country and More from August 4 to 10
- Battlefield 6 fans decry its lack of a server browser, but its producer says "I think what we have caters to the majority" — here's why players aren't satisfied
- Discover Microsoft’s Exclusive 50th Anniversary Wallpaper: How to Download It
- Battlefield 6 Open Beta: Preload Now for Early Access on Xbox, Steam, and PS5
- Zuckerberg's latest AI pitch isn't about replacing you — it's making superhumans with "personal superintelligence" instead
- Battlefield 6 has a mountain of hype — and this data shows it might have a chance at seriously denting Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 this year
- ChatGPT chats won’t show up on Google anymore — here’s how to remove your shared links
- Windows Central Podcast: 10 years of Windows 10, and Copilot Mode!
- Battlefield 6 Reveals New Input-Based Crossplay and Matchmaking System
- Windows 11 bug that "unexpectedly" trolled Apple squashed by Microsoft — Vista startup sound removed
- Microsoft Account Lockout: LibreOffice Developer's Week-Long Nightmare Raises Concerns
- August 2
- August 1
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- The Battlefield 6 PC system requirements are here in time for Open Beta, and they're kind, too — here are the specs you'll need to run the explosive FPS
- "To the day we die, we will be fighting it" — Battlefield 6 vows to fight hackers tooth and nail, with kernel-level anti-cheat in the game for Open Beta
- Community reacts to Battlefield 6 multiplayer reveal — Excitement, concerns, and hopes spark debate among fans
- This hidden Windows 11 feature is back in testing after over a year-long hiatus — but you can get it right now
- Poll: Should people have to verify their age to play video games, use social media, and watch adult content?
- “Let’s keep it real, keep it grounded” — Battlefield 6 devs promise "gritty realism" in contrast to goofy Call of Duty skins, and I'm thanking my lucky stars
- Mock Bing all you want — it keeps gaining users and making billions
- Grounded 2 hits major milestone already — player records on Steam set just days after early access release
- WWE 2K25 is free to play on Xbox and PC over SummerSlam weekend — here are the game modes you should try first
- EA finally listens: Battlefield 6 scraps a decade-old requirement on Steam — a major win for new players and veteran fans
- Windows 11 SE is dead — Microsoft pulls plug on special school edition of Windows for low-cost PCs
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