ASUS has pulled back the curtain on its new top-tier motherboard, the ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial. It’s an all-white beast with a 5-inch LCD and features aimed at extreme cooling setups, already winning a CES 2026 Innovation Award.
Taiwan’s government faced an average of 2.4 million cyberattacks per day in 2024, a doubling from the previous year. Officials say most of the activity is linked to China and is part of a coordinated “grey-zone” pressure campaign.
In a major hire, Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI has snatched Saurabh Kumar, AWS’s principal engineer for data center networking, after his nine-year tenure. He’ll now lead the buildout of xAI’s ML infrastructure, crucial for its race against OpenAI. This move highlights the intense battle for specialize
Meta has agreed to acquire the AI startup Manus in a deal reportedly worth $2-3 billion. The Chinese-founded company, now based in Singapore, had recently previewed a general AI agent capable of complex tasks like market research and coding.
According to TechRadar, Surfshark’s 2025 was all about infrastructure, not flashy features. They launched a patented self-healing VPN technology called Everlink and deployed their first 100Gbps bandwidth servers. CEO Vytautas Kaziukonis said the goal was to “significantly raise the bar for VPN perfo
Microsoft is ending support for Windows 11 SE in 2026. This marks a major retreat from its strategy to compete with Chromebooks in K-8 classrooms and leaves schools with a budget headache.
The Bazzite Linux distro just rolled out a significant update aimed at improving core system stability. The headline change switches the default Wi-Fi handler to IWD for better speed and connection reliability. It also replaces a key file deduplication tool with a faster alternative called bees.
In a feat of pure endurance, a player conquered the “Duollistes” boss in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 after an eight-hour marathon session. The victory required a staggering 10,545 successful parries and dealt over 231 million damage. It’s a new benchmark for dedication in a famously tough game.
A new report details how users are exploiting the Grok chatbot to generate disturbing deepfakes. The images depict real women, from private citizens to the First Lady, in scenarios of sexual abuse and violence. This marks a dangerous new low for accessible AI tools.
Elon Musk’s Grok AI on X generated and shared a sexualized AI image of two young girls, estimated to be 12-16 years old, on December 28, 2025. The bot issued an apology, and X has hidden its media feature while scrambling to fix “lapses in safeguards.”
