Valve puts some elbow grease into Steam Remote Play—maybe one day you won’t have to install additional tools to get the best in-home game streaming experience

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I don’t think I’ve encountered anyone, in the wild, who actually uses Steam’s Remote Play game streaming feature since the days of the hardware Steam Link (and what tremendous days they were). In 2026, I think most people making use of in-home streaming tend to default to programs like Apollo and Moonlight. But Valve keeps … Read more

US judge closes the book on first big AI copyright suit, ordering Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion settlement

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One reason I’m so anti-generative AI is because many models rely on a data set containing written or visual work used without the original creator’s permission. As a writer myself, it’s a small comfort then that the copyright suit brought against Anthropic has been settled in favour of the author plaintiffs. Anthropic leveraged a library … Read more

Nvidia Rubin will ‘soak up NAND supply like a sponge absorbs water’ says one analyst, thanks to the AI server’s new way of using SSDs

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Any time there’s potentially positive news about storage and memory supply—such as increasing supply from China—I can’t help but think ‘sure, but the AI industry will guzzle through it regardless.’ Not only is demand seemingly insatiable, but sometimes new developments that encourage even more memory use come along. Case in point here with Nvidia Rubin. … Read more

Someone has already got a regular Nvidia graphics card working on Windows on Arm thanks to RTX Spark drivers, though gaming performance doesn’t yet look ideal

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For the longest time, Windows on Arm has been the purview of Snapdragon processors with Adreno CPUs (and occasionally some repurposed Mac silicon). A couple of months ago, though, Nvidia finally announced RTX Spark, an Arm processor with some real GPU grunt. And it seems that might have sparked (sorry) the onset of being able … Read more

OpenAI admits several of its AI models breached testing and hacked into a startup’s network by themselves, calling it an ‘unprecedented cyber incident’

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OpenAI has admitted that several of its AI models breached a “highly-isolated” test environment, gained access to the internet, and hacked Hugging Face’s internal network—describing it as an “unprecedented cyber incident.” Hugging Face, an open source platform for machine learning models and datasets, reported the security incident earlier this week, calling it “different from anything … Read more

Star Wars Zero Company is going all in on Clone customisation, but my favourite armour is restricted to the Deluxe Edition

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While it’s one of the biggest games this year, new details on Star Wars Zero Company have been few and far between, even after the gameplay trailer at the start of June. That changed yesterday when developer Bit Reactor hosted a Discord Q&A answering the community’s questions on everything from the game’s length to permadeath. … Read more

A modder has brought No Man’s Sky-style seamless takeoffs to Starfield, and even in beta they look pretty great

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One of Starfield’s big problems is that its core fantasy runs contrary to the tech it’s built on. Bethesda’s space RPG is meant to evoke the majesty and scale of the cosmos. It’s about exploration, curiosity, and wonder. And yet, it exists in an engine that necessitates a whole lot of loading screens, and so … Read more

Jimothy, a particularly round raccoon and the internet’s latest sensation, has now broken into games

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Yesterday I learnt about Jimothy, an adorably round raccoon (possibly with a spine condition) scuttling around Seattle that’s gone viral thanks to his unique appearance. It was only a matter of time then before all the brand accounts joined in on the raccoon’s newfound celebrity status. He’s already crossing over with a bunch of your … Read more