Valve’s Steam Machine is a 6-inch cube running Windows games through SteamOS, powered by two AMD chips to compete with Xbox Series X and PS5. This puts Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox plans under pressure as Valve perfects the living room PC experience Microsoft has chased for decades.
Apple continues its 26.2 beta testing cycle with second developer builds for its smaller platforms. The updates follow last week’s major iOS, iPadOS, and macOS beta releases that introduced significant Podcasts and Reminders upgrades.
Microsoft is making Windows 11 much more flexible for password management. The operating system now supports third-party passkey managers at the system level, starting with 1Password and Bitwarden. This means you’re no longer locked into Microsoft’s built-in password manager.
The Mac mini with M4 chip has dropped to $499, a 17% discount from its usual $599 price. This compact desktop packs serious performance for creative work and everyday computing at an unbeatable Apple price point.
USB hubs aren’t the perfect port replicators many assume them to be. Bandwidth sharing, latency issues, and limited power can seriously impact performance. Even Thunderbolt docks have their limitations when multiple high-demand devices are connected.
Android 16 development appears to be happening on Snapdragon X Elite processors designed for Copilot+ PCs. This could position Google to compete directly with Microsoft’s Windows on Arm laptops using full Android rather than ChromeOS.
Fastfetch 2.55 brings dynamic output refreshing that updates system information automatically. The update also adds parallel command execution by default and native GPU detection on OpenBSD and NetBSD systems.
Microsoft just released an emergency update to fix a critical bug that prevented Windows 10 users from enrolling in the paid Extended Security Updates program. The out-of-band update KB5071959 resolves enrollment failures that occurred right as Windows 10 hit its official end-of-support date.
According to The How-To Geek, percentage performance improvements are one of the most misleading metrics in PC hardware. The same 20% increase means completely different things depending on your starting point, and marketers carefully select test scenarios to make their numbers look best.
Microsoft is pouring $10 billion into building an AI data center hub in Sines, Portugal. The project partners with Start Campus and Nscale and will feature 12,600 next-generation NVIDIA GPUs. This marks one of Microsoft’s largest European investments as it races to meet AI capacity demands.
