Are your PC games crashing after the latest Windows 11 update? Microsoft is investigating whether a nasty new bug is the cause — but there are workarounds

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Windows 11’s August update has broken some PC games Microsoft is investigating reports of crashes, but right now it’s unclear what the root cause is Theories point to security measures in the update potentially causing issues with certain drivers and conflicts with anti-cheat tools Windows 11 has run into trouble with gamers (again) after the … Read more

DDR5 prices are painful right now, but you can save on 32GB of V-Color Manta XFinity RGB RAM with Newegg’s special coupon

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Buying DDR5 memory in 2026 is considerably more painful than it was last year. Prices have risen dramatically, which means the sort of RAM deals we were seeing in 2025 simply aren’t realistic at the moment. Still, I’ve been on the hunt for the best discounts and I spied V-Color’s 32GB of Manta XFinity RGB … Read more

Tired of expensive printer ink? Canon’s MegaTank G3270 is our top budget ink tank printer, loaded with enough to print thousands of pages and a big discount at Amazon

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The Canon MegaTank G3270 is our number one budget ink tank printer, and an ideal back-to-school choice or office upgrade if you want to save money versus traditional inkjet cartridge replacements. Impressing us for its “satisfyingly crisp” text documents and vibrant photos, I was pleased to spot Canon’s MegaTank G3270 on sale for $160 (was … Read more

Sorry, OpenAI — people are using your God-level AI to choose wine, wash clothes, and solve other weirdly specific problems, not change the world

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It seems that barely a week goes by without a billionaire tech CEO putting firing off a missive about how artificial intelligence is going to change the world. Meta’s Zuckerberg was the most recent to bless us with his thoughts. But technology rarely behaves in the ways its creators expected or intended. The World Wide … Read more

Over 9 million facial recognition images leaked in major breach at reverse image search and identity verification service

Researcher inds ClarityCheck’s exposed 450GB database with 9M+ user images Leak included faces, profiles, and photos, risking identity theft and phishing abuse Company secured access quickly; no evidence of dark web distribution or misuse so far An online reverse-lookup platform has inadvertently leaked millions of faces on the internet, putting people at risk of identity … Read more

How AI is transforming the role of test engineers

Software is being released at a pace traditional testing approaches struggle to match, while AI is moving from assisting with test design to generating, adapting, and maintaining tests across the delivery pipeline. The question facing software testers is no longer only how to scale testing, but how to guarantee the evidence automation produces. Fundamentally, does … Read more