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Motorola to preinstall GrapheneOS on 2027 phones

At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Motorola (a Lenovo company) announced a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation to deliver GrapheneOS on future Motorola smartphones starting in 2027. The company presented the move as an "added new era of smartphone security," with security and privacy as the big selling

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Nvidia's GB10 cores match Intel and AMD — gaming hinges on x86 emulation

Analysts at Chips and Cheese examined Nvidia’s GB10 “Superchip” and found its Arm-designed Cortex X925 cores—licensed by Nvidia and seen in a Dell Pro Max running GB10—deliver desktop-class performance on par with AMD’s Zen 5 and Intel’s Lion Cove in their fastest desktop implementations. The

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BunsenLabs Carbon: lightweight, customizable Debian desktop

BunsenLabs Carbon is a minimal, elegant Debian-based distribution and the successor to CrunchBang Linux. Built around the OpenBox desktop, it blends elements of Bodhi Linux and Ubuntu: a vertical panel with a desktop menu, a green theme, a Bodhi-style right-click menu and Conky on the desktop. Customization is central to

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This Android trick helps you tell scam messages from real ones

Spam and scam texts have become a daily nuisance, and some messages are crafted well enough to leave you unsure whether they’re legitimate. A helpful rule is to treat messages from unknown numbers as suspicious, but when in doubt Android offers a built-in way to help decide. Circle to

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March Pixel Drop brings eight upgrades for Android phones

The March Pixel Drop adds features to Pixel phones and watches, but many of the largest updates are rolling out to all Android devices. Highlights include simpler location sharing, tools to help find lost luggage at airports, and upgrades to Pixel’s At A Glance home screen. All Android users

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March Pixel Drop brings eight new features to Pixel and Android devices

The March Pixel Drop arrived with a mix of updates for Pixel phones and watches, while several of the largest changes apply to all Android devices. Location tools see the biggest lift: you can share real-time location in Google Messages during a conversation, and users with trackers can send a

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Will Sony continue selling PS5 games on PC?

Several well-connected journalists say Sony is rolling back its strategy of putting big, single-player PlayStation games on Windows PC. Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier said, “The sense I'm getting is that they're backing away from putting their exclusive console stuff, like traditional single-player stuff, on PC. [...] I

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How our product recommendations are researched and vetted

Our recommendations come from many hours of hands-on testing, research and comparison shopping. We collect information from vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant independent review sites, and we study customer feedback to learn what matters to people who actually use the products. When you click through from

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Cloud Imperium discloses January data breach, players criticise disclosure

Cloud Imperium has reported a data breach following a 'systematic and sophisticated attack', saying it resulted in unauthorised access to some backup systems and limited access to users' personal data. The studio posted the notice on the Roberts Space Industries website, stating that on 21 January 2026

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Highguard is shutting down less than two months after launch

Highguard is shutting down, developer Wildlight Entertainment announced, with servers going offline on March 12. The free-to-play “raid shooter” failed to build a sustainable player base over its short life, Wildlight said in a statement on X, and the team asked players to jump in one more time before servers

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Motorola to ship GrapheneOS on flagship phones starting in 2027

At Mobile World Congress, Motorola announced a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation to offer GrapheneOS on future Motorola smartphones beginning in 2027. The company said the move is intended as an added option focused on privacy and security, not a replacement for Android. GrapheneOS is a non‑profit project founded

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Bungie confirms Marathon will wipe loot and progress every season

Marathon's weekend Server Slam has only just finished, but with the game launching in a mere three days on March 5, Bungie has laid out its post-launch plans, including Season 1 and the studio's approach to seasonal wipes. Season 1 runs from March to June and

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Indie World Showcase for Switch 2 Set for March 3

Nintendo will air an Indie World Showcase on March 3 at 6am PT. The presentation is expected to run roughly 15 minutes and will cover indie games coming to Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch. One title to watch is Mina the Hollower from Shovel Knight developer Yacht Club. The

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Best of MWC 2026: We found the biggest news from Lenovo, Xiaomi, Honor, more

Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026 has kicked off, coming after the latest flagship reveals from Samsung and Google and shifting the conversation toward the breakthrough trends and hardware that will define the rest of the year. Industry giants like Xiaomi and Honor dominated the exhibition floor over the weekend, while

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The Sims 4 unveils Marketplace and Maker Program for paid custom content

Sims 4 players will soon be able to discover, purchase, and play new content through an in-game Sims 4 Marketplace. An accompanying Maker Program will let approved creators publish their work directly to the Marketplace and earn money for their creations. The Marketplace is fully integrated into The Sims 4

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Florida woman jailed 22 months for trafficking stolen Microsoft COA labels

Heidi Richards, 52, of Brandon, Florida, was sentenced to 22 months in US federal prison and fined $50,000 after being convicted of conspiring to traffic in illicit Microsoft Certificate of Authenticity (COA) labels. Richards and her employees harvested product key codes from tens of thousands of COA stickers, typed

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MacBook Pro adds M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, prices rise

Apple has unveiled new MacBook Pro models powered by M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. The lineup starts $200 higher than the previous generation and adds higher baseline memory and storage, faster SSD read and write speeds up to 14.5GB/s, improved battery life and connectivity upgrades including Wi‑

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Starfield reportedly launching on PS5 on April 7

Dealabs journalist Billbil-kun confirmed long-running rumours that Starfield will arrive on PlayStation 5 next month. The outlet gives an April 7 launch date for the space RPG. The report says a physical edition will be available at launch in Europe and expects pre-orders to open around March 18, 2026. An

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Tripwire Interactive lays off 23 employees amid industry pressures

Tripwire Interactive, developer of the Killing Floor and Rising Storm games, has laid off 23 employees, moves the studio said were driven by the "business realities" of an evolving videogame industry. In a LinkedIn post the company wrote, "We regrettably confirm that our studio has recently undergone

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Epic Games warns Fortnite players about V-bucks bot scam

Fortnite players have reported losing large amounts of V-bucks after Epic allowed creative island creators to offer in-game transactions. Much of the controversy centers on one map, Steal the Brainrot, which drew criticism in January over a prize wheel and loot boxes; Epic updated creator rules but new complaints have

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Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen players are accidentally losing hours

The Switch ports of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen add a soft reset: pressing all four face buttons on a Joy-Con at once sends the game back to the main menu. That shortcut is a useful time-saver for Shiny hunters, cutting several seconds out of the reset process and helping with

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Find what's slowing your Linux boot in seconds with systemd-analyze

If your Linux distribution uses the systemd init system, it already includes a tool called systemd-analyze that helps identify what is slowing boot times. Running systemd-analyze shows kernel and userspace times, for example: "Startup finished in 6.669s (kernel) + 30.368s (userspace) = 37.037s" and "graphical.target

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X begins testing standalone X Chat app on iOS

Social network X has released an initial beta of a standalone X Chat app for iOS, opening access to 1,000 users through Apple’s TestFlight. The beta reached full capacity two hours after the announcement. xAI product designer Michael Boswell said the company will expand the beta “soon” and

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Nintendo Indie World: Biggest indie announcements and dates

Following a busy start to the year for Nintendo — from the Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0 update to a Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream Direct and Pokémon 30th celebrations — a new Nintendo Indie World showcase revealed a slew of games and ports headed to Switch consoles. Several titles arrive

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Apple announces M5 MacBook Air with 512GB base storage

Apple continued its "big week" of product launches on Tuesday with a new M5 MacBook Air lineup. The 13- and 15-inch models will be available on March 11, with preorders opening March 4, and start at $1,099 and $1,299 respectively. Both sizes now come with 512GB