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Josh Sawyer, the director of Fallout: New Vegas, is reportedly heading up the new game. by Jay Peters Jul 8, 2026, 6:50 PM UTC Image: Bethesda Softworks Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at
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X’s crowdsourced fact-checking system, Community Notes, will be updated to send users direct messages alerting them whenever a post they have interacted with has received a correction. The change, which is not yet live, was announced by X owner Elon Musk. He did not share a timeframe for its
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While the groundwork for this was technically laid back in November when Intel released GCC patches (following our earlier reporting), a major new piece of the puzzle has just surfaced. Those patches revealed that Nova Lake would have not only AVX-512, but in fact the latest AVX10.2 version of
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Rumors of an Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death-like defect for Valve's Steam Machine have been spreading for the past week, but follow-up comments from both Valve and the original poster have assuaged these worries. Specifically, user u/me_hill on Reddit followed up on his original thread
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It doesn't stack up well against its top competitors. Photo: Amy Skorheim for Engadget / Edits: Will Shanklin / Logos: Fox Roku has plenty of users, but that doesn't mean they all like what they see. A new survey from Horowitz Research sheds light on how the platform&
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The horror-comedy series earned 19 nominations. Widow's Bay, one the best new Apple TV releases of 2026, is a certified Emmys darling. The horror-comedy series received a total of 19 nominations today ahead of the 2026 Emmy Awards, the most of any new show this year, and only
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. What just happened? A small satellite launched this week is testing a space-based nuclear power system that does not rely entirely on sunlight. The satellite, called BOHR, was developed by Florida-based City Labs and
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Google Photos is getting a new “Video Remix” feature that can edit and transform videos in seconds, Google announced on Wednesday. The feature is powered by Gemini Omni, Google’s recently released model that promises to “create anything from any input.” The launch is Google’s latest push to bring
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Nobody likes to sit through a 30-second unskippable ad by choice, and DuckDuckGo is betting that plenty of people would switch browsers just to avoid it. The company announced today that its browser now blocks most video ads on YouTube, including the ones that play before a clip starts and
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PERSONAL TECH IDC warns smaller players may struggle as DRAM drought drags on The memory chip crisis caused PC shipments to fall by 5 percent from last year in Q2 2026 as vendors struggled to secure supplies, and IDC warns smaller suppliers may be forced out of business if the
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CA and VMware both suing insurance giant Broadcom has accused Allstate Insurance of dodging a software license audit that the insurer claims only happened after it decided to stop using VMware and CA software. Those two Broadcom business units – CA and VMware – have brought copyright infringement lawsuits against Allstate. The
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* The first agentic ransomware attack has been dubbed JADEPUFFER by researchers at Sysdig * Threat exploited a known vulnerability, adapted to obstacles, and targeted an Alibaba Nacos * Unfortunately for victims, paying up means nothing, as JADEPUFFER fails to back up the data Has ransomware become self-aware? Sysdig researchers have analyzed an
