From The Verge: Want to get into PC gaming and feel like you don’t have enough pricey subscriptions in your life? Desktop PC builder and retailer NZXT can ship you a whole gaming rig for as little as $59 per month — as long as you provide your own mouse, keyboard, and monitor.

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From Tom's Hardware: On Thursday, Intel announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2024, and they weren't favorable to the chip giant: The company's revenue dropped by 1% year-over-year while its losses totaled $1.6 billion. Perhaps worse is that Intel expects the second half of the...

From PC Mag: Meta's Threads may have faced some early stumbles in sustaining user activity, but the app has now reached 200 million monthly active users.

Threads crossed the 200 million threshold on Thursday, according to a post from Instagram Head Adam Mosseri. “My hope is that Threads can...

From TechCrunch: Following the recent lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) against music generation startups Udio and Suno, Suno admitted in a court filing on Thursday that it did, in fact, train its AI model using copyrighted songs. But it claimed that doing so was...

From PC Mag: Multiple cybersecurity firms reported this week that Google Search ads for what appears to be a Google authenticator actually lead to a download for "DeerStealer" malware. This authenticator was not made by Google, but by an unknown threat actor trying to swipe victims' personal...

From Thermaltake Press Release: Thermaltake is delighted to announce that the Ceres 350 MX Mid Tower Chassis is available now, offered in 7 colors: Black, Snow, Matcha Green, Hydrangea Blue, Racing Green, Bumblebee, and Bubble Pink. The Ceres 350 MX is an ATX case built with a focus on visual appeal...

From PC World: Intel said Thursday that the company will lay off about 15 percent of its workforce, layoffs that were forced upon it by unused manufacturing capacity and charges associated with the launch of its AI PCs.

Intel positioned it as part of the “next phase of its multiyear transformation...

From TechCrunch: Meta, which develops one of the biggest foundational open-source large language models, Llama, believes it will need significantly more computing power to train models in the future.

Mark Zuckerberg said on Meta’s second-quarter earnings call on Tuesday that to train Llama 4 the...

From PC Mag: It looks like SpaceX is preparing to roll out a Starlink "family plan" that offers discounted access to satellite internet service.

Starlink.com quietly added a support page entry about the family plan, which the company plans on rolling out on an invite-only basis to select US...

From TechCrunch: Microsoft has a long and tangled history with OpenAI, having invested a reported $13 billion in the ChatGPT maker as part of a long term partnership. As part of the deal, Microsoft runs OpenAI’s models across its enterprise and consumer products, and is OpenAI’s exclusive cloud...