From Tom's Hardware: Nintendo of America just won a lawsuit against James Williams, who allegedly moderated the r/SwitchPirates subreddit and sold pirated Switch games online. According to Aftermath, the company sued Williams in June 2024 for copyright violations. However, they failed to respond...

From PC Mag: Personal AI agents are more popular than ever, handling life's most monotonous tasks. With select Pixel phones, Gemini AI can now make phone calls to businesses on your behalf.

Call for Me, in beta on select phones, sits alongside features like Direct My Call and Hold for Me, and is...

From TechCrunch: Anthropic’s founders want to stay in charge after the company goes public. According to The Information, the company is asking shareholders to approve a structure “in the coming days” that would give CEO Dario Amodei and his six co-founders special shares carrying a combined 50.1%...

From PC Mag: California-based tech firm WiCi has a new wireless external GPU (eGPU) and enclosure that lets any Wi-Fi-connected laptop play games using an integrated Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16GB. Questions remain about range, latency, and performance ceilings, but WiCi's promo video at least showcases...

From PC World: Opera hasn’t made much of a splash lately, with its most recent innovation being a new Paste Protect feature from July 2026 that blocks clipboard hijacking attacks. Indeed, it seems Opera is playing catch-up.

The browser’s latest move is an improvement to its free, built-in VPN...

From CNET: Popular pharmacy chain CVS has been hit with a lawsuit that alleges the company sold data from customers who shopped on its websites (cvs.com and cvshealth.com) or the mobile app.

The lawsuit alleges that CVS disclosed private health information, browsing data and more from users to...

From PC Mag: How much do you rely on Disney+ and Hulu? Enough for a fourth US price hike in four years?

Among the hardest hit is the ad-free option, with a standalone Disney+ or Hulu subscription jumping by $2.50 to $21.49 per month, Variety reports. It now makes even less sense for subscribers not...

From PC World: Back in August 2025, Microsoft launched a new kind of software initiative called “Microsoft 365 Companions,” which were like mini-apps that lived within the taskbar and served a middle-of-the-road solution between simple notifications and complex Widgets.

When they first launched...

From CNET: After Discord users pushed back on ID requirements for age verification, the social platform announced in a blog post on Tuesday that it would implement age verification for teens — but not in the way people expected.

“Discord is introducing a new approach to age assurance, strengthening...

From Thermaltake Press Release: Thermaltake expands its cooling lineup with the SWAFAN 240 UNIFY ARGB Sync and SWAFAN 360 UNIFY ARGB Sync PC Cooling Fans, available in black and snow editions. Featuring a single-frame design and swappable fan blades, the SWAFAN UNIFY simplifies installation and...