From Tom's Hardware: The PlayStation 5 is getting AI-driven upscaling, giving base console owners access to the technology that was previously available on the more powerful PlayStation 5 Pro. In a blog post, Sony introduced Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), a new version of its AI upscaling...

From TechCrunch: Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will operate as Skydance once their merger closes, Paramount CEO David Ellison announced Friday. Skydance is the name of Ellison’s original film production company.

The roughly $110 billion deal is expected to close October 6. It will combine...

From CNET: People who post on Reddit often love to complain, especially if it’s about Reddit itself. Now they have a legit reason to do so.

The massive network of online discussion forums and social news aggregator has announced a timetable and details regarding its new antibot and data-scraping...

From ComputerWorld: The US Federal Trade Commission has warned leading AI players that they will to have tighten up their acts. The agency will soon send formal demands for information to Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies as part of an investigation into whether they are breaking consumer...

From Tom's Hardware: Nvidia is tailoring its popular DGX Spark platform and the GB10 SoC to better fit the realities of today's AI models and the broader silicon supply crunch. The company is introducing a 64GB version of the Spark that's meant to be more affordable to local AI trailblazers who just...

From Tom's Hardware: A California man has been arrested for smuggling over $300 million worth of restricted Nvidia chips to China in violation of U.S. export controls. According to a U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) press release on October 1, the defendant — Greg Lui, also known as Yiu Kong Lui —...

From PC Mag: Firefox ended 2025 hovering at a grueling 3.5% global market share, according to Cloudflare data. Yet inside Mozilla, head of Firefox Ajit Varma isn't interested in growth hacks or gimmicks—he's betting on a surprisingly radical, old-school philosophy: "Build better features, build a...

From TechCrunch: Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder, has jumped back into the music industry, and he tells The Information that he’s playing by the rules this time. (Asking for forgiveness rather than permission didn’t work out so well last time around, he readily concedes.)

Two years ago, he...

From CNET: When Apple’s budget MacBook was released in March, it was a solid bargain — the design incorporated the iPhone’s A18 Pro chip to tamp down the price and it shipped at $599. Factoring in the education discount, it was a nearly unbeatable deal for students.

In the months since then, the...

From PC Mag: Ever since the iPhone 18 Pro Max launched last month, AT&T customers have complained about being unable to make calls, send texts, or use cellular data. According to MacRumors, the carrier acknowledged the issue in a text message to customers this week and recommended an immediate...