The same Reddit modder who turned a PS4 Slim into a working handheld earlier this year is back with round two. Posting under the handle wewillmakeitnow, they built a second version of their DIY console, and this one is noticeably more compact than the original.

The new build, called the PS4P v2, still runs on a cut-down PS4 Slim motherboard, but the modder says this version draws less power, which helps with battery life. It keeps the same 7-inch 1080p OLED screen and pairs it with six 21700 cells rated at 5000mAh each, good for 1.5 to 3 hours depending on the game. It can also run off external power, and it supports HDMI output plus a real PS4 controller if you'd rather hook it up to a TV.

One of the more interesting changes is the cooling setup. The modder mounted a fan pulled from an old GTX 750 graphics card to the back of the unit, with a removable guard over it. Take the guard off for better airflow, or leave it on to shield the fan from dust and knocks. For me, the fan on the back also adds to the industrialist aesthetics of the build, but that can be subjective.

Sony has filed a patent for a modular gamepad that replaces the DualSense's touchpad with a small touchscreen. The patent describes a controller built around a four-by-seven magnetic grid that allows individual input modules, including thumbsticks, directional controls, and the touchscreen itself, to be repositioned anywhere on the controller.

The touchscreen module would handle notifications, quick menu access, settings navigation, and messages, controlled through a rotating dial built into the module. The patent also mentions phone pairing, with incoming calls potentially appearing on the controller display, though it remains unclear how these features would work in practice.

The modular design could also set Sony's next-generation controller apart from others on the market. Rather than a fixed layout, players could theoretically rearrange inputs to suit their grip, the game they're playing, or their accessibility needs. Sony has already explored similar ideas with the PS5 Access controller, and this patent appears to bring that philosophy to a more mainstream gamepad.

Marathon game director Joe Ziegler has left Bungie as the studio adapts to industry-wide disruption, including layoffs and major cost reductions.

Following mass layoffs, Bungie loses another senior-level developer. This time Marathon's game director Joe Ziegler has departed the group, leaving the highly-artistic live service shooter in the hands of Del Chafe III and Marathon creative director Julia Nardin.

"I'll be heading to something new, somewhere else, and will update you on where and what soon. I just want to say a deeply heartfelt thank you to all of you for supporting me and Marathon in our windy mission to bring a dark and terrifying space survival frontier to your screen," Ziegler wrote on Twitter, shortly after announcing his departure.

Todd Howard may not stop making Elder Scrolls or Fallout games any time soon.

Xbox is resetting its business, laying off 3,200 workers this fiscal year alone--half of which are being let go now. To distract from the massive industry culling from one of gaming's Big 3 platform-holders, Bethesda revealed its project roadmap, confirming four new Fallout games are in development. We've seen senior staff take voluntary retirement packages as part of Xbox's layoffs, but it sounds like Bethesda's Todd Howard is here to stay and has no plans to actually retire.

As part of the press junket for the new Fallout announcements, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier interviewed Todd Howard about the topic of retirement. Howard essentially says that he used to think about what that would look like, but no longer does, presumably because he's so absorbed in the world of gaming (and also possibly because Xbox really needs him right now).

NVIDIA's professional Quadro graphics cards are not what you would typically think of as gaming graphics cards. But a YouTuber has discovered that NVIDIA's Maxwell-based Quadro M4000 from 15 years ago makes for one of the most potent used bare-minimum entry-level gaming GPU buys in 2026. YouTuber Budget-Builds Official benchmarked the card, with an overclock, and found the GPU regularly outperforms the GTX 970 and RX 580 4GB thanks to its 8GB memory capacity, allowing the card to approach GTX 1060 performance. Best of all, he picked up the card for just $30 on the used market.

The YouTuber benchmarked the M4000 (with a hefty manual overclock) in a variety of games, including GTA V, Counter-Strike 2, Arc Raiders, Oblivion Remastered, Samson, Cyberpunk 2077, Fortnite, PUBG, Baldur's Gate 3, Red Dead Redemption 2, S&Box, BeamNG, Fallout 4: Anniversary, M&B Bannerlord, and Crysis Remastered.

The 15-year-old card couldn't play all of these games at a perfect 60 FPS, but all the aforementioned games were at the very least capable of achieving 30 FPS, including the aforementioned titles running on Unreal Engine 5. Oblivion, a title that demands 8GB of VRAM at a minimum, was able to run at 30 FPS using a 900p resolution.

A UK buyer had their Steam Machine stolen after a Royal Mail courier left the £1,000 package unattended outside their home. Valve agreed to send a replacement, and the incident has sparked calls for the company to require signatures when delivering such expensive items.

The story comes from Reddit user mdumtshali, who was at work when the delivery arrived. Doorbell camera footage shows the Royal Mail courier first attempting to place the package in a designated safe location, but it did not fit. The courier left it on the ground instead and took a photo of the delivery. By the time the buyer returned home, the £1,000 Steam Machine had been stolen. The doorbell camera did not capture the theft because it was set to record only after detecting someone lingering for a set period.

Steam Support initially asked the buyer to check whether a neighbour had collected the package, but that led nowhere. Valve then said it would send a replacement rather than issue a refund. The buyer praised Steam Support for its handling of the situation and said they plan to either work from home for the second delivery or have it redirected to a collection point.

GTA V shipped with 60 random encounters, 20 Strangers and Freaks mission arcs, and nearly 42 minigames. But according to former lead producer John Riccitiello, that was only after Rockstar cut an enormous amount of content that never made it into the final game.

Speaking on the Kiwi Talkz podcast, Ricchio said, "There was so much stuff in GTA, particularly in GTA 5. Oh my god, there was so much stuff that was done. Like minigames that were completely done and ready to go, except for, like, animation, right?"

Those cuts came down to the animation team becoming a bottleneck. Every part of the game had to reach Rockstar's usual level of polish, and with animators already stretched thin, even finished minigames were left on the cutting room floor because there wasn't enough time to bring them up to that standard.

SpaceX and Foxconn were rumored to have penned a $52 billion order for 13,000 racks of NVIDIA GB300 AI servers from the Elon Musk-led company, with each rack priced at a blistering $4 million.

The deal, set to begin deliveries in Q4 2026, included up to 936,000 GPUs and would have marked a major expansion of SpaceX's AI compute footprint, which we discovered was already quite expansive when the company went public, as its compute prowess is one of the main driving factors behind its staggering $1.75 trillion IPO.

Foxconn, already a key player in the AI server market, expects to capture 40 percent of the global AI server market by year-end, and reports are now stating this new contract adds a material upside to its projections. The deal also breaks the Dell/Supermicro duopoly, signaling a shift in the hyperscaler manufacturing landscape.

TSMC is about to lose one of its biggest advantages - cheap, grid-based power, as a new energy law set to pass in Taiwan is going to cause a massive headache for the world's best semiconductor manufacturer.

The Taiwanese government is pushing an amendment to the Energy Management Law, which requires all large commercial electricity users to generate and store their own power, excluding only schools and hospitals. As one of the island's largest energy consumers, TSMC will now have to work out how it's going to generate approximately 9% of Taiwan's electricity over the course of a year, as that is how much the company used over the course of 2024.

TSMC's energy use has already grown 10 - 20% annually for the past four years, and industry forecasts suggest it could consume 24% of Taiwan's total electricity by 2030. Meanwhile, the island's electricity supply has struggled to keep pace with demand from expanding electronics manufacturing facilities and fabrication plants. This discrepancy is now threatening to stifle the growth of not just TSMC, but the broader semiconductor industry, and is putting strain on vital services across Taiwan such as schools and hospitals.

Netflix just paid $587 million in cash for Ben Affleck's AI startup, indicating the streaming giant's growing commitment to generative AI tools integrating or being used to assist in filmmaking. The acquisition of Affleck's company, called InterPositive, was revealed in a recent regulatory filing and marks one of the largest deals yet in the AI content creation space.

Affleck, who co-founded the startup in 2022, said his goal with InterPositive was to "protect the power of human creativity" through AI tools that assist in post-production challenges like missing shots and lighting corrections. Netflix stated that around 300 of its titles have already used InterPositive's tools, and the full team will now join the company, with Affleck serving as a senior advisor.

Netflix has been steadily ramping up its use of generative AI in production, and this acquisition gives it direct control over the technology, which it will undoubtedly roll out to its numerous projects in various ways. It also raises questions about how much further studios will go in automating creative workflows.

Apple discontinued the Mac Pro in March, ending a 20-year run for the machine that once defined the company's professional desktop lineup. Yet a new Bloomberg report from Mark Gurman reveals that the Mac Pro's fate could have looked very different.

According to the report, Apple developed multiple unreleased M2 Extreme and M3 Extreme chips, along with Mac Pro hardware built around them, before ultimately cancelling both projects. These processors were designed to sit above the Ultra tier, offering roughly twice the CPU and GPU core counts of their Ultra counterparts.

An M3 Extreme, for instance, would have doubled the M3 Ultra's 32-core CPU and 80-core GPU. The chips were ultimately abandoned due to high production costs and concerns that demand for a machine likely to cost well over $10,000 before upgrades would be too limited.

LG monitors are installing software through Windows Update without user consent, sparking privacy and security concerns among PC users.

According to GamersNexus, connecting an LG UltraGear 34GX900A-B monitor to a Windows PC will automatically install software that promotes McAfee antivirus subscriptions, all without any prompt or user approval. Essentially, plugging any Windows 11 PC into this LG monitor automatically installs what is commonly considered adware, software that is dedicated to displaying an advertisement for additional software.

GamersNexus replicated what many LG monitors were complaining about on Reddit, confirming that the monitor triggers an automatic software install that occurs silently during the monitor setup process, all without any user approval. This includes not only promotional material for McAfee but also additional adware-like elements, along with the approval of suspicious permissions such as granting access to "All system resources" and geolocation, online activity, and contact data.

Moonshot AI has been forced to suspend new Kimi subscriptions as demand for the new Kimi K3 open-weight model has overwhelmed its compute infrastructure.

The company announced the temporary halt via its official Twitter account, citing that demand for the 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source model had pushed its GPU resources to the absolute limit. To ensure current users can maintain access to Kimi K3, Moonshot has decided to prioritize its compute power for existing subscribers and delay new signups until it's able to access more compute to serve new customers.

Existing Kimi subscribers won't be affected by this change, but new users will be faced with a new system. Moonshot is making changes to its membership plans in two focused tiers: Kimi Membership for general use and Kimi Code Membership for coding workflows. The move aims to better allocate compute power and improve service stability, while also mimicking the structure offered by other AI companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI.

A man who paid $5.5 million for a cliffside mansion that later collapsed into the ocean is suing his bank, claiming the loan should never have been approved as he applied for it during a manic episode. The lawsuit accuses JPMorgan Chase of ignoring his mental health and violating its own lending policies for customers.

John G. Bonomi Jr. bought the Cape Cod property in 2021, only to have it demolished in 2025 before it was inevitably going to fall into the sea as the home sat on eroding cliffs, with professionals estimating the land beneath the home was expected to vanish at a rate of 3.8 to 5.6 feet per year.

Bonomi claims he was in the throes of a manic episode at the time of purchase, acting under "uncontrollable psychosis" due to his bipolar disorder. The lawsuit argues that no rational person would have made the purchase under such conditions, and that bipolar disorder can result in irrational risk-taking behavior, impulsive behavior, and reckless spending.

Some Amazon Web Services (AWS) users woke up to what would easily be one of the worst ways to wake up - a bill for more than a billion dollars. Amazon confirmed Friday its AWS billing portal fired off charges for some customers to the point of absurdity, with one AWS customer being told they owed $2.5 billion for the month.

Amazon has confirmed a system error was tracked back to a recent change to the billing computation subsystem, which Amazon said was rolled back but did not resolve the issue. Amazon emphasized that the inflated charges do not reflect actual usage, and customers affected are likely not financially responsible for the amounts. Screenshot evidence from Reddit shows a range of phantom invoices, from millions to hundreds of millions of dollars, and in some cases, such as this video, AWS customers receiving a bill for $2.2 billion of AWS usage they didn't actually use.

Amazon spokesperson Aisha Johnson declined to comment further on the matter, directing all questions to the company's status page, which outlines the error and how Amazon is dealing with it. AWS is a cornerstone of modern tech operations and one of the biggest cloud infrastructure players today, which only further compounds the severity of a glitch of this scale, which may be viewed by affected customers as a reason to trust Amazon less. While the billing system is expected to stabilize in the coming hours, the damage to Amazon's reputation may linger.

Sony announced in July 2026 that it would stop making physical copies of PlayStation games by January 2028, and now Mexican regulators have put PlayStation in their crosshairs over the decision. The move from Sony has drawn sharp criticism, with some arguing the decision could give Sony an unfair amount of control over the market.

Federal Representative Iraís Reyes and Senator Luis Donaldo Colosio are leading the charge against Sony,filing a formal complaint with Mexico's antitrust body against Sony Interactive Entertainment, in which they argue that Sony's decision to phase out physical copies of PlayStation games would mean digital software sales are the only sales channel for PlayStation games, and that would enable Sony to dictate prices and terms for its games without market competition. The complaint describes this as anti-competitive behavior.

Reyes and Colosio claim the removal of physical media could limit consumer choice and make it harder for smaller developers to compete in the market. The broader gaming industry has already seen a steady decline in physical media, but Sony's timeline - ending disc production in under two years - has amplified concerns and has turned many once die-hard PlayStation fans into critics.

A Florida student used Steam to distribute malware-laced games that siphoned crypto from victims' wallets, netting over $200,000, and now faces several heavy charges from federal prosecutors.

Zyaire Wilkins, a 21-year-old University of West Florida student, was arrested by the FBI after allegedly hiding crypto-draining malware in Steam games such as BlockBlasters, Dashverse, and PirateFi. Notably, I reported on PirateFi back on February 17, 2025, as Steam recommended that any players of the game reinstall their operating system after it was discovered the game contained "malicious files". Many unsuspecting players who saw the titles, which seemed legitimate, had their passwords extracted and cryptocurrency wallets drained. Over 80 cryptocurrency accounts were compromised during the 22-month duration of the scam.

The scheme was meticulously executed, with the group promoting the games on Discord, Telegram, and X. Wilkins and his accomplices even used bots to target high-net-worth crypto holders. What ultimately led to his downfall? A trail of stolen Bitcoin converted into Uber Eats gift cards, which Wilkins then used to carry out purchases of food on Uber Eats. Investigators traced those transactions and orders of food back to Wilkins' home address, along with his university address.

NVIDIA's RTX Spark system-on-chip (SoC) is on track to launch this fall, powering a new wave of Windows on Arm devices with its Grace CPU and RTX Blackwell GPU architecture. Announced at Computex 2026, RTX Spark marks NVIDIA's debut in the APU space, and the first devices will arrive as powerful premium laptops and mini PCs from companies like ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, and more, with support for up to 127GB of unified memory.

Although specific dates, pricing, and even in-depth performance targets are still TBC, NVIDIA has released its first RTX Spark 'Developer Preview' driver so that developers can start porting their apps to Windows on Arm.

"Developers can begin preparing their applications for Windows on Arm and RTX Spark today," NVIDIA writes in a new post on its developer forums. "You do not need RTX Spark hardware to get started; an existing Windows on Arm development system can be used to port your application, identify incompatible dependencies, and bring up an initial Arm64 build."

Listed as 'The Jensen Jacket: Jensen Huang's Tom Ford Leather Jacket' on the official Sotheby's listing, this signed piece of clothing from the NVIDIA CEO and founder has apparently sold and raised $960,000 at auction this past weekend. The almost $1 million price for what's described as "the uniform of a 'first believer'" and a "symbol of his leadership style embodying authenticity, ingenuity, persistence, courage and joy" far exceeded the $40,000 to $60,000 USD estimate.

And per the listing, the Tom Ford jacket that went up for auction was actually worn by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at a tech day presentation in Taipei on October 18, 2023, verified by the PSA (Professional Sports Authenticator). Of course, $960,000 for a leather jacket is a lot of money, but the money raised went to charity. Namely, the philanthropic Edge Institute, which is all about helping fund the "next generation of young builders to pursue their passions and projects" in the tech, science, and culture space.

The jacket 'selling' at a price significantly higher than the estimate makes sense when you factor in the current AI boom and NVIDIA's rise to become one of the world's biggest companies. And with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang being the face of the company, while wearing Tom Ford leather jackets, he's become something of a celebrity in some circles.

AMD's next-generation Zen 6 architecture for its desktop and mobile CPUs and processors is on the horizon, and it will power the upcoming Ryzen AI 500 Series of APUs for laptops, mini PCs, and other mobile devices. Codenamed 'Medusa Point,' the lineup is generating a lot of buzz, as it will deliver the sort of generational upgrade many have been waiting for.

Although we've seen benchmarks and various references for a 10-core 'Medusa Point' processor leak, the latest Geekbench listing showcases Zen 6 in a more mature and consumer-ready state. And that's because the result for what could end up being the Ryzen AI 9 565 delivers performance that would make it the fastest AMD or Intel x86 chip seen to date.

The Geekbench listing has the 'AMD Plum-MDS1' name, which refers to an engineering sample comprised of a 10-core (4+6) chip, with 20 threads, and a boost clock frequency of 5.37 GHz. The single-core score of 3,329 is impressive because it beats the similar Zen5 'Strix Point' APU, the Ryzen AI 9 365, by around 35%.