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YouTube will let you AI-generate videos that look and sound like you using Google's text-to-video Veo technology. The feature is rolling out to the YouTube app globally, with the exception of Europe.

Highlights for Thermalright's first mass-produced mini PC include a vertical chassis to maximize water cooling efficiency, which unlocks the 176 W TDP mode for the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU, a 4.6-inch LCD that displays system stats, dual USB4 connectors and 10 GbE plus 2.5 GbE NICs.

Button is said to be the first computer developed from the ground up for the AI age. Button can be attached to clothing and is designed to perform certain tasks in half a second using special apps.

The new fellowship will fund external researchers working on AI safety, alignment, robustness, privacy, and misuse prevention, with the pilot program scheduled to run from September 2026 to February 2027.

Computex 2026 is going to be an AI fest if a claim from Hardware Canucks is to be believed. The media outlet has alleged that the organizers of Computex 2026 are demoting companies without AI products to secondary venues, even companies that have been going to Computex for a decade.

As of April 2026, a huge chunk of new web pages are AI-generated, which is making finding authentic hardware benchmarks harder than ever. This flood of automated slop warrants a return to whitelist browsing and verified sources.

Anthropic is keeping its new cyber AI, Claude Mythos, under wraps, even though the company says the model has found security vulnerabilities in major operating systems and browsers. The reason: Mythos may not only be able to detect vulnerabilities, but also help create dangerous exploits.

Gamers are already suffering from high memory prices driven by the AI boom and may even have to brace for further restrictions in the future. The strategy game Stormgate is losing its online features because its server host was acquired by an AI company. It is entirely possible that scenarios like this could become more common in the future.

Anthropic just announced Project Glasswing - the company's newest initiative to secure critical software using the unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model. The project includes $100 million in usage credits and $4 million in donations.

Veteran artist Mark Linington says Nvidia’s DLSS 5 demos have pushed AI-assisted rendering beyond simple enhancement and into reinterpretation territory, creating new concerns about creative control, authorship, and whether the final image still belongs to the artists who built it.

A particularly powerful desktop system is now available with a pre-order discount. It is intended not only for accelerating AI models but also for gaming and productivity applications. It also includes significantly faster networking.

Take-Two Interactive, publisher of Grand Theft Auto VI, has reportedly shut down its AI team and terminated its head of AI, Luke Dicken, along with other AI staff, according to multiple LinkedIn posts from affected employees. The move appears to reflect a shift in upper management priorities and contrasts with CEO Strauss Zelnick’s recent investor comments, which touted “hundreds” of AI initiatives while emphasizing that GTA 6 uses no generative AI.

Nvidia’s own promotional video for DLSS 5 was blocked on YouTube because of a third-party copyright claim. Although the clip is now back online, the case is still causing frustration in the community – and raises questions about the reliability of YouTube’s copyright system.

According to Bloomberg, Apple is planning a major Siri upgrade: in the future, the voice assistant could execute multiple commands within a single request. Apple’s Shortcuts app is also said to become much smarter.

The Zenbook A14 model features 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD and a 2K OLED screen, while the A16 model comes with the more powerful Extreme-series processor, 48 GB LPDDR5X-9600 RAM, 1 TB SSD and a 3K OLED display. HP's OmniBook Ultra 14 is also available now, but at a considerably higher price of $2,049.99

Shortly after an accidental source code leak, a critical vulnerability was discovered in the AI coding agent called Claude Code. It potentially allows attackers to bypass security safeguards and steal sensitive data from developers.

Digital Extremes says it will not use AI-generated content in either Warframe or its upcoming fantasy title, Soulframe, drawing a clear line as more studios adopt generative AI to speed development. Community director Megan Everett told GameSpot at PAX East 2026 that the company is “very non-AI,” citing growing distrust of online art after mistakenly featuring AI-made fanwork and vowing, “Nothing in our games will be AI-generated. Ever.”

A hardware modder on Overclock.net reports successfully booting Windows 11 on Intel’s OEM-only Core 9 273PQE “Bartlett Lake” CPU using a standard Asus Z790 LGA1700 motherboard after crafting custom BIOS microcode and patches that spoof early initialization as Raptor Lake. The proof-of-concept highlights both the platform’s latent compatibility and the limits of accessibility, since Bartlett Lake chips remain unavailable to typical consumers despite interest in an all–performance-core desktop release.

Three YouTube channels, including the popular h3h3 Productions, filed suit against Apple for using content to train the Cupertino company's AI models. The lawsuit alleges that Apple unlawfully skirted around YouTube's copyright protection systems to "harvest content creators' protected and copyrighted videos for commercial use."

At GTC 2026, Nvidia presented a possible answer to the VRAM crisis in modern games: with Neural Texture Compression, memory usage in a demo drops from 6.5 GB to 970 MB while maintaining nearly identical image quality. The technology is giving the community hope, but it is also fueling criticism of Nvidia’s past VRAM strategy.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar has reportedly raised concerns about Sam Altman’s 2026 IPO target and the scale of the company’s planned spending, according to Reuters citing The Information.

Lower DDR5 prices at some retailers aren’t rattling the DRAM giant Samsung. A Korean report discusses how customers are paying more than in Q1 2026 for long-term contracts. If demand from AI data centers remains steady, smartphones, laptops, and consoles may stretch budgets further.

Claude AI is giving away free credits as a likely gesture of goodwill following recent issues. Depending on their subscription tier, customers can receive $20 (approx. €17), $100 (approx. €85), or $200 (approx. €170) at no extra cost. Additionally, a discount of up to 30% for purchasing extra usage is also available.

Microsoft is establishing Copilot as its primary AI brand for Windows, Microsoft 365 and GitHub. However, the terms of use, warnings, and disclaimers for each Copilot differ. By doing this, the Redmond-based tech giant is undermining trust in its own AI tool.

For the Raspberry Pi 5: A new add-on board looks well suited to a range of specific use cases and enables both backup power in the event of a power outage and the storage of larger amounts of data on an SSD.

Anthropic’s fight over the leaked 'Claude Code' source code was conducted so aggressively that even official repositories were deleted via DMCA requests. Analysis of the code reveals that the issue involves more than just protected algorithms; it concerns the monitoring of user emotions and concealment.

For about four hours, Nicholas Carlini worked on FreeBSD supported by Anthropic’s Claude. Carlini states that Claude performed a large part of the work autonomously, from identifying the vulnerability to the finished exploit.

The Neuro N6 is a new compact board designed for applications such as image recognition, including the use of AI and neural networks. It is advertised as having low power consumption, which could make it suitable for mobile applications.

Samsung's new Galaxy Book6 Pro is a good 16-inch multimedia laptop with Intel's Panther Lake mobile processors, but the manufacturer charges $2100 for the SKU with the slow iGPU, which is way too expensive.

Google releases Gemma 4: The new model family (E2B to 31B) brings reasoning capabilities and multimodality directly to laptops and smartphones. With a huge context window of up to 256K tokens and Apache 2.0 license, Google is setting an example for free local AI.

Visa is launching six AI tools to streamline credit card dispute handling as volumes hit 106 million in 2025. The tools are designed for merchants and banks with predictive models and automation - rollout is expected later this year.

A PC modder, “kryptonfly,” used Claude AI-assisted BIOS rewriting to inject missing microcode and get Intel’s OEM-only Core 9-273PQE Bartlett Lake CPU to reach POST on an Asus Z790 motherboard, with the BIOS correctly identifying the processor. The system still fails to boot past POST with a black screen and errors, underscoring that full Bartlett Lake support remains unofficial and could be closed off by future Intel or Asus firmware updates.

A new Olaf robot at Disneyland Paris suddenly collapsed during a performance and even lost its carrot nose in the process. On TikTok, the awkward but funny incident is already being celebrated as a viral fail.

The EU Commission is set to introduce the so-called "Data Carbon Tax" on April 1, 2026. This tax on 'dark data'—such as old emails or duplicate photos—is designed to offset the surging energy consumption of AI data centers powering ChatGPT, Gemini, and similar applications. In the future, users who fail to clean up their data within specified deadlines must expect financial penalties or even the mandatory deletion of their cloud storage. However, a little more tidiness can't hurt ;)

If Asia is any indication, other parts of the world could see memory prices fall further. After U.S. and European buyers noticed fluctuations, TrendForce found sharp declines in retail DDR5 RAM costs in China. Yet, critical DRAM manufacturers insist that demand from AI data centers remains steady.

Garmin wearables users can benefit from powerful and very extensive additional data analysis with Garmin Chat Connector, and do so without a paid Garmin Connect+ subscription. Rob Trent shows the capabilities of the solution using an example.

GitHub users have reported massive amounts of spam in over 11,000 projects. Microsoft Copilot has been inserting suggestions that reference the productivity tool Raycast. Developers are calling it advertising, but Microsoft has denied this, attributing it to a technical error that has since been fixed.

OpenClaw has become a massive trend in China, with lobster-themed merchandise and government subsidies fuelling the hype. In contrast, Europe and the US remain sceptical. While Chinese companies use the agent to increase efficiency, Western companies are primarily concerned about the potential risks.

A bedside lamp that not only automatically adapts to your sleep rhythm, but also uses mmWave sensors to enable more precise sleep tracking than a smartwatch - Sleepal aims to contribute to better sleep health.

A Reddit user reported buying a Crucial 64GB DDR5-5600 SO-DIMM laptop memory kit for $6.99 at a local liquidator after it was labeled as an Amazon return and lacked a price tag, prompting the cashier to assign a flat price.

Czech-to-English translator and editor Max Hejtmanek says Warhorse Studios abruptly ended his four-year role on Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, telling him his position would become “obsolete” as the company shifts all future translation work to AI to boost efficiency and cut costs. Hejtmanek, who says he handled much of the game’s English text from dialogue to promotional material, urged fans not to harass staff or review-bomb the game, while Warhorse and its publisher have not publicly responded.

To keep the PS6 price reasonable, Sony may sacrifice a larger SSD and an optical drive. A leaker thinks that neural texture compression could result in trimmer game sizes than expected. The PS5 price increase and storage shortage have other analysts predicting a $1000 MSRP.

Google wants to make it much easier to switch from ChatGPT, Grok and other AI apps to Gemini. New import tools can transfer memories, preferences and complete chat histories so users no longer have to start from scratch.

The Taalas HC1 is a new chip – essentially a processor – specifically designed to accelerate a single AI model. The rise of such specialized chips isn’t an entirely new phenomenon and has already been seen in crypto mining.

New Blood Interactive CEO David Oshry and Dusk creator David Szymanski have criticized Nvidia’s forthcoming DLSS 5, set to launch this fall on RTX 50-series GPUs, arguing that its shift toward generative AI goes beyond super-sampling and muddies what DLSS is meant to be. Both warn that “optional” adoption may become effectively mandatory as games are built around the tech, and they urge developers and consumers to push back by withholding collaboration and spending.