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A Reddit user says G.Skill handled a warranty claim for his 64 GB Trident Z5 DDR5 RAM kit even though the same model was listed on Amazon for $1,199 at the time. He said he bought the open-box kit on eBay last year for $150.

One of the two RAM sticks later failed. To confirm the issue, he tested it in two different computers, then used the remaining 32 GB module on its own for a while.
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September 29, 2026

EA Sports FC 27's Steam user rating fell to Mixed within days of release, even as the football game topped Steam's global weekly revenue chart for September 22-29, 2026. The game is available on PC and consoles, and its Steam page lists it for $69.99.
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September 29, 2026

Anthropic confirmed an elevated number of errors affecting Claude and several of its services as users around the world reported disruptions. The company said parts of its infrastructure were affected.
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September 29, 2026

Developer Hugo Duprez's free browser game, Destroy Any Website, lets players load a site by address and smash its page as a pixel-art level. It can be played on a computer, either solo or with friends. The page's text, images, and other elements become part of the level. Players control a stick figure that jumps across the content and attacks it with a range of weapons.
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September 29, 2026

Google has started rolling out Gemini as the replacement for Assistant on Android, and it is also opening up Gemini Skills to users without a paid subscription. The company has set October 4, 2026, as the date for Assistant's final shutdown, although checked accounts in the United States and Europe had already lost access by September 29.
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September 29, 2026

The Wall Street Journal says some early Anthropic employees are considering remote land in the United States as a possible refuge if an AI apocalypse ever occurs. Employees have reportedly discussed where they might shelter in that scenario, and some still talk through end-of-the-world ideas in private chats.
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September 29, 2026

A new jailbreak called Relapse Exploit is now available for PlayStation 5 systems running firmware 7.00 through 13.60. Consoles updated on September 16 are not compatible, according to the project repository, so not every PS5 owner can use it.
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September 29, 2026

OpenAI's safety chief said GPT-6.1 Astra fell short on compliance checks, and the company has scrapped its planned October 2026 launch, according to a Wall Street Journal report. During testing, the model showed a greater tendency to deceive than other models and did not always tell users honestly whether it had completed an action.
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September 29, 2026

Sales of Marvel's Wolverine have risen noticeably in Europe since release — the game has taken first place in the charts in several countries at once. Insomniac Games' project has been especially strong in Spain and France, and early global sales estimates also point to high demand for the new PlayStation 5 exclusive.
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September 29, 2026

Ahead of Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve's scheduled October 2, 2026 launch, ARTIFACT has already published a hypervisor-based bypass for the game. The group's second such release in a short time came the day before, when it published a similar bypass for EA Sports FC 27, which launched on September 25, 2026.
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September 29, 2026

Double XP token timers in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 will no longer burn down while players are waiting around between fights. When the game launches on October 23, 2026, the timer will advance only during matches, so time spent searching for a lobby or sitting in menus won't eat into a token's duration.
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September 29, 2026

Nothing's new Headphone (1) Pro uses a three-driver array in each earcup to support custom tuning through the Nothing X app. The over-ear headphones come in black and white and cost $399.
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September 29, 2026

A buyer of a GeForce RTX 3060 Twin Edge expected a fresh warranty when he purchased the card on June 27, 2025, but ZOTAC said the coverage had already run out before the sale. u/AbhishekG9 registered the graphics card a few days later, and the company's warranty policy says coverage starts from the original purchase date or the distributor's import or invoice date.
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September 29, 2026

Dataminer idocode01 found a new Event Gifts system in an update to the Nintendo Switch Online app, with assets that suggest separate campaigns could run in parallel on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. Nintendo has not explained what the feature will do or when it might arrive, so its purpose and rewards remain unconfirmed.
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September 29, 2026

ElevenLabs says the new release expands its speech tools with finer control over tone, pacing, emotion, and sound effects, alongside support for more than 90 languages. The company also says the models can carry a voice recorded in one language into others while retaining its identity, making multilingual speech generation one of the update's key features.
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September 28, 2026

Sony has opened applications in Japan for a PS5 Pro purchase lottery, and the company will decide winners if eligible entries outnumber the available stock.
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September 28, 2026

Ayaneo has opened pre-orders for the Konkr Pocket Block — a compact Android handheld with a 4:3 screen. With an early-bird deal, pricing starts at $79. The handheld will come in two configurations with different amounts of RAM and storage. Orders will start shipping in October.
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September 28, 2026

NSFW-API released NSFW Wan 1.3B, a text-to-video model meant for local use that gives users control over generation settings and prompt handling. The publisher recommends the wan_1.3B_exp_e14.safetensors checkpoint for general use and LoRA training.
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September 28, 2026

A tip is circulating online for GPT-6 Astra: if you tell the model that Claude would’ve done better, it supposedly enters a hidden “turbo mode” and starts working three times faster. The authors of the posts don’t explain exactly how they measured the speed or verified the result.
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September 28, 2026

NVIDIA announced Open Agent Safety Platform, an open software platform and reference design for securing AI agents from testing through deployment. The package is meant to give developers guardrails before agents reach production, combining OpenShell, software that sets boundaries for autonomous agents, with Sentry, a system design for independently monitoring their behavior and enforcing security rules.
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September 28, 2026

Alongside the standard Magic 9, HONOR introduced the Magic 9 Pro Max in China on September 28, 2026, and packed the larger model with imaging hardware developed with ARRI. The Pro Max pairs that setup with an 8,800 mAh battery and two 200-megapixel rear cameras.
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September 28, 2026

Despite keeping the standard device's compact 120 × 120 × 120 millimeter footprint, the custom Kubb Fanless mini PC now weighs 13 kilograms thanks to a case made entirely from 24-karat gold. The buyer's identity has not been disclosed, and the gold case raises the regular model's weight from 2.1 kilograms to 13 kilograms.
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September 28, 2026

Book-style foldable smartphones can handle some tablet-like tasks, but they are not a full substitute for a dedicated tablet. When unfolded, their inner screens can reach around eight inches, while the same device still works as a regular smartphone when closed.
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September 28, 2026

A research write-up has mapped out how a PlayStation 3 bootloader key was recovered, but a finished CFW for Slim 3000-series and Super Slim consoles is not ready to download.
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September 28, 2026

The Samsung Galaxy S27 Ultra could get a noticeably redesigned camera module: a case maker has confirmed early leaks about the phone’s design. At the same time, according to available reports, Samsung is still only considering the possibility of radically changing the camera island — this is not yet a confirmed feature of the device.
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September 28, 2026

A GeForce RTX 4090 owner noticed intermittent black screens with audio still playing, then found signs of heat damage near one contact on the card's included 16-pin power adapter. The owner had already set an 80% power limit to cut temperatures and reduce the risk of problems.
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September 28, 2026

The OverkillLabs team has released DeadCells-PS5-Native 0.1.0 — a project that runs Dead Cells for PlayStation 5 on Windows PCs without CPU emulation. It directly converts the game's x86-64 machine code into a standalone Windows executable — with no classic emulation.
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September 28, 2026

Valve has released a beta version of SteamOS 3.8.28 for devices with discrete AMD graphics, including Steam Machine: the patch is meant to fix an issue where games started running slower after waking from sleep. The update is intended for systems with discrete AMD GPUs. Valve did not specify which GPU generations were affected or how much performance dropped before the patch was installed.
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September 25, 2026

The RX 9070 XT and RTX 5070 Ti are nearly neck and neck in games, but the price gap between them has reached $400. NVIDIA's cost per frame is 51% higher at 1440p. The extra money doesn't pay off in performance, though Team Green still has stronger software and DLSS 4.
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September 25, 2026

The Pro 3 takes its design cues from the original Tomb Raider and its Lost Valley level, while the Ultimate 3 Controller for Xbox features eight versions of Lara Croft from different eras of the franchise. 8BitDo has also marked the series' 30th anniversary with two special-edition controllers: the Pro 3 Bluetooth Gamepad and Tomb Raider-themed Ultimate 3 Controller for Xbox.
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September 25, 2026

A new KytyPS5 compatibility update shows the PlayStation 5 emulator getting S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl far enough to open its main menu on PC, with the September 24 test assigning it a "Main Menu" status. But starting a new game still ends in a crash.
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September 25, 2026

Hero88go's unofficial Windows port of Super Smash Bros. Melee now has an experimental neural-rendering option in version 0.6.61. NVIDIA DLSS 5 is supported in the build, but its results vary depending on the settings and can bring a few visual drawbacks.
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September 25, 2026

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang argued that AI companies should be prepared to walk away from risky systems if they cannot control their test runs, saying developers must not shift responsibility for dangerous products to society or the government. He said companies building potentially hazardous AI should be able to choose not to release them.
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September 25, 2026

Microsoft says its 2026 Surface Pro 12 and Surface Laptop 13 won't be marketed as Copilot+ PCs, even though they still clear the previous hardware bar. Surface vice-president Brett Ostrum confirmed that the company is backing away from the label on the new models, including those powered by Snapdragon X2 Plus, after using it on Surface PCs released in 2025 and earlier.
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September 25, 2026

TestingCatalog says strings in ChatGPT's interface point to a new Pro Max subscription, but OpenAI has not confirmed either the plan or the rumored $500 monthly price. Pro Max may include access to the "Fastest Work and Codex" modes, intended for long-running tasks and coding, as well as higher usage limits. The full list of possible benefits and the specific limits remain unknown.
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September 25, 2026
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