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The annual speedrunning marathon event ran from July 5-11. Games Done Quick/Count Gooby Summer Games Done Quick is officially over after a marathon week of speedrunning games for a good cause, and the organizers say it raised a total of $2,408,701 for Doctors Without Borders in that time (again!). The annual event in Minneapolis kicked off on July 5 and wrapped up early Sunday morning. Roughly 2,500 people showed up in person, in addition to the thousands of viewers who watched from home. This year’s Summer Games Done Quick brought a new speedrunning world record: streamer…

Back to school doesn’t mean back to tech upgrades. As inflation rises without wage growth matching it, and consumer confidence worsens, parents are going online more to find deals, even if they aren’t necessarily buying new tech products, according to Deloitte’s 19th Back-to-School survey.For the fourth straight year, back-to-school shoppers will spend less per child — $557 — as inflation continues to rise, and 57% of parents believe the economy will get worse in the second half of the year. That’s the highest percentage since the onset of the COVID pandemic in 2020, the survey said.And that spending will be…

SanDisk’s BiCS10 chip reaches 29Gb per square millimetre in densityBit density improved 59% compared to the previous BiCS8 generationInterface speeds now hit 4.8Gb/s, a 33% increaseSanDisk has confirmed it is now sampling BiCS10, its 10th-generation 3D NAND flash chip, built jointly with longtime manufacturing partner Kioxia.The 1Tb TLC chip packs 332 memory layers into a die that reaches an area bit density above 29Gb per square millimetre, which the company calls industry-leading.That figure represents a 59% improvement in bit density compared to the previous BiCS8 generation currently in mass production.Latest Videos FromA small chip built to scale into massive drivesBiCS10…

This post offers detailed tips on UniFi Cloud Gateway backups and migrations. It’s a supplement to my previous buying guide and will explain how to migrate from one UniFi “router” to another, such as when you want to upgrade the hardware or replace it with a better-suited option. Related stories on Ubiquiti and Wi-Fi Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Gateway Backups and Migration: You can easily move from one UniFi Cloud Gateway to another, and when migrating between the UniFi Dream Machine Pro Max and the UniFi Dream Machine Beast, you can also keep the existing recordings in the UniFi Protect app.…

Allstate Insurance Company has accused Broadcom of haphazardly issuing audits against it because the insurance firm decided not to renew its contracts with VMware and CA Technologies. The allegations were made in relation to a lawsuit that VMware filed against Allstate in December 2025, according to The Register. In the complaint, Broadcom alleges that Allstate failed to comply with license audits, which Broadcom claims its contract with Allstate requires. In a June 12 filing, Allstate suggested that Broadcom issued the audits in response to Allstate deciding to end business with its companies. Allstate’s statement reads:Read full article Comments

Gates, who is Bill Gates’ daughter, founded the app alongside Sophia Kianni. Kimberly White/Getty Images According to multiple reports, the AI-powered shopping plugin Phia used a tactic known as cookie stuffing to attach its affiliate code to sales it didn’t actually drive. Phia, which launched last spring, was co-founded by Phoebe Gates — Bill Gates’ daughter — and Sophia Kianni. Investigations by researcher Ben Edelman, Bloomberg and Capital One Shopping all reportedly found instances of the browser extension claiming referrals through fake clicks, and even taking credit for sales that other publishers should have gotten the…

It’s been two years since the last total solar eclipse, but another one is coming next month — and with it, a special addition that doesn’t happen very often. Some people will get to see the solar eclipse during sunset, giving them an extraordinary view. The only problem is, you may have to jet off on a summer vacation to see it.The total eclipse will only grace the shores of a few countries. According to NASA, the total eclipse on Aug. 12 will hit Greenland, Iceland, the northern half of Spain and one corner of Portugal. Spain is at the…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Austrian Audio The Arranger: Two-minute reviewThe Arranger by Austrian Audio are an attempt to at least begin to fill the gap that exists between the company’s highest-end headphones and its wildly successful entry-level stuff. In case that isn’t a big enough ask by itself, Austrian Audio wants this new gap-filler to be just as convincing as a pro monitoring tool as they are a domestic pair of headphones.So the…

If you have replaced a Wi-Fi router before, such as when you moved from an ISP-supplied gateway to a retail Wi-Fi router, you already know how tedious the process can be. Swapping one Wi-Fi router for another can be a pain if you have to reconnect existing Wi-Fi devices, especially those without a screen or a keypad (cameras, printers, or media streaming sticks) to the new network. But that pain can be avoided. The trick is to make the replacement Wi-Fi router (or the primary unit of a Wi-Fi system) replicate the network settings of the one it replaces. Ready…

A patch Microsoft released on Wednesday to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its Defender security engine may cause Windows machines to write files large enough to completely consume available disk space, the researcher who discovered the flaw said. RoguePlanet, tracked as CVE-2026-50656, came to public notice in June when NightmareEclipse, the pseudonymous name used by a researcher, disclosed it along with code for exploiting it. The vulnerability allows remote attackers to gain administrative control of Windows 10 and Windows 11 machines, even when real-time protection has been disabled. Over the past few months, the anonymous researcher has published a handful…