Battlefield 6 developer DICE has said it’s working on a “substantial” increase in server capacity for the Battlefield 6 Open Beta, after the early access launch was met with huge Steam concurrents and equally huge queues.
At time of this article’s publication, the Battlefield 6 open beta had over 300,000 concurrent players on Steam alone, making it the third most-played game on…
This may come as a surprise: Though I work at PCWorld, I don’t build computers.
Well, I can. I have. But it’s one thing to buy a few thousand dollars’ worth of parts and then build a desktop on a budget that’s not my own, versus me plonking down several hundred…
Trump demands resignation of Intel’s new CEO
August 8, 2025
Intel is a company in crisis, failing to compete with the products of its booming rivals and struggling to get back on its feet after a high-profile leadership shakeup and devastating layoffs. The last thing it needs is to be in the crosshairs of an increasingly retaliatory…
Microsoft Copilot is now powered by GPT-5 too, mostly
August 8, 2025
Microsoft has added GPT-5 to Copilot, a day after adding OpenAI’s open-source GPT model to its local services.
GPT-5, which also powers ChatGPT, is now live within Copilot, at copilot.microsoft.com, Microsoft said Thursday. Presumably the same model will eventually power the Copilot application running on top of Windows PCs, but the Windows app appears to use just the older GPT-4 model for now…
Samsung’s latest Unpacked event came and went with no major announcements related to the company’s Galaxy Buds lineup. However, if you don’t want to wait for what’s next, you can currently save on the Samsung Galaxy Buds FE, which are down to $46.99 ($53 off) at…
OpenAI launches GPT-5, nano, mini and Pro — not AGI, but capable of generating ‘software-on-demand’
August 8, 2025
After literally years of hype and speculation, OpenAI has officially launched a new lineup of large language models (LLMs), all different-sized variants of GPT-5, the long-awaited predecessor to its GPT-4 model from March of 2023, nearly 2.5 years ago.
The company is…
Cloud intrusions increased by 136% in the past six months. North Korean operatives infiltrated 320 companies using AI-generated identities. Scattered Spider now deploys ransomware in under 24 hours. However, at Black Hat 2025, the security industry demonstrated that it finally has an answer that works: agentic AI, delivering measurable results, not promises.
CrowdStrike’s recent…
ChatGPT users dismayed as OpenAI pulls popular models GPT-4o, o3 and more — enterprise API remains (for now)
August 8, 2025
After announcing the release of its newest flagship model family, GPT-5, OpenAI said the model will power all of ChatGPT, and that it will sunset the existing models in the chat platform.
OpenAI, through a spokesperson, told VentureBeat that GPT-5 “will replace all other…
Nasdaq-listed CEA Industries Inc. announced the successful closing of a $500 million private placement offering on Aug. 5, 2025, aimed at advancing its BNB treasury strategy.
Strategic Realignment and Rebranding
Nasdaq-listed CEA Industries Inc. announced on Aug. 5 the…
Blackrock, the world’s largest asset manager, is believed to be targeting spot XRP, according to an ETF expert, signaling a major push as crypto demand and momentum accelerate.
Blackrock Could Be Closing in on Spot XRP ETF, Expert Says
Nate Geraci, president of registered investment advisor Novadius Wealth Management, joined the Thinking Crypto podcast, published on Aug. 6, 2025, to examine how…
