Italian government and industry leaders are rushing this week to figure out how to spend a European Union-backed windfall of billions of euros in defense cash as Italy seeks to reach new NATO spending targets.
In a week when most Italian politicians were heading for the beach, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni summoned the CEOs of state-controlled defense firms Leonardo and Fincantieri on…
The Space Force is launching its annual, future-facing Schriever Wargames this week, and the service’s chief operations officer said the exercise could help create a framework for better information sharing with allies and partners on sensitive programs and capabilities.
MILAN — Donald Trump’s push for a Ukraine-Russia peace deal to be reached by the end of this week is unrealistic, experts say, as substantive progress is improbable without a major shift on the battlefield.
On July 28, the U.S. president announced that he was shortening…
After Concord's Failure and Marathon's Delay, Sony Admits PlayStation's Live-Service Strategy Is 'Not Entirely Going Smoothly'
August 8, 2025
Sony has reflected on its progress transforming PlayStation into a company that runs a suite of successful live-service games — something that has, so far, returned mixed results.
Cast your mind back to February 2022, during the halcyon days of PlayStation’s former boss Jim Ryan, when the company said it would launch more than 10 new live-service games before March 2026.
Fast forward to…
After five years away from the role, Tom Cruise returned as special agent Ethan Hunt for Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One. With “Part 2” of that series, The Final Reckoning coming to digital on August 18, it’s the perfect time to watch or…
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…
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 precious dollars and messing around inside of a desktop when I have several perfectly good laptops very nearby and might screw it…
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…
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 Woot. That’s their best price yet and a deal that will run until September 2nd or while supplies last.
Despite being nearly…
