GamingNews

Microsoft Announces Xbox Game Pass August 2025 Wave 1 Lineup

August 6, 2025
Microsoft has announced Wave 1 of the Xbox Game Pass August 2025 lineup, which includes Assassin’s Creed Mirage, Aliens: Fireteam Elite, Citizen Sleeper 2, and more. As revealed in a post on Xbox Wire, out today, August 5, is Rain World (Cloud, Console, and PC) across…
ComputersNews

How to get Microsoft Office 365 for dirt cheap as a student

August 6, 2025
Free alternatives may exist for Microsoft Office components, but sometimes they can’t stand in for the original. And as a student, the new cost of $100 per year for a Microsoft 365 Personal account is pretty expensive—but fortunately, you may not have to pay to use the…
ComputersNews

Roku’s new $3 ad-free streaming undercuts Netflix—with a catch

August 6, 2025
Want ad-free streaming without paying through the nose for Netflix or HBO Max? Roku’s new budget streamer serves up a tempting selection of movies and TV shows for a lot less, provided you can deal with some caveats. Slated to launch today, Howdy costs just $3 a month for unlimited ad-free streaming, a price that undercuts Netflix’s cheapest—and ad-supported—plan by $5 a month. That low…
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AI & RoboticsNews

Anthropic’s new Claude 4.1 dominates coding tests days before GPT-5 arrives

August 6, 2025
Anthropic released an upgraded version of its flagship artificial intelligence model Monday, achieving new performance heights in software engineering tasks as the AI startup races to maintain its dominance in the lucrative coding market ahead of an expected competitive challenge from OpenAI. The new Claude Opus 4.1 model scored 74.5% on SWE-bench Verified, a widely-watched benchmark that tests AI…
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CryptoNews

CFTC Approves Spot Crypto Trading on Registered Exchanges

August 6, 2025
In a landmark development, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on August 4, 2025, that it will permit spot crypto trading on exchanges registered under its jurisdiction. The decision, announced in coordination with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as part of the broader Project Crypto initiative, was first reported by Reuters. The following opinion editorial was…
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