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Meta to double AI spend to $135B as deals with OpenAI, Nvidia and Amazon near $200B

A report says money approaching a total of $200 billion is being pumped into AI, with Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia, Microsoft and Amazon all linked to major deals — and Meta planning to double its AI spending this year to $135 billion. The article highlights the $135 billion figure as extraordinary, noting

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EcoFlow RIVER 2 Pro portable power station 40% off at Amazon — $315

Amazon has discounted the EcoFlow RIVER 2 Pro portable power station to $315, a 40% reduction from its usual $529, in an offer open to all shoppers that the outlet says ends soon. The unit weighs 17.2 lbs and has a built-in handle for portability. It includes 11 ports:

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Alienware 16 Aurora gaming laptop at Dell for just under $1,000

Dell is offering the Alienware 16 Aurora gaming laptop for just under $1,000, ZDNET reports. The Aurora 16 ships with an Intel Core Ultra 7 240H processor with a maximum overclock speed of 5.2GHz, an Nvidia RTX 4050 graphics card, 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD, making

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Meta lost $19.1B on VR last year as it reportedly plans $135B AI push

Meta burned $19.1 billion on its VR business last year, its latest earnings report (via TechCrunch) shows, even as the company is reportedly planning to invest $135 billion in AI this year that could include AI-generated games. Meta’s VR losses rose from $17.7 billion in 2024, while

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Four Final Fantasy games arrive DRM-free on GOG, now on sale

On January 29 GOG announced four Final Fantasy games are now available to buy and play on its PC storefront, the first time any games from Square Enix’s popular RPG franchise have appeared on GOG. The newly added titles and their sale prices are: Final Fantasy III (3D Remake)

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France to bar Teams and Zoom for officials, roll out domestic 'Visio' by 2027

France announced Monday, January 26, that it plans to replace American software such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom with a domestic platform called Visio, which will be rolled out by 2027 and made available only to government departments, not private companies or individual members of the public. As reported by

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Rogers' new Discovery+ forces Canada users to rebuild accounts before Feb. 17

Rogers has launched a new Discovery+ platform in Canada that will not automatically migrate existing accounts, forcing subscribers to rebuild profiles, payment information and settings ahead of Warner Bros. Discovery’s Feb. 17, 2026 shutdown of its version of the service, Collider reports. According to Cord Cutter News and Discovery+

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Cherry XTRFY MX 8.2 Pro TMR: hot‑swappable magnetic+mechanical TKL, $249.99

Cherry has released the XTRFY MX 8.2 Pro TMR, a tenkeyless magnetic gaming keyboard that is fully hot‑swappable between magnetic and MX mechanical switches and is listed at $249.99 on Amazon. GamesRadar+ also notes the deck is one of the first mainstream keyboards to use TMR sensing

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Nintendo limits built-in screenshot and social sharing in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream

Nintendo says it will restrict certain image-sharing features in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream, the Switch and Switch 2 life-sim sequel arriving April 16, a change first noticed on the company’s support site after the January 29 Nintendo Direct and highlighted by Wario64 on social media. On its support

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Cloudflare says Aisuru/Kimwolf botnet struck at 31.4 Tbps, a new public DDoS record

Cloudflare says its quarterly DDoS threat report recorded 'an unprecedented bombardment' in the fourth quarter of 2025, a botnet-driven distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 31.4 terabits per second — which the company calls 'the largest attack ever disclosed publicly' and 'a new world record.

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Highguard patch adds console FOV, fixes PS5 crash but PC optimization ongoing

Wildlight Entertainment has rolled out Highguard 1.0.4, a launch-week patch that adds FoV sliders for consoles, toggle options for Aim Down Sights and Crouch, multiple video settings, and other fixes. The studio said it is still working on optimization improvements that need a few more days to complete.

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Shure MV88 USB-C review: $160 palm-sized mic that upgrades phone audio

ZDNET reviewed the Shure MV88 USB-C, a palm-sized USB-C microphone available for $160 that the outlet says is designed to give smartphone video recordings a more professional-sounding audio track. The reviewer noted the MV88 USB-C is easy to carry and plug into a phone and that it includes five audio

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Open Gaming Collective: Linux gaming distros unite on shared components

Developers behind a range of Linux gaming distributions have formed the Open Gaming Collective (OGC) to collaborate on shared, gaming-focused components, the PC Gamer story says. Members include developers from Bazzite, Nobara, Asus Linux, PikaOS and others, who aim to create "a unified set of gaming-focused components used across

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Apple reports record iPhone sales and its most profitable quarter ever

Apple reported record quarterly iPhone sales and its most profitable quarter ever for the three months ending in December, the company said on Jan. 29, 2026. Profit rose 16 percent from a year earlier to $42.1 billion and revenue rose nearly 16 percent to $143.8 billion. Apple attributed

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Google’s Project Genie produced playable Mario and Zelda knock‑offs

Google has started rolling out access to Project Genie, an experimental AI prototype powered by Genie 3 and Gemini, with official availability for Google AI Ultra subscribers in the United States earlier this afternoon. The Verge’s Jay Peters was granted early access and used the tool to generate playable

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Keychron K2 HE: wood‑trimmed keyboard PC Gamer rates best for rapid‑trigger gaming

PC Gamer spotlights the Keychron K2 HE, a wood‑trimmed wireless keyboard the outlet rates as the best wireless rapid‑trigger button‑masher you can buy right now. The review notes the K2 HE uses Gateron Hall effect switches that are magnetically activated, and says you can adjust trigger points

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Dispatch's Switch release censored; fans demand refunds and protest

Dispatch’s release on Nintendo platforms today shipped with automatically censored versions of scenes that are explicit on other systems, and players say there is no in-game option to restore the original content. AdHoc confirmed the censorship to Eurogamer, saying, “Different platforms have different content criteria, and submissions are evaluated

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No Rest for the Wicked will cost $60 at full release, Moon Studios boss says

Moon Studios boss Thomas Mahler confirmed on X Thursday that No Rest for the Wicked will move to $60 when it reaches version 1.0, saying “I’m not trying to do any FOMO marketing here, but yes: when we hit 1.0, No Rest for the Wicked will move

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Scientists develop hair-thin, transistor-dense fibre chips that survive 15.6-ton truck crush

A team of scientists say they've developed a new type of fibre integrated circuit technology (FIC) with a potential integration density of up to 100,000 transistors per centimetre. The chip-integrated fibres are said to be as thin as a human hair and can withstand repeated bending and

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Google Chrome adds Gemini 3-powered auto browse for paying desktop users

Google announced a new Chrome feature called 'auto browse' powered by its Gemini 3 model in a blog post; the feature is available for Chrome on desktop and is currently rolling out to paying Google AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers. Auto browse brings an agentic experience to

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NASA C-PICA heat shield enables Varda capsule to reenter atmosphere

Using C-PICA material licensed from NASA, a protective heat shield manufactured in-house by Varda Space Industries enabled one of its capsules to blaze through Earth’s atmosphere on Thursday, the agency says. Varda’s W-5 capsule launched to low Earth orbit on Nov. 28, 2025. C-PICA (Conformal Phenolic Impregnated Carbon

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Eric Barone: Haunted Chocolatier 'very productive' but no release date

Eric Barone says in his latest Haunted Chocolatier update that he's "been very productive lately" on the game, but he declined to give a release date. When asked in 2025 if it would come out within the next five years, he said, "I hope so.

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More than half of game developers say generative AI harms the industry, GDC survey

A survey published by GDC, the annual industry conference taking place in San Francisco this March, found that 52% of more than 2,300 game developer respondents said they "think generative AI is having a negative impact on the game industry," according to report author Beth Elderkin. The

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Dreame AP10 pet air purifier removes hair and odors, ZDNET review

ZDNET's review covers the Dreame AP10, a smart pet air purifier the review says is available for $300 with a 25% discount (listed at $399.99 on Amazon in the review). The reviewer highlights a 360-degree negative-pressure air return system, multi-stage filtration, a textured cat seat on top

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Anker Steam Deck docking station drops to $30 after 10% discount

Kotaku reports Anker’s Steam Deck docking station is currently discounted by 10%, cutting the usual $33 price to $30 for a short time. The dock lets the Steam Deck output to an external display at up to 4K resolution and 60Hz over its HDMI port, a step up from