A Reddit mega-thread focusing on the enshittification of Google Home cites numerous anecdotes emphasizing the degraded experience of the smart service. Some have cited repeatedly getting errors when asking Gemini in Google Home to do the most basic of tasks. Others have complained about routines like "movie time" that have randomly started recommending local movie times instead of turning off or lowering the brightness of the lights in their room, as the user has configured it to. There are some who have claimed that Google Home proceeds to turn off the room lights instead of turning off the fans like it's been asked to.

The leading theory in the Reddit thread is that this ongoing enshittification of Google Home products is just a part of the company's strategy of planned obsolescence of its existing hardware. They believe that since this degradation began when Google started investing more into AI services, the firm plans to make its current hardware seem worse than the products it plans to reveal next. It's likely that the next Google Home launches will feature more deeply ingrained AI capabilities.

That said, Google Home and Nest's Chief Product Officer Anish Kattukaran has now attempted to allay some of these fears by apologizing for the current product experience on X (formerly Twitter). The executive has emphasized that Google is actively listening to feedback and that it will improve the reliability of its smart devices as a part of a long-term solution. Kattukaran has also noted that his team is working on "major improvements" that will be announced this fall.

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Google will officially deprecate links generated with its URL shortening tool next month. On August 25th, 2025, all links in the “https://goo.gl/*” format will no longer work and return a 404 error message.

Google shut down its URL shortener in 2019, citing “changes we’ve seen in how people find content on the internet.” Links created with the tool continued to work since then, but Google announced last year that it would begin deprecating them as traffic to the shortened URLs declined. “In fact more than 99% of them had no activity in the last month,” Google said in its July 2024 blog post.

At the time, Google also began displaying a warning page when users click on a shortened URL, saying “this link will no longer work in the near future.” With the shutdown of “goo.gl” links just a month away, now would be a good time to transition your URLs to another shortener if you haven’t already.

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Three things in life are inevitable: death, taxes, and price increases. Although that last one comes with caveats, for once.

A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced that the base price of its Xbox games at retail would hit frankly staggering $80, underpinning what has been an incredibly tough year for consumers and businesses alike with regards to spiralling costs. Whether it's supply chains being impacted by arbitrary trade wars or sticky inflation from Covid quantitative easing, the market has been relatively unstable for the past few years for a variety of reasons.

In response, various businesses have put up their prices to varying degrees. Microsoft and Sony both raised the price of their Xbox and PlayStation hardware bundles over the past couple of years, and for a short while, it looked like the industry was poised to raise the base price of their mainline games to $80. It started with Nintendo's Mario Kart World hitting $79.99 at retail, and then back and forth over whether Borderlands 4 would hit $79.99 as well — it ended up being $69.99.

Then, Microsoft announced it would also be targeting $79.99 for upcoming Xbox games, starting with FPS space odyssey The Outer Worlds 2. That is, until today.

Announced across Xbox social channels, Microsoft and Obsidian revealed that The Outer Worlds 2 will no longer be $79.99 at launch, returning to the current industry standard of $69.99.

"We’re focused on bringing players incredible worlds to explore, and will keep our full priced holiday releases, including The Outer Worlds 2, at $69.99 – in line with current market conditions," an Xbox spokesperson explained in a statement to Windows Central.

If you've already pre-ordered The Outer Worlds 2 at the $79.99 price point, you will have to grab refunds at the point of purchase if you've already paid up. Microsoft says some retailers will light up with refunds today, but some will start accepting refunds from tomorrow. Then, you can pre-order again at the new $69.99 price tier.

This is set to be the 13th game in the franchise, arriving four years after the launch of Battlefield 2042.

"BATTLEFIELD 6. July 24. Reveal Trailer," said the simple announcement today across Battlefield social media. Attached to it was a simple 2D-animated teaser with four modern-age soldiers (hinting at the return of the class system from the get-go) looking over a massive city going through a battle, with a couple of jets dogfighting across the sky. The YouTube teaser's description reads, "Prepare for the ultimate all-out warfare experience in Battlefield 6."

As mentioned before, the game is set to return to the Assault, Engineer, Support, and Recon class system from the start, unlike what happened with Battlefield 2046, while all weapons will be freely usable by any class. However, using the designated weapon type for their class (sniper rifles with Recon, for example) will offer some additional gameplay bonuses.

Recent leaks from playtests have revealed that destruction has been massively improved for this entry, while immersive features like dragging teammates away from battle for revives, combat dives, crouch sprint, landing rolls, and other abilities are being implemented too. There are also reports of being able to grab onto moving vehicles while on foot.

Battlefield 6 is in development across a wide range of EA development teams, including DICE, Motive Studio, Criterion Games, and Ripple Effect, with Vince Zampella from Respawn Entertainment overseeing the project.

While EA has yet to give Battlefield 6 a release date, the company confirmed to investors earlier this year that it plans to launch the massive game during its 2026 fiscal year. This is the 12-month time frame between April 1, 2025, and March 31, 2026. Going by previous Battlefield releases, an October or November 2025 release date for Battlefield 6 is likely, targeting PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PlayStation 5.

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The Surface Laptop 5G (that's the name) is now official. This 13.8-inch laptop is the same as its non-cellular siblings, with the only difference being 5G support with Nano SIM and eSIM compatibility. However, as Microsoft says in the announcement post, equipping a laptop with 5G is not just putting a modem inside. Microsoft had to carefully engineer a so-called "dynamic antenna system" that adapts to the environment and ensures the best reception by having six strategically placed antennas.

The laptop can seamlessly switch between cellular connection and Wi-Fi to ensure uninterrupted connection. Also, it can work as a mobile hotspot for other devices in areas where Wi-Fi is not available.

Unlike other laptops with antennas near the bottom of the device, the Surface Laptop 5G has its antennas placed higher for reduced interference. Microsoft also developed a new case material, multi-layered laminate, that allows radio signals to pass through without reducing performance, while still delivering the durability, lightness, and premium feel of Surface products.

Like the rest of modern Surface devices, the Surface Laptop 5G is a Copilot+ PC with Intel's NPU that enables various AI-powered experiences and features such as Recall, Click to Do, and more.

The Surface Laptop 5G will be available on August 26, 2025, starting at $1,799 (Core Ultra 5, 256GB SSD, 16GB RAM). In addition to the Surface Laptop 5G, Microsoft is launching the recently announced Surface Laptop 13-inch and Surface Pro 12-inch for business customers.

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Ubisoft is making a lot of headlines lately, and not for the right reasons. Right behind telling us that paying for progression is fun comes their latest take: they're now blaming everyone but themselves for their recent failures in the gaming market.

First, starting with Star Wars: Outlaws, Ubisoft has come out claiming the game failed to meet expectations because Star Wars itself isn't popular at the moment.

As reported by TheGamer, Ubisoft's CEO, Yves Guillemot, said, "Outlaws was released at a time when the brand that it belonged to was in a bit of choppy waters."

Being a Fallout fan is a bit of a mixed bag, these days. While Fallout 76 has improved greatly over time and the Fallout TV show is a huge hit with Season 2 on the way in December, there hasn't been a new single-player RPG in the franchise since the decade-old Fallout 4 — and it's entirely possible there won't be one until we're well into the 2030s. After all, while is on the way, Bethesda has The Elder Scrolls 6 to develop first.

The good news, though, is that Fallout's passionate community is always working on awesome mod projects like Fallout London to tide hungry fans over. And thanks to the release of a viral new trailer this pas weekend, I've been made aware of one in the works that just might be one of the coolest mods I've ever seen anyone make.

That project is Fallout: Bakersfield — a total conversion mod for the first DOOM that reimagines the original isometric Fallout CRPG as an old-school FPS. I'll dig into specific details below, but honestly? Its new trailer and gameplay footage speaks to how impressive it is far better than I ever could, so give it a watch.

First off, the Avatar game is gaining a third-person camera to play the entire game with and explore Pandora from a new perspective. This will be a quick-switch option too, with players being able to swap between the original first-person and the new third-person camera using a button press while in-game.

This isn't just a new camera angle update either, as Ubisoft says it has reworked everything from animations to the Na'vi controls to make the third-person experience a fresh one.

"Whether exploring the Western Frontier, fighting the RDA, or simply taking in the views, Third-Person Mode brings a new sense of scale, freedom, and immersion," says the development team in a blog post. "The development team has reworked animations, controls, audio, and camera systems to ensure the experience feels seamless and intuitive."

Next, the same update will deliver New Game+ to the title. Like with other games, this mode will only be unlocked after finishing the game. When restarting the story with New Game+ enabled, all inventory and unlocked skills will transfer over. Massive is also promising "a brand-new skill tree and more powerful gear" in this mode.

"We've always envisioned Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora as a living world that evolves with our players," adds Omar Bouali, creative director at Massive Entertainment. "This update is a celebration of our community's passion and we're thankful to our players for their support. It means the world to our team."

The Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora update carrying these two features will land on December 5, just a couple of weeks prior to when the next entry in the movie franchise, Avatar: Fire and Ash, is supposed to hit theaters.

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Ubisoft is looking to become the new EA, drawing inspiration from its previous decades of monetization, with this latest mishap in gamer misunderstandings. Hot off the financial press, Ubisoft has come out with a bold claim that gamers have more fun when they can pay even more for the game they already bought!

I'm not one to put words in the mouth of others, so here's the statement directly from Ubisoft's financial report: "The adoption of monetization and engagement policies that respect the player experience and are sustainable in the long term. At Ubisoft, the golden rule when developing premium games is to allow players to enjoy the game in full without having to spend more."

Continuing, they make the boldest of claims, "Our monetization offer within premium games makes the player experience more fun by allowing them to personalize their avatars or progress more quickly; however, this is always optional."

The Dying Light series quickly earned its place in the pantheon of great zombie games by blending brutal first-person combat with satisfying parkour movement – all set within dangerous open worlds. The series has thus far delivered on offering a slick and thrilling survival experience, but with the upcoming Dying Light: The Beast, we see developer Techland return to its roots for a more focused concept that lets an amped up returning protagonist Kyle Crane loose in an even more hostile setting.

I got to spend over four hours playing the opening of Dying Light: The Beast, getting reacquainted with Kyle Crane as he comes to grips with a more feral world after the events of the second game. Playing The Beast was very much like a turbo-charged version of the original game, so much so that you may as well call it Super Dying Light. So with that, here are six of the most exciting and game-changing upgrades that the upcoming sequel brings to the table.

1. A More Focused Story, and the Return of Kyle Crane

Dying Light 2 took a bold step towards building an RPG-style story with game-changing events defined by your choices. While certainly ambitious, it didn't quite reach its full potential in the broader sense. For The Beast, we instead see a more defined story about the return of Kyle Crane, who has undergone some horrific experiments following the shocking ending of the Dying Light 1 expansion The Following. Now hellbent on revenge against the mysterious antagonist known as The Baron, Crane has to relearn his skills as a survivalist while leveraging some powerful abilities to level the playing field.

The Beast draws inspiration from Dying Light 2 and does more to make Kyle a more central figure within his story. Along with new third-person cutscenes, there are now more opportunities to help build Crane's understanding of the state of things in Castor Woods. Several interactions with key characters also play out in Mass Effect-style chats, which can give you more insight into plot developments and to pick up on Dying Light lore. I really appreciate the more focused take on storytelling and character growth from these moments, especially with Kyle Crane front and center. And it's a cool opportunity to catch up on what's changed in the world following the events of Dying Light 2.

Dying Light: The Beast does well to show its teeth early, making the point that this is a more brutal take on the series. Many of the combat encounters in the opening show how aggressive and imposing the infected can be, with even the common foes managing to get the jump on me when I let my guard down. Fortunately, Kyle Crane is a far more capable survivalist than before. So much so that many abilities locked off in different skill trees from previous games, such as the parkour-based high jumps and pulling off counter grabs, are a part of Crane's core kit and can be used immediately. Furthermore, you can even use new takedowns on weakened enemies, which act as glory kills for the lesser and more elite infected.

I certainly appreciated being able to do so without having to endure much of a retread of the familiar power grind back to securing vital skills. This made me feel a bit more confident to face down foes armed with a hammer or machete, thanks to some amped-up beast powers running through Crane's body. That said, I still sometimes felt overwhelmed by combat encounters and had to make tactical retreats often to heal. But thankfully, new skills that can be unlocked can help level the playing field, such as the return of the flying drop kick and the array of new beast powers that Kyle can unleash.

3. A More Organized Way to Acquire New Skills

The previous games featured skills spread across the combat, parkour, and survival trees, with your playstyle defining growth for each. Dying Light: The Beast ditches the specialized leveling system in favor of more traditional leveling, with earned skill points spent across the different combat and traversal branches at your leisure. This helps to even out character growth, with The Beast avoiding the lopsided growth that could occur in the first two Dying Lights.

However, the special Beast skill tree will require some more effort to unlock, as only by defeating the various Chimera bosses hidden throughout Castor Woods, which reveal themselves during story missions and hidden locations. Once you defeat one, Crane will acquire a sample of the Chimera, which will expand his more powerful skills.

4. Going Beast Mode

Dying Light: The Beast finally grants players new abilities and skills that have been long-teased throughout the series. As a powered-up state that goes into effect once you've dished out or sustained enough damage, Crane will automatically enter beast mode, amping up his melee strikes and agility in ways that let you cut loose against common and elite foes alike. Additional Beast powers add new abilities like a running jump, a ground slam, and even the ability to pick up boulders and toss them at foes, just like those annoying bruiser enemies from earlier games.

The Dying Light series has always balanced that sense of power with feeling vulnerable in a fight, but entering beast mode offers up a satisfying burst of strength that not only comes in clutch, but can also lead to a fantastic finish to a fight. The developers even likened the mode to acquiring a power pellet in Pac-Man, which will turn your enemies into weaklings in no time. And while beast mode can come in handy, it’ll unfortunately activate the moment the meter is filled, which can lead to some awkward moments where the action is winding down and you’re still pumped up.

5. Re-embracing Survival Horror by Adding More Danger

One moment that instills a sense of dread for every Dying Light player is right when nightfall hits. In that moment, the game transitions into a full-on survival horror experience as the powerful, volatile infected come out to play. While Dying Light 2 eased the tension of nighttime gameplay to make it more approachable, this ultimately came at the expense of its larger experience. This was later patched with further updates, and The Beast fully embraces the original vision of survival during the night.

A prevailing worry other fans, including myself, had with Dying Light: The Beast was that it was going to be a more bite-sized follow-up, but after my hands-on time, developer Techland had proven me wrong with the upcoming standalone game. The scale of The Beast is much closer to the original Dying Light, which the devs have stated was the sweet spot when it came to playing the more aggressive take on their open-world survival game.

What makes Dying Light: The Beast work well, based on my limited time with it, is that it combines the best aspects of both the original and the first sequel. It adopts a more thoughtful approach to presenting its main narrative and characters from the second, while retaining the more confident and hard-hitting, tense action from the original. Without the decision paralysis that could come from Dying Light 2's complex narrative, The Beast goes all-in on Crane's revenge story that's chock-full of the thrills and scares that the series is all about – and that seems to be what fans are most looking forward to with the next entry in this series.

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We could soon see a massive push for AI PC adoption, according to Intel. The tech giant shared the results of a survey of over 5,000 businesses and IT decision makers conducted to gain insight into the adoption of AI PCs.

The survey aimed to determine how much people know about AI PCs and what roadblocks prevent AI PC adoption.

The survey, which was commissioned by Intel, showed that 87% of global businesses are transitioning to AI PCs or plan to transition in the future.

Intel highlighted that many people already rely on AI services, such as real-time translation. However, many AI tools are cloud-based and do not require the end user to have an AI PC.

But the data also suggests that IT workers want local AI capabilities and that those departments have the support of C-suite executives.

What’s holding AI PCs back?

An education gap appears to be a major factor limiting AI PC adoption. According to Intel, only 35% of employees have a "concrete understanding" of the business value of AI. In contrast, over half of leadership team members see the potential brought by AI PCs, the survey results state:

• Among the wider employee base, there’s an education gap around the potential of AI PCs—only 35% of employees are thought to have a concrete understanding of this technology’s business value, so they aren’t likely to be the driving force behind AI PC adoption.
• Conversely, more than half (51%) of leadership team members have a firm understanding of the potential AI PCs bring—this is likely to make them more receptive to the idea of investment.

Honestly, I find those figures shocking. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are unbelievable.

Quick links:

1. Windows 10 and 11
2. Windows Insider Program
3. Updates are available
4. Reviews are in
5. Gaming news

Windows 11 and Windows 10

Here, we talk about everything happening around Microsoft's latest operating system in the Stable channel and preview builds: new features, removed features, controversies, bugs, interesting findings, and more. And, of course, you may find a word or two about older versions.

Windows 10's support is quickly approaching (including exotic editions, such as the original LTSB), and with Microsoft offering only 12 months of extended security updates for regular users, multiple groups provide their own solutions for the inevitable demise of hundreds of millions of PCs. The Restart Project released a so-called "End of Windows 10 toolkit" to help community repair groups deal with the upcoming event.

If your computer is not supported but you still want to leave Windows 10 behind, try the recently updated Flyby11 app, which received a new way to download and patch Windows 11 images. You can also check out this guide to learn how to create a lightweight Windows 11 image for unsupported PCs. Alternatively, you can sign up for the Extended Security Update program and get one more year of updates for free, as described in our newly published guide.

If you plan to stay with Windows 10 and you use Office apps, Microsoft has an important update for you. The company revealed that Microsoft 365 apps will stop receiving feature updates in August 2026 for the Current Channel, October 2026 for the Monthly Enterprise Channel, and January 2027 for the Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel.

This week, Windows 11 version 24H2 received a new out-of-band update with an emergency fix for Azure VM boot issues. Also, Microsoft confirmed problems with the emoji panel in Windows 10, the fact that it could not resolve a recent Windows Firewall issue, and details about driver improvements in Windows 11 version 25H2.

Microsoft also announced that Windows 11 images now include more recent versions of inbox apps. This allows customers to use those apps right after installing Windows and without wasting time and bandwidth on updates. Another benefit to this is that more recent versions include all the security fixes, which minimizes security risks and threats.

To finish this week's Windows 11 section, here is our recap of the top 10 useful and cool features that Windows 11 received in the first half of 2025. They include some much-anticipated changes, such as small taskbar buttons (in the picture below), and more obscure stuff. We also published a similar article, but for the upcoming 10 cool features for Windows 11.

Also, here is a cool project that puts Windows XP in your browser, allowing you to check out the 21-year-old operating system in Edge, Chrome, or any other modern browser.

Windows Insider Program

Here is what Microsoft released for Windows Insiders this week:

This week, Microsoft revealed details about why a particular taskbar feature for Windows 11 was killed. As it turned out, Microsoft's idea for a simplified taskbar received so much flak from Windows insiders that the company was forced to kill it for good.

With the latest preview builds, Microsoft is testing a big new feature for its operating system. Windows 11 is getting a new adaptive power saver, which will turn on or off depending on workload and not your current battery level. Microsoft is also changing how energy saver affects various parts of your system, such as the display, background tasks, and more.

Also, Microsoft released an important new feature for the Copilot app. It now lets you share the entire desktop with Copilot through the Vision feature and receive useful information and help from AI in your applications. Another change enables you to trigger Copilot Vision when in voice mode.

Updates are available

This section covers software, firmware, and other notable updates (released and coming soon) delivering new features, security fixes, improvements, patches, and more from Microsoft and third parties.

Command Palette, one of my favorite PowerToys modules, is getting an important new feature. Soon, you will be able to pin favorite apps for quicker access in the launcher or the list of all apps. App pinning is expected in version 0.93 next month.

If you use Google Chrome and uBlock Origin, the famous content blocker, you might have noticed that the extension was permanently disabled. Fortunately, there is still a way to bring it back to life. Check out this guide to learn how to enable uBlock Origin in Google Chrome. Speaking of Chrome, Google is ending its browser support on macOS 11 Big Sur.

Other browser news includes a dedicated version of AdGuard for Microsoft Edge on Android, a new Vivaldi for iOS update that introduced Reader View and other improvements, and Firefox getting WebGPU support..

In a surprising twist of events, Microsoft announced that Skype for Business and Exchange are getting their own Extended Security Update program, giving users six more months of support before services shut down for good.

Here are other updates and releases you may find interesting:

• Security Copilot in Microsoft Entra is now available for all IT admins.
• Here's how the Microsoft Stream and Clipchamp unification is going.
• Microsoft 365 Copilot is finally getting memories.

• LibreOffice called out Microsoft for using "complex" file formats to lock in Office users.

• VMware Workstation Pro and Fusion received snapshot and security fixes.

• Mercedes-Benz integrates Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot for in-car productivity.

• Microsoft stopped using China-based engineers to support US defense clients.

   

What will not receive updates anymore is Microsoft's Movies and TV store. This week, the company quietly killed it. No refunds will be offered, but users can keep their movie libraries and watch everything they purchased before.

Reviews are in

Here is the hardware and software we reviewed this week

Christopher White published a review of the Synology BeeStation Plus, a worthy upgrade over the original BeeStation. It is affordable, easy to set up, great for family sharing, and it has a small footprint. It is not flawless, of course, but still good overall.

Steven Parker published a small hands-on article about the SEENDA KSM64-3, an ultra-thin keyboard-mouse combo with an affordable price tag.

On the gaming side

Learn about upcoming game releases, Xbox rumors, new hardware, software updates, freebies, deals, discounts, and more.

New games are coming to Game Pass subscribers. Microsoft announced a new wave of titles, which includes High On Life, RoboCop: Rogue City, Grounded 2, Farming Simulator 25, Wheel World, Abiotic Factor, and more. Three games are leaving the service, so check out the complete list here.

The Xbox app on PC received an important new feature that was previously available only on consoles. Now, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers with PCs and handhelds can stream the games they own from the cloud. Right now, this feature supports over 250 games.

Deals and freebies

Here is the latest issue of the Weekend PC Game Deals series, which includes automation fests, charity specials, a free copy of Civilization VI: Platinum Edition, and a lot more.

Other gaming news includes the following:

• Avowed received Steam Deck Verified with a new update that reworked the Fighter and Ranger classes.

• Cyberpunk 2077 is getting self-driving cars, FSR 4, XeSS 2, VRR on consoles, and more.

   

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In 1994, Commodore crashed and burned. Once a home computing giant across the US and Europe, the company was undone by mismanagement and misfires. The carcass was picked clean and the pieces resold so many times that it was hard to keep track, but with each new owner came the inevitable—an attempt to make a fast buck by slapping the famous C= logo on any old junk.

Fans watched in horror as the brand appeared on the mediocre Web.it all-in-one PC, the bizarrely named Gravel in Pocket media player, and the Commodore smartphone. There was even a Commodore-branded shredder. So when retro gaming YouTuber Christian “Perifractic” Simpson announced he wanted to buy what remained of Commodore and give it a new life, questions were asked. Chief among them: does the world still even need Commodore?

When I’m 64

Commodore as a brand initially focused on typewriters and calculators, but its glory days arrived with the rise of home micros, causing a swift rebirth as Commodore International Computing.

Its biggest success was the Commodore 64, which hit the sweet spot between affordability and potential. While the CPU was sluggish, powerful graphics and a surprisingly capable sound chip (which remains revered today) spurred creativity on both sides of the Atlantic. Over 5,000 commercial games were released during the machine’s heyday, and more than 15 million units were sold, making the C64 still one of the highest-selling single computer models ever.

It’s this legacy Simpson aims to revive. Initially, he sought a licensing deal with the Commodore brand owners, imagining “official” boards and replacement components as part of an inclusive, community-friendly conglomerate. These plans snowballed during discussions, and Simpson found himself securing an agreement to buy Commodore outright for a “low seven-figure” sum. He now serves as Commodore CEO and promises to revive the company in a sustainable way—one that won’t repeat the failures of the past.

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But here’s where things get tricky. Simpson doesn’t actually own the original company because that company no longer exists. Commodore’s 1990s dismemberment means the current iteration owns a number of trademarks, but essential parts of the ecosystem remain scattered. C64 ROMs and Amiga (Commodore’s 16-bit micro) rights belong to Cloanto and Amiga Corporation. AmigaOS is controlled by Hyperion Entertainment. And aside from the odd mass-market flirtation from clone machines, like the C64DTV all-in-one joystick and the plug-and-play THEC64 Mini, major developments that mattered for the past 30 years have all come from the community, not the brand.

Computers for the Masses

It’s for these reasons Simpson finds himself walking multiple tightropes. He must avoid alienating enthusiasts that kept the Commodore flame alive, and not imply that only his new Commodore confers legitimacy. He must collaborate closely with owners of other key puzzle pieces and license the Commodore brand fairly to interested third parties. And to recoup that seven-figure sum, the new Commodore must sell enough new hardware, which means moving beyond a dwindling core fanbase.

For now, Simpson’s initial play banks heavily on nostalgia—not solely for the C64, but for an entire era. The new Commodore website pitches the company as a “digital detox brand [that’s] grounded in digital minimalism.” It rails against social media, glorifies the good old days of “techno optimism”—apparently, the 1980s through to the mid-1990s—and hints that Commodore can help users reclaim their childhoods. But the company also wants to be seen as an innovator with an eye on the future, and this results in a kind of branding whiplash. The new Commodore wants to be both reboot and original; past and future.

Fittingly, this iteration’s debut product, the Commodore 64 Ultimate, embodies such tensions. The $500 gold-bling Founders Edition and $350 LED-laden disco case Starlight Edition don’t exactly scream digital minimalism. But the $300 BASIC Beige is the spitting image of the original hardware. All models bridge authenticity and modernity by supporting original C64 peripherals and current connectivity, including 1080p HDMI output so you needn’t hunt down a CRT TV. Inside, it’s all FPGAS—field programmable gate arrays—which ultimately mean simulation rather than the less-accurate emulation found in Chinese retro handhelds and cheap plug-and-play TV devices.

Some critics nonetheless grumble that even this “new” machine is past and present in another way, effectively being an amalgamation of existing products, from the keycaps to the having the Ultimate64 board at its core. However, Ultimate64 creator Gideon Zweijtzer has publicly disagreed that Simpson is merely assembling other people’s hard work and slapping on a logo. He believes the Commodore 64 Ultimate was a “joint effort between parties to create a cohesive package” and credits Simpson as someone with reach who can “bring people together.”

The $64,000 Question

That reach will be essential because noble efforts, sentiment, and saying the right thing won’t bring sustainability. Even pent-up demand for a new Commodore 64—at the time of writing, over 4000 units have been sold, amounting to $1.5 million in revenue—is a one-off trick that can’t be repeated. History shows retro appeal can be short-lived. Outside the hardcore enthusiasts, fans tend to rapidly move beyond rose-tinted, wide-eyed nostalgia; the retro devices they’ve bought then gather dust. Few remain on sale for long because the market is finite and fickle.

And then, there's the question of games. A large slice of the annual retro gaming market—estimated to be around $2.5 billion, though no one has a great handle on the numbers—comes from software rather than hardware. The issue for Commodore here is that it never released any notable games of its own, so it can't mimic Atari’s ability to remake the Atari 2600 with modern connectivity while also reimagining 1980s classics like Pong and Missile Command. And even if Commodore were to license games, nothing in the entire C64 catalog has the cultural clout of Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Sonic the Hedgehog, or Super Mario Bros.

The alternate mainstream option would be an attempt to reestablish Commodore’s reputation as a brand that offers computing for the masses, not the classes, ringing in Simpson’s desire for a “simpler, distraction-free computing experience.” But what would that mean in practice? Unplugging? Educational and creative tools? Commodore 64 BASIC is notoriously bad, and it’s unclear whether enough newcomers will see value in a relatively expensive beige retro box when a Raspberry Pi costs a fraction of the price and can tap into a massive existing ecosystem. But an entirely new platform would be a colossally risky endeavor.

The Last Byte of a Legend

What is the endgame, then? Without hit games and obvious mainstream appeal, how does Commodore survive, let alone thrive? Is it even possible for this 1980s cultural icon to move beyond people who were there at the time and break out of its bubble? It’s hard to say.

Perhaps it doesn’t have to. Simpson envisions a “single, joined-up family of Commodore machines,” and that could be enough. Commodore would become a community-focused brand, presiding over a modest ecosystem, acting as a benevolent curator that elevates quality projects, brings just enough polish and legitimacy to help the scene flourish, and simply refuses to let the legacy fade. Although investors who’ve pumped in cash might see things differently.

A much worse scenario would be a repeat of the past: panic over income, leading to the brand again being stamped on unremarkable products, or the mismanagement and misfires that alienate partners and fans. There's also the very real possibility that Commodore might just discover the harsh reality of being a very niche, small player in an industry of giants. Any one of those could deal a final, fatal blow to the brand from which it would never recover, taking down swathes of the community with it.

Still, this time feels different. This revival doesn’t come from cynicism but from genuine passion and love for the brand. Even so, the odds of success feel slim, whether that means sparking a new wave of computing optimism or returning the brand to cultural relevance. But for a while at least, fans can remain optimistic this might finally be the play that truly brings Commodore back to life.

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0:00 Welcome to Paul’s Tech News - July 20, 2025 

2:05 AMD’s Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-Series, up to 96-core for $11700 

4:36 Intel struggles continue, Firefox tracks Raptor Lake crashes from rising temps in EU 

6:17 Nvidia says it has US Govt green light to sell AI chips to China 

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8:03 Valve’s payment processor controversy 

9:16 Return of the Commodore 64 

10:04 The $500K GPU: ASUS RTX 5090 ROG Astral (Real) Gold Edition

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AMD’s latest Zen 5-based Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-Series of CPUs go on sale later this month, and the top option will be priced at $11,699. The 9000 WX-Series chips are designed for workstations, with the $11,699 Threadripper Pro 9995WX shipping on July 23rd with 96 cores and 192 threads.

Dell, HP, Lenovo, and Supermicro will all start selling high-end workstations with the latest Threadripper 9000 series of chips on July 23rd, and DIY builders will be able to purchase the processors through AMD’s channel partners.

AMD’s Threadripper Pro 9995WX looks like it will comfortably beat its previous generation chips.

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AMD will also offer the 64-core Threadripper Pro 9985WX for $7,999, the 32-core Threadripper Pro 9975WX for $4,099, the 24-core Threadripper Pro 9965WX for $2,899, and the Threadripper Pro 9955WX for $1,649. All five processors are designed to be faster in professional rendering tools like Chaos V-Ray, or tools like Adobe After Effects.

The Pro 9000 WX-Series processors are also designed for local AI deployments, including fine-tuning models, inference, and AI application development. “When running a context-based prompting inference test using DeepSeek R1 32B, we are seeing a 49 percent better performance of Threadripper Pro 9000 over Intel,” claims AMD.

AMD hasn’t yet revealed pricing for its non-Pro Threadripper 9980X and 9970X processors, but expect those prices to be a lot less for DIY builders.

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In hardware news this week, ASUS is launching a 'mini PC' with an NVIDIA Grace CPU, Linux gets a port for Lossless Scaling Frame Generation (LSFG), NVIDIA becomes the first $4T company, lots of interesting cases launch (Fractal Epoch, Corsair Frame 5000D, Silverstone Seta H2), and more. We're in Shenzhen, China for this report in the middle of our newest deep-dive investigation.

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02:21 - ASUS Launching Mini PCs with NVIDIA Grace CPU 

03:51 - Linux MFG Alternative 

06:12 - NVIDIA Becomes First 4 Trillion Dollar Company 

08:44 - Corsair Frame 5000D Launches 

09:02 - Steve Gets Interrupted 

10:25 - Fractal Epoch Case Launch 

11:22 - Silverstone Launches Case for 15 Drives 

13:07 - Intel 192-Core SOC Rumor 

13:58 - Export Ban on Chip Design SW Lifted 

15:29 - Xbox Exec Suggests AI for Laid-Off Workers

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Kicking off the update with the performance upgrades, AMD Radeon RX 9000 series graphics card owners will be happy to know that AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) upscaling is finally hitting the sci-fi RPG. The option will only be enabled once an upcoming AMD graphics driver brings support for it, however, and a release date for that has not been revealed yet.

CD Projekt RED has also upgraded AMD's frame generation tech to FSR version 3.1 for better stability and visuals too. This can be used with any upscaler the title offers, be it DLSS or XeSS. Speaking of the Intel-developed upscaler, XeSS 2.0 with frame generation is also landing with the update. Consoles aren't being forgotten either, as Variable Refresh Rate support is finally landing for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.

As for the new gameplay features, an AutoDrive functionality to let players relax as the cars drive themselves to map markers, a Delamine taxi service that can be called anywhere (for a fee), and even a cinematic camera mode for these two self-driving modes are all coming with the update. To match those, four new vehicles and side jobs for acquiring them have been added too.

Find the complete patch notes over here, which also detail quite a few bug fixes that will be included in the update.

The Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.3 is releasing tomorrow, July 17, across PC, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and Apple Silicon macOS machines. A Nintendo Switch 2 version of the update is also in development but will be arriving at a later date.

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Fast forward to December the same year, the company announced the succeeding 8040 series, and while the CPU was still based on Zen 4, the AI capabilities were much improved with a combined TOPS of 39, where the NPU itself saw a 60% boost, with it now reaching 16 TOPS.

However, this still was not enough to exceed Microsoft's Copilot+ PC requirement. If you are not familiar, Microsoft Copilot+ PC is a term Microsoft uses for the new AI PCs specifically geared towards Windows 11 24H2. Only systems that have higher than 40 NPU TOPS are eligible to be labelled as a Copilot+ PC.

At Computex 2024 last June, AMD released new Ryzen AI 300 series APUs as it switched from the x000 series nomenclature to the new x00 series. With 300 chips, AMD debuted Zen 5 cores, RDNA 3.5 graphics, and XDNA 2-based NPU.

The Ryzen AI 300 series mobile lineup currently bottoms out with the Ryzen AI 5 340. However, today, the company is releasing a new entry-level SKU with the Ryzen AI 5 330 and what's special about this that the new 330 APU still exceeds Microsoft's Copilot+ PC requirement despite being just a quad-core processor and that's because it gets the full NPU treatment like the more expensive options.

"The new AMD Ryzen AI 5 330 processor is designed to offer incredible everyday compute experiences in mainstream and affordable Copilot+ PCs. With 50 NPU TOPS, notebooks powered by AMD Ryzen AI 5 330 exceed Microsoft’s requirements for Copilot+ PCs, offering true next-gen AI experiences built for Windows 11," AMD says, describing the new APU. It adds "Systems powered by the Ryzen AI 5 330 processor will be available from OEMs, including Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo and MSI and arriving in market in the coming months."

Aside from the CPU core count, the integrated GPU on the AI 5 330 also takes a cut as it has only two Compute Units (CUs). The new processor boosts up to 4.5 GHz from its base clock of 2.0 GHz depending on the configurable TDP that runs between 15-28 watts.

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For more than two decades, hard drive manufacturer Seagate has been experimenting with heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology for increasing hard drive density—drives that use tiny lasers to heat up and expand parts of the drive platter, write data, and then shut off to allow the platter to cool and contract, all within less than a nanosecond.

After decades of overly rosy availability predictions, Seagate announced in late 2024 that it was finally delivering HAMR-based drives with capacities of up to 36TB to some datacenter customers. Today, the drives are finally available for end users and individual IT administrators to buy, albeit only in smaller capacities for now. Seagate and other retailers will sell you massive 30TB IronWolf Pro and Exos M hard drives for $600, and 28TB drives for $570. Both drives use conventional magnetic recording (CMR) technology, which performs better than the shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology sometimes used to increase disk density.

The drives are based on Seagate's Mosaic 3+ platform, which "incorporates Seagate’s unique implementation of HAMR to deliver mass-capacity storage at unprecedented areal densities of 3TB per disk and beyond."

Seagate's press release is focused mostly on the large drives' suitability for AI-related data storage—"AI" is mentioned in the body text 21 times, and it's not a long release. But obviously, they'll be useful for any kind of storage where you need as many TB as possible to fit into as small a space as possible.

Although most consumer PCs have moved away from hard drives with spinning platters, they still provide the best storage-per-gigabyte for huge data centers where ultra-fast performance isn't necessary. Huge data center SSDs are also available but at much higher prices.

Seagate competitor Western Digital says that its first HAMR-based drives are due in 2027, though it has managed to reach 32TB using SMR technology. Toshiba is testing HAMR drives and has said it will sample some drives for testing in 2025, but it hasn't committed to a timeline for public availability.

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The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is a fascinating and terrifying subject.

While AI brings positive gains for our little planet we call home, there's also a good chance it will cause massive unrest as it gets smarter and becomes a much better employee than you or I.

Besides the ever more frequent reports of significant layoffs and outright job losses in the wake of AI's rise, the heads of many of the leading AI firms are also sounding the alarm.

But is the situation as bad as some of AI's most powerful players are making it out to be?

NVIDIA is currently the hottest commodity on the AI market right now, as its chips are the ones that everyone wants powering their AI models. NVIDIA recently became the first $4 trillion company, made possible largely by the ongoing AI race.

That gives NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's comments on AI a lot of weight.

Huang was recently interviewed by CNN's Fareed Zakaria, in which Huang expressed a bit of optimism alongside some pessimism about AI and the impact it's having on jobs (via Tom's Hardware).

Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to macOS later this week, after it was originally set to debut in early 2025. Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition will officially be available for Apple silicon devices for the first time on July 17th, from Apple’s own Mac App Store, Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG.com.

CD Projekt Red has optimized Cyberpunk 2077 for a variety of Mac hardware, all the way from the early M1 models up to the latest M4 chip family. Only some M1 and M2 Macs are supported, though — you’ll need a Mac with 16GB or more of unified memory to play Cyberpunk 2077, so base 8GB M1 and M2 chips won’t be compatible.

There will be graphics presets that are optimized for each Apple silicon model, and more powerful Apple silicon chips will also fully support features like path tracing, which is a film-like full ray tracing mode that greatly improves lighting and occlusion in the game.

AMD’s FSR upscaling and frame generation will also be available in Cyberpunk 2077 on Mac, helping the game feel more smooth with options like path tracing enabled. There will be MetalFX upscaling, too, alongside support for Apple’s Magic Mouse and Trackpad hardware.

Apple and CD Projekt Red haven’t shared performance data for what to expect across different Apple silicon Mac configurations. If you own an Apple XDR display, or any other HDR monitor, you’ll get HDR support in Cyberpunk 2077, and there’s even spatial audio and head-tracking with Apple AirPods.

Mac owners have technically been able to run Cyberpunk 2077 on their devices for a couple years now, thanks to Apple’s own Proton-like game porting tool. This official release means the game takes full advantage of Apple silicon and Apple’s native Metal graphics APIs, including its Tile-Based Deferred Rendering (TBDR) architecture.

Cyberpunk 2077 debuts on Mac just as CD Projekt Red releases the latest 2.3 patch for the game, which includes additional cars and new photo mode features. The game will support cross progression across all platforms and includes the Phantom Liberty expansion and all of the major updates to the game so far.

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July 13, 2025

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Installing ChromeOS Flex or FydeOS on a Windows 10 computer, which gives it the functionality of a Google Chromebook. And, as shown in the video, this can include the ability to run local Linux applications.

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00:45 A Cloud OS 

01:57 ChromeOS Flex 

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1. Windows 10 and 11
2. Windows Insider Program
3. Updates are available
4. Reviews are in
5. Gaming news

Windows 11 and Windows 10

Here, we talk about everything happening around Microsoft's latest operating system in the Stable channel and preview builds: new features, removed features, controversies, bugs, interesting findings, and more. And, of course, you may find a word or two about older versions.

The July 2025 Patch Tuesday updates arrived this week, bringing the latest fixes and security improvements to supported operating systems. Windows 11 received KB5062553 and KB5062552, while Windows 10 received KB5062554. Besides security patches, these updates fixed problems with Windows Firewall.

In addition to Patch Tuesday updates, Microsoft launched Windows Hotpatching for ARM-based PC, allowing more users to install critical security updates without restarts, and released new recovery updates.

The upcoming Windows 11 version 25H2, which was confirmed by Microsoft a couple of weeks ago, will bring more ways to uninstall stock applications bundled with the operating system.

This week, Usama Jawad published a small editorial where he shared his thoughts about one Windows 11 feature that he misses when using Windows 10. That feature might not be what you think.

We also had a bunch of useful articles for Windows 11 users. For example, here is an interesting performance comparison between a fresh and an old Windows 11 installation. It answers the question of whether performance degrades over months as the operating system becomes more cluttered. The result might surprise you. Also, check out this article with an overview of all the data Windows 11 collects.

By the way, if you plan to reinstall Windows 11, beware of third-party apps. Using some of them could result in rather unpleasant results.

Windows Insider Program

Here is what Microsoft released for Windows Insiders this week:

One of the most interesting changes in this week's preview builds was the return of the Windows Vista startup sound. The bug made its way to the Canary Channel after it was fixed in Dev and Beta. Microsoft says it will be fixed soon.

Updates are available

This section covers software, firmware, and other notable updates (released and coming soon) delivering new features, security fixes, improvements, patches, and more from Microsoft and third parties.

Copilot+ PCs might soon make it to the desktop PC segment. News emerged about Intel preparing the next generation of Core Ultra processors with an upgraded neural processing unit. A more powerful NPU will make PCs based on the next Core Ultra chips eligible for the Copilot+ PC program with its AI-driven capabilities.

We also had a bunch of Office updates. Excel, for one, will soon make it much easier to fetch data from external sources, Teams received threads and one odd feature, and Word for the web now has improved footer and header controls.

Microsoft announced several updates for the Edge browser this week. Version 139 arrived with some important changes, such as real-time password monitoring and notifications about compromised passwords. Also, it moved the settings section to WinUI 2.0, which enabled significant performance improvements. And for those in the Stable Channel, Microsoft released a small update to fix audio issues on certain websites. Finally, Microsoft restored the missing Mica material in the latest Edge Canary update. You can once again enable it in the flags menu.

Smaller browser updates include one for Vivaldi 7.5 with a bunch of fixes and Firefox 140.0.4 with two bug fixes.

Here are other updates and releases you may find interesting:

• Microsoft released PowerToys 0.92.1 with Command Palette fixes and more.
• Microsoft confirmed WSUS is currently broken and there is no workaround.

• Microsoft gave users a big reason to upgrade to Windows 11 24H2 with a faster, more secure web.

• Microsoft's new Phi-4-mini-flash-reasoning model speeds up on-device AI by 10x.

   

Here are the latest drivers and firmware updates released this week:

• AMD released more details about the TPM and BitLocker bug that still affects certain processors.

Reviews are in

Here is the hardware and software we reviewed this week

This week, we published a review of the 8849 TankPad, a rugged tablet with 5G, serious protection, a built-in projector, plenty of storage, and more. If you are in the market for a rugged tablet, this one is a very good option to consider at just $599.99. It is not perfect, of course, but it is very good at its main job of being tough and delivering fantastic battery life for outdoor use.

Steven Parker reviewed the GEEKOM Mini IT15, a small PC with the Core Ultra 9 285H processor and a lot of memory and storage for quite a low price. It is a fantastic low-profile computer with only a few minor annoyances that you can overlook, considering the cost and performance you get out of it.

Robbie Khan reviewed the Valerion VIsionMaster Plus2, a luxurious short-throw projector with excellent image quality, fantastic craftsmanship, quiet operation, but a very steep price tag.

On the gaming side

Learn about upcoming game releases, Xbox rumors, new hardware, software updates, freebies, deals, discounts, and more.

Unknown Worlds announced that Subnautica 2 is delayed. The studio published a new blog post, explaining that despite receiving positive feedback from closed playtests about the environment, creatures, and storyline of the sequel, it had realized that some areas needed more work before the public community is given access. To make up for the delay, developers published a gameplay trailer:

Microsoft's Rare announced big changes to Sea of Thieves. Those include custom servers, changes to the NDA in the Insiders program, a new three-month seasonal structure, new content, and a lot more.

This week's Weekend PC Game Deals is here with plenty of discounts across different marketplaces, including a trio of free games in the Epic Games Store, which include Battlestar Galactica: Deadlock, Fantasy General II, and Field of Glory II: Medieval.

Other gaming news includes the following:

• The Last of Us Part II Remastered's surprise update added a chronological playthrough on PS5 and PC.

• Oblivion Remastered's second update introduced new difficulty options and performance fixes.

   

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1:40 Intel Struggles On, More Layoffs (But We Need Arc!) 

4:50 Olympic Ridge Is Coming - AMD Zen 6 Leaks 

TECH BRIEFS 

6:41 Intel Abandons Another Socket 

8:21 Tech Yes City checks Hardware Unboxed RX 9070 XT “FineWine” testing 

9:26 WTF is Sovereign AI? 

10:28 Nvidia is the world’s first $4 trillion public company

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