Razer finally stepped into the Linux arena this month. The company sent its flagship Blade 18 to Phoronix for testing under Ubuntu certification. The laptop carries an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus processor paired with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090. That combination delivers serious muscle. Yet the price tag hits $5,399 for the reviewed […]

Mesa developers wrapped up feature additions for the next quarterly update. The project tagged version 26.2.0-rc1 on July 15. This marks the branch point before the stable release expected in early August. Contributors shipped dozens of driver fixes and API extensions. The work touches everything from legacy Radeon chips to the latest Arm Mali silicon.

Pat Gelsinger returned to Intel in 2021 with a clear mission. Fix the process woes. Rebuild manufacturing leadership. Turn the chipmaker back into a technology powerhouse. Four years later he stepped down. The stock had shed more than $150 billion in value during his tenure. The Wall Street Journal called it one of the costliest

Microsoft’s video game division finds itself in the crosshairs again. Unions on both sides of the border have filed unfair labor practice charges, accusing the company of bad-faith bargaining, coercion and failing to give proper notice before massive cuts. The complaints, lodged with the U.S. National Labor Relations Board and Canadian authorities, come just days

Grocery Outlet is opening stores again in California. A new location in Ontario Ranch starts business July 23. Independent operators Gloria and Jason Pineda will run it. Four more openings follow by the end of August. They target Ramona, San Francisco, Clovis and Petaluma. But don’t mistake this for unchecked growth. The discount chain just

Watch out, In-N-Out. A Midwest burger outfit with a cheeky “California Style Double” on its menu just declared Northern California a prime target. Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, the Wichita, Kansas-based chain, plans to open about 60 new restaurants this year. Many of those will land in the Golden State. The move comes after years

Sam Altman stepped out of his San Francisco home one morning in April. A man waited nearby. He carried a gun and a Molotov cocktail. The device bounced harmlessly off the residence. No one was hurt. Yet the message landed hard across the AI industry. That attempt on the OpenAI chief executive marked a grim

Google just pushed Android 17 QPR1 Beta 7 to testers. The build arrives as CP31.260623.005. It carries the July 2026 security patch. And it targets three Quick Settings problems that have frustrated Pixel owners since January. Short list. Long wait. Battery Share from the Quick Settings tile refused to start charging on many devices. Or

OpenAI just handed ChatGPT a new trick. The chatbot can now hunt through your old conversations, uploaded files, saved images and memories in one unified search. No more endless scrolling. No more vague keywords in the sidebar. Type what you need. Get answers drawn straight from your own history. The feature arrives as ChatGPT cements

Physical formats never fully vanished. But for years they felt like relics in a streaming world. Now data tells a different story. Vinyl sales in the U.S. crossed $1 billion in 2025 for the first time since 1983. CDs, long dismissed as obsolete, posted a striking 16% jump in the first half of 2026. These