Bazzite has been an excellent OS for my second gaming PC, but I can’t replace Windows 11 with it on my main rig — here’s why
Bazzite has been an excellent OS for my second gaming PC, but I can’t replace Windows 11 with it on my main rig — here’s why

Bazzite is almost the perfect Windows 11 replacement for my main gaming PC, but I can’t make the jump just yet.

OpenAI is investigating more incidents of AI agents going rogue days after hack

It appears that the “AI agents going rogue” tale has more to it than what AI giants have revealed publicly so far. Merely days after OpenAI announced that its AI agents went rogue and hacked Hugging Face, Anthropic dropped a similar bombshell. Soon, it…

Hackers are going after our water now — over 30 Minnesota utilities hit in coordinated cyberattack by apparent Iranian attackers
Hackers are going after our water now — over 30 Minnesota utilities hit in coordinated cyberattack by apparent Iranian attackers

More than 30 Minnesota water utilities were hit in a coordinated attack on their control systems, with one town’s treatment plant knocked offline. A leaked memo points to Iran, though no agency has formally accused it.

AI is finding Apple security flaws faster than Apple can sort through them

Apple is limiting simultaneous bug reports as AI floods its security team with questionable findings, even while the same tools uncover genuine Mac vulnerabilities that demand patches.

Anthropic is paying $1.5 billion over pirated books, but it can still legally cut up purchased ones

Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement covers pirated ebooks, while the court separately allowed it to scan and destroy lawfully purchased print books, a distinction now worrying Australian secondhand sellers about where their stock ends up.

Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, August 2 (game #1651)
Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, August 2 (game #1651)

Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions.

NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, August 2 (game #882)
NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, August 2 (game #882)

Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here’s all you need to know to solve today’s game, including the spangram.

Back to the ’90s: I turned my Frankenstein’s monster of a gaming PC into a retro beige beauty in honor of a time when computers used to be fun
Back to the ’90s: I turned my Frankenstein’s monster of a gaming PC into a retro beige beauty in honor of a time when computers used to be fun

I’m sick of the current state of technology, so I’m turning my gaming rig into a retro PC (and giving Windows 11 a Windows 95 makeover) so I can pretend computing is fun again.

Expert warns this dangerous Microsoft Word worm can burrow into Copilot and cause havoc — here’s what we know

Hidden white text in a Word document can make Copilot rewrite your figures and copy itself into the finished file.