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Press review · Wednesday, 21 October 2026 · as of 14:39 UTC
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foxnews.com
RedHook Android malware can quietly hijack your phone
RedHook Android malware abuses wireless debugging and accessibility permissions to gain shell-level control after victims sideload a malicious APK.
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9to5google.com
The latest and biggest Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 image leak comes two days before launch
Samsung has a scheduled event set for July 22, which is where the company is expected to announce the Galaxy...
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eurogamer.net
"Why do they keep doing this?" Modern Warfare 4 gameplay debut reignites community debate about how fast Call of Duty movement should be
Though many would argue it wasn't the best format, Infinity Ward finally showed off Modern Warfare 4 gameplay, and it's clear not everyone is on board.
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timeextension.com
The "Impossible" Dreamcast Core Comes To MiSTer, But It's Very Early Days
"Alejandro must be spinning in his Lamborghini"
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gamingbible.com
18 years later, Gears of War 2 finally comes to PC as a free download
The best Gears of War game is now available on PC!
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servethehome.com
Next Gen Server Memory On Display: DDR5-8000 RDIMMs and MRDIMM Gen2 Hits DDR5-12800
The next generation of server memory is slated to get even faster. At Computex 2026 Micron was showing off DDR5-8000 RDIMMs, while Samsung had uber-fast 12,800 MT/s second-gen MRDIMMs
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global.samsungdisplay.com
Samsung Display Sets a New Brightness Standard for Premium Laptops with VESA DisplayHDR™ True Black 1400 Tandem OLED
• Supports VESA DisplayHDR™ True Black 1400 certification, with a peak brightness requirement 40% higher than the previous top tier and peak brightness of up to 1,600 nits• Tandem architecture and newly developed organic materials deliver enhanced brightness performance; panel to be showcased at K-Display 2026• Lenovo laptop earns VESA DisplayHDR™ True Black 1400 certification; ASUS, Dell Technologies and MSI products expected to follow SEOUL, July 20, 2026 – Samsung Display announced today that it has begun the full-scale supply of tandem OLED panels for laptops that meet VESA DisplayHDR™ True Black 1400, VESA's new certification tier for high-brightness OLED displays. Samsung Display is working with global PC manufacturers to expand the premium laptop OLED market with significantly enhanced brightness performance. Announced by VESA this month, VESA DisplayHDR™ True Black 1400 requires a display to reproduce black levels of 0.0005 nits or lower while achieving peak brightness of 1,400 nits at a 10% On Pixel Ratio, or OPR, which refers to the percentage of active pixels among all pixels that make up the screen. The new tier raises the peak brightness requirement by 40% compared with True Black 1000, previously VESA’s highest certification level. Products certified to True Black 1400 combine OLED’s signature true black performance with enhanced brightness to deliver exceptional viewing quality. Samsung Display’s new tandem OLED panel for laptops can reach peak brightness of up to 1,600 nits at the panel level. This is more than 40% higher than the 1,100-nit peak brightness of conventional OLED panels with a single emissive layer, also known as single-stack OLED, and places it among the brightest commercially available OLED panels for laptops. Samsung Display is supplying tandem OLED panels that support VESA DisplayHDR™ True Black 1400 to multiple global PC manufacturers. The Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i Aura Edition (16
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gsmarena.com
Newly leaked Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra2 renders confirm its upgraded specs
It will become official in 48 hours. Samsung is holding its next Unpacked launch event on July 22, which is this Wednesday. On that occasion, the company...
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ign.com
Best Buy’s Black Friday in July Sale Has Kicked Off and Features Tons of LEGO Deals – Here Are Some of Our Favorite Sets on Sale Right Now
Best Buy's Black Friday in July Sale has officially kicked off and features a ton of great LEGO deals. We've gathered up some of our favorites so you can save big on a new set this summer.
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glitchwire.com
A Mathematician Used Claude Fable to Disprove the 87-Year-Old Jacobian Conjecture in a Few Hours — Glitchwire
Levent Alpöge, a number theorist at Anthropic, announced on X that he had found a counterexample to one of algebraic geometry's most notorious problems, crediting Fable as his collaborator.
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thehackernews.com
SleeperGem Uses Three Malicious RubyGems Packages to Target Developer Machines
Three malicious RubyGems packages in the SleeperGem attack skip CI runners, target developer machines, and install persistent native malware.
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kotaku.com
RAMageddon Is Hammering Retro Handheld Makers Like Evercade
The makers of Evercade are buying up every component they can way in advance
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warhammer-community.com
The Baddest Bad Moon is coming to Warhammer 40,000 AND Total War
Nazdreg's triumphant return
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Necrons return to Kronus in a new Dawn of War IV trailer
Check out the new faction trailer.
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gizmodo.com
LG Monitors Fill PCs With Adware, and It's Not Just Recent Displays
You may not even know if 'LG Monitor App Installer' is running on your PC.
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Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link may have been cancelled, but that hasn't stopped footage of Keyblade-wielding astronauts from leaking online
A year has passed since the game was canned, but this new snippet shows it's not lacking in wackiness.
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bgr.com
4 Phones That Have Better Cameras Than The Google Pixel 10 - BGR
While the Google Pixel 10's cameras are considered good, competing devices from brands like Apple, Samsung, and Oppo can capture much better photos and videos.
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80.lv
This 3D Artist Released Ultimate Free "Metal Shader" For Blender
Metallic BSDF+ uses 5,403 nodes and data from research papers.
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linuxiac.com
Firefox 153 Brings HDR Video, Built-In PDF Merging, and QR Code Sharing
Mozilla Firefox 153 is now available with Windows HDR video support, experimental JPEG XL support, improved PDF handling, and new address bar quick actions.
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videogameschronicle.com
Final Fantasy X gets a 25th anniversary trailer ahead of X/X-2 HD Remaster coming to Switch 2 this week | VGC
Owners of the Switch version won’t be able to update to the Switch 2 port…
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supercarblondie.com
Where Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster is now after it was launched into space and caused amateur astronomer to panic
Where is the Tesla Roadster that was launched into space? It caused one amateur astronomer to panic, but should we be worried about its current whereabouts?
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theregister.com
Windows Server Update Services buckle under Microsoft's metadata mountain
Redmond has stabilized new installations, but existing deployments remain stuck in sync purgatory
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9to5mac.com
Amazon just broke one of Apple Wallet’s best recent features - 9to5Mac
With a new Amazon change, Apple Wallet order tracking has just been downgraded in a big way for Amazon shoppers.
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Using AI makes people less likely to admit they don't know something
Researchers found confidence increased even as accuracy fell
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Microsoft rushes out Windows fix for Dell's hot and bothered PCs
With a wave of the wand, affected models will go to the Patch Tuesday ball after all
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macrumors.com
Apple's Secret Siri Interface Buried in macOS 27 Beta: How to Enable
Apple appears to be testing a hidden popover interface for Siri AI in the macOS 27 Golden Gate beta that surfaces Writing Tools and contextual actions whenever the user selects some text. Spotted by a member of Reddit's r/MacOSBeta community, the floating icon appears at the top-left of the selected text, expanding when the pointer hovers over it to a compact popover of the tools and actions.
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thecut.com
You’ve Never Seen Hannah Einbinder Like This Before
The actress takes on sexual shame in the bloody, lusty slasher comedy Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma.
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nintendoeverything.com
Switch 2 modding scene makes new breakthrough, but Nintendo safe from piracy
A new breakthrough was recently made within the Switch 2 modding scene, but Nintendo can rest easy knowing that piracy still isn’t an issue at the moment. You may remember that with the original Nintendo Switch, piracy became a major problem pretty early on. Significant vulnerabilities were discovered less than a year after the console launch. Nintendo was unfortunately unable...
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forbes.com
iPhone 18 Pro Release Date: Apple’s 15-Year Event Timeline Signals Exact Date
As rumors build, analysis of every fall iPhone release indicates one date above other possibilities.
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By Scrapping Studios and Doubling Down on Decades-Old Franchises, Xbox Is Dismantling Its Future To Rebuild a Past It Can Never Recapture
Xbox's big reset has scrapped studios building original ideas in favour of doubling down on legacy IP - but how will it find its next big franchise if it only focuses on the old?
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gamesindustry.biz
32 workers at ZA/UM laid off following release of Zero Parades: For Dead Spies
Developer says commercial performance of its latest title "has not enabled us to sustain a studio of our current size"
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nypost.com
WABC-TV’s ‘Eyewitness News’ announces major shakeup in its roster of reporters
A longtime fixture of New York City television news has quietly signed off.
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androidcentral.com
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 launch live: Z Fold 8 Ultra, Z Fold 8, Z Flip 8, Galaxy Glasses, and all the news
Samsung is about to launch a whole bunch of devices soon, and we're following it all until it happens!
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windowslatest.com
Windows 11 KB5121767 released to fix shutdowns, overheating, but you don't need it unless you own these PCs
Microsoft just dropped Windows 11 KB5121767, an emergency update that replaces the July 2026 cumulative update on PCs.
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techradar.com
'The passport-style foldable is the future': how Apple made Samsung change its folding phone plans
Both Samsung and Apple are rumored to be launching 'wide' foldables this year, and I think I know why.
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"Honestly, it's still getting worse" - Valve Steam Machine engineer says component prices are still rising, potentially paving the way for a price increase
The memory crisis is not showing signs of abating, according to people whose job it is to price-out every component that goes into Valve's hardware.
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thegamer.com
The Best Castlevania Game Is Finally Playable On PC
Symphony of the Night is one of the few Vania games not on PC, but a fan project has finally changed that.
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fratellowatches.com
Breitling Launches A Top Time Trio Paying Tribute To The Aston Martin DB5
✓ Breitling introduces three Top Time B01 Chronograph Limited Editions ✓ Paying tribute to the Aston Martin DB5 ✓ Check them out here! ✓
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rapid7.com
Rapid7
On July 17, 2026, a GitHub Security Advisory was published for CVE-2026-63030, a critical unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability affecting WordPress Core.
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nintendoeverything.com
LEGO Donkey Kong Arcade set gets proper reveal with first official images, full details
Here's your first official look at the new LEGO Donkey Kong Arcade set, plus tons of details about what it includes.
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rockpapershotgun.com
This week in PC games: a Mass Effect-style RTS, a gamebook RPG for back-stabbing nobles, and a civilisation builder that offers to teach you kanji
The new PC releases for the week of 20th July 2026 include ZeroSpace, Dinoblade, Wonderia, Aquapark Tycoon, Dewdrop Dynasty, Cat Isle, and Moldrise.
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securityweek.com
WP2Shell WordPress Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild
In-the-wild exploitation seen for the new WP2Shell WordPress vulnerabilities, officially tracked as CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2026-63030.
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"The Gears of War trilogy was largely developed hungover by me" - Cliff Bleszinski reckons with a difficult past while plotting a return to games and a brighter future
Cliff Bleszkinski, the designer instrumental in the creation of Gears of War - the face of the series for three games -…
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'Three Distinct Universes': Avengers: Doomsday Official Plot Description Teases Scale and Scope
Marvel has released an official plot description for Avengers: Doomsday, detailing the scale and scope of the movie as the MCU's Multiverse Saga "begins its final chapter."
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'It's Still Getting Worse' — Steam Machine Engineers at Valve Aren't Optimistic About Where the AI-Driven Memory Crisis Will Be in 'Three to Six Months'
Steam Machine engineers at Valve have warned the ongoing memory crisis in tech is "still getting worse" as buyers face already exorbitant prices.
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neowin.net
Windows 11 KB5121767 out to fix system performance issues caused by KB5101650, KB5095093
Microsoft has released a new emergency update for Intel-based Dell systems. It is said to fix system performance issues.
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ecoustics.com
Best OLED TV and RGB LCD TV Revealed at the 2026 TV Shootout
The top OLED and RGB-lit TVs from three manufacturers competed for the title of the "King of TV" for 2026. Here's what went down at this year's TV Shootout.
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garminrumors.com
Garmin Looks Set to Launch Fenix 9 and Fenix 9 Pro Together, With a 43mm Pro and Enduro 4 Alongside
Garmin appears set to launch the Fenix 9 and Fenix 9 Pro together, this time with a smaller 43mm Pro, alongside a new Enduro 4 - and the standard Fenix 9 may go AMOLED-only.
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NYT Strands Answers Today: Hints & Clues For Sunday, July 19 (Big Talk)
Looking for help with today's NYT Strands puzzle? Here's an extra hint to help you uncover the right words, as well as all of today's answers and Spangram.
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aljazeera.com
‘Campeones! Campeones!’: Jubilation in Spain as La Roja win 2026 World Cup
Fans in Spanish city on Mediterranean cheer on both sides as Spain defeat Argentina 1-0 in extra time.