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CES 2026: What We Expect To See

CES is right around the corner. We'll be on the ground in Las Vegas, but until then, here's what we expect to see at the tech show.

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Recursive Language Models (RLMs): From MIT’s Blueprint to Prime Intellect’s RLMEnv for Long Horizon LLM Agents

Recursive Language Models aim to break the usual trade off between context length, accuracy and cost in large language models. Instead of forcing a model to read a giant prompt in one pass, RLMs treat the prompt as an external environment and let the model decide how to inspect it with code, then recursively call […] The post

2 hours ago

A Coding Implementation to Build a Self-Testing Agentic AI System Using Strands to Red-Team Tool-Using Agents and Enforce Safety at Runtime

In this tutorial, we build an advanced red-team evaluation harness using Strands Agents to stress-test a tool-using AI system against prompt-injection and tool-misuse attacks. We treat agent safety as a first-class engineering problem by orchestrating multiple agents that generate adversarial prompts, execute them against a guarded target agent, and judge the responses with structured evaluation […] The post

3 hours ago

Stranger Things Series Finale Spoiler Review

Stranger Things Series Finale Spoiler Review: How did the Netflix mega-hit shape up in the end?

3 hours ago

Grok is undressing anyone, including minors

xAI's Grok is removing clothing from pictures of people without their consent following this week's rollout of a feature that allows X users to instantly edit any image using the bot without needing the original poster's permission. Not only does the original poster not get notified if their picture was edited, but Grok appears to […]

3 hours ago

Billion-dollar Bitcoin hacker Ilya Lichtenstein thanks Trump for early prison release

Just over a year after being sentenced to five years in prison for the theft of billions of dollars in Bitcoin, hacker Ilya Lichtenstein is free. Lichtenstein announced his release in a post on X, specifically crediting Trump: "Thanks to President Trump's First Step Act, I have been released from prison early. I remain committed […]

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Two Xbox Game Pass Titles Lead The Way In Eurogamer's Best Games Of 2025

Another win for Game Pass.We've seen Xbox Game Pass title Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 racking up so many Game of the Year awards over the past few weeks (including here at Pure Xbox), but that's not the case everywhere, including at Eurogamer.In fact, Eurogamer's massive list of the

4 hours ago

Deals for Today: Big Discounts on Secretlab Bundles and an RTX 5070 Refurb PC

Big savings land today with Secretlab chair and desk bundles, a surprisingly cheap RTX 5070 refurbished gaming PC, and the best Sennheiser headphone deal of the year.

4 hours ago

Title Plan Update – January 2, 2026

🥳January 2, 2026 - Title Plan Now Available Access the latest Instructor-Led Training (ILT) updates anytime at http://aka.ms/Courseware_Title_Plan to ensure you're always working from the most current version. 📌 Reminder: To help you stay informed more quickly and consistently, we’ve moved to a weekly publishing cadence for the title plan. This means each update may...

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J. Michael Straczynski Is Being Upfront With Fans Over Potential Babylon 5 Revival Following Netflix's Warner Bros. Acquisition

Babylon 5 fans are hoping Netflix’s big-money acquisition of Warner Bros. means the chances of a continuation of the much-loved sci-fi series will improve. But creator J. Michael Straczynski has calmed excitement, insisting there’s a long road ahead for any positive developments.

4 hours ago

There Will Never Be Another Show Like Stranger Things

Stranger Things was once just "that Winona Ryder show," but it went on to change Netflix, and streaming, forever.

5 hours ago

10 useful gadgets for your first apartment

From home security systems and smart smoke detectors to a sunrise alarm gently that wakes you up, here are the must-have gadgets for living in your first apartment.

5 hours ago

Finally - a terminal solution to the browser wars

A full-featured, Sixel-capable terminal browser for those who’d rather skip AI assistants Old-time web users will fondly remember Lynx, a text-only browser that ran from the terminal. Now, there's a Sixel-compatible web browser that runs completely from the terminal, and has all the graphics and modern features you'd expect. …

6 hours ago

If You Include Text Message Overlays in Your Film Project, Do This

While scrolling TikTok over the holiday, I was delighted to see No Film School fav Valentina Vee pop up on my FYP. She's a cinematographer and Adobe expert, and recently she's been lending her expertise to some great analysis of the first season of HBO Max's

6 hours ago

100 All New Writing Prompts Across Every Genre

Every year, my goal is to write at least two spec screenplays. But coming up with ideas for them can be hard. Creativity is a journey, but the spring is not always flowing. That's why I wanted to deliver 100 writing prompts across all the genres for you. These should help kickstart your brain into overdrive and get you think...

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Feature: Xbox Developer Direct Has Always Had A Surprise, But What About January 2026's Showcase?

Could we get another shadow drop?We're pretty hyped for the return of the Xbox Developer Direct showcase at some point later this January (a date hasn't been announced yet), as it's one of our favourite events of the year — and this is a particularly special year!As part of Xbox's 25th anniversary celebrations, we're gett...

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What To Expect From PlayStation in 2026

From PS5 exclusives such as Marvel's Wolverine and Saros, to third-party games that are coming to PlayStation like GTA 6 and Resident Evil Requiem, we take a look at everything to expect for your Sony console in 2026.

6 hours ago

The Witcher 3 Secret Expansion Rumors Swirl, After CD Projekt Hints at 'New Content'

The Witcher 3 maker CD Projekt has a secret new expansion for its beloved role-playing game in the works, various reports have suggested.

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Tesla annual sales decline 9% as it’s overtaken by BYD as global EV leader

Tesla annual sales have fallen for the second year in a row, a drop fueled by the removal of the federal tax credit in the U.S. and competition from Chinese automakers.

7 hours ago

Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments

Over the last two years, Nvidia has used its ballooning fortunes to invest in over 100 AI startups. Here are the giant semiconductor's largest investments.

7 hours ago

The most important PC gaming news stories in 2026

It's a bad idea to predict a year's worth of Videogame Happenings while you are delirious with cold, but one of the advantages of being delirious with cold is that you become incapable of noticing that ideas are bad. In the brief interval before I eat a bowl of cakemix and fall asleep, here are some quick opinions about the Trends and Tribulations of 2026, mostly based on our r...

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