White House says Trump to give ‘unifying yet vicious’ speech at rescheduled press gala

July 24th, 2026 11:28 PM

Correspondents’ dinner begins in Washington, three months after original event was halted by a shootingThe rescheduled White House correspondents’ dinner is under way in Washington, three months after the original event was scrapped in April when a man fired a shotgun at a security checkpoint outside the ballroom.Donald Trump arrived at the Waldorf Astoria for the rescheduled gala, which organizers say will feel smaller and closer than the one that had been evacuated after shots were fired in...

After backlash, Meta pauses plan to ‘rate limit’ its smart glasses

July 24th, 2026 10:27 PM

Remember when Meta was planning to charge a $20 monthly subscription fee for the smart glasses feature that lets people hear each other more clearly - even though that feature runs locally on your glasses and doesn't require the cloud? Meta has paused those plans, spokesperson Tyler Yee confirms to The Verge. The company is not giving up on the idea of a subscription fee for certain features - that's still moving forward. Yee confirms that "some premium features will be subscription-based...

Leaders Review

July 24th, 2026 07:26 PM

It's extremely rare that I play, let alone review, a game with a basic and advanced/expert mode and don't treat the base mode as a tutorial for the real game in the advanced mode. And we all know you skip tutorials as much as humanly possible, unless you are doing a review and feel obligated to check it out. Leaders even goes so far as to identify expert as the ultimate mode in CAPSLOCK BOLD ORANGE, so why am I convinced that the first mode is the only version I'm interested in playing again?...

How About Celebrating Terminator 2's 35th With This VHS Cassette That Holds Switch Games?

July 24th, 2026 05:00 PM

"You forgot to say please".I'm old enough to recall when VHS tapes were the main means of getting my big-screen entertainment at home – long before DVDs, Blu-Rays and digital streaming came along.Therefore, it's pretty easy to see why Retro Fighters' Terminator 2 Mini VHS case connects with me on multiple levels; firstly, I adore James Cameron's film, and feel it represents one of the purest action flicks ever produced by Hollywood (I'm certain many other people in their mid-40s feel the same...

Ubuntu 26.04 Stopped Notifying Users About Updates, But That Was Intentional

July 24th, 2026 05:41 PM

If update notifications have stopped showing up on your Ubuntu 26.04 LTS install, that isn't some random glitch. OMG Ubuntu's Joey Sneddon has traced it back to a Launchpad bug report and a Discourse thread that both point to the same root cause.The issue is that update-notifier only sends a desktop notification when its tray icon is visible, and that icon was switched off in Ubuntu 26.04, with nothing in the Settings menu to switch it back on.Guillaume Michaud, who filed the bug on July 5,...

Weekend PC Download Deals for July 24: Steam Train Fest

July 25th, 2026 03:30 AM

All aboard for savings!

The Video Games You Should Play This Weekend – July 24, 2026

July 24th, 2026 09:00 PM

Sure, the remake of the original Halo came out this week, as did a new Splatoon game, but the most important release of this week? The Onimusha: Way of the Sword issue of Game Informer magazine. And hey, guess what? If you subscribe now, that's the first issue you'll get in the mail. Other video game things happened this week, too, though, so I will share some of those. And then we have a bunch of video game recommendations for the weekend.Halo: Campaign Evolved Review – Rollicking Revival...

WATCH: 200,000 people flee out-of-control wildfires in France and Spain

July 24th, 2026 11:27 PM

Hundreds of firefighters are battling the flames, which have already consumed dozens of square miles.

Ruby 3.3.12 Released

July 16th, 2026 05:08 AM

Ruby 3.3.12 has been released. This release includes security fixes. Please check the topics below for details. CVE-2026-41316: ERB @_init deserialization guard bypass via def_module / def_method / def_class This release updates the default gem erb to 4.0.3.1 and the bundled gem net-imap to 0.4.25. The net-imap update fixes CVE-2026-42245, CVE-2026-42246, CVE-2026-42256, CVE-2026-42257, CVE-2026-42258, CVE-2026-47240, CVE-2026-47241 and CVE-2026-47242. Please see the release notes of net-imap...

OnTrac notifies customers of data breach after network hack

July 24th, 2026 07:55 PM

OnTrac parcel delivery company is informing that hackers breached its corporate network and may have accessed personal details belonging to its customers. [...]