Brendan Greene, better known by his only pseudonym PlayerUnknown, is launching his next game later this week. He spun up PlayerUnknown Productions after moving away from PUBG, the battle royale sensation he created, in 2019. Six years and several studio leadership shake-ups later, the studio will release survival game Prologue: Go Wayback! Into early access on November 20.

When I started building my home lab, the Raspberry Pi 4B (4B) was my muse to self-host apps, test new tools, and try out Docker containers. But, when containers kept crashing, I opted for a mini PC as my home lab server, as I wanted a reliable method to track performance, spot issues early, and troubleshoot them with sufficient details.

Listen, I know we all love to complain about the Windows start menu, and I don't want to beat a dead horse here. But it's hard to deny that the Windows 11 Start menu was a downgrade from Windows 10, and even though Microsoft just recently rolled out an update with some improvements, Windows 10's menu was still better.

Something I'm sure practically everyone will agree on is that subscriptions are way, way too expensive. Unfortunately, while there are a bunch of all-in-one productivity apps out there, I've noticed that just purchasing them doesn't cut it.

This is one of those discounts that only comes along every so often. Samsung's ultrawide OLED gaming monitor, the Odyssey G950SC, is now well below its retail price of $1,800. The sharp discount comes from Best Buy ahead of Black Friday, knocking $950 off, dropping it to just $850. That's a Samsung 49-inch OLED ultrawide monitor for just a fraction of its original price, which makes it an absolute no-brainer. If you've been on the lookout for something new, this monitor is going to be a great one to pick up.

Google filed a motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought by anti-corporate diversity activist Robby Starbuck, who claimed Google’s AI falsely associated him with sexual assault allegations and a white nationalist.Starbuck’s claims against Google came after he filed a similar lawsuit against Meta, whose AI he claimed falsely asserted that he’d participated in the January 6th riot at the US Capitol. But Meta settled that lawsuit in August and even hired Starbuck as an advisor to help address “ideological and political bias” in its AI chatbot, The Wall Street Journal reported. The outlet noted last month that so far, no US court had awarded damages for defamation by an AI chatbot.Starbuck is seeking $15 million in damages from Google. But the company says in its filing that his claims simply represent his “misuse of developer tools to induce hallucinations.” Starbuck doesn’t identify what prompts he used to generate the outputs at issue, according to Google, or any actual person who was misled by the alleged claims. Starbuck did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Google, of course, could eventually choose a similar route to Meta to resolve the claims. But at least for now, it’s choosing to fight them in court.View Link

If you’ve been a PC gamer for at least a few years, you probably know how exciting it used to be to upgrade your GPU. If you jumped from a GTX 1080 to an RTX 3080, for example, the leap was massive. But the story has been shifting and is very different in 2025. Performance gains for the RTX 5000 series over the previous generation just haven't been very impressive when multi frame generation is out of the picture. And, the story might be the same for the upcoming RTX 6000 series cards.

If you're looking to get a new piece of gaming hardware, and you need to stay on a tight budget, you might want to focus on an affordable gaming laptop or mini PC. But few of those exist in the sub-$1000 category anymore, and the ones that do often compromise on price with an ancient CPU, old GPU, barely enough RAM, and a tiny SSD. And they'll still be more expensive than they're worth.

I've been playing Call of Duty Zombies since the days when you'd finish a campaign and suddenly find yourself in a creaky old bunker, surrounded by the undead, wondering what just happened. Over the course of seventeen years, we've seen 11 games in the Call of Duty franchise feature the Zombies game mode, which, somewhere along the way, became a part of the trident that the entire Black Ops subseries rests on.

Tailscale and Cloudflare Tunnels have a reputation for solving similar network problems, but they approach them from very different angles. I had been using Cloudflare Tunnels for years because it handled my restrictive network environment without asking anything of my Wi-Fi provider. When I decided to see whether Tailscale could replace it, I expected a cleaner setup and stronger private connectivity. I knew Tailscale excelled at establishing secure connections between devices, so the idea of simplifying my home lab was appealing.

Everyone that is picking up Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 on any platform is going to hop online for multiplayer. The servers are going to be bustling with players engaging in many matches that will be full of killstreaks and explosions. But going online with Black Ops 7 can be a rough time if you're not adequately prepared for it, especially when you're ill-equipped to deal with veteran and skilled players. This is why you'll want to get a good grasp on what weapons you should be looking for the loadouts you create before dropping into a match.

Between their FOSS nature, better privacy, and superior security, there are plenty of reasons to love self-hosted services. These days, it’s possible to find local apps for practically every task – be it online collaboration, smart home organization, office work, or media management. In fact, I’ve been using containerized applications for my everyday tasks ever since I built my home lab, and I have no intention of going back to privacy-intrusive cloud platforms – at least, for the most part.