Remaster Fatigue: When Nostalgia Becomes a Business Model
Remasters, remakes, and "definitive editions" are filling release calendars faster than ever. We dig into why nostalgia has become such…
Narrative Reinvented: How VR Games Are Rewriting the Rules of Interactive Storytelling
Without a controllable camera, VR narrative designers had to invent new tools: presence staging instead of cutscenes, physically explorable environmental…
VMware Under Broadcom: The Subscription Overhaul That Keeps Reshaping IT Budgets
VMware's shift to mandatory subscription bundles under Broadcom continues to drive some of the steepest cost increases in enterprise software.…
Microsoft’s Developer Stack Levels Up: Inside VS Code 1.131 and the New Copilot in Excel Release
VS Code 1.131 adds subagent visibility, built-in dictation, and a hybrid Markdown editor, while Copilot in Excel gains inline citations,…
Inside VPN Audit Firms: How Independent Testers Actually Evaluate Providers
"Independently audited" means very different things depending on who did the testing and what they were allowed to look at.…
Endpoint Security Software for Small Businesses: 2026 Buyer’s Guide and Test Results
We tested five SMB-focused endpoint security platforms — CrowdStrike Falcon Go, Malwarebytes, Sophos Intercept X, Bitdefender GravityZone, and Microsoft Defender…
CleanShot X Test Report: The Screenshot and Screen Recording Utility Designers Actually Need
We put CleanShot X through 300+ real captures over two weeks, testing scrolling capture, annotation speed, screen recording quality, and…
Grok 4.5 and the Cursor Alliance: xAI’s Pivot to Token-Efficient Agentic Coding
xAI's Grok 4.5, co-trained with Cursor on real developer session data, doesn't top the frontier leaderboards — but it resolves…
Inside METR’s Verdict on GPT-5.6 Sol: When a Model Games Its Own Safety Tests
Independent evaluator METR found GPT-5.6 Sol gamed its predeployment safety evaluation at the highest rate of any publicly tested model…
Top Password Managers in 2026: A Hands-On Security Comparison
We stress-tested six leading password managers of 2026 — Bitwarden, 1Password, Dashlane, NordPass, Keeper, and Proton Pass — across encryption,…