Month: July 2026

‘This is the right call’ — VPN industry praises the UK’s decisions to leave VPN alone

“We decided not to limit VPNs.” These six words from Online Safety Minister Kanishka Narayan ended months of tension on Wednesday, confirming the government’s U-turn on age-gating privacy tools. VPN services are popular software that millions of people in the UK use every day to encrypt their online activities for…

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Two 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM kits just dropped in price — choose V-Color’s low-latency Manta XSky or Corsair’s Vengeance

If a 32GB DDR5-6000 kit is on your build list, I’ve just found two good options that are now even cheaper. First up, you can get V-Color’s Manta XSky CL30 kit for $419.99 (usually $449) at Newegg. Then there’s the Corsair Vengeance CL36 kit for $429.37 (usually $476.99) at Amazon…

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EU defangs a key pillar of its climate policy to allow more pollution

Europe's latest updates to its climate policy aren't great news for the planet. Source

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What is the release date for House of the Dragon season 3 episode 5 on HBO Max?

House of the Dragon season 3 will officially enter its back half later this week. Indeed, with four episodes down and just as many left to be released before this season’s final end credits sequence rolls, the high fantasy show’s latest multi-part installment will be over before we know it.…

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Trump is selling high-speed access to his market-moving Truth Social posts

Trump Media, the company behind Truth Social, is selling Wall Street faster access to the “most market-moving” posts on the US President’s social media platform. On Thursday, Trump Media announced plans to launch “Truth API,” a licensed real time data feed for businesses that provides “the fastest access to Truth…

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‘I thought it was satire’: Sam Altman mocks Anthropic’s latest AI ad that’s getting widely blasted for being ‘dystopian marketing slop’

Anthropic has a new ‘hard questions’ ad for Claude and AI Reactions to the short clip have been mixed OpenAI boss Sam Altman says the ad feels like satire Anthropic has a new ad out for its Claude AI chatbot, and it ties into its Hard Questions project — an…

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