China's GLM-5.2 Beats GPT-5.5 at One-Sixth the Cost — and It's Fully Open
Z.ai's 753-billion-parameter open-weight model matches Claude Opus 4.8 on key benchmarks while running entirely on Huawei silicon — a direct challenge to US AI dominance at a fraction of the price. »
Microsoft Goes All-In on Enterprise AI with $2.5B 'Frontier Company' and 6,000 Embedded Engineers
Microsoft's new Frontier Company bets that AI adoption failures stem not from bad software, but from a shortage of people who can actually make it work inside complex organizations. »
After 28 Years, ReactOS Can Now Run Half-Life 2 — A Milestone for Open Source Windows Compatibility
The volunteer-built Windows NT alternative hit a new milestone: booting Half-Life 2 in-game on real hardware, using a legacy NVIDIA driver — no emulation, no WINE, no VM. »
Greg KH Ships Seven Linux Kernels at Once to Patch a Container-Escape Root Exploit
A single July 4th release wave covering kernels from 5.10 to 7.1 patched a critical IPv6 bug that could let a process inside a container gain root access on the host. »
Bigscreen Beyond 2 Is 107 Grams, Outselling the Vive Pro, and Shipping in Three Days
Bigscreen Beyond 2 weighs 107 grams, delivers 2560×2560 micro-OLED panels per eye, has cleared its entire preorder backlog, and is now outselling the HTC Vive Pro — proof that tethered PC VR has a serious enthusiast audience. »