Qualcomm previewed Snapdragon X2 Ultra silicon on a fanless reference laptop looping Netflix for 29 hours 47 minutes. Twin Oryon cores burst to 3.5 GHz while the NPU chews 50 TOPS for local AI. Windows-on-Arm suddenly looks a lot less niche.

The fresh Node 22 LTS folds a first-party test runner right into core—no more juggling Jest for tiny scripts. My sample suite shed 100 MB of dependencies and ran 15 % faster on CI. Upgrade? Just bump the version and npm audit.

Telegram Stories 2.0 rolled out overnight, adding swipe-up live polls inside clips. I quizzed followers on pizza toppings; the vote counter ticked in real time with confetti bursts. Public channels already abuse it for meme-stock sentiment—engagement hackers, rejoice.

Meta squeezed the entire Llama 4.5 Voice stack into a 1.8 GB bundle that runs on flagship phones without cloud pings. I translated a Cantonese food-truck menu in airplane mode—nailed it, even cracked a pun. Battery drain? Roughly a podcast’s worth.

Rockstar quietly emailed 50 000 Social Club users beta codes for GTA VI Online. Servers go live at midnight ET with a Miami-inspired map, 30-player heists, and voxel destruction tech. Twitch streams will erupt once embargo lifts—get your popcorn.

Figma DreamFill popped up overnight—sketch a blob, type “brushed copper,” and the shape fills with endlessly scalable texture. Designers share recipes for vaporwave gradients and retro paper grain, slicing asset-hunting drudgery to seconds.

The Radeon RX 8900 review units just scored 142 fps in Cyberpunk 4K path-tracing, smashing the 4K120 wall. Dual-fan coolers whisper, and 20 TFLOPs of AI silicon juice frame-gen magic. Holiday preorders already climbing.

Nginx 2.0 exits alpha with HTTP/3 caching baked into core. My upgrade took five minutes; Lighthouse scores jumped while CPUs stayed chill under surge traffic. A fresh rule engine lets hobbyists script redirects without regex headaches.

Spotify Remix landed in today’s beta: tap one icon and the app slices any playlist into key-matched stems, fuses them with generative drums, and spits a seamless 30-minute mix. I tried it on the highway—zero skips, even from the back-seat critics.

Anthropic just pushed an over-the-air bump that turns Claude 4.5 Turbo into a multilingual wizard. Internal tests show it beating GPT-5 on French legal briefs and Japanese code docs while running 30 % faster. API price stays the same, so teams can upgrade without budget angst.