Engadget rounds up the cheapest new gaming consoles in 2026 as tariffs and surging memory prices push hardware costs up; the PS5 Pro that launched at $700 now lists for $900. The guide notes the lowest sticker price isn't always cheapest once game costs are factored in.
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SpaceX appears to have lifted restrictions on the Ukrainian military's use of Starshield, the military version of Starlink, after 10 days in which drones lost connectivity at speeds around 100 mph. Ukraine's defense minister said service seems normal again, though the military is still testing and has had no explanation for the slowdown.
Google is showcasing five community projects built with Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model rolled out broadly last week. Examples include a globe that maps tectonic shockwaves in real time and a 3D multiplayer game, and Google says Argon outperforms other frontier models on benchmarks in coding, finance, legal and science.
TechCrunch's Equity podcast discusses the "PHP-ocalypse," a set of newly found vulnerabilities in PHP that forced website owners to patch immediately or take sites offline. The hosts argue AI tools that make finding bugs easier could expose how much of the internet's core infrastructure is "held together by glue and dreams."
Cloudflare rebuilt how its cache handles HTTP range requests, which previously could pull 128 MiB from an origin to serve a viewer seeking a few megabytes into a video. For its R2 object storage, p99 time to first byte dropped by about half, and a follow-up change cut tiered cache traffic.
