HP OmniBook 3 Snapdragon X Laptop With 2K OLED Hits A Low $449.99 At Best Buy

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HP OmniBook 3 Snapdragon X Laptop With 2K OLED Hits A Low $449.99 At Best Buy
Have you been waiting for laptops flexing Qualcomm’s Arm-based Snapdragon X silicon alongside premium OLED displays to drop into true budget territory? If so, head over to Best Buy and check out the retailer’s deal of the day, which slashes $150 off the price of HP’s OmniBook 5, bringing the price to below $500.
HP OmniBook 5 With 14-Inch

NASA’s Webb Finds Alien Worlds Colliding Hard Enough To Vaporize Rock

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NASA's Webb Finds Alien Worlds Colliding Hard Enough To Vaporize Rock
Observations from NASA’s Webb telescope have revealed detailed chemical fingerprints from catastrophic, planet-shattering collisions in other solar systems, which in turn offer a peek into how worlds like Earth might have formed and evolved.

Published in The Astrophysical Journal, research led by Dr. Kate Su of the Space Science Institute

[$] Beyond the &

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Rust has a number of kinds of smart pointers, both in the standard
library and defined by users. Still, some operations that are possible with
built-in references are not possible to perform with user-defined smart
pointers. Tyler Mandry, lead of the Rust project’s

language team, spoke at

RustConf 2026 about the lengthy effort to change that, and make smart pointers
just as flexible as built-in references.

‘Titanfall 2’ VR Mod Brings the Legendary Movement Shooter to VR—for Those Who Can Handle it

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Legendary movement shooter Titanfall 2 is now available in VR thanks to mod maker CircuitLord who has created a full VR conversion mod that adds head tracking, weapon aiming, mech weapon controls, and even manual reloading to the game’s entire roster of weapons.

Among non-players, Titanfall 2 (2016) is probably best known for its mechs, which come hurtling down out of the sky, ready for players to use like a giant walking tank.

But those that have played the game know it’s about much more; even if mechs weren’t part of it, Titanfall 2 is an innovative first-person shooter in its own right. When you’re not inside a mech, you’ll find fast-paced combat with a roster of great weapons and an exhilarating sense of fluid movement thanks to abilities like wall running, double-jumping, sliding, and grappling.

The interplay and contrast between the combat of big bulky mechs and agile foot soldiers has cemented Titanfall 2 as a legendary game that’s still enjoyed by thousands of players daily, even a decade after its release.

And now, thanks to mod maker CircuitLord, players can enjoy all of this goodness with the immersion that only VR can provide. The free Titanfall 2 VR mod is available right here through CircuitLord’s mod installer. And the base game is conveniently on sale right now at an 85% discount.

Granted, as one of gaming’s fastest movement shooters, Titanfall 2 in VR is not going to be for everyone—or probably even most people. The amount of motion in the game goes above and beyond even a regular flatscreen shooter. A snap turning option is included in the mod, but there’s only so much that can be done to mitigate the potential motion sickness of running along walls and whipping through the air on a grapple.

For those that do have the stomach for it, the Titanfall 2 VR mod is getting high praise for its comprehensive reworking of game’s controls for VR. One of the best parts is surely interactive weapon reloading for every gun in the game, including a gesture-based reload for weapons like the Wingman (which we love to see after the Wingman VR interaction experiment from Road to VR’s Ben Lang several years ago).

Our friend Gamertag VR has a solid breakdown of how the mod works and feels to play, if you want a taste before considering hopping in:

For now the mod only supports the game’s single-player campaign, but we’ve reached out to the creator to ask if there’s any plans for multiplayer or other additions in the future.

The Titanfall 2 VR mod is free, but if you want to support the creation of more mods like this, consider contributing to the creator, CircuitLord, who is also developing his own VR game called No Shot, a spiritual successor to Echo Arena.

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Amazon Forges A Faster Kindle Lineup With More Metal And Less Bulk

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Amazon Forges A Faster Kindle Lineup With More Metal And Less Bulk
Amazon is giving its Kindle e-reader family a comprehensive hardware overhaul, after having also overhauled its Fire TV Stick lineup. Moving away from the all-plastic design of past generations, the redesigned Kindle lineup leans into recycled aluminum while slimming down footprints and deploying a new display stack that stretches edge-to-edge

AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform OS Updated With ROCm 10.0, Linux 7.2

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With the AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PC that launched this summer that focused on local AI, one of the biggest surprises for me when reviewing the unit was finding that the Linux preload wasn’t just a stock Ubuntu/Debian OS but rather a customized AMD Linux distribution known as AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform. Yesterday the newest version of AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform was released with some nice software updates…

Speech Synthesis on Linux: Adding a Voice to Scripts and Systems

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Linux users have long had a pragmatic relationship with text-to-speech. The classic open-source engines have been available for years, wired into accessibility tools and the occasional script, dependable but unmistakably robotic. They do the job where the job is simply to convert text to some kind of speech, but the mechanical output has kept them out of anything where the voice actually matters. The arrival of high-quality speech synthesis delivered over an API changes what is possible, letting Linux users add genuinely natural voices to scripts, services, and applications without hosting a heavyweight model themselves.

GTA 6 Could Kick Open The Door To Even Higher Game Prices

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GTA 6 Could Kick Open The Door To Even Higher Game Prices
As development budgets continue to swell, won’t anyone think of the poor game publishers? Warhorse Studios co-founder Martin Klima sure hopes so. In a recent interview with PC Gamer, the co-founder of the studio behind the Kingdom Come series said publishers are “scared to death” to raise game prices, but hopes Rockstar Games’ release of Grand

Security updates for Friday

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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (dogtag-pki, expat, freerdp, gawk, gdb, ghostscript, gvfs, kernel, kernel-rt, libpcap, openssh, pki-core, rsync, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk3), Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, libio-compress-perl, libpng1.6, nodejs, open-iscsi, redis, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (sos), Mageia (libgcrypt, python-tornado, python-urwid, python-wcwidth, and wireshark), Oracle (corosync, dogtag-pki, expat, firefox, freerdp, gawk, glib2, ipa, kernel, libXfont2, nodejs:24, openssh, osbuild-composer, perl-DBI, pki-core, postgresql:12, python-cryptography, resteasy, ruby, ruby4.0, ruby:3.3, ruby:4.0, thunderbird, and xmlrpc-c), Red Hat (skopeo), SUSE (chromium, emacs, glib2, glibc, gnome-shell, helm3, ImageMagick, imagemagick, kernel-devel, libtcnative-1-0, libtcnative-1-0, libtcnative-2-0, tomcat, tomcat10,, libtcnative-2-0, libX11, libX11-6, libXi-devel, libXpm-devel, libXtst-devel, mistral-vibe, openssl-3, perl-DBI, perl-Protocol-HTTP2, php-composer2, php8, python, rpcbind, sccache, and valkey), and Ubuntu (kf6-kcoreaddons, libxpm, linux, linux-aws, linux-fips, linux-kvm, linux-lts-xenial, linux-fips, linux-gke, linux-raspi-5.4, and openssl).