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The Cyberpunk: Edgerunners follow-up is teasing a nastier, bloodier story than the first season, which is no small claim given how the original ended. If that has you craving more screen time, Windows 11 is apparently sitting on dozens of features most people never bother to dig up. And the GTA 6 hype machine has hit a new high: one determined player cashed in close to 100,000 Microsoft reward points to score a free pre-order. The kicker? They credit the whole thing to Rockstar's endless delays.

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Cyberpunk Edgerunners season 2 trailer reveals darker Night City story

Studio Trigger and CD Projekt RED are returning to Night City this fall with a second season of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and the first trailer makes clear the follow-up has no intention of softening the brutal world that made the original such a striking watch. Rather than continuing the first season's story, which concluded in famously tragic fashion, the new 10-episode standalone series introduces an entirely fresh cast navigating the same dystopian metropolis, with the same promise of violence, emotional gut-punches, and zero mercy for the naive.

At the center of the new story is Roman Carax, a young cinephile described as someone in search of stories in a city that abandoned cinema for braindances. It is a quietly fascinating character choice — placing a person obsessed with capturing real images inside a world that has retreated wholesale into simulation. The trailer shows him filming the carnage unfolding around him in Night City, suggesting his lens will eventually turn toward something far darker than he bargained for.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners season two premieres this fall on Netflix.

34 Windows 11 features and settings you should be using

Windows 11 can do far more than most people realize, and a lot of its best features sit unused because they're either switched off by default or buried in menus nobody bothers to open. Microsoft keeps layering in new tools, some of them genuinely practical, others just nice quality-of-life touches. Knowing where to look changes how much you actually get out of your machine each day.

Start with Clipboard History, which remembers the text and images you've recently copied and pops open with the Windows + V shortcut. Then there's Focus Sessions in the Clock app, which carves out distraction-free work blocks and schedules your breaks for you. Snap Layouts let you hover over the maximize button to drop multiple windows into tidy grids, and Nearby Sharing moves files wirelessly between PCs without ever touching cloud storage or a USB drive. On top of all that, Microsoft's free PowerToys package piles on 28 extra utilities, everything from bulk file renaming to custom window-management layouts.

Copilot is the headline feature, putting AI assistance right on the desktop. It can summarize documents, generate images, write code, and with Copilot Vision, even walk you through complicated tasks inside other apps. The 24H2 update slipped in a few smaller wins too: native file compression now handles the more efficient TAR and 7z formats, and Bluetooth Low Energy Audio support showed up for assistive hearing devices. Microsoft keeps shipping updates at a steady pace, so the gap between what Windows 11 can do and what most people know it can do just keeps widening.

Some players pre-ordered GTA 6 for free by stockpiling Bing rewards points

When GTA 6 pre-orders went live last week, most players faced sticker shock at the price tag — but a small, quietly industrious group had already solved that problem months or even years in advance. By steadily accumulating Microsoft Rewards points through Bing searches, these players stockpiled enough to cover the full cost of a pre-order without spending a dollar. One player, HugoWheynow, explained that he used 98,000 Microsoft points to secure his copy, thanking Rockstar for its long string of delays, which gave him extra months to keep earning.

The math behind the strategy is straightforward, if slow. Dedicated users can earn up to around 10,000 Microsoft Rewards points — roughly equivalent to ten dollars — per month through a combination of Bing searches, opening the Bing mobile app, playing games through Xbox Game Pass, and completing bonus tasks in the rewards dashboard. Once enough points are banked, they can be converted into an Xbox Gift Card and applied directly to a purchase. Hitting the roughly 98,000 points needed for a full pre-order requires serious commitment over many months, which is precisely why so few players arrived at launch day with the balance already in hand.

For anyone who missed the window to pre-order for free, the approach still holds value — starting now could at minimum trim a meaningful amount off the final purchase price by the time GTA 6 ships.

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Mobile

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Audio / Video

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Gaming

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Entertainment

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AI

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Cars / EV

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Wearables

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Final Bits

California bans streaming ads louder than your show

PS6 will cost more than you'd hope, Sony warns

Apple's foldable iPhone may debut in late 2026

MetaPCs Steamroller is a $1,299 SteamOS desktop

Ghost of Tsushima now runs on a phone

Samsung's rollable phone could stretch to 10 inches by 2028.