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The Destrier is the third project from the Solitaire team, following the Brouillard and the F.K.P. Hommage, and it's formed around the same carbon-fiber monocoque as the Bolide. But the Bolide's extreme styling, with huge intakes carved into the front end, dramatic X-shaped LED headlights, and a ginormous rear wing, has been smoothed out and replaced by bodywork that would look more at home in front of a chalet along the French Riviera than screaming around Circuit Paul Ricard.

Named for a type of horse that carried medieval knights into battle, the Destrier is a breathtaking machine. The roof stands less than 40 inches above the ground, and the sleek body looks shrink-wrapped around the mechanical elements. While the overall shape is reminiscent of its track-bred sibling, the Destrier has more ornate decoration. The signature Bugatti C-line is more pronounced and outlined in chrome trim, and it wraps around to the front end, where it meets a wider horseshoe grille than on the Bolide.

The grille gets its own chrome border, with another chrome line forming a spine that runs up the hood and over the roof. The X-shaped headlights have been replaced by ovoid units housing a series of horizontal dashes, and the aerodynamic appendages behind the front wheels have been simplified from a series of gill-like slashes to a single fin. While the Bolide used 18-inch wheels, the Destrier swaps in 20-inch wheels up front and 21-inch wheels, giving it a more purposeful stance.

At the rear, the towering wing and shark fin have been ditched in favor of a lower wing that flows unbroken from the powerful rear haunches and carries a vertical brake light. The taillights have also been reduced to a pair of thin lines, although when viewed from above, they reveal a dazzling array of tiny LEDs. While the Destrier is meant to be more elegant than the Bolide, it still features a sizable rear diffuser beneath the quad exhaust outlets.

Structurally, the cabin is nearly identical to that of the Bolide, but there are drastic changes to the materials. Brown leather covers the seats and center console; the latter is also adorned with a pinstripe design. The dashboard, door panels, and shoulder pads for the seats, meanwhile, are covered in a 3-D-knitted textile, which Bugatti says is inspired by performance sportswear. Copper yarns are woven through the textile in a circular "halo-line" pattern and create a sparkle effect as light hits it.

Important functions are handled via a panel of buttons that sits inside a brushed metal housing, itself set atop a carbon-fiber base that flows up and onto the dashboard. The Destrier also features a unique metal finish that looks as if it has been hammered repeatedly, a nod to medieval armor, which appears on the door handle, air vents, steering wheel, and sill plate.

Underneath the fresh bodywork is the same powertrain as the Bolide, a quad-turbocharged 8.0-liter W-16 that sends 1578 horsepower to all four wheels via a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic gearbox. There's no word on how much this one-off Bugatti costs, but given that the company built 40 examples of the Bolide at around $4.8 million a pop, we would expect the unique Destrier to cost at least a couple of million more. The Destrier will make its public debut during Monterey Car Week, appearing at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance on August 16, 2026.

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This is the latest in a miserable streak of bad tidings for the ongoing components crisis. It follows Samsung’s own admission that prices will continue to rise throughout 2027, as well as remarks from Valve – whose Steam Machine and Steam Deck OLED have suffered badly from shortages and cost hikes – that the situation is primed to get worse before it gets better.

DigiTimes reports that Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix, incidentally the three companies accused of price fixing in a recent US lawsuit, have sold out both their DRAM and HBM capacity - DRAM being the more common memory type to be found in conventional RAM modules and gaming-spec graphics cards, as well as higher-end SSDs. The article does say that NAND, storage hardware also made by all three firms, is in marginally better shape, with some 2027 output still available. This too, though, is expected to sell out before the end of this month, so even DRAMless SSDs could stay expensive for another two years. And don’t go expecting mechanical hard drives to offer an easy alternative, as they’ve also seen production selling out well in advance of the finished drives actually rolling off the line.

As we do the innately human thing of scrabbling around, excitedly pointing at longshot alternatives like they’re divinely promised saviours, many are looking to the growing Chinese manufacturing sector – particularly DRAM makers CXMT, who already have multiple fabrication facilities spun up. However, any trickle-down effect that diversified supply is likely to have on consumer PC parts will be slow at best. Only a few major PC manufacturers, namely HP, Asus, and Acer, have begun using CXMT memory, and only then in a handful of products for the Asia market.

Frankly, it’s also hard to see supply outpacing the demand of another growing field: the obscenely hardware-hungry AI industry that’s been driving these shortages to begin with. Data centres could very easily suck up those extra components just as they have with current DRAM stocks, as much as we (and plenty of the games industry) would like to see it, there’s nothing to suggest that bubble is about to pop. %!s()

That's as reported by Windows Latest, who noticed the change this week. Now, clicking on the link address to the support document redirects you to the Windows Learning Center instead.

Interestingly, Microsoft, in a separate support document, declared 32 GB to be the "no-worries" upgrade back in May, and that support document has since been deleted too. Two separate documents that recommend 32 GB of memory being taken down is certainly strange behaviour, and implies it wasn't just an accident.

And it would make sense for Microsoft not to pitch 32 GB of memory, given that it just recently announced it would be bringing back 8 GB Surface laptops in May. Microsoft seemed to remove the 8 GB memory option in the 7th-generation Microsoft Surface and Microsoft Surface Pro 12th edition, which are the previous versions of both laptops.

These new laptops don't even meet the memory requirements to be labelled a Copilot+ PC, and they're mighty expensive, with the Intel Core Ultra 5 standard Surface with 8 GB of memory and 256 GB of storage being an eye-watering $1,299.

This is a shame as its initial assessment seems about right, in my estimation. 16 GB of memory is fine for most games, but 32 GB is ideal, especially for less casual gamers. I went for 32 GB of DDR5 memory in my own rig, and wouldn't want less, but I also reckon I play more than most.

The memory crisis may be a problem for Microsoft, as suggested by a dip in console sales (though this 29% decline could be somewhat attributed to the life cycle of the console and tariffs raising prices), but the company's AI usage is also one of the larger contributors to the mess in the first place. The end consumer is paying for the expansion of AI in many ways, but the most pressing to a PC gamer is the fact that they're paying more and more for less storage and memory.

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As such, it would probably be a bad look for Microsoft to recommend 32 GB when its latest Surface Pro device will fetch a minimum of $2,750 to get so much memory. And Microsoft seems unlikely to backtrack on this pricing for some time. Samsung, one of the big three memory manufacturers, reckons we will see a "severe" memory supply crisis next year and "Beyond 2029, it is hard to say because of more limited visibility."

AMD did a similar thing recently. After arguing gamers should look to "Game beyond 4 GB [of VRAM]" back in 2020, it has just recently launched a 4 GB graphics card, the RX 9050.

While these big companies continue to put more and more funding into AI, we'll just have to sit with our meagre supplies of memory until it all blows over. Here's hoping 2029 is the year things get better. Or is it 2030?

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A new report claims Blizzard Entertainment's Diablo 4 is finally making the jump to Nintendo Switch 2, with a release potentially arriving as soon as September.

French outlet Dealabs Magazine, citing recent ratings board listings, reports that Diablo 4 is slated for Switch 2 on either Sept. 15 or Sept. 18. The publication says the game will retail for $69.99 in the U.S. and receive a physical "code in a box" release, meaning the package would include a download code instead of a physical cartridge.

Earlier this year, the Indonesia Game Rating System (IGRS) reportedly listed Diablo 4's Lord of Hatred expansion for Nintendo Switch alongside other platforms before the listing drew attention and was seemingly pulled. More recently, Taiwan's ratings board briefly published a Switch 2 classification for the game before it was removed, lending additional credibility to rumors that Blizzard has been preparing a port.

Blizzard and Xbox have not officially announced a Switch 2 version of Diablo 4, but Dealabs claims it has independently confirmed the game's existence. The outlet states it was unable to verify whether the Lord of Hatred expansion will be included in the release. Polygon has contacted Blizzard Entertainment for confirmation and will update this story when the company responds.

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Polygon's review of the Lord of Hatred expansion praised the add-on for improving the endgame and introducing the new Spiritborn class, though its review noted that some of the game's broader issues remained.

A reveal could be just weeks away

If the report is accurate, an official reveal at Gamescom later this month could be on the table. Xbox has already confirmed it will have a major presence at Gamescom 2026 as part of its 25th anniversary celebration and some heavy hitters are already set to be shown: Playground Games will deliver Fable's first live gameplay demonstration to the public and more information on Alien Isolation 2 will be available.

Other unreleased games that will be at Microsoft’s booth include Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Gears of War: E-Day, Minecraft Dungeons 2, Metro 2039, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse, and Valor Mortis. The company will have 140 gaming stations in total.

A Switch 2 release would also add another major third-party title to Nintendo's growing lineup. The system has shown it can handle graphically demanding games, though recent ports have also highlighted the hardware's limitations. How Diablo 4 performs on Nintendo's hardware remains to be seen until Blizzard officially unveils the port.

There's certainly precedent for demon-slaying action on Switch. Blizzard released Diablo 3 on the original Nintendo Switch back in 2018, and brought Diablo 2 Resurrected to Nintendo's console in 2021. %!s()

Scientists compared neonate cockroaches that had been allowed to consume their colony's feces and were exposed to fecal odors with neonates that had not engaged in coprophagy. German cockroaches are born with no gut microbiome and rely on eating feces from a collective fecal pile within their cockroach "aggregation" to gain the microbes and fecal nutrients they need.

Neonates who ate from the aggregation's feces after hatching displayed an affinity for the specific pheromone present in that aggregate, while neonates without any microbiome—known as naïve neonates—showed a much broader, less focused array of interests.

Using pheromones against infestations

"This finding could be used to help control cockroach infestations," said Ayako Wada-Katsumata, a principal research scholar in North Carolina State University's Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology and lead author of the paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

"What we've found is that aggregation pheromones are extremely important in how these cockroaches find each other and group together," Wada-Katsumata said. "Because the aggregation gives these neonates everything they need early in life, they have little reason to leave it, which makes traps and insecticidal baits less effective.

"If we can develop an aggregation pheromone that works across the entire species, we could make traps and baits far more effective and make it easier to control populations in places like residences, hospitals and restaurants."

Cockroaches show stronger social ties

Beyond the practical applications, this research also unveils a fundamental misunderstanding about cockroach social structures, said Coby Schal, co-author of the paper and the Blanton J. Whitmire Distinguished Professor of Entomology at NC State.

"We think of cockroaches as being subsocial, in that they are not completely solitary but also do not exhibit the kinds of group behaviors that bees or ants do," Schal said. "The use of fecal aggregation pheromones to recognize their natal group is a behavior that mirrors that of social insects like bees, wasps, ants and termites, which typically use body odors instead of fecal odors to recognize nestmates. Both groups of insects share a similar mechanism that involves learning and memory of their colony's unique odor, but the anatomical source of the pheromone is different."

This behavior implies a greater capacity for social structure and learning than has often been attributed to the German cockroach, Schal said.

"What we're seeing here is a capacity for learning and memory retention that is often thought of as being beyond that of an insect as primitive as the cockroach," he said. "Cockroaches have evolved their own twist on forming kin bonds."

Publication details

Ayako Wada-Katsumata et al, Group recognition in the German cockroach, a subsocial omnivore, is based on faecal odour preference that is modulated by coprophagy, diet and learning, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2026). DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2025.3042

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