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Valve's long-anticipated Steam Machine has taken a quiet but meaningful step forward. The Khronos Group has added the device to its list of Vulkan-conformant products, meaning the hardware has cleared a key graphics API certification. It doesn't tell us when the console arrives, but it confirms real progress is happening behind the scenes.
Shifting to a piece of computing history, Microsoft has open-sourced its six-five-oh-two BASIC, the programming language that helped define the early personal computer era. Written in the nineteen seventies, this code once ran on machines that introduced millions of people to programming. Releasing it now is less a technical milestone than a cultural one — a rare window into how modern software actually began.
And on the AI payments front, a new report from Keyrock finds that stablecoins on blockchain rails are quietly becoming the preferred payment layer for AI agents. Traditional card networks simply weren't built for the kind of rapid, small-value transactions that autonomous software systems generate, and crypto infrastructure is stepping into that gap in ways that could reshape how machines do business with each other.
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