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CrowdStrike blames testing bugs for security update that took down 8.5M...
Enlarge / CrowdStrike's Falcon security software brought down as many as 8.5 million Windows PCs over the weekend. (credit: CrowdStrike) Security firm CrowdStrike has posted a preliminary...
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AMD delays Ryzen 9000 launch to August “out of an abundance of caution”
Enlarge (credit: AMD) AMD had planned to launch its first round of Ryzen 9000-series desktop processors by the end of July, but those plans have changed thanks to a very non-specific problem found...
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Non-Google search engines blocked from showing recent Reddit results
Enlarge (credit: Getty) Recent discussions on Reddit are no longer showing up in non-Google search engine results. The absence is the result of updates to Reddit’s Content Policy that ban crawling its...
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Sonos CEO apologizes for botched app redesign, promises month-by-month updates
Enlarge / I don't know how Sonos' app might have developed during the groovy era their marketing images aim to summon, but it feels like it might not have wanted to rush head-long into disappointing...
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X is training Grok AI on your data—here’s how to stop it
Enlarge / An AI-generated image released by xAI during the open-weights launch of Grok-1. (credit: xAI) Elon Musk-led social media platform X is training Grok, its AI chatbot, on users' data, and...
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Union game performers strike over AI voice and motion-capture training
Enlarge / One day, using pixellated fonts and images to represent that something is a video game will not be a trope. Today is not that day. SAG-AFTRA has called for a strike of all its members...
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Synology BeeStation review: A great way to start getting real about backups
Enlarge / In this handout image from Synology, a thoughtful worker uses BeeFiles on their MacBook and BeePhotos on their iPhone, always keeping their BeeStation close at hand. They might have...
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Apple Intelligence features reportedly won’t be ready for iOS 18’s launch...
Enlarge (credit: Apple) Apple spent a lot of time at its Worldwide Developers Conference this year talking up the new iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15 features powered by Apple Intelligence, the brand...
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iOS 18.1 developer beta brings Apple Intelligence into the wild for the first...
Enlarge / Apple Intelligence was unveiled at WWDC 2024. (credit: Apple) As was just rumored, the iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 developer betas are rolling out today, and they include...
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Darkness reigns over Wikipedia as official dark mode comes to pass
Enlarge / Wikipedia's decades of content can be a light to you in dark places, and now you can choose the dark for yourself. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Wikipedia) Dark mode, night mode,...
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Loss of popular 2FA tool puts security-minded GrapheneOS in a paradox
Enlarge / Graphene is a remarkable allotrope, deserving of further study. GrapheneOS is a remarkable ROM, one that Google does not quite know how to accommodate, due to its "tiny, tiny" user numbers...
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Logitech has an idea for a “forever mouse” that requires a subscription
Enlarge (credit: Getty) Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber recently discussed the possibility of one day selling a mouse that customers can use "forever." The executive said such a mouse isn't "necessarily...
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Apple stealthily adds minor features in iOS 17.6, macOS 14.6 releases
Enlarge / iOS 17.6 installing on an iPhone 13 Pro. (credit: Samuel Axon) Apple has some minor updates for all its operating systems, and the releases include iOS 17.6, iPadOS 17.6, tvOS 17.6, watchOS...
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Next-gen Intel Core Ultra chips with boosted GPU and NPU are coming in September
Enlarge / Intel's Lunar Lake Core Ultra CPUs will be announced in September. (credit: Intel) Intel announced today that it plans to launch its next-generation Core Ultra laptop chips on September 3,...
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“AI toothbrushes” are coming for your teeth—and your data
Enlarge / Oclean's X Ultra, released in July, has optional Wi-Fi connectivity. (credit: Oclean) One of the most unlikely passengers on the AI gadgets hype train is the toothbrush. With claims of using...
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Blocking AI bots from Microsoft, others has been “pain in the a**”: Reddit CEO
Enlarge (credit: Tim Goode/PA Images via Getty Images) Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is standing by Reddit’s decision to block companies from scraping the site without an AI agreement. Last week, 404 Media...
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Microsoft strips ads from Skype in a move toward “user-centric design”
Enlarge / A marketing image by Microsoft for the desktop version of Skype. (credit: Microsoft) If you've used Microsoft's Skype in recent years, you've probably noticed that the user experience is...
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Nothing’s new AI widget is trying to make its CFO a news star
Enlarge (credit: Julian Chokkattu/WIRED) Nothing has a new smartphone—the Phone (2a) Plus—nearly identical to the Phone (2a) it released earlier this year, but with slightly beefed-up specs. It costs...
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Now that decent Arm-powered PCs exist, Qualcomm’s CEO wants to make them cheaper
Enlarge / Microsoft's Arm-powered Surface Laptop 7. We're still waiting for Arm chips to make their way into cheaper PCs. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) For the first time in the decade-plus that...
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Apple reports record revenues despite stagnant iPhone sales
Enlarge / Apple CEO Tim Cook. (credit: Lionel Hahn/Getty Images) Apple reported its earnings results for the third quarter of the 2024 fiscal year, and it satisfied investors' expectations at the top...
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