Microsoft May Soon Let You Digitize Your Xbox Game Discs

From PC Mag: Microsoft may quietly be laying the foundation for an all-digital future for Xbox games. A leaked document has revealed that the company is planning to launch a disc-to-digital program this month to help gamers digitize their physical Xbox games.

The program will reportedly let users...

The global memory shortage hits the MacBook Air

From TechCrunch: The global memory chip shortage is affecting the availability of Apple’s most popular Mac, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

Gurman said the shortage — caused by the demands of chip-hungry AI companies — had already affected Apple’s more niche computers, the Mac mini and Mac...

Anthropic’s AI models accidentally hacked three companies

From ComputerWorld: Anthropic has launched an investigation into what went wrong during a recent test of three models that left a trio of companies accidentally hacked.

The company was testing how well Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5, and an internal test model could find hidden information about...

Amazon Will Give Tariff Refunds to Some Customers

From CNET: Months after the US Supreme Court struck down certain tariff-related import charges, some Amazon customers could soon see money returned to their accounts. The online retail giant announced on Thursday that it will issue refunds to eligible customers who paid tariff-related import charges...

Noctua NL-LC1-24 Review (Page 1 of 4)

In my be quiet! Power Zone 2 750W review introduction, I talked about how a big tradeoff of running a central AC at my parents' old house was the noise. The early 2000s Lennox installed on the side yard rumbles all the primary living space in the house like you are sitting next to a running washing machine. What I did not talk about, however, was the neighbors' AC unit. It was installed on the same side yard, and when their unit turns on, I can...

Windows 11 brings fingerprint sign-in to desktop PCs

From PC World: You can now start signing in using your fingerprint on your Windows 11 computer, even if it doesn’t have a built-in fingerprint reader. Microsoft has now started rolling out update KB5101684 to Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2, and one of the new features in the update is that Windows Hello...

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