From PC Mag: A new law in Texas to enforce age verification tools within the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and other storefronts has been blocked by a judge less than two weeks before going into effect.
As reported by Reuters, a federal judge in Texas blocked the App Store Accountability Act...
From PC World: Microsoft has announced that Microsoft 365 subscribers with certain Copilot Plus computers will now have access to a new feature: automatic captions, or alt texts, in Word and PowerPoint.
When you add an image to a Word or PowerPoint document, the Copilot Plus computer should...
From CNET: Spotify says it's cutting off access to some user accounts and adding safeguards after a shadow library website claimed to have scraped an immense amount of Spotify's metadata and audio files from the streaming service's music library.
On Dec. 20, the website Anna's Archive said in a...
From PC Mag: Instacart has ended its AI-powered pricing tests following backlash after a study reported customers were shown different prices for the same items from the same store.
"Effective immediately, Instacart is ending all item price tests on our platform. Retailers will no longer be able to...
From PC World: Valve has rolled out a new version of Steam for Windows over the weekend.
The big news this time around is that 32-bit support has been dropped, marking the end of an era. Most users won’t be affected by the change as 64-bit CPUs have been around since early this century, but if you...
From CNET: Samsung appears to be preparing a new kind of foldable phone that could expand its lineup and set the stage for competition with Apple's long-rumored foldable device.
According to a Korean report from Etnews, translated into English using Google Translate, Samsung is developing a device...
From PC Mag: Uber and Lyft have partnered with Chinese tech giant Baidu to launch robotaxi pilot programs in London next year.
Uber's testing is expected to begin with Baidu's Apollo Go cars in the first half of 2026. Lyft, on the other hand, will be using the Apollo Go RT6 once the required...
From PC World: In what surely amounts as one of the most brazen digital music heists of all time, a group of hackers says it has “backed up” Spotify’s music files and metadata, and it plans on releasing the files publicly in a massive “preservation archive.”
In a blog post detailing its exploits...
From CNET: Samsung has unveiled its new processor technology, a system-on-a-chip geared toward smartphones that could impact its own upcoming product lineup. Exynos 2600 is a chip that combines a CPU, an AI-powering NPU and a graphics GPU onto one single unit, which the company says will deliver...
For most of my childhood, the computers I grew up with were already considered outdated by the time they made their way into our home. My dad worked as a lab technician at a university, which meant surplus or retired desktop systems often found a second life on our desks. Our home setups often consisted of keyboards you would typically find in old offices or labs. Thick plastic chassis, yellowed keycaps, stiff rubber domes, and long, coiled...
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