Google is testing a webcam CAPTCHA that scans your hand, but it's already been bypassed using a photo
The feature, called "hand gesture verification," requires webcam access just to prove you're not a bot
Microsoft's new EU disclosure shows exactly how tech giants separate profits from where the work happens
Microsoft booked 40% of its profits in Ireland, where only 3% of its employees work
Lenovo laptops are now shipping with YMTC SSDs, a sign of Chinese NAND entering the mainstream
Chinese-made SSDs are starting to appear in ordinary laptops
Microsoft Office is down to $29 for a lifetime license
TL;DR: If you're looking for a powerful productivity suite without paying for any monthly subscriptions, Office 2021 is now available for just $29. All the essentials you need for work or personal projects at 80% off the regular price.
The US now has three microreactors running – and data centers are watching closely
DOE-backed microreactors from Deployable, Antares, and Valar Atomics have now all reached criticality
SpaceX is reportedly showing investors a phone prototype, months after Musk said "we are not developing a phone"
AI device resembles a slim smartphone powered by a Snapdragon processor
Meta's Pocket app lets you vibe-code games with zero coding knowledge
A TikTok-style app for AI-generated mini games
Amazon's satellite internet service is finally ready for real users – sort of
Amazon Leo begins commercial rollout with 396 satellites, targeting Starlink's early 2020 beta performance
Microsoft reverses stance and adds Google account sign-in to Edge browser
The feature enables faster sign-ins and data syncing across devices for users of Google's ecosystem
Jensen Huang's signed leather jacket could sell for up to $60,000 at charity auction
The auction estimate puts Huang's jacket in the same ballpark as some Nvidia AI hardware
In brief: These days Jensen Huang is better known for turning Nvidia from a beloved gaming company into a somewhat disliked AI supercorporation. But he used to get a lot of attention for his leather jacket. Now, one of those famed items of clothing is going up for auction, and it's expected to raise $40,000 to $60,000 – for charity, of course.
US homeowners installed a record amount of battery storage this year, and it's reshaping the grid
Home batteries are becoming a serious power source for utilities and AI data centers
In old PCs, what was the function of the "Turbo" button?
A long, long time ago, desktop PCs used to have a Turbo button alongside Power and Reset.
Tesla driver charged with manslaughter after car in FSD mode crashes into Texas home
Investigators say the Model 3 reached 73 mph in a residential neighborhood
iFixit is creating a repairability scoring standard for US electronics
A voluntary standard could give shoppers and lawmakers a clearer way to judge how fixable a device really is
Video Game History Foundation founder says piracy remains the only viable game preservation method
The organization representing game publishers helped kill a preservation bill. Now it's being blamed for pushing archivists toward piracy
The latest Microsoft Office 2024 Pro suite is now $55 in this limited-time deal
Unlock your productivity with the latest versions of Word, Excel, and Outlook
Singapore charges two people over a scheme to smuggle Nvidia chips to China through a $42 million property deal
Singapore accounts for 28% of Nvidia's revenue but only 1% of its GPU shipments
Concorde-style supersonic flights could return to the US, as long as they're quiet enough
FAA proposal would replace the decades-old ban with a noise-based standard
A leaked Microsoft experiment reveals a new OS built entirely around Copilot and AI agents
Project Aion imagines a lightweight, web-based Windows shell where Copilot replaces the Start Menu and Taskbar
Someone finally built a working Game Boy emulator for E-ink screens
This modder proves an old dev board can run 30-year-old games at full speed
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END OF AN ERA
Sony will stop making physical PlayStation games come 2028
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HARDWARE
Intel Arc Pro B70 Tested:
The Gaming GPU
Intel Never Released -
WTF
The video game industry just told lawmakers Minecraft and Call of Duty private servers are illegal piracy
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BAD TIMING
Cinder City is the first game to recommend 64GB of RAM
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"LOOP ENGINEERING"
The next step in AI coding isn't a better prompt, it's a system that prompts itself
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FUTUROLOGY
PlayStation 6 bill of materials nears $1,000 as RAM shortages worsen
Meta is using old DDR4 memory in DDR5-only AI servers to save on hardware costs
Cutting corners: Faced with rising memory costs, Meta says it is reusing old DDR4 RAM in its servers rather than buying new hardware. The company revealed this week that it is repurposing DDR4 memory from decommissioned servers into its new DDR5-only machines, using a custom CXL ASIC that avoids the compatibility issues and major latency penalties that typically come with mixing memory generations. The design reportedly cuts AI inference server count by up to 25% and reduces job-restart and fragmentation overhead by 33%.
A new attack uses a BioShock-style puzzle to convince AI browsers they're not in the real world
Researchers found a way to trick AI browsers into "forgetting" safety rules
OpenAI may give the US government a 5% stake, following Trump's Intel playbook
Altman frames it as a national investment in AI, not just a regulatory truce
Dell just overtook HP as the top PC maker in the US as the entire market shrinks
US PC shipments just had their worst quarter since 2023, and AI-driven memory prices are to blame
Google just lost its final appeal over Android, $4.7 billion EU fine stands
The EU's top court found Google forced phone makers to bundle Search and Chrome to access the Play Store
Rufus improves Windows installs, adds RISC-V and UEFI:NTFS fixes
Rufus is a free utility for creating bootable USB drives from ISOs. Version 4.15 brings RISC-V 64 support to UEFI:NTFS, improves unattended Windows installations, and fixes Snapdragon X Arm64 boot crashes, and more.
Intel raises prices on the Core Ultra 200S Plus CPUs people actually liked
Intel's most recommendable recent CPUs have become less recommendable
Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone with zero AI features
TinyRetroPad is a super-lean version of Notepad
Apple expects its $2,500 foldable iPhone Ultra to sell 10 million units this year
Cupertino's first foldable is tipped to take 29% of 2026 display orders
As Sony exits physical media, Microsoft is testing a way to link your Xbox discs to digital licenses
Microsoft's leaked "Positron" feature could let your old Xbox discs unlock digital versions of the same games
Former PlayStation boss calls Valve's Steam Machine "meh," asks if he's "going back to PS4 days"
A lot of people feel the same way
A Microsoft Defender flaw is now being linked to ransomware attacks
A researcher published 'BlueHammer' exploit details before Microsoft had a patch ready
Apple's Hide My Email feature may be exposing users' real addresses anyway
The bug reportedly remained exploitable more than a year after Apple was told about it
Testing AMD Radeon's Biggest-Ever Software Upgrade: FSR 4.1 on RDNA 3
AMD's new FSR 4.1 INT8 upscaler gives RDNA 3 GPUs a massive image quality upgrade. We examine visual quality, performance, and how closely it matches the RDNA 4 version.
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