I dusted off an old SSD and it became my best storage upgrade this year

You don't always need to spend money to upgrade your home lab.

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Skip the upgrade? iPhone 18 Pro aperture about as unrepairable as it gets, iFixit finds

Repairability improvements can't lift last year's score as camera complexity and screen-frame concerns remain

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California tightens rules on AI data center energy and water use

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed seven bills designed to prevent AI data centers from passing utility costs onto residents, as reported earlier by the Los Angeles Times. The package of laws requires the California Public Utilities Commission to…

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GM isn't changing course on CarPlay for its electric vehicles

GM has cleared up confusion over its CarPlay plans, confirming that its EV lineup will remain off-limits to Apple's in-car interface. GM confirms CarPlay still isn't coming back to its EVs GM hasn't offered CarPlay in electric vehicles for three years , and…

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No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service: Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse AI From Shopping

Amazon has its own agentic AI option called Buy for Me, which could be behind the agentic turf war.

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This YouTube bug has been affecting landscape viewing for months, and there's no fix in sight

It’s been close to five months now

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Geely one-ups BYD with 2.2MW charger, allowing 4-minute EV charges

Geely plans to unveil an advanced electric car battery and charging system on Wednesday, allowing for 4 minute charges and charging speeds that are about 50% faster than Chinese rival BYD’s newest “Flash Charging 2.0” system.…

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John Ternus: Apple Vision Pro has a bright future, but a long journey first

Newly minted Apple CEO John Ternus has praised the Apple Vision Pro , calling it an amazing device that is finding more users, but also that it's in its very earliest days. Apple CEO John Ternus - image credit: Canal+. John Ternus has been criticized for…

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OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems

The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.

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Gemini hacked multiple companies in cybersecurity test gone awry

The details point to human error on this one.

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1.58-million-staff Amazon will soon have more Nvidia GPUs than employees — AWS to buy more than 3 million additional chips before 2029 in addition to thousands of existing H100, H200

Amazon has fewer employees than the more than 3 million Nvidia GPUs on order for delivery before 2029, even as its Trainium3 chips are already nearly fully subscribed.

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Apple Notes adds a power user feature in iOS 27 that’s rare in other apps

Apple Notes in iOS 27 adds a variety of new features , including one that power users are sure to appreciate: section links.…

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Bungie revives Destiny 2, admits Marathon fell short

Bungie's new leadership has announced it is resuming Destiny 2 development, planning to remaster and unvault removed campaigns, raids, and zones.

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AMD just joined the $1 trillion club, beating Intel to the milestone

Nvidia eclipsed the $1 trillion valuation mark in May 2023, and has not looked back since. The company has continued to tack on value driven largely by the AI boom. Currently, the chipmaker has an incredible market cap of roughly $5.48 trillion, making it the…

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iPhone Duo: Everything you should know about Apple’s first foldable

Apple's iPhone Duo is official. A $1,999 foldable with Touch ID, MagSafe, and an under-display camera. Here's everything confirmed.

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Our favorite accessories to elevate your new M6 Mac mini and Mac Studio rig

Apple’s all-new M6 Mac mini, M5 Pro mini, and Mac Studio officially release tomorrow and, alongside the early pre-order deals on most of them, we are taking a look at some of our favorite Mac accessories here today.…

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Google fined $462M in Ireland over location data collection practices

Ireland’s privacy watchdog today fined Google LLC €403 million, or about $462 million, for collecting users’ location data in breach of GDPR. The tracking was done by three Google features: Web & App Activity, Timeline and GLA. Web & App Activity is a Google…

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Android has been missing one device all along. Googlebook might finally be it

Android already spans phones, tablets, watches, TVs, and cars. Googlebook may finally give it the laptop that treats your phone like part of the same computer.

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Apple shares hit record high after iPhone Duo and Siri AI success

Apple shares closed at a new record high of $338.98 after investors responded both to how improved Siri AI is, and how much attention the firm has had for its iPhone Duo . Apple stocks closed at a new record high Back in May 2026 , Apple's shares twice hit…

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My mini PC can fit larger models than my old gaming card, but it still loses on one key metric

With MoE models, VRAM is no longer a hard cap, but that doesn't make mini PCs the better buy

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Trying a New Radial Impeller Design for Quadcopters

Even if the world has already settled on plain old propellers as the way to make quadcopter drones fly, this doesn’t mean that you cannot give other designs a shake …

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What do you actually use a laptop for, and would Googlebook be able to do it? [Poll]

Following a mediocre teaser back in May, Googlebook is officially here and, well, I’m still pretty skeptical. I’m not sure I see Google’s vision of this new lineup or laptops because, frankly, I’m not solving any of the problems Chromebooks already faced.…

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Does your iPhone's Safari browser privacy features actually make you safer?

Safari on iPhone is more private than many other browsers by default, but it can't keep your information safe from everything.

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Meta Muse AI app flaw lets local malware redirect dictation traffic

Ad biz promises users control while bug could expose voice prompts

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Gravity Linux Aims To Provide A Nice Experience For Apple M4 & Newer

There's a new Linux distribution focused on supporting Linux on Apple Silicon Macs. Gravity Linux is this new distribution that is a spin of Fedora Remix and is catering to the still-experimentally-supported Apple M4 Macs and newer. In addition to leveraging…

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GM Wants You to Know It Still Plans to Ditch Apple CarPlay in Future EVs

Recent reports claiming that General Motors is reversing course on its controversial plans to ditch CarPlay in its future EVs appear to be incorrect. As noted by Joanna Stern , host of the YouTube channel New Things, a GM spokesperson has confirmed that its…

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Report: AI glasses shipments surged 263% in H1 2026 as Apple prepares to enter the market

Counterpoint Research says global AI glasses shipments surged 263% during the first half of 2026, with Meta comfortably leading the display-less segment amid growing privacy concerns. Here are the details.…

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The EU will force data centers to disclose their energy and water use

The EU has proposed a sustainability labeling system ahead of bringing in minimum data center performance standards.

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After it revolutionized PC gaming on Linux, Valve's new Lepton project may do the same for Android games

It's a bit bare-bones for now, but it could evolve into something big.

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AMD joins the $1 trillion club, leaving Intel behind

AMD has surpassed a $1 trillion market capitalization for the first time after a five-day stock rally, driven by investor enthusiasm for its growing AI and data-center business. The company’s market value now exceeds Intel’s, although it remains well behind…

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