Taiwan's National Security Bureau claims that China is intensifying efforts to steal semiconductor process technologies and other chip-related know-how from Taiwan as international restrictions get more severe.
Two practice web addresses appear to have been compromised Multiple domains belonging to Scottish healthcare providers have been hijacked and are now pushing links to adult content and illegal sports streams, according to a researcher.…
Corsair has launched a new case customizer for its Frame 4000D that allows buyers to change almost anything about the enclosure, from the side panel to the front-panel I/O configuration.
From surprisingly good $300 Chromebooks to excellent $650 Windows notebooks, these are the best budget laptops we’ve tested.
Fender’s ELIE 6 is equal parts Bluetooth speaker and guitar amp, but it’s missing a killer app.
The Control Panel still exists in Windows 11. | Screenshot by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft first started trying to get rid of the Control Panel in 2012, with the launch of Windows 8. More than a decade later, it's still working on migrating all the old Control Panel items into the modern Se...
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Martin Gillow's 3D recreation lets users explore would-be Enigma successor's mechanics and enciphering logic online An enthusiast has built a digital 3D model of the SG-41 cipher machine, replete with wheels, levers, and stepping logic, accessible via a browser.…
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Corsair has silently raised the prices on its AI Workstation 300 mini PCs. The top-end Ryzen AI Max+ 395 model is now $3,399, or $400 pricier than it was just a couple months ago. That increase comes amid spiraling RAM and storage prices thanks to the AI boom.
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Agents will look for info elsewhere unless official sources sharpen up The UK's hopes of fueling cutting-edge AI development and applications with a National Data Library (NDL) could be dashed unless it makes datasets easier to use.…
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Microsoft has pushed a server-side fix for a known issue that broke the Windows Start Menu search feature on some Windows 11 23H2 devices. [...]
In Telegram groups, men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing and sexual abuse.
President Brad Smith tells an interviewer that Microsoft is reconsidering datacenter design in light of Iran war Microsoft is reevaluating how it designs and builds datacenters in conflict-prone regions after Iran began targeting Middle Eastern bit barns in retaliation for US military operations.…
This year at CES 2026 everybody was pretty confused about the new "Micro RGB" and "RGB Mini LED" TVs that use similar technology but carry different names. Now, Sony has come up with another label for its own Mini LED TVs with RGB backlighting: True RGB. The idea is to emphasize that the individu...
Google's new offline-first dictation app uses Gemma AI models to take on the apps like Wispr Flow.
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