Continue Reading Windows Is About to Change Forever: My Predictions for Microsoft’s Big October Event

Windows Is About to Change Forever: My Predictions for Microsoft’s Big October Event

Two years after launching its exclusive Copilot+ line, Microsoft has a broader AI vision to show off on Oct. 7. Best of all? You might not even need a new PC to use it…

Continue Reading Snapdragon Demo: I Watched AI Create a Sound Bubble Around a Phone

Snapdragon Demo: I Watched AI Create a Sound Bubble Around a Phone

What if your phone could silence everything around you, negating the need for noise-cancelling headphones when you’re in noisy spaces? I saw AI do exactly that…

Continue Reading Rogue OpenAI Agent Hacked Australian Government Medical Website

Rogue OpenAI Agent Hacked Australian Government Medical Website

It’s the first known instance of an agentic AI gaining unauthorized access to a government portal…

Continue Reading AI malware can rewrite itself to evade detection

AI malware can rewrite itself to evade detection

Google catches experimental malware using Gemini to rewrite its code…

Continue Reading Qualcomm Splits Its First 2nm Snapdragon Flagship Chip Into Two

Qualcomm Splits Its First 2nm Snapdragon Flagship Chip Into Two

Qualcomm’s first 2nm process chips are the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, built for high-end video and agentic AI…

Continue Reading Get More Out of Starlink: 3 Must-Try Tricks I’ve Learned Over the Years

Get More Out of Starlink: 3 Must-Try Tricks I’ve Learned Over the Years

Don’t settle for outages and slowdowns. These simple settings changes and hardware tweaks help you get peak performance out of SpaceX’s satellite network…

Continue Reading What Are Googlebooks? I Tried the First Ones, and Now I Can Answer That Big Question

What Are Googlebooks? I Tried the First Ones, and Now I Can Answer That Big Question

Fusing Android and ChromeOS with a hefty dollop of Gemini AI, Googlebooks aim to improve on Apple’s cross-device dominance. Here’s what I learned by getting my hands on the first bunch of these slick new laptops…

Continue Reading ‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees

‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees

A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees’ spouses…

Continue Reading AMD GPU and motherboard prices could jump 10% soon, Ryzen may follow

AMD GPU and motherboard prices could jump 10% soon, Ryzen may follow

A new leak suggests AMD is preparing a 10% price hike on graphics cards and motherboards—and Ryzen CPUs might not be far behind…

Continue Reading Want your laptop battery to last for years? Avoid these 9 mistakes

Want your laptop battery to last for years? Avoid these 9 mistakes

Laptop battery dying too soon? Learn the habits that protect battery health and add years to your laptop’s life…

Continue Reading Microsoft: Internet Explorer’s IE Mode Won’t Be Around Forever

Microsoft: Internet Explorer’s IE Mode Won’t Be Around Forever

We’ve heard this before, but Microsoft is issuing another warning to sites that are still reliant on ‘IE mode’ in the Edge browser: It’s probably going away after 2029…

Continue Reading Microsoft patents system to freeze games and inject ads during downtimes

Microsoft patents system to freeze games and inject ads during downtimes

Watching commercials earns ad-free playtime credits…