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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Bose will brick key features of its SoundTouch Wi-Fi speakers and soundbars soon. On Thursday, Bose informed customers that as of February 18, 2026, it will stop supporting the devices, and the devices' cloud-based features, including the companion app, will stop working. The SoundTouch app enabled numerous capabilities, including integrating music services, like Spotify and TuneIn, and the ability to program multiple speakers in different rooms to play
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ArsTechnica: When graphic design platform-provider Canva bought the Affinity image-editing and publishing apps early last year, we had some major questions about how the companies' priorities and products would mesh. How would Canva serve the users who preferred Affinity's perpetually licensed apps to Adobe's subscription-only software suite? And how would Affinity's strong stance against generative AI be reconciled with Canva's embrace of those technologies. This week, Canva gave us definitive... Read more ›
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Almost exactly a month ago, I wrote an article for theverge.com pointing out that the T1 Phone 8002 (gold version) — a.k.a. the Trump phone — had missed its promised release date. Now here I am again, because the phone still hasn’t come out. In case you’ve forgotten, the T1 is a very gold mid-range Android […] Read more ›
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I'm an American who moved to London. Grocery shopping in the UK has yielded many surprises, including differences in product placement and availability. Read more ›
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A spokesperson for the California pension system said it would "further concentrate power in a single shareholder.” Read more ›
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A bootable Windows 7 install that consumes a mere 69MB of disk space has been shared online. However, it isn't a very practical release, right now. Read more ›
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Cameras can offer peace of mind, but choose carefully before inviting one into your home. Read more ›
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Already under intense scrutiny for alleged ties to China, TP-Link, a now-U.S.-based and operated company is on the verge of being banned. In a new proposal concocted by the Department of Commerce, and backed by the Department of Justice, Defense and Homeland Security, TP-Link routers might no longer be allowed to be sold in America. Read more ›
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For a year, on and off, I've been thinking about Dragon Age: The Veilguard. More specifically, I've been thinking about my Dragon Age: The Veilguard review - the five-star review I wrote for Eurogamer. It plagues me. Because to be blunt, I'm not happy with how it sits. I don't think The Veilguard is a five-star game and definitely don't think it's BioWare's best game. To have suggested such a... Read more ›
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To quickly catch you up on how things shook out, here's a rundown on the main takeaways from Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. Read more ›
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Musk and the DHS have used The Lord of the Rings references to push anti-immigration messaging, seemingly positioning themselves as underdogs to justify oppression. Read more ›
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My first time trying Amtrak's business class was on a Northeast Regional trip to Boston. The five-hour train ride had perks and surprising drawbacks. Read more ›
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Your laptops, mini PCs, and PC parts will all cost more just before the holidays. Read more ›
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AMD ended mainstream driver support for its RDNA 1 and 2 GPUs in a new update that sought to focus on the RX 7000 and 9000 series for day-one optimizations for new releases. This could mean trouble for handhelds that rely on tuning to achieve their full potential on Windows, and without AMD's driver to back them up, they might be left high and dry. Read more ›
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Julius Baer experts say entrepreneurs and smaller fortunes can use hybrid and virtual family offices to manage their assets, governance, and legacy. Read more ›
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Jump online and guide Pac-Man, dressed in a variety of Halloween costumes, through eight levels of a haunted house. Read more ›
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Best Buy Black Friday Ad. Browse the best deals from Best Buy's Black Friday sale in 2025. Read more ›
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The HighPoint RocketAIC 7608AW is a boundary-pusher when configured with 8x8TB Samsung 9100 Pro SSDs. It’s super fast, but the consumer application is limited. Read more ›
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Don McGowan is an attorney who knows what he's talking about when it comes to understanding what Microsoft might do following the Trump administration's provocative use of the Halo IP on social media this week. He was a senior attorney at Xbox Game Studios for three years. He was also chief legal officer at The Pokémon Company for a decade - another brand recently abused by the Trump administration. McGowan,... Read more ›
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The Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million U.S. government grant because it required them to renounce all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. "The non-profit would've used the funding to help prevent supply chain attacks; create a new automated, proactive review process for new PyPI packages; and make the project's work easily transferable to other open-source package managers," reports The Register. From the report: The programming non-profit's deputy executive director... Read more ›
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An AI system "apparently mistook a high school student's bag of Doritos for a firearm," reports the Guardian, "and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed." Taki Allen was sitting with friends on Monday night outside Kenwood high school in Baltimore and eating a snack when police officers with guns approached him. "At first, I didn't know where they were going until they started walking toward me... Read more ›
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The Washington Post reports on 996, "a term popularized in China that refers to a rigid work schedule in which people work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week..." As the artificial intelligence race heats up, many start-ups in Silicon Valley and New York are promoting hardcore culture as a way of life, pushing the limits of work hours, demanding that workers move fast to be first... Read more ›
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Electronic Arts has spent the past year pushing its nearly 15,000 employees to use AI for everything from code generation to scripting difficult conversations about pay. Employees in some areas must complete multiple AI training courses and use tools like the company's in-house chatbot ReefGPT daily. The tools produce flawed code and hallucinations that employees then spend time correcting. Staff say the AI creates more work rather than less, according... Read more ›
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Employees are using AI to generate fake expense receipts. Leading expense software platforms report a sharp increase in AI-created fraudulent documents following the launch of improved image generation models by OpenAI and Google. AppZen said fake AI receipts accounted for 14% of fraudulent documents submitted in September compared with none last year. Ramp flagged more than one million dollars in fraudulent invoices within 90 days. About 30% of financial professionals... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: Two senators said they are announcing bipartisan legislation on Tuesday to crack down on tech companies that make artificial intelligence chatbot companions available to minors, after complaints from parents who blamed the products for pushing their children into sexual conversations and even suicide. The legislation from Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo, and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., follows a congressional hearing last month at... Read more ›
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Microsoft shipped its first Xbox handheld nearly two weeks ago. The $600 white Xbox Ally cannot reliably sleep, wake, or hold a charge while asleep. Neither Microsoft nor Asus would admit there's a problem or offer a timeline to fix it after repeated requests by The Verge. Asus said it needs more time to test. Installing Bazzite, a Linux-based operating system, solves the problems, the publication reports. The same hardware... Read more ›
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At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana said society will ultimately accept a fatal robotaxi crash as part of the broader tradeoff for safer roads overall. TechCrunch reports: The topic of a fatal robotaxi crash came up during Mawakana's interview with Kristen Korosec, TechCrunch's transportation editor, during the first day of the outlet's annual Disrupt conference in San Francisco. Korosec asked Mawakana about Waymo's ambitions and got answer after... Read more ›
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Thursday the Washington Post profiled "the people who dare to say no to AI," including a 16-year-old high school student in Virginia says "she doesn't want to off-load her thinking to a machine and worries about the bias and inaccuracies AI tools can produce..." "As the tech industry and corporate America go all in on artificial intelligence, some people are holding back." Some tech workers told The Washington Post they... Read more ›
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Larry Sanger, who helped launch Wikipedia in 2001 before being ousted by co-founder Jimmy Wales a year later, has spent years arguing the online encyclopedia has abandoned its commitment to neutrality. Leading conservatives in the second Trump administration are now amplifying his critique. Elon Musk announced plans to launch an AI-powered alternative called Grokipedia this week, calling Wikipedia "hopelessly biased." Senator Ted Cruz sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation... Read more ›
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