It might not be a new update, but one of Microsoft's previous changes to Chrome shouldn't go without being highlighted.
Massive dataset belonging to US hiring platform Foh&Boh has been found unsecured online.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT has removed the last barrier to using ChatGPT as a search engine, the requirement to log in. Now, it’s open to all.
OpenAI launched the feature last fall, but required a login. Now, the feature can be used without the need for registration.
ChatGPT Search is essentially just ChatGPT, and can be accessed at
It’s been well more than a year since Amazon gave us a glimpse of a revamped Alexa, complete with an AI overhaul under the hood. Now t
Any business that relies on selling electronics to Americans is having a bit of a crisis at the moment. Less than two weeks into the new Trump administration, there’s a new 10 percent tariff on goods from China — which is most consumer goods, period — and it’s set to
Ready to turn your house into a smart home? Replacing your dumb bulbs with smart ones is perhaps the easiest way to start. Many smart bulbs can be screwed into existing light sockets, and they can be controlled remotely, put on schedules, change colors, and more.
If you’re feeling more ambitious, you can venture into smart string lights, light strips, wall
The MSI Creator 16 is a laptop. Allegedly. But looking at the spec sheet, you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a souped-up gaming rig. It’s packing an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H CPU, a Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 GPU, a 4K screen, and a whopping 64GB of RAM.
Asus China provides free motherboard replacements for customers who succumbed to PCIe damage from Asus' new Q-Release Slim connector.
EVGA closed its forums two years after its split with Nvidia.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/evga-closes-its-official-forums-and-transitions-to-reddit
Spotting AI's work can be increasingly difficult as its capabilities and subtleties continue to improve. This continued shift makes labeling AI generated work all the more critical — something that is being done in bits and pieces. The latest development to do so comes from Google, which will now use SynthID technology to mark mages edited using Reimagine in Magic Editor.
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Amazon has shared a list of video games that Prime members can snag for free this month, and there are some real gems. It’s a nice mix of AAA and indie titles. Additionally, the company revealed some new titles coming to the cloud-gaming platform Luna.
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Whether you're shopping for a holistic health connoisseur or a fitness enthusiast or, our editors' favorite picks have you covered for Valentine's Day. https://www.cnet.com/health/57-best-wellness-valentines-day-gifts-for-the-health-gurus-who-have-it-all/#ftag=CADf328eec
Find out the best ways to watch or stream the game, Super Bowl commercials and Kendrick Lamar's halftime show on Fox or for free on Tubi. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/how-to-watch-super-bowl-2025-livestream-options-channel-for-eagles-vs-chiefs/#ftag=CADf328eec
Waking up tired despite getting enough sleep? Only specific sleep phases grant restorative rest, and you might be missing out. https://www.cnet.com/health/sleep/your-sleep-quality-matters-heres-how-to-know-if-you-are-getting-enough/#ftag=CADf328eec
Alexa has spent years listening and talking. Now it's about to start thinking. https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/amazons-alexa-set-for-major-ai-upgrade-heres-what-to-expect/#ftag=CADf328eec
Here's how to stream more of the deception-filled reality competition. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/when-to-watch-episode-7-of-the-traitors-on-peacock/#ftag=CADf328eec
Invincible season 3 episode 3's most important scene was more impactful and less effective than its comic book counterpart.
Robot vacuums are making some huge technological leaps in 2025, but is that a good thing?
Multiple backup products found carrying a critical severity flaw allowing malicious actors to run arbitrary commands on compromised endpoints.
Is anyone using expiration email alerts any more?
We've seen our first glimpse of RTX 50-series laptop prices, and there are a few things to keep in mind while shopping around.
https://www.laptopmag.com/laptops/gaming-laptops-pcs/early-rtx-50-gaming-laptop-prices
Save $90 on the Lenovo Tab Plus, a Pixel Tablet alternative with an eight speaker system.
The Apple veteran exclusively tells Laptop Mag about the future of Apple Silicon — and how Apple arrived at this moment.
https://www.laptopmag.com/laptops/apple-doug-brooks-interview
Could Arm's legal battle with Qualcomm be coming to an end? Comments from CFO Jason Child seem to concede defeat.
https://www.laptopmag.com/laptops/arm-lawsuit-qualcomm-earnings-oryon-chips
The HyperX QuadCast 2 S is the best from HyperX, and it's an incredible USB microphone with beautiful, crisp high-resolution recording quality and a clean design.
https://www.windowscentral.com/accessories/microphones/hyperx-quadcast-2-s-review
Microsoft is trying to compel users to stick to Microsoft Edge when searching for Google's Web Store using Bing instead of switching over to Chrome.
The ESA has a new gaming conference, but unlike the now-dead E3, iicon is meant for gaming executives, with Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony attending.
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/e3-esa-new-game-conference-iicon-microsoft-sony-nintendo
Arm has withdrawn its threat to end a licensing agreement with Qualcomm. The news comes just weeks after a major court ruling on a case between the two tech giants.
One thing you need to have in your purse or backpack at all times is a power bank. You never know when you’re going to need extra juice for your phone before it dies and leaves you stranded.
Right now, this Iniu power bank is only $10.79 on Amazon, which is 5
Hello, fellow workstation addicts. I see y’all over on the /r/battlestations subreddit, lovingly tweaking your monitor angles and searching for the perfect succulent to add a splash of green. Come check out the newest addition to Corsair’s growing desk offerings: a functional add-on peg board to hold controllers, lights, Gundam models, and more.
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Tech giant Microsoft has announced that you can now try out the Super Resolution feature in the Teams app, but only if you have a
Windows has come a long way from its wild west days, with multiple protections that guard against dangerous software. But attackers constantly try to evade those defenses—and recently succeeded with a 7-Zip exploit that sneaks past Windows’ normal wariness of downloaded files.
Discovered by Trend Micro researchers in September 2024, a vulnerability in 7-Zip
Bill Gates was once the embodiment of the computer industry. Though the co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft retired over a decade ago to pursue full-time philanthropy, people still listen when he talks — and in a recent interview, he talked about Intel.
Intel is having a rough time of late. The chipmaker’s stock is practically in freefall. It’s had high-
It’s been a few years since Microsoft started making changes to Chromium, the open-source engine that powers most web browsers today, including Chrome and Edge. One of the more recent changes grants more privacy to end users in Incognito and InPrivate modes.
Turns out, Windows 10 and 11 no longer save content to the clipboard history when you copy stuff whi
Google has now given its Gemini app access to a new AI model called Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental.
According to the announcement blog post, the company says this model is currently “ranked as the world’s best model” and is available at no cost. The model is designed to answer co
Asus has launched a conspicuously opulent golden edition of its flagship Blackwell graphics card dubbed the ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 Dhahab OC Edition.
A mixup at Nvidia resulted in someone receiving an RTX 5080 graphics card with the words ‘RTX 5090’ etched on the cooler.
A developer hacked Apple's Lightning to HDMI dongle to run Doom directly on it.
Rumors of a new Steam Console using RDNA4 are greatly exaggerated, but there's clearly a future for Steam-branded hardware. Here's the rundown on what we know and expect from the eventual Steam Deck successor.
ReevesMedia is using a Raspberry Pi to power this gorgeous portable cyberdeck rig that works as a functional portable ethical hacking.
Get ready, Montreal! The Full Stack Gurus meetup is back in 2025, and we can't wait to reconnect with the Symfony and PHP community. Mark your calendar for Tuesday, February 25th at 5:00 PM— this is an event you don’t want to miss! Free registration… https://symfony.com/blog/nicolas-grekas-returns-to-montreal-on-february-25?utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed&utm_medium=feed
Fighting games fans thought it would never happen. But then the first Capcom Fighting Game Collection came out last fall with remasters for some of the most important titles from the mid to late 90s (plus one from the 2000s) — all in the same package. We’re talking about absolute classics like X-Men: Children of the Atom, Marvel Super Heroes and most importantly, Marve
DeepSeek recent explosion in popularity continues to be a problem for the AI startup. In a notification spotted by Bloomberg, the company said it was temporarily limiting access to its application programming interface service in response to a shortage of server capacity.
"Due to current server resource cons
The release date for arguably one of the most anticipated games around has emerged, albeit in low-key fashion. According to an apparent leak on the PlayStation Store — perhaps about as official as you can get without a splashy announcement elsewhere —
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So, I was about 11 years old and just got my first Mac, a IIsi, and of course everyone had AfterDark, but there was this other screensaver program called "Dark Side of the Mac". And within it was, I think now, the most beautiful screensaver ever written. It was called Kaos.
Kaos would take anywhere from 10 to 30 seconds to slowly iterate on a single image, starting with a few colored dots and growing into webs within webs of algorithmic beauty.
I'm not sure how Tom Dowdy actually wrote t
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A little gem from Kevin Powell's "HTML & CSS Tip of the Week" website, reminding us that using container queries opens up container query units for sizing things based on the size of the queried container.
Container query units: cqi and cqb originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the
Dan and Eugene Levy star in separate ads, while brands like Instacart and Häagen-Dazs are dropping their first Super Bowl spots. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/super-bowl-2025-ads-are-trickling-out-heres-what-you-can-watch-right-now/#ftag=CADf328eec
Canceling home internet service can be a pain. This is how to switch providers as easily as possible. https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/how-to-switch-internet-providers/#ftag=CADf328eec
Shopping is almost guilt-free with a technique that could score you some savings online. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/i-saved-hundreds-of-dollars-with-klarnas-ai-shopping-assistant-heres-how-to-use-it/#ftag=CADf328eec
Samsung's new phones share the same camera specs as last year's lineup, but they still offer up impressive shots. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/the-galaxy-s25-and-s25-plus-cameras-deserve-a-round-of-applause-for-these-pictures/#ftag=CADf328eec
Almost any dish you can dream up is on the menu. Here's how to choose dinner and even meal plan with AI. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/how-to-use-ai-to-decide-whats-for-dinner/#ftag=CADf328eec
The flood of AI news from Google comes in the wake of the launch of DeepSeek, the breakthrough Chinese AI tool that's been making headlines. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-launches-gemini-2-0-for-everyone-here-are-the-highlights/#ftag=CADf328eec
The breakaway golf league returns for an expanded new season. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/how-to-watch-2025-liv-golf-live-from-anywhere/#ftag=CADf328eec
Dealing with stomach issues but not sure what illness you have? Here's how to tell, according to doctors. https://www.cnet.com/health/medical/norovirus-stomach-bug-or-something-else/#ftag=CADf328eec
Stream The Traitors, The Day of the Jackal and more with a discount. https://www.cnet.com/deals/you-can-get-a-year-of-peacock-for-30-right-now/#ftag=CADf328eec
Nikon's Coolpix P1100 boasts the world's best 125x optical zoom, but it offers very little that's new over the Coolpix P1000.
AI-powered drones and RFID technology are reshaping warehouse operations by improving inventory tracking efficiency.
Amazon spells out the arrival of an Alexa update at its next tech event – as fresh rumors give us an idea of what to expect.
OpenAI has removed the login requirement from ChatGPT Search, allowing all users to access the AI search engine for free.
Abnormal Security report warns of new phishing campaign that already struck 150+ organizations.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/microsoft-authentication-system-spoofed-via-phishing-attack
Spotify has big plans for 2025 after its first full-year profit, and maybe we'll get the new music tier we've wanted for years.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 won’t need the 12VHPWR power connector according to new rumor.
Here's whether or not Monster Hunter Wilds is crossplay at launch, whether you can play between PC & Xbox, and more.
https://www.techradar.com/gaming/monster-hunter-wilds-crosssplay
After a statement which seemed to announce the end of Samsung’s Google Messages alternative, the app is back with a bang thanks to a new RCS update.
We're still awaiting Apple's M4 Ultra chip (plus M4-powered MacBook Air laptops), but rumors of M5 chips going to production are ramping up.
The devices reached their end-of-life and are no longer supported despite being popular in the market, Zyxel warns.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/zyxel-says-it-wont-patch-security-flaws-in-its-old-routers
The Garmin outage, one week on – join the debate in our comments section.
As data exfiltration becomes more prominent, organizations must better protect sensitive data from attackers.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/how-to-combat-exfiltration-based-extortion-attacks
New sophisticated cybersecurity threats in 2025 require organizations to revisit their defense strategies.
The Logitech G PRO X TKL Rapid is a minimalistic gaming keyboard that boosts performance with magnetic switches, and loads of software customization for a smooth, personalized gaming experience.
GOG's Dreamlist allows users to vote for the classic PC games they want brought to the service. The top votes say a lot about game preservation.
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/gog-dreamlist-picks-and-game-preservation
A PSN trailer indicates that Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater is launching in August 2025.
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/metal-gear-solid-delta-snake-eater-release-date-leaked
Snapdragon-powered PCs made up over 10% of all laptop sales for devices over $800 in December 2024. That figure could indicate Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon have turned a corner.
The Baseus Nomos 5-in-1 Desktop Charger is versatile and sleek, and a fitting desktop companion. You can find the limits of 140W, though, and Android is second class.
https://www.windowscentral.com/accessories/baseus-nomos-5-in-1-desktop-charger-review
OpenAI recently announced that ChatGPT search is now freely accessible to everyone, and will no longer require you to sign up or log in.