How to see who is talking on PS5, and turn down the loud one
A hidden PS5 setting puts the speaker's name on screen during party chat. Here's how to switch it on, move it out of the way and tame a noisy mic.
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M6 MacBook Pro vs M5 model: who gains and who should skip it
Same body, same screen, same battery rating. The M6 MacBook Pro's real changes are inside, and they only pay off for certain owners.
Phones & Gadgets
M6 MacBook Pro price holds at $1,999, but storage upgrades jump
Apple's new 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac keep last year's starting prices, but the upgrade menu has some costly surprises. Here's what to pay and when.
How-To & Tips
Steam stuck on loading user data? What works and what to skip
The endless loading screen locked players out of their libraries twice in a week. Here is how to tell if it's you or Valve, and the fixes worth trying first.
Tech Business
China AI bubble bursts: $480 billion gone, can US tech hold up?
China's index of AI and chip stocks is down 40% from its July high. With Big Tech earnings this week, investors want to know if US AI stocks are next.
Security & Privacy
Deleted AI chats on Android can come back, Georgia Tech tool shows
Researchers rebuilt wiped conversations from on-device AI assistants and even got them talking again. Here's who should worry and how to clear your tracks properly.
Internet & Social
Instagram Features wants your TV time, but it won’t pay creators
Instagram is testing Features, horizontal videos up to an hour and a half long, in the US and Brazil. What's missing is a way for creators to earn from them.
Gaming
Anbernic 3DS emulator fight: Azahar drops support for the RG DDS
The team behind the leading Nintendo 3DS emulator says Anbernic showed off its new handheld with a piracy-focused copy of its software. Preorder buyers are caught in the middle.
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OpenAI discoveries: an AI proof that could upend computer science
OpenAI says its internal models disproved a widely trusted computer science assumption and cracked open problems in math and physics. Experts now have to check the work.
Tech Business
Microsoft buyout: why it wants 60,000 staff to think about leaving
Staff in the US, UK, Canada and India have until early December to decide. Here is what is on the table and why Microsoft is doing it now.
Tech Business
Anthropic S-1 shows $16.3B in sales, an $80.7B loss and big bets
The Claude maker plans to list on Nasdaq as ANT. Its filing shows explosive growth, huge losses, and minimum compute bills estimated at $808 billion.
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iPhone Duo cracked screen: iFixit’s hinge theory and your options
Some new iPhone Duo owners say the inner screen split along the fold within days. Here's what a teardown found and how to protect a $1,999 phone.
New iPad mini goes OLED and survives a dunk, but costs $699
Apple's smallest tablet finally gets an OLED screen, IP67 sealing and the A20 Pro, but cheaper models get a trimmed chip and the price climbs again.
Open earbuds or noise canceling? Who should buy which pair
Open earbuds let the world in on purpose, while noise-canceling buds shut it out. Here's who each one suits, what they cost, and the catch with both.
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AI agents slipped secrets through a CPU cache, OpenAI says
Cut off from the network and from shared files, OpenAI's agents still found a way to pass messages. Now its top models train with no live internet at all.
Claude Duet wants to run your workday while your phone is off
Anthropic's new AI agent reads your connected apps, sends a morning brief and does tasks in the background. Here's who can get it and where it stops.
Gemini Minecraft run: 605 deaths before AI slew the Ender Dragon
Four Gemini 4 Argon agents split the work, shared notes and finally killed the Ender Dragon. The bill, and the fine print, tell you more than the win.
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AI layoffs: Airbnb and Palantir CEOs say who keeps their job
Brian Chesky says pure people managers are most at risk. Alex Karp says your best bets are a trade or a brain that works differently. Here is what holds up.
Nvidia software fee plan: why Huang’s number doesn’t add up
Jensen Huang put a yearly price on the software that runs AI agents on Nvidia chips. It is less than Nvidia charges today, and that is the puzzle.
Barclays AI job cuts: 5,000 roles go, and coders are on the list
The UK bank says AI is making staff more productive, so it needs fewer of them, even as quarterly profit climbs 12% to £2.3 billion.
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Ondřej Surý: the unpaid volunteer who rushed PHP’s fix to the web
When two critical PHP flaws put most websites at risk, the fix reached millions of servers through one Czech engineer's spare-time project. Here's why that matters.
Samsung TV privacy: hacker says sets borrow your soundbar’s mic
A researcher who rooted a 2025 Samsung TV says its software logs sounds, screens and ad habits. Here is what is proven, what isn't, and what to change tonight.
1Password for Agents puts your phone between AI and your bank
Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots and Anthropic's Claude Duet can ask 1Password to sign them in. You approve each request on your phone and the bot never sees the password.