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PERSONAL TECH Vast majority of new devices on market still don't give repair information to owners, but give themselves top marks for repairability One year into the EU's repairability rules for smartphones and tablets, more than 80 percent of devices still lack the necessary repair information,
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DDR5 might be the obvious choice for a new PC, but DDR4 remains a great, affordable upgrade. And I've found a fantastic deal on the 32GB Kingston Fury Beast DDR4-3200 kit for $180 (was $350) at Newegg when you use code LDSF224. You get two 16GB DDR4-3200 modules
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Microsoft is ending unlimited Xbox Cloud Gaming for Game Pass users. Starting in November, Game Pass Cloud Gaming will have a monthly hour limit. Even the top-tier Game Pass Ultimate plan will be limited to 15 hours of cloud streaming per month, with lower tiers receiving even fewer hours. To
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Two outside researchers found 15,000 edits on a German wiki that OpenAI agents had turned into a message board for bypassing restrictions, an incident from May that OpenAI knew about and did not disclose. No automated monitoring caught it. The article’s argument is that OpenAI has been publishing
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Cathay Pacific has flown more than 80 contrail-avoidance routes in a trial with Google that began in late 2025, adjusting cruise altitude to steer clear of the thin bands of humid air where aircraft exhaust freezes into clouds that trap heat. Google puts the result at roughly a 40% reduction
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Autistici/Inventati, an Italian nonprofit that has hosted email, websites, mailing lists, and blogs for activists since 2001, is closing down. The collective said it will discontinue all services and help users retrieve their data, eleven days after the United States listed it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. The
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A discussion about future training can start with the skills employers expect to value. The World Economic Forum reported in 2025 that surveyed employers expected 39% of workers’ core skills to change by 2030. Its findings placed analytical thinking first among current core skills and also identified technological literacy, empathy,
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A stretch of Argentina that mostly exports wind, gas and sheep is being pitched to the companies building AI infrastructure, and some of them are listening. Developers and energy firms are courting hyperscalers for data centre projects across Patagonia and the surrounding provinces, Reuters reported, with initial agreements targeted by
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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In a nutshell: It's time to dust off that old turntable and boombox: physical media is seeing a big resurgence, with both CDs and vinyl sales jumping by double digits in the
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6K monitors give creative professionals an enormous amount of detail and working space, but they've traditionally been prohibitively expensive. I've found the LG UltraFine Evo 32U990A-S for $1,099 at Amazon. That's not just its lowest ever price - it's the cheapest
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* Chinese companies have reportedly hidden their ownership to operate in Taiwan * They're also poaching Taiwanese workers, paying them up to 10x more * China is fighting back against US restrictions, but Taiwan wants to protect its own industry Taiwan has reportedly increased the pressure on Chinese technology companies that
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DeleteMe and Incogni are two of the best data removal services you’ll find. I tested both for a few months to gauge their effectiveness at reducing your info on people-finder sites and data brokers. While both provide basic data removal, each has unique features, so the biggest choice is
