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Brad Bourque is a tech journalist and commerce writer based out of Portland, Oregon. He’s contributed to sites like Digital Trends, Business Insider, and WIRED. Nintendo announced a variety of new titles at its September livestream, but among the most talked-about is the remastered The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina
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Modern laptops might've tried to kill off the built-in optical drive, but physical media is far from dead. Case in point: the Dell DW316 Slim external USB DVD-RW drive for $39 at Amazon. Physical media is making a serious comeback (my hardware editor, with his massive library of
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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People are not happy about Flock Safety’s automated license plate readers and the cops that allegedly misuse them. If you’re one of those ALPR-haters, you can now take out your rage in the video game Grand Theft Auto V by installing Grand Theft Automated License Plate Reader, a
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Tom Warren is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is starting to test some new Xbox console features with Insiders. Testers will be able to try out custom Xbox boot animations from the past,
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* 3 points Data centers across the United States have been criticized for harming local environments sourcing power - sometimes illegally - from gas burning turbines that can release harmful pollutants into the air surrounding local communities. But dozens of data centers have been accused of releasing harmful chemicals, heavy metals,
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running
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After two ‘no security vulnerabilities’ bulletins in July and August, Google on Tuesday announced the release of patches for 180 vulnerabilities as part of the September 2026 Android security updates. As usual, the updates are split into two parts. The first part arrives on devices as the 2026-09-01 security patch
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So, you’ve planned your database modernization journey. You’ve set up Google Cloud’s Database Migration Service (DMS), configured replication, and successfully synchronized your application databases from your on-premises or cloud systems to a fully managed Cloud SQL for SQL Server instance. The replication is complete, the data is
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It’s not just time for any old Apple event, but one that’s expected to usher in a new era for the company. This is the first iPhone keynote to be led by Apple’s newly anointed CEO John Ternus, and all signs and rumors have been pointing to
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Apple’s hosting its “Surprise and shine” launch event on September 9th at 1PM ET / 10AM PT, where it’s expected to announce the first phones in its iPhone 18 lineup — including Apple’s first foldable, the rumored “iPhone Duo.” This event will also be John Ternus’ first as Apple’
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* Microsoft has fixed no fewer than 974 vulnerabilities in its latest Patch Tuesday release * Two were already being exploited in the wild, 114 categorized as 'Critical' * AI is to blame for boosting CVE discovery and also intensifying attacks Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday has become its
