LG to remove pop-up ads from its monitor software A bizarre drama unfolded this week, when it was discovered that an LG Monitor App was installed silently via a Windows Update alongside a monitor driver update. But, that wasn’t the main problem. The LG Monitor App began displaying pop-up ads...

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Apple files a lawsuit against OpenAI, accuses it of stealing trade secrets In 2024, Apple and OpenAI had partnered to bring ChatGPT on iPhone. Now, Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the U.S. District Court for the Northern California. This isn’t the first time OpenAI has been hit by...

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OpenAI to shut down ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after its launch OpenAI had launched its desktop browser, ChatGPT Atlas, on October 21st, 2025. Less than a year after its release, the company has announced that it will be sunsetting the browser. When it was released, OpenAI touted...

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Sony to end physical disc production for PlayStation games from 2028 Sony has announced that it will not produce physical discs for PlayStation games from January 2028. This means new games will be released in digital formats only. The announcement could also serve as an indirect confirmation that the upcoming...

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Windows 10 support extended until October 2027 Microsoft ended support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025. But, the Redmond company continued to provide support for Windows 10 via the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program. This was because many users with older PCs were unable to upgrade to Windows 11...

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Google releases Android 17 Google has released Android 17, codenamed Cinnamon Bun. While it doesn’t bring major changes, it does come with some new features, and quality of life improvements. You can now open multitask with ease thanks to App Bubbles. This feature places app icons on the side of...

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iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 officially announced Apple unveiled iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 at WWDC 26. The Cupertino company says that an optimized CPU scheduler helps older iPhones more responsive  The announcement highlighted a number of performance improvements in iOS 27. App launches are up to 30% faster, new...

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Valve to launch Steam Machine this summer It has been nearly 7 months since Valve announced the Steam Machine, Steam Frame and the Steam Controller. After multiple delays, the Steam Controller was launched in May 2026. And it looks like the other two devices could hit the market soon. Valve...

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Valve hikes the price of Steam Deck A while ago, the Steam Deck OLED models went out of stock. Now, Valve has announced a massive price increase for the handheld consoles. The Steam Deck 512GB OLED, which launched for $550 in 2023, now costs $790. That’s a price increase of...

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Firefox 151 introduces a Fire button for incognito sessions, location selection for VPN Mozilla released the Firefox 151 update this week which brought a handful of changes. One of these is a “Clear Private Session” button, which is shaped like a flame. It’s exclusive to private browsing sessions. What it...

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If you’re editing a video on a tight deadline and you realize a piece of footage isn’t there, you already know the next few hours. You pause the project, switch to a browser, dig through stock sites, download options, import them, check if any of them actually work in context,...

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Microsoft rebrands Xbox, it’s now XBOX This maybe the biggest change ever made. Xbox is now XBOX. That’s no joke. As reported by The Verge’s Tom Warren, the creative change came after Asha Sharma, the CEO of Xbox, held a poll on X asking players if they liked Xbox or...

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Google Chrome silently downloads a 4GB AI Model on your computer Security researcher Alexander Hanff wrote an article on ThatPrivacyGuy, stating that he discovered Chrome was writing a 4GB on-device AI model called weights.bin in a new folder. This file is related to Gemini Nano, which is Google’s local language...

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Producing content for a brand used to follow a predictable rhythm. You briefed a campaign, scheduled a shoot or a design sprint, sourced your assets, and built toward a delivery date that gave everyone enough room to work. That rhythm is mostly gone. Social media alone now requires a volume...

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YouTube makes picture-in-picture mode free for all mobile users YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode debuted in 2018 on Android, and arrived on iOS in 2021. The feature allows users to continue watching videos in a small window, when they switch out of the YouTube app, i.e. by swiping up or by tapping...

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Mozilla is testing a built-in ad blocker in Firefox Mozilla has begun testing an ad blocker in Firefox. This native solution, is powered by Brave Browser’s ad block engine, which is called adblock-rust. Firefox has supported ad blocker extensions for a long time, and users have lots of choices to...

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Have you ever found yourself with fourteen browser tabs open, two hours left before a deadline, and absolutely zero confidence that the hero image you need actually exists somewhere on the internet? Because I have. More times than I’d like to admit. And I can tell you right now: the...

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Google launches Gemini app for Mac Google has released an official Gemini app for macOS. The app is native, and is written in Swift. It is compatible with all Apple Silicon computers that run on macOS Sequoia 15.0 or later. Once installed, users can access Gemini from the dock or...

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YouTube Premium gets a price hike in the US Amazon Prime and Netflix raised their prices last month. It was only a matter of time before other streaming services followed their example. This time, it is YouTube’s turn. While YouTube Premium got a price hike in many countries in 2024,...

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Microsoft wants to focus on native apps for Windows 11 Microsoft has been making quite a few changes recently to improve the Windows 11 experience. According to Rudy Huyn, a Microsoft Partner Architect, the next step is to focus on Windows apps. You may be aware that many Windows apps...

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