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Now Perplexity is trying to get into the local AI action

AI company Perplexity has already tried its hand at search services, advertising, personal assistants, browsers, and a hosted agent platform – and now it's getting into local AI services. The biz, having already built a hybrid agent inference orches...

Intel's 256-core Xeon 7 CPUs are a Diamond in the rough

DEEP DIVE Intel's Xeon 7 platform, better known by its codename Diamond Rapids, was supposed to launch this year with up to 192 cores backed by a whopping 16 memory channels. But that's not going to happen. This being Intel, the launch was, to no on...

Universal adapter vs. travel charger: Confused? Here's the device you need most

These are two different products, but consumers end up confused because of misinformation and poor marketing copy.

Apple defies memory shortage with new Mac minis

Apple on Tuesday heralded the imminent refresh of its headless Mac kit with new versions of the Mac Studio and the Mac mini that you can pre-order now for shipping on September 22, 2026. The diminutive desktops promise a high level of local AI perfo...

Claude and Cowork now share what they know about you

Anthropic’s Claude chatbot knows a lot about its users, and now it's sharing its memories with the company’s everything-but-coding assistant, Cowork. The frontier lab on Tuesday announced that Claude and Cowork now share a memory, meaning that what...

Garmin's new Fenix 9 Pro smartwatch is twice as bright as the previous gen - here's how they compare

Garmin's new flagship Fenix 9 epitomizes the premium rugged smartwatch - but how much of an upgrade is it from the Fenix 8?

McKinsey says enterprise AI is finally 'on the road to ROI'

Four years into the generative AI revolution, consulting giant McKinsey reckons we've finally started the engine and are officially "on the road to ROI." Whether that road leads to actual profit-making and how long it takes to travel is anyone's gue...

EPA to drop requirement for public notice of polluting datacenters

Soon, you may not even be able to find out what that new neighborhood bit barn could do to your air quality. A proposed change by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would eliminate federal minimum requirements for public participation in m...

Garmin’s new Fenix 9 adds brighter screens and smoother map panning

The Garmin Fenix 9. | Image: Garmin Garmin just took the wraps off its new line of rugged Fenix 9 smartwatches, with the base model featuring an OLED display with a brightness of up to 3,000 nits, making it twice as bright as its predecessor....

You could've applied all 1,449 Oracle patches and still been hit by this attack

In late July, Oracle released a mammoth security patch dump with 1,449 patches, in a perhaps unprecedented bad day for database admins. None of them, it turns out, would have prevented the credential theft on an Oracle database server described by s...

Android's motion sickness feature is rolling out - how to see if you have it

Will moving dots cure your car nausea? History says yes.

Some Spectrum internet customers can get free Amazon Prime - see if you're eligible

The offer is open to subscribers on any tier, but it is location-based.

Microsoft warns that transitioning Excel workbooks to new Exchange connectors might not be smooth sailing

Microsoft has issued a warning to Excel users. Want to keep using the Exchange Connector? You'll have to migrate your workbook connections and switch to Microsoft 365 or Office 2024. The software giant just published a timeline for the switchover in...

Trump is upping the price of Big Tech’s favorite visa

In the span of a few hours on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would be implementing a fee of over $103,000 on H-1B visas, and news broke that the State Department plans on revoking the visas of up to 200,000 asylum...

Slop factory bans Russians for using slop factory to create slop

ChatGPT may spew a lot of digital garbage onto the internet, but the same bots that output the trash can be used to stop it. The company draws the line at influence operations that want to slop in the name of love . . . of mother Russia. OpenAI said...

Anthropic's Claude and Cowork will share memories about you now - unless you opt out

Anthropic is merging Claude chat and Cowork memory, raising privacy questions about what AI remembers and if it's worth the tradeoff.

The best early Labor Day Costco deals 2026: TVs, smartwatches, Apple devices, and more

Summer may be ending, but Costco deals are heating up in time for Labor Day: Save big on electronics, home essentials, and more now.

US convicts ex-Philips engineer for exposing X-ray secrets to competitor

A 71-year-old Philips engineer has been found guilty of stealing the company’s medical imaging trade secrets and passing them on to a Chinese competitor. Chih-Yee Jen worked at Philips’ Aurora, Illinois, facility where engineers researched, develope...

At just $8, you owe it to yourself to grab Inscryption

What starts as a roguelite deckbuilder builds into something far more ambitious. | Image: Daniel Mullins Games/Devolver Digital If you watched the Gamescom 2026 announcements, you might have caught a trailer for the bizarre, frenetic Pony Isla...

The Witcher 3 is getting a remaster

CD Projekt Red is remastering The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the hit RPG that first launched in 2015, and the updated game will be available starting September 29th. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remasteredwill bring improvements to visuals and combat,...