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  1. Apple releases public betas of all next-gen OS updates, except for VisionOS

    Apple's public betas are usually stable enough for daily use, but be careful.

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  2. Report: Alphabet close to $23 billion deal for cybersecurity startup Wiz

    Deal of this size would draw scrutiny from antitrust regulators around the world.

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  3. German Navy still uses 8-inch floppy disks, working on emulating a replacement

    Four Brandenburg-class F123 warships employ floppies for data-acquisition systems.

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  4. $500 aluminum version of the Analogue Pocket looks like the Game Boy’s final form

    Other Pocket iterations have stuck to colorful (and cheaper) plastic.

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  5. New app releases for Apple Vision Pro have fallen dramatically since launch

    Apple struggles to attract content from developers for its $3,500 headset.

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  6. Arduino’s Plug and Make Kit lets your hacking imagination run wild, sans solder

    Daisy-chain tiny boards into weather stations, game controllers, and way more.

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  7. Shady company relaunches popular old tech blogs, steals writers’ identities

    This doesn't just threaten writers' work—it has a corrosive effect on the web.

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  8. DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again

    You don't know what you've got till it's gone.

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  9. Arm tweaks AMD’s FSR to bring battery-saving GPU upscaling to phones and tablets

    Arm "Accuracy Super Resolution" is optimized for power use and integrated GPUs.

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  10. Three betas in, iOS 18 testers still can’t try out Apple Intelligence features

    Apple has said some features will be available to test "this summer."

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  11. Galaxy Z Fold & Z Flip 6, Watch Ultra, and new Ring are Samsung’s AI carriers

    Samsung's spec-bump products get coated in Galaxy AI lacquer for their showing.

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  12. Testers unearth touchscreen UI in tvOS beta, signs point to a touchscreen HomePod

    Rumors of a touchscreen HomePod stretch back to 2021.

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  1. Samsung’s abandoned NX cameras can be brought online with a $20 LTE stick

    All it took was a reverse-engineered camera firmware and a custom API rewrite.

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  2. After two rejections, Apple approves Epic Games Store app for iOS

    European iOS users will see the alternative app store launch sometime soon.

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  3. “Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers 

    Without updates or ability to download after August, app will become useless.

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  4. Notepad’s spellcheck and autocorrect are rolling out to everybody after 41 years

    It's still bare-bones by most standards, but Notepad has evolved a lot recently.

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  5. ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text

    The app was updated to address the issue after it gained public attention.

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  6. Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after release

    Amazon giving refunds for business bot, will focus on home version instead.

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  7. Japan wins 2-year “war on floppy disks,” kills regulations requiring old tech

    But what about fax machines?

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  8. Apple Vision Pro, new cameras fail user-repairability analysis

    Meta Quest 3, PS5 Slim also received failing grades despite new right-to-repair laws.

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  9. Google’s greenhouse gas emissions jump 48% in five years

    Google's 2030 "Net zero" target looks increasingly doubtful as AI use soars.

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  10. Surface Pro 11 and Laptop 7 review: An Apple Silicon moment for Windows

    Superfluous AI features and compatibility issues don't detract from good PCs.

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  11. Bleeding subscribers, cable companies force their way into streaming

    Companies like Charter brought about the streaming industry they now want to join.

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  12. 30 years later, FreeDOS is still keeping the dream of the command prompt alive

    Project's creator talks to Ars about where FreeDOS has been, where it's going.

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  1. Apple’s Vision Pro goes on sale outside the US for the first time

    Since February, the headset has only been available in the United States.

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  2. Researchers craft smiling robot face from living human skin cells

    Human cells isolated from juvenile foreskin are flexible enough to grin when moved.

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  3. Google Translate just nearly doubled its number of supported languages

    This includes common languages like Cantonese and lesser-known ones like Manx.

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  4. Apple’s “Longevity, by Design” argues its huge scale affects its repair polices

    Apple must consider volume, but also the world outside its closed loop.

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  5. Patent document showcases the cloud-only streaming Xbox console that never was

    Microsoft couldn't get the price of its streaming Xbox low enough to release it.

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  6. OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all users

    It supports pretty much everything but API calls.

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  7. iOS 18’s drive-formatting option shows how far iPhones have come for power users

    The beta's Files app lets you format external drives in APFS, exFat, and FAT.

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  8. Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11

    But most Microsoft account sign-in workarounds for Windows 11 continue to work.

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  9. Larry Finger made Linux wireless work and brought others along to learn

    Remembering Finger, 84, who learned as he went and left his mark on many.

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  10. iFixit says new Arm Surface hardware “puts repair front and center”

    Both devices make it relatively easy to get at the battery and SSD.

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  11. $200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 era

    Pocket 386 supports external accessories and will just barely run Windows 95.

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  12. Citing national security, US will ban Kaspersky anti-virus software in July

    Kaspersky blames the "present geopolitical climate and theoretical concerns."

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