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- August 8
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- How to watch Chelsea vs AC Milan for FREE: pre-season friendly live streams from anywhere
- Working hard or hardly working? More than half of workers have sent unneeded emails or messages just to show they are doing something
- How to watch Japan vs Australia: Live streams and TV channels as Brave Blossoms host Wallabies
- Denza claims its latest Z9S model boasts the world’s longest electric range — allowing owners to drive from New York to Detroit without a stop
- Russia is kickstarting its plans to dominate the space race once again — but it will have to depend on Chinese hardware to do so
- August 7
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- Pentagon signs $500 million deal for unmanned counter-drone missile systems promising 'decisive advantage'
- Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, August 8 (game #1657)
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, August 8 (game #1154)
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, August 8 (game #888)
- Could this be the end of BIOS-locked laptops? AI tweaker deploys Claude to unlock and change settings for good
- WhatsApp scam costs Hong Kong man $1.27 million after criminals used AI voice notes to impersonate his father — experts say secret codewords are the best way to stay safe
- 'I wasn’t driving. I had Autopilot on': Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system is getting drivers speeding tickets, and owners aren’t happy
- Hivemind AI software carries out first on-water 'swarming test' in Taiwan mission
- The next age of LLMs? Dev gets a small LLM running at 10 tokens a second locally on a $10 microcontroller
- Shock horror — AI-generated security patches fall short of actually solving all the problems they were meant to fix
- Experts warn malicious AI skills are hitting more victims than ever — with one family amassing 1.7 million downloads
- Wondering why GTA 6 is a code in a box? Take-Two CEO says it’s because gaming is now ‘well over 90% digital’
- How to watch Middlesbrough vs Wrexham: Free Streams + TV Channels for Carabao Cup 1st Round
- 'The level of pre-orders is unprecedented' — Take-Two reportedly made $1.39 billion in sales during GTA 6's pre-order period
- What is the release date for House of the Dragon season 3 episode 8?
- Redditor gets sick of waiting for Nvidia and makes a tool to protect RTX 5090 GPUs from melting their power cables
- 'Start experimenting and innovating again please': Samsung's spicy Reddit AMA covered foldables, health, and AI — and the company didn't shy away from responding to criticism
- New Mexico judge calls Meta a 'public nuisance' that's like a factory emitting 'noxious pollution' in record $567 million fine — and even Meta's own attorneys agree
- Top US hedge funds targeted by major vishing campaign — Blackstone, KKR and CME among those under fire
- This Russian VPN has been accused of breaching its no-log policy — here's what we know
- This 'classic' decades-old SQL injection flaw could let hackers take over entire Windows servers, thanks to a nifty database trick
- It doesn't seem like Nintendo plans to drop cartridges anytime soon, as the Switch 2 maker reports 38.5% of its sales are physical
- How to watch Rugby's Greatest Rivalry: FREE streams, TV channels, schedule for New Zealand's 2026 tour of South Africa
- 7 new movies and TV shows to watch on Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, and more this weekend (August 7)
- How to watch DHL Stormers vs New Zealand for FREE: Live streams and TV channels for Rugby's Greatest Rivalry tour opener
- NordVPN gives Linux users a major upgrade with automatic GUI app installation
- 'Locking a gameplay trailer behind a Netflix subscription is a new level of greed' — GTA 6 callout Rockstar for 'paywalling' the game's extended look
- The Legend of Zelda Movie has found its Ganondorf and Impa — and the new Nintendo film will also include a poignant final big-screen role for the late Sam Neill
- This is getting embarrassing now — Microsoft sabotages its good work in fixing Windows 11 with this baffling OneDrive Photos app misfire
- Ubisoft just made a classic Tom Clancy game free to keep — here's how to add it to your library before time runs out
- A worrying Google issue could leave small businesses playing catch-up with back-to-school sales – here is what to do
- Great news for cheap OLED TVs and monitors: LG's new '2-stack' tech should cost less to make and be more energy efficient than its recent 'OLED SE' panel
- Starlink might be less of a threat to mobile operators than Elon Musk claims
- Microsoft has pulled a small but vital Teams update which could have let users ignore all those annoying work chats for good - I just hope it comes back soon
- To me, my X-Men: Marvel has found its Cyclops in Heartstopper's Kit Connor — and he might not be the only actor who's reportedly been cast for the new MCU movie
- The latest firmware beta update automatically enables PSSR 2.0 on PS5 Pro, giving supported games 'sharper and clearer' graphics
- Swiss government says SharePoint-linked data breach affected hundreds of accounts
- How to watch Possession online from anywhere – stream Gugu Mbatha-Raw's supernatural thriller
- Xiaomi’s debut full-size hybrid SUV can cover 314 electric miles before it touches a drop of gasoline
- Keen to get Alexa+ but don’t have the necessary hardware? These are the 9 Amazon devices we recommend to get you up and running
- 'Enemy rags do not remain on Ukrainian soil for long': Ukrainian forces destroy Russian flag 30 seconds after it was dropped by a drone
- China declares it is now the leading global chipmaking power — mainly because it just changed the definition of what a semiconductor is
- My Life with the Walter Boys season 4: release window and everything we know so far about the hit Netflix show's return
- August 6
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- NASA says a billion-dollar bill for a recycled Moon rover is simply too high
- Waymo CEO says camera-only self-driving systems can’t support fully autonomous driving systems, and after testing multiple robotaxis, I have to agree
- Quordle hints and answers for Friday, August 7 (game #1656)
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Friday, August 7 (game #1153)
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, August 7 (game #887)
- US Air Force says the F-47 'will fly in this administration' — new super jet set to replace the F-22 is still set to arrive in 2028
- Robert Pattinson steps into Chris Hansen's shoes in the gripping new A24 Primetime trailer — but I was distracted by an unrecognizable The Office star
- SK Hynix and SanDisk reveal first specs for High Bandwidth Flash — but don't get too excited, you probably won't be able to buy it anytime soon
- 'I think there's room for both to coexist': Disney's new creator festival is the clearest sign yet that Hollywood and fan-made movies are colliding
- Global memory shortage forces top PC makers like HP and Asus to turn to CXMT chips — but what will Samsung and Micron think?
- More hefty GPU price hikes are rumored — and your only chance of a high-end Nvidia graphics card at MSRP is at QuakeCon
- 35 years ago today, the World Wide Web changed our lives forever — as Tim Berners-Lee says, ‘trading personal data for use certainly does not fit with my vision for a free web’
- Heatwaves are getting so bad you can buy this portable 'human fridge' in Japan to save you from heatstroke — and it'll blast you with 41F air
- Is Google Gemini trained on Google docs? One indie developer thinks so, after it told players about his unreleased game plans
- Capcom says 'approximately 90%' of its sales are digital — and isn't worried about the death of physical games
- Ghost Recon Wildlands finally gets a 4K 60fps mode for current-gen consoles and PC, a time of day feature, new difficulty options, and more as Ubisoft aims to increase 'player freedom'
- Ghost Recon Wildlands gets a new story mission called Last Rites that introduces 'a new kind of danger' as Ubisoft confirms the next game is in development and is now 'ready to put it to the test'
- Hackers caught hijacking this Chinese Windows VPN's installers to spread malware
- Another top router maker accused of firmware having backdoors — Chinese giant Zbtlink halts downloads to fix issue
- GTA 5 actor says 'I must've auditioned for over 60 characters' for GTA 6, but Rockstar ghosted him — 'I feel like someone who's in love with a girl and then she just dumped me'
- Google Blogger locks out thousands of users after malware false positive
- OpenAI says it stopped an Asian scam campaign hijacking ChatGPT to lure in victims
- Garmin Fenix 9 details leak, and if true, we're getting three new watches — but the most interesting part of this reveal is about Garmin's screen technology
- Microsoft quietly stops recommending 32GB of RAM, as even Apple reportedly struggles to secure memory for iPhones and MacBooks
- Buggy microcontrollers making up some of the world's most important servers can be easily backdoored
- We could finally be getting the next GTA 6 trailer as Rockstar announces a special 'extended look' that will premiere on... Netflix?
- Bose's mid-range headphones just got their first upgrade in years, adding better ANC, wired USB-C audio and a limited edition Shrek-y colorway
- How to watch Carabao Cup 2026/27 for FREE: Live stream EFL Cup online from anywhere — Round 1
- Dolby Vision 2 HDR is officially arriving on certain Hisense TVs — here's which models are getting it first, and what it does
- Do your AirPods slip out while you run or chew? This user found a simple and cheap trick to keep them in place — and you’ll still be able to fit them in your charging case
- 'This will be my last Pixel': Android fans are rebelling against the imminent demise of Google Assistant — here are 5 reasons why
- Sony is reportedly putting ‘important notice’ labels on PS5 consoles — warning buyers that disc production ends in 2028
- Suno is now letting users press their AI music slop to vinyl, thus alienating streaming services, artists and audiophiles
- 75% of European businesses fear a US tech kill switch could deal an economic 'death blow' – driving a search for sovereign alternatives
- Apple's Private Relay tool can leak users' IP addresses — with OnionBrowser also affected
- Resident Evil Requiem's Leon and Grace will co-host the Future Games Show: 'Whether you’re into pulse-pounding horror, samurai adventures or anything in between, we’ve got first looks, exciting reveals and plenty of surprises in store'
- Marantz's new Dolby Atmos AV receivers bring up to 7.4.4 channels of surround sound — and home theater nerds will love their cool monitoring and diagnostic options
- G’day, Alexa+: Amazon's AI-upgraded smart home assistant has finally arrived in Australia — and it's fully fluent in 'Strayan
- Could Meta Ray-Bans be banned in Europe? EU regulators dial up the pressure on smart glasses — and the rest of the world is watching
- 'This one page changed my life': Michael Dell shows off the document which helped set him on the path to business success
- Forget Sidecar, someone just got the real macOS working on an iPad — and it proves it’d be a terrible idea
- August 5
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- FBI agent accused of stealing $1 million in crypto — and he even consulted ChatGPT on how to leave the country
- Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, August 6 (game #1655)
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, August 6 (game #1152)
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, August 6 (game #886)
- Could Japan be the next drone giant? Prime Minister looks to push domestic production to reduce reliance on China
- Disney+ could soon get a free tier — and it’s about much more than streaming
- Ukraine's next weapon against Russian drones is this slightly odd tiny robot which fires nets into the air in all directions
- Disney's latest TikTok deal shows it's betting on real creators instead of AI-generated videos
- South Korean military signs deal to turn flying taxis into troop transports — and the US Air Force could be next in line
- Elon Musk: 'At some point, Starlink will deliver a majority of the world's internet,' but that promise hinges on launching thousands more next-gen satellites and the massive Starship working as promised
- Chinese military reportedly uses American AI models to train its defense systems - tools from OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly among those affected
- Are your Android apps secretly sharing your location with advertisers? Some developers are accidentally leaving on this critical data-invading setting when using third-party SDKs
- ‘Our corrupt, AI-addicted President cannot be allowed to sacrifice our federal lands’: A bill to permanently ban AI data centers from federal lands has been introduced to Congress
- Samsung’s cheap Fitbit Air rival just leaked again, but we still have tons of unanswered questions
- Private Internet Access just more than doubled its streaming VPN server network
- Hackers use fake Adobe and Zoom updates to load malware onto victim devices — here's what to look out for
- One.com just rebuilt its website builder around conversational AI – and it can modernize your old website in an instant
- Experts flag Bank of America phishing scam that hands your device over to hackers
- 'It is not a form of advertising': BMW defends Spider-Man pop-up ads that have infuriated customers
- Secretlab Titan Evo owners can now freshen up their gaming chair with three new Pokémon Pixel Art skins inspired by Venusaur, Charizard, and Blastoise
- Oh, great, GPU prices could climb again — here's my expert advice on why you should buy now (and which graphics card to get)
- TP-Link router owners update now — 15 flaws patched to stop hackers hijacking your devices
- 'Acoustically speaking, we are developing the sound of all future PlayStation audio products' — Audeze marketing director teases what's next for its Sony collaboration, including new audio hardware that is in 'various stages of development'
- 'The largest in history:' Russia blocks over 20 popular VPNs in major internet crackdown
- Microsoft 365 users hit by phishing scheme posing as RingCentral emails
- Google Assistant will shut down for good on Android and Wear OS in September — here's what you need to do next
- New ChainDrop worm poisons over 1,300 npm packages, Keyv and Cacheable among those hit
- 'Tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for': Microsoft tells engineer to calm down on AI usage
- What is the release date for Lioness season 3 episode 2 on Paramount+?
- Your living-room VPN just got faster: IPVanish rolls out WireGuard and OpenVPN on Apple TV
- Why is Intel sharing its Atom CPU technology with a start-up? The answer could be in low-power x86 design
- August 4
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- Watch out — Microsoft login pages are being abused as hackers try and lure in unlucky victims, here's what to look out for
- Quordle hints and answers for Wednesday, August 5 (game #1654)
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Wednesday, August 5 (game #1151)
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Wednesday, August 5 (game #885)
- How to watch every Spider-Man movie for *FREE* – stream all 10 feature films from anywhere
- Cybercrime is costing the world trillions every year - new report says victims lose an average of nearly $10,000 in every hit
- Steam survey shows GPUs with 16GB are now the most popular graphics cards — and that really doesn't bode well for gamers' wallets
- SpaceX rocket set to crash into the moon at seven times the speed of sound — but the 5,400 mph impact is entirely expected, and might even prove useful for NASA
- CMF's first clip-style open earbuds are here with a tempting price tag and, thankfully, none of Nothing's flagship surveillance tech
- Whoop joins fellow premium screenless wearable company Oura in partnering with the Natural Cycles women's health tracking app
- Budget Meta Ray-Ban alternatives are selling out in stores — but please don’t buy them
- Amazon admits it accidentally shelled out $1.8 million for Claude to finish its menial coding tasks
- New malware disguised as popular Roblox cheat tool could give hackers full control of your PC — including the webcam
- It's official - more IT work is now off-prem than ever before, and it's sucking up a whole load of power
- Is Windows 11 spying on you via a new background process? No, it isn't, but the controversy around this clearly shows Microsoft must do better with privacy
- Samsung's next-gen HDR10+ Advanced is launching on Prime Video this month — surprisingly beating Dolby Vision 2 to the punch, though with some huge unanswered questions remaining
- The 78.4 kWh Base Core battery can keep your home running during an outage, installs in under an hour, and gives back to the grid — as home battery installations reach a record high
- 'A new era of workplace sabotage': Employees really aren't happy with being forced back to the office - and many are starting to fight back
- How to watch Ted Lasso season 4 online – stream the sports comedy's revival from anywhere
- ‘77% expect domain importance to increase’: Name.com partners with Lovable and others to embed domain access
- This transparent CD player puts the inner workings on full display like a work of art — it's the perfect showpiece for physical media fans
- Amnezia VPN now supports human rights defenders with free premium VPN subscriptions
- Experts reveal Google Password Manager can be hijacked to let hackers steal passkeys and gain access to all your secrets
- Private Internet Access now lets you ditch Google as it brings its VPN app to F-Droid
- Philips Hue may be bringing its best ever lightstrip to the back of your TV — but we're primed for a painful price
- AdGuard VPN launches standalone Meta Quest app for system-wide VR protection
- Travelers beware — Microsoft experts warn hotel Wi-Fi can be hijacked to infect your devices with dangerous malware
- GTA 6 fans waiting for Trailer 3 are convinced they've spotted an easter egg in GTA Online referencing the game's map
- DJI unveils the Mic Mini 2S — here are 5 upgrades you can expect over the regular Mic Mini 2
- A potentially dangerous macOS security flaw went unreported due to Apple being deluged by AI slop bug reports
- Our favorite high-end music player brand just unveiled a successor to its 5-star entry-level DAP — though its definition of 'entry-level' might differ to yours
- Google just made managing your Fitbit health data far easier on iOS, and I can’t believe it’s taken this long
- Leaked document suggests Microsoft's rumored 'disc-to-digital' feature will roll out this month and allow users to play the Xbox 360 catalogue on Project Helix
- Over 100,000 UK Police and staff have personal data leaked in attack on national database
- LinkedIn says it won't be spending big on AI hardware this year — but it has a good reason why
- August 3
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- GMKTec pairs the fastest laptop CPU ever launched with a desktop RTX 5070 GPU in an impressive Neo-X1 workstation PC
- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, August 4 (game #1653)
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, August 4 (game #1150)
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, August 4 (game #884)
- Nvidia could invest $250bn in OpenAI's 10Gw Ohio data center — but costs could balloon to $500bn
- Someone just made the world's most elaborate Train Simulator controller — and it even includes real dashboard components from 'Class 80x' UK trains
- 'Generative AI is already changing what malicious software packages look like and how threat actors are beginning to probe AI-based code systems': Amazon flags North Korean hacker group as being behind the surge in open source supply chain attacks
- After months of silence, the first Googlebook has been spotted — and it looks nifty, but will anyone really care?
- 'We can push the limits of technology to pursue something mind-blowing': Disney Worldbuilders looks like a must-watch for Disney Parks fans
- Samsung warns RAM-pocalypse could last until 2028 — as its profits continue to rise
- Disney+ brings 4K streaming back to European customers, but HDR is still on the to-do list
- A torrent of states are repealing data center tax exemptions — but it could increase costs by upwards of 7%
- No shade Sony, but Hideo Kojima is celebrating his love of physical discs with a new limited edition version of my favorite mini CD player
- What is the release date for X-Men '97 season 2 episode 8 on Disney+?
- Meet deGDID: Windscribe's answer to the Windows tracker that VPNs cannot mask
- Surfshark pulls the plug on Search as it shifts focus to fighting scams
- How to watch The Sky at Night for *FREE* – stream the long-running astronomy show from anywhere
- Samsung's latest report suggests the RAM crisis is only just getting started — could we be looking at a new normal?
- Proton VPN quietly unveils a massive under-the-hood upgrade — here's all we know about 'Proton Protocols'
- 'We’ve been behind the ball for so long': Experts say DNA samples from crime-scene forensics can be modified and even switched using an AI tool
- What is the release date for Ted Lasso season 4 episode 1 on Apple TV?
- What is the release date for My Life with the Walter Boys season 3 on Netflix?
- Casio is going all-out on retro fitness trackers — as two vintage watches with Bluetooth step-tracking join a new version of its wild smart ring
- Google Search Console now lets you track social media and video content — here's how to get it up and running
- New AirPods set to arrive before the end of the year, but don't hold your breath on cameras in Apple earbuds just yet
- Microsoft acknowledges how dire the RAM crisis is by promising to reduce Windows 11's 'memory footprint' on 8GB laptops — but it should have been this way from the start
- 'Nobody was buying them so it doesn't really matter' — Xbox console price hike hits the UK
- Microsoft warns Teams mobile users to update app now or lose Calendar access
- The InkLeaf is a dual-screen e-paper tablet that lets you read on one display and take notes on the other
- A stratospheric balloon could become a high-altitude drone carrier, capable of loitering for weeks and launching solar-powered UAVs
- In a twist of irony, a Chinese open source GLM 5.2 AI model contained 'rogue' OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol in a Hugging Face hack just as the US mulls banning open-weight AI
- August 2
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- Quordle hints and answers for Monday, August 3 (game #1652)
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Monday, August 3 (game #1149)
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, August 3 (game #883)
- Russia debuts anti-Starlink EW system that can blind terminals by overloading 'satellites' receiving antennas'
- Russia is planning a tethered mother drone carrying up to six wired mini spy UAVs
- US confirms it will leverage Ukraine's expertise in military drones before competing to 'be the world champions'
- Palantir debuts 'war' data center in a container, full of Nvidia's B300 AI accelerators and open-weight models
- Startup backed by the world's largest battery maker just launched a supercheap mini PC that competes with Nvidia's $5000 AI DGX Spark PC
- How to watch Leeds vs Liverpool for FREE: pre-season friendly live streams from anywhere
- Could Seagate follow Micron? 90% of its hard drive capacity is going to enterprise, with customers scrambling to secure HDDs in 2029
- Hackers are going after our water now — over 30 Minnesota utilities hit in coordinated cyberattack by apparent Iranian attackers
- UK tests robot boat that can fly its own wired drone even in 14ft waves and stay at sea for weeks
- How to watch Naked and Afraid: Shipwrecked – stream survival show all-star spin-off
- Google pulling Nano Banana from Google Earth after one day shows how bad our AI misinformation problem has got
- Half of adults admit they would publish work created mainly by AI and not say so — despite believing other people should do just that
- Startup swaps costly AI GPUs for Arm cores and up to 128TB of 'cheap' LPDDR6 RAM instead of expensive HBM to smash through the memory wall
- August 1
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- China outs Nvidia-powered AS2-W quad-wheel 'robot wolf', just weeks after its armed version surfaced in joint military drills in Mongolia
- 'They’re closer to architecture than landscaping': inside Walt Disney World’s eight-month process to build EPCOT’s Flower & Garden Festival topiaries
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, August 2 (game #1148)
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, August 2 (game #882)
- Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, August 2 (game #1651)
- $10 billion startup gets SK Hynix backing to build a transformer that does just one thing but exceedingly well
- Ukraine will mass-produce Stone Cloak EW tech after the UK allows Kyiv to build a tablet-sized device
- I replaced Ford BlueCruise with an open-source driver-assistance system — after 1,000 miles, I'm not going back
- A cultural crime against humanity? AI firms are destroying ultra-rare books so nobody else can read them
- Expert warns this dangerous Microsoft Word worm can burrow into Copilot and cause havoc — here's what we know
- Blank spaces could hold danger - Kaspersky report warns of the dangers of 'parked domains' and empty pages where hackers could be lurking
- 'A disk in a planet-scale computer': Meta has so many expensive GPUs that it's buying SSDs to kill idle time
- Bad updates, broken cables and blackouts - Cloudflare reveals some of the wildest reasons behind Internet downtime across the world
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day's post-credits scene might not mean what you think it does — here's my wild theory about the new Marvel movie's final shot
- Insta360's new device solves the biggest problem with first-person video — and it’s not a camera
- How to watch Richard E. Grant’s Very Modern Odyssey online for FREE – stream actor's epic travelogue from anywhere
- How to watch Tour de France Femmes 2026: FREE live streams, TV channels, schedule
- New study reveals how AI is reshaping how people shop online — but they still don't really trust it enough
- How to watch Clasica San Sebastian 2026: FREE live streams, TV channels, start time
- How to watch Chelsea vs Tottenham for FREE: pre-season friendly live streams from anywhere
- What does a backyard Dolby Atmos home music studio look like when you’re a sound engineer for major artists? The shed of my dreams, that’s what
- Zelensky confirms Ukraine's drones will reach 6,000 miles in 2027 — enough to cover the entirety of Russia and able to reach as far as San Francisco from Kyiv