New undersea cable cutter risks Internet’s backbone
China cable-cutter demo coincides with more sabotage of subsea Internet cables.
Jeremy Hsu
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Tech // Product News & Reviews
“TotalRecall Reloaded” tool finds a side entrance to Windows 11’s Recall database
“The vault is solid. The delivery truck is not.”
Andrew Cunningham
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Google releases new apps for Windows and MacOS
Google mostly creates products for the web, but it has some new desktop apps today.
Ryan Whitwam
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Prime Video shows “technical difficulties” sign instead of NBA game in overtime
“Am I trippin??” asks LeBron James.
Scharon Harding
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Sony killing features for antenna, set-top box users of Bravia smart TVs in May
Some 2023 and 2024 models are also affected.
Scharon Harding
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Two-year-old Surface PCs get $300 price hikes as sub-$1,000 models go away
“Paying more for the same stuff” is the story of consumer technology in 2026.
Andrew Cunningham
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Google will begin punishing sites for back button hijacking in June
Google says it could penalize back button hijacking by demoting websites in search ranking.
Ryan Whitwam
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Google shoehorned Rust into Pixel 10 modem to make legacy code safer
Cellular modems are complex black boxes of legacy code, but Google is making them safer with Rust.
Ryan Whitwam
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Most Read
NZXT agrees to let customers keep their rental PCs in class-action settlement
NZXT will forgive up to $5,000 in debt for customers of the Flex program.
Scharon Harding
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Microsoft’s “commitment to Windows quality” starts with overhaul of beta program
Windows Insider builds remain confusing, but they should be more predictable.
Andrew Cunningham
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YouTube increases Premium price again, says 90-second unskippable ads are a bug
An individual plan now cost $15.99 per month, and the free tier comes with buggy ads.
Ryan Whitwam
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How our digital devices are putting our right to privacy at risk
Law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson chats with Ars about his new book, Your Data Will Be Used Against You.
Jennifer Ouellette
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Motorola suddenly raises budget phone prices up to 50%—you can probably thank AI
Motorola’s budget phones are much less budget-friendly today.
Ryan Whitwam
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For the first time ever, Amazon is cutting old Kindles off from the Kindle Store
Post-2013 Kindles will continue to work, even if they no longer receive updates.
Andrew Cunningham
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Valve brings native Steam Link app to Apple’s Vision Pro
New app can replace third-party options that were jankier to use.
Samuel Axon
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Apple and Lenovo have the least repairable laptops, analysis finds
The MacBook Neo is a step in the right direction, though.
Scharon Harding
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Bluesky users are mastering the fine art of blaming everything on “vibe coding”
Use of AI coding tools has become a convenient boogeyman for any tech issues.
Kyle Orland
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Linux kernel maintainers are following through on removing Intel 486 support
Linux devs think even one second spent on 486 support is a second too many.
Andrew Cunningham
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Intel is going all-in on advanced chip packaging
Intel is hoping to cash in on the AI boom.
Lauren Goode, wired.com
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Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren’t a thing
LG almost released a rollable smartphone in 2021, and this is what it looked like inside.
Ryan Whitwam
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Netflix must refund customers for years of price hikes, Italian court rules
Consumer group says it will sue if Netflix doesn’t reduce current prices.
Scharon Harding
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You can finally change the goofy Gmail address you chose years ago
All your data remains intact, and you can go back to your original address at any time.
Ryan Whitwam
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AV1’s open, royalty-free promise in question as Dolby sues Snapchat over codec
Big Tech declaring AV1 royalty-free “doesn’t mean that it is,” critic says.
Scharon Harding
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Sony is raising PlayStation 5 prices again, this time by between $100 and $150
Memory, storage shortages have made all kinds of consumer tech more expensive.
Andrew Cunningham
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Apple pulls the plug on its high-priced, oft-neglected Mac Pro desktop
M2 Ultra Mac Pro is no longer for sale, and Apple says no replacement is planned.
Andrew Cunningham
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AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip
Both of the chip’s CPU dies will include 64MB of extra cache stacked beneath.
Andrew Cunningham
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Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent
Netflix last raised prices in January 2025.
Scharon Harding
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Intel Core Ultra 270K and 250K Plus review: Conditionally great CPUs
Great performance for the price, if you ignore the price of RAM, SSDs, and GPUs.
Andrew Cunningham
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BRINC’s new police drone uses Starlink, carries Narcan, chases vehicles at 60mph
Company calls Guardian the “most capable 911 response drone ever.”
Cyrus Farivar
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Reddit will require “fishy” accounts to verify they are run by a human
AI-generated content is still acceptable for now.
Scharon Harding
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Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
Walmart wants to connect what people stream “directly with retail interaction.”
Scharon Harding
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Apple releases iOS, iPadOS, macOS 26.4 with a long list of medium-size tweaks
The 26.4 updates are more significant than the last few updates have been.
Andrew Cunningham
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Apple confirms that its Maps app will begin showing ads to users “this summer”
Apple Maps ads will look and work a bit like current App Store ads do.
Andrew Cunningham
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LG Display starts mass-producing LTPO-like 1 Hz LCD displays for laptops
Dell XPS laptops will be the first to use the display tech that reaches up to 120 Hz.
Scharon Harding
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Apple will talk iOS 27, macOS 27, and more at WWDC 2026 on June 8
WWDC is often light on hardware, but it’s where big software announcements happen.
Andrew Cunningham
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Microsoft keeps insisting that it’s deeply committed to the quality of Windows 11
“Reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points” is one of Microsoft’s action items.
Andrew Cunningham
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