Laser pointers are known to damage security cameras, but do they really? Here's what damage can actually be done.

It's a simple way to check whether an image has been created or manipulated, with a few caveats.

Trading standards officers say AI is "super-charging" existing scams through clones and fake websites.

Remote Reaper reaches version 1.0 with electronic warfare, vulnerable vehicle armor, customizable drones, racing courses, collaborative missions, and changing weather conditions.

"When you pay for a game, you should own it," says U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY), introducing a new bill to fight the practice of "a rental disguised as a sale". Kotaku reports: The fifth best-selling game of 2024 in the U.S. was NBA 2K25. Every year, fans dump hundreds of hours and hundreds of dollars into the grindy NBA basketball sim. But just a little over two years after its release, 2K Games confirmed it's already pulling the plug on it. The game will be delisted from digital ..

Cite difficulty of updating IoT devices as major reason to stop adding time

The idea of PS5 games running on an Xbox Series X -- made possible by how both consoles were built around closely matched hardware -- is certainly exciting.

It's a trade-off between download speeds and data caps.

A gateway pulls double duty, but a modem and router combo can give you a lot more flexibility and power.

July: Nvidia-backed Nscale is building a 2bn data centre at Loughton in Essex, with Microsoft signed up as its anchor tenant. But it can't get the electricity to switch on, reported The Next Web: Nscale's problem is not really Nscale's. It is Britain's. Grid-connection times have become the single biggest brake on new data centres. Some UK projects face waits stretching close to a decade for enough power. One estimate found more than a quarter of data-centre capacity slipped in 2025 alone. "The ..

Apple's image generation tool got some noteworthy updates this fall.

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Get Microsoft Project Professional 2024 for Windows for $39.97 with a lifetime license, Gantt charts, automated scheduling, and resource management tools.

The iPhone 18 Pro is the first iPhone model to feature a variable aperture, a headlining feature for this year's Pro models. An adjustable aperture has been an invaluable tool for photographers on professional and prosumer camera systems, and its absence from mobile cameras has become increasingly conspicuous as everything else on these devices has leveled up. There have been a handful of phones over the years that featured a variable aperture system for their main camera. However, the feature ..

Galahad promises exact, encrypted KV cache reuse for vLLM, SGLang, and Llama.cpp, but LMCache, Nvidia, and Phison got to the round table first.

The studio celebrated Inscryption's five-year anniversary with a Twitch stream.

Gizmodo reports: Roughly 84.4% of the world's coral reefs suffered bleaching- levels of heat stress during the last major marine heat wave from January 2023 to September 2025, with over half already lost compared to coral coverage in the 1950s... But there's some good news, thanks to a new study published this Wednesday in the journal Science Advances: Marine ecologists at Stanford have discovered that bleached corals can be revived via contact with a healthy coral neighbor, who (like a good ..

UCLA researchers developed PhoneBot, a $400 open source humanoid robot using inexpensive Android smartphones for sensing, computing, vision, and walking control.

The rights are his, and the game's helped renew interest in 'Hellraiser.' Now, Barker wants to do something with the ideas in his head.

The Intel 480GB GPU combines 1.5TB/s bandwidth, 1.3 petaflops FP8 performance, and 350W power consumption, although pricing and availability remain undisclosed.

The Verge reports: OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner reservation and cleaning out your inbox to buying new shoes. But what happens when the rest of the internet won't play nice? In recent weeks, users of services like Meta's Muse, xAI's Grok, OpenAI's Dots, and Instinct have reported blocks preventing their AI agents from performing tasks across top websites. Yelp told TechCrunch that it ..

Anthropic has privately pitched lawmakers a draft AI safety bill that would narrow when federal officials can stop a models release and override some state AI rules.

Before Patrick Stewart returned to 'Star Trek' with 'Picard,' McAvoy hoped to play another of the actor's iconic roles.

The Kingston NV3 is the latest budget SSD with big upgrades under the hood, and in this review we'll evaluate its performance.

While the Roku remote doesn't have confusing colors or weird symbols, the star button can confuse some folks at first.

In this review, we take an in-depth look at the GEEKOM IT12 mini PC featuring Intel Core i3-12300HE processor, DDR4 RAM, and plenty of port selections.

Basically, it's on you.

The OnePlus 16 is official, with a mammoth 9,000mAh battery. The power plant supports 100W wired and 50W wireless charging. Elsewhere on the phone, there's the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 (still can't cope with this name), a 6.78-inch LTPO OLED display that can go up to 185Hz in select games, and a triple camera, consisting of a 200MP wide-angle, a 50MP 3x telephoto, and a 50MP ultrawide. The OnePlus 16 is available in China, and it's exclusive to China. Sadly, it isn't getting a ..

Georgia law appears to let Savannah police share their plate data with ICE, but the city never agreed to do that.

Apple's iPhone Duo likely forecasts a shift in the market toward foldables becoming more common. But it took a while to get here.

The product pipeline was choked nearly to death by Siri delays.

More details are emerging about Saudi OpenAI employee Abdulrahman Alfozan, who was arrested by the FBI for allegedly planting a recording device in an executive conference room. Previously Alfozan "was an engineer at Meta," notes the New York Times, "before joining a start-up that went through Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley start-up accelerator. He gained permanent residency status in the United States in 2020, according to court documents, and was hired by OpenAI in July 2025." 14 months ..

PCIe 3.0 SSD in 2026? Yep - the KingBank KP230 512GB SSD is one such model, and in this review we'll see how this SSD holds up in our benchmarks.

A fake WatchGuard VPN download website stole administrator credentials before delivering the genuine signed installer, potentially exposing corporate networks without deploying malware.

While it's natural to want to get as many fps from your rig as possible, there are reasons to limit frame output from your GPU.

The platform attributed the decision to "political content that goes against its policy."

"Even LinkedIn is getting tired of your AI-written posts," writes CNN, reporting that the Microsoft-owned, job-oriented social media site "is upping its fight against slop." A report published in July by Pangram, a research firm that tracks AI content online, found that more than 40% of long-form posts on the platform were AI-generated, compared to around 30% on X and Medium and a smaller percentage on Reddit and Substack.... LinkedIn previously offered AI tools to edit or rewrite posts, ..

Go ahead and duke it out in the comments about whether 'Street Fighter' was perfect or a loser of an adaptation.

If you have trouble getting apps to scale properly on your foldable, read on.

Radeon GPUs get the full DLSS experience as solo project ports all the DLSS features for RDNA2-4 GPUs.