Microsoft dropped "massive" updates for six stock Windows apps, reports the "Microsoft enthusiast" site Neowin. Here's some of their more interesting highlights for Clock, Media Player, Calculator, Voice Recorder, Photos, and Paint: The Photos app (version 2026.11060.2004.0): AI watermarking "AI- generated or edited images can now carry a visible Copilot watermark. You choose Never, Always, or Ask Every Time in Settings, with a confirmation when saving. The watermarking is off by default in ..

As the hype surrounding the Xiaomi 17T pair died down a little, the Samsung Galaxy A57 returned to the top of our trending chart. The 17T Pro took the silver medal, while the Galaxy S26 Ultra completed the podium. [#InlinePriceWidget, 14379, 1#] Xiaomi 17T is now fourth, sitting ahead of the Galaxy A17 and the Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max. Redmi Note 15 took the seventh spot, followed by the Motorola Moto G Max and the vanilla iPhone 17. The final spot once again goes to the Poco X8 Pro. Samsung ..

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UK's Members of Parliament (MP) were "looking for proof that smartphones and social media are rotting children's brains," writes The Register but they got "a less satisfying answer from neuroscientists on Wednesday: nobody can really prove it." Appearing before the Science, Innovation and Technology Committee this week, three researchers spent much of the session explaining that concern and evidence are not quite the same thing. Asked what evidence exists on the impact of digital devices on ..

Steven Spielberg grants that his 1977 UFO film Close Encounters was "speculative," writes the Associated Press, but "Disclosure Day, he insists, is the real deal." "It's my first film that will be considered science fiction that I do not consider to be science fiction," Spielberg said in a recent interview. "It's much more reflective of the world as it is evolving and discoveries that are being made as we speak." Spielberg, at 79, is trying to revive and reconsider the alien wonder that's long ..

Apple's WWDC went about as expected for 2026. While it's a tiny bit disappointing, Siri AI turned out to be worth the wait, but with some painful app-based gaps. WWDC was all AI, almost all the time. WWDC 2026 was on Monday, and it was expected to be a bit of a slow one this time around. As predicted by the rumor mill and countless reports in the weeks ahead, it certainly wasn't an event that shouted about many new features. Actually, that's not quite true. Apple did harp on about one big ..

Nearly two-thirds of upcoming data centers tracked in a study are being built in areas that have been in drought over the last year.

Alien: Isolation 2 creative director has revealed that he and Creative Assembly had ideas about making a sequel before finishing the first game.

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Jetour Malaysia has opened bookings for the Jetour T2 i-DM plug-in hybrid SUV at KLIMS 2026, with indicative pricing set at RM168,888, marking the brand's first hybrid model in Malaysia.

The 11th edition of the Kuala Lumpur International Mobility Show (KLIMS 2026) opened at MITEC on 12 June 2026, featuring 18 automotive brands and a focus on electrified vehicles and sustainable mobility.

"A year after spending over $14 billion to bring in Alexandr Wang and a group of his top Scale AI engineers to revamp its artificial intelligence efforts, Meta is at least back on the map in AI," reports CNBC, "though it's still far behind OpenAI, Anthropic and Google in the market." Wang's big accomplishment was the delivery of the Muse Spark AI model in April, marking Meta's first jump into proprietary foundation models and away from a strict adherence to open source, or open weight as it's ..

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Yinson GreenTech and Weststar Maxus signed a strategic collaboration at KLIMS 2026, covering the purchase of 300 Maxus electric commercial vans in Malaysia.

Zeekr unveils the Zeekr 009 Grand luxury MPV from RM600,000 and Zeekr 9X SUV from RM800,000, alongside the announcement of its new Zeekr Power charging network.

Apple is still holding some of its iOS 27 cards close to its chest.

It was a jam-packed week as Apple introduced a slew of new updates at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. The big new addition coming to iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27 is the all-new Siri AI, which brings an overhauled set of capabilities. Here's what's new in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 They're available for developers today and a public beta will come next month. It is a separate app and is based on Google's Gemini models, featuring on-device processing, while also ..

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ShopeePay Travel eSIM is now available in-app for destinations including Japan, Thailand, and Singapore, with flexible plans starting from RM3.50.

HP Malaysia launched seven new devices at HP Elevate 2026, ranging from enterprise notebooks, workstations, a gaming laptop, and a multifunction printer.

Phoronix reports: The AMD R600 Gallium3D driver saw 59 commits [last] Sunday to Mesa 26.2. Making this code restructuring and code cleaning all the more notable is that the improvements to this old AMD Radeon graphics driver was done in part by GitHub Copilot. Gert Wollny has been among the few open-source developers left working on the AMD R600g driver that covers from the Radeon HD 2000 series through Radeon HD 6000 series graphics cards... [T]he old open- source GPU driver support is being ..

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As is often the case, Apple has leaked its own hardware. Here are the signs that the folding iPhone and MacBook Pro with touchscreen are coming, and where they are. A render of a potential iPhone Fold design - image credit: AppleInsider The release of the first developer betas of macOS 27 Golden Gate, iOS 27, and others was followed by the inevitable deep dive into the changes. All to find out what Apple is planning for the future. In Sunday's "Power On" newsletter for Bloomberg , Mark Gurman ..

America's Energy Department "wants to build a single national platform for doing science with AI," reports Communications of the ACM: It is called the Genesis Mission, and the idea is to connect the country's 17 national laboratories, their supercomputers, scientific datasets, and a growing layer of AI models and agents into one system researchers can access. The DOE has taken to calling it 'a national operating system for science.' That means treating compute, data, and AI models the way the ..

Our self-proclaimed Scroogian (cheapskate) book-loving writer has put together a guide on finding free books for your Kindle.

Microsoft kini dilaporkan mempertimbangkan untuk mengasingkan bahagian permainan video dibawah Xbox mereka sebagai sebuah anak syarikat atau subsidiari yang berasingan. Dalam membentuk anak syarikat berasingan tersebut, beberapa kaedah dilihat boleh dilaksanakan, termasuk untuk bekerjasama dengan syarikat lain untuk menubuhkannya, memberikan kebebasan kendiri untuk beroperasi - sekaligus membawa kepada kemudahan untuk anak syarikat tersebut dijual pada []

Mark Zuckerberg's mega spending spree began a year ago, when he lured Alexandr Wang to oversee a new AI strategy. The results so far are underwhelming.

Intel's Raptor Lake family might be coming back for a third time and sit alongside Nova Lake on shelves as the budget-oriented offering from the company.

It's obviously speculation, and repeated at that, but a new report argues that it's more likely that Apple will eventually charge a fee for Siri Ai now that Apple Intelligence has improved so much. For now, Siri AI is free, although iCloud+ subscribers get higher daily usage limits. Apple has long been predicted to introduce a subscription version of Apple Intelligence , and a new report chiefly repeats speculation from 2024. However, the new claim comes after the launch of Siri AI in beta, and ..

"Blizzard Entertainment is continuing its crusade against private World of Warcraft servers," reports the gaming news site Aftermath: The company filed a new lawsuit on Friday in a California court against the makers of Project Ascension, alleging copyright infringement, Digital Millennium Copyright Act violations, and other claims. Blizzard Entertainment claims that Project Ascension is a "lucrative way to exploit and profit from the popularity of the WoW game experience," according to the ..

Amazon says that it uses 2.5 billion gallons of water annually for data center cooling but compares it to the 3.3 trillion gallons of water used for watering lawns and gardens in the U.S. every year.

Can Claude deliver a viable GTA ripoff before the most hyped game of all time releases this November?

Yat Siu, the co-founder of Animoca Brands, says AI is going to change what skills are most valuable in the workforce.

In the context of the recent tech export bans, we look back at the Apple PowerMac G4 export ban from 1999 and Steve Jobs making marketing gold from the situation.

The Computer History Museum recalls one of its biggest ever retro treasure troves. This astonishing haul was rescued from an abandoned warehouse in the town of Castrop-Rauxel, Germany.

L3Harris supplies system that can down incoming drones with laser-guided rockets

A team of researchers from UC San Diego found that 'old' smartphones from 2023 could be combined to build a server capable of running apps locally, instead of relying on cloud servers located on a distant site.

Snapmaker celebrates 10 years in business by sponsoring open-source developers and you.