The rumored $599 MacBook distracts from the incremental upgrades of its core laptops while taking a bite out of the budget PC market....
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Published on: 2026-02-27
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Wondering how the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra from 2024 holds up to the latest Ultra flagship? The differences aren't as big as you might think....
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Published on: 2026-02-27
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Fender's first foray into the consumer audio market comes with several connectivity bonuses and a few drawbacks that are hard to ignore....
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Published on: 2026-02-27
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Samsung's Galaxy Book6 Ultra pairs strong multi-core performance with nearly a full day's worth of battery life. It's designed well, too....
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Published on: 2026-02-27
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Linux kernel maintainers propose a less painful process for identifying developers. See how it can make Linux code safer than ever....
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Published on: 2026-02-26
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There's a reason scammers don't say anything when they call you, at least not right away. Here's how to deal with these sneaky calls....
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Published on: 2026-02-26
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The new Workspace feature could save you from scrolling through days' worth of messages....
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Published on: 2026-02-26
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The yet-to-be-announced $599 MacBook distracts from the incremental upgrades of its core laptops while taking a bite out of the budget PC market....
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Published on: 2026-02-26
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Between Samsung and Google's best phones to start 2026, here's which one is right for you....
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Published on: 2026-02-26
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Developed alongside fitness brand Polar, the Moto Watch is a minimalist wearable with a vibrant OLED screen and very good battery life....
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Published on: 2026-02-26
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Well the AI bubble isn’t popping …. at least not yet. NVIDIA announced that it blew past its targets. There was a second news story that I thought was just as interesting, but when I went to back it up with data, I couldn’t find the credible link to back...
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Published on: 2026-02-26
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Around Thanksgiving, I helped a friend configure a new Dell Desktop Tower Pro to replace her 10-year-old OptiPlex. We took a hard look at her usage, both current and planned. She had subscribed to the Windows 10 ESU and thus knew her reliable PC would last until October. She decided...
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Published on: 2026-02-25
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ISSUE 23.08.1 • 2026-02-24 By Susan Bradley I’m not a superstitious person. But there are times — especially around printers, copiers, or other technology devices — when I jokingly say, “Shush, don’t talk about how they are working. It will jinx them.” And there are times I talk about how...
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Published on: 2026-02-24
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ISSUE 23.08 • 2026-02-23 WINDOWS 11 By Martin Brinkman After ten years in the making, Microsoft is finally attempting to finish the job by making Windows’ dark-mode feature truly system-wide. The “flashbang” era is officially ending — mostly. When Microsoft first dimmed the lights with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update,...
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Published on: 2026-02-23
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PUBLIC DEFENDER By Brian Livingston With copper hitting an all-time high of $14,527 per metric ton intraday on January 29, 2026 — almost triple its $5,058 price as recently as 2020 — vandals are increasingly tearing out entire runs of telecom wiring for metal they can sell to shady scrap...
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Published on: 2026-02-23
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ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley You’ve probably seen the chilling video by now — that masked man at the door in one of the highest-profile kidnappings in recent memory. But here’s something you may have missed, something many would consider equally chilling: the doorbell-camera footage was not configured to be...
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Published on: 2026-02-23
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EDITORIAL By Will Fastie Here are a few things we learned from our 2026 reader survey. First, many thanks to the very large number of Plus members who took the time to complete the 2026 reader survey earlier this year. Your response is very gratifying and greatly appreciated. Not only...
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Published on: 2026-02-23
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I stumbled across an interesting workaround for someone who was using a Mac to host a Windows 11 virtual machine to run a line-of-business application. The application installs a PDF driver that won’t work in a virtual machine, especially one running Arm processor. The found a third-party PDF program to...
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Published on: 2026-02-20
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I was talking to someone today about their issues with using an iphone. They indicated at one point in time they had inadvertently enabled “Blind mode”. Huh, I’ve never heard of blind mode. Come to find out it’s called “blind assist” and they aren’t the only one who found themselves...
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Published on: 2026-02-19
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In between the Patch Tuesdays, there are Browser release dates. Note these have no set time or release date. Just all of a sudden we hear of an issue and are urged to patch. Now if you know my patching methodology you would think I would defer patching browsers as...
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Published on: 2026-02-18
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