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YouTube and NBCUniversal have struck a multi-year partnership that gives US YouTube Premium subscribers Peacock Premium at no extra cost starting in early 2027.
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Testing shows Windows 11's built-in Weather app burns past 1.2GB of RAM on launch and spikes to 1.6GB, because it is nine Chromium processes wearing a...
Read our full coverage of Windows 11’s Weather app eats more than 1GB of RAM to tell you it might rain
AI-assisted "vibe coding" pushed 560,000 new apps onto the App Store in the first half of 2026, on track for a record million, while downloads barely...
Read our full coverage of Vibe coding is flooding the App Store: 560,000 new apps in six months, and almost nobody is downloading them
Microsoft is folding the standalone Copilot app and Microsoft 365 Copilot into one application, killing Group Chat, Podcasts and Deep Research for consumers along the way.
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A new Windows 11 Insider build lets you decide which desktop programs can access your microphone, camera and location, closing a privacy gap that has existed...
Read our full coverage of Windows 11 is finally adding per-app microphone, camera and location controls for desktop apps
LinkedIn now lets users flag posts as "seems like AI slop", after detection firm Pangram found over 40% of long-form posts on the platform are fully...
Read our full coverage of LinkedIn adds a “seems like AI slop” report button as AI-generated posts flood the feed
Chrome 149 and 150 fixed 1,072 security bugs, more than the previous 23 versions combined, as Google's multi-agent AI pipeline uncovers flaws including a 13-year-old sandbox...
Read our full coverage of Google’s AI patched more Chrome bugs in two releases than the previous two years combined
AMD has launched Helios, a rack-scale AI system pairing 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs with EPYC Venice CPUs, claiming 15% more FP4 compute than NVIDIA's Vera Rubin...
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A new BNEF forecast projects US data centers will consume around 194 gigawatts by 2035, one fifth of national electricity, and the grid is not building...
Read our full coverage of US data centers are on track to consume 20% of the nation’s power by 2035
Anthropic will embed imperceptible, model-level watermarks into Claude's text output, marks that survive copy-paste and some editing, as the EU AI Act demands identifiability.
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