New Macs, AirPods, Watch, FBI hacked, Alzheimer’s treatment, new AI models, router antennae, Motorola phone, Slate truck and Loretto chapel staircase. A bad storm is expected to hit my neighborhood in the next couple of days. One aspect of technology right now are storm forecasts so I have a better idea of what is coming and when it will hit the hardest. There are also low tech things that worry me every bit as much since I’ll be trying to keep water from getting around windows and doors. It is possible the power and/or Internet will go out for a period of time which will leave me completely disconnected from the world. I’m not too worried about any major problems, just some short-term issues until the storm has passed. Make sure to check out all of the stories in this week’s news.
- Bose returns with new open earbuds (and a refreshed favorite)
- Apple Watch Series 12 review: Catching up and catching heat
***** Get Apple Watch Series 12 at Amazon ***** - Apple Watch Series 12 Review: A New Era of Wrist-Based AI Has Arrived
- Apple AirPods 5 Review: The Best AirPods for Most People, Now With Superb Sound
***** Get Apple AirPods 5 with Wireless Charging Case at Amazon ***** - Acer Swift Air 14 review: Wildcat Lake and lots of ports at $699
- Apple Mac mini review: The new M6 impresses, but the price hike is rough
- Apple Mac mini (Late 2026) Review: Strong performance, but losing its grip on value
- Mac Studio With M5 Max Review: The Best Mac for Photo and Video We’ve Tested
- Bose refreshes its Ultra Open Earbuds and adds a new sport model to the lineup
- Apple Mac Studio (2026, M5 Ultra) Review: Quad-Die Processing Power to Die For
- Apple Mac mini (2026, M6) Review: Making Mincemeat of Midpriced Mini-Desktops
***** Get Apple 2026 Mac mini Desktop Computer M6 chip at Amazon ***** - Apple Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) review: Huge AI and graphics power at a huge premium
- Breville Eye Q Toaster review: A toaster with a vision
- Meta Launches Lightweight $1,299 VR Headset That Looks Like Glasses
- Microsoft’s New Surface Devices Are Faster, Brighter, and More Efficient
- Apple Mac mini (M6) review: The best compact desktop is no longer a great deal
- Forget the Candy: This 12-Foot App-Controlled Skeleton Earned Me the Most Hyped Yard on the Block
- $14,000 gaming PC features 70 handcrafted titanium cherry blossoms which unfurl as temperatures rise — Zotac-designed RTX 5080 system features impressive sculpture and an eye-watering price tag to match
- Sony INZONE M10S II 27-inch 540 Hz QHD OLED gaming monitor review: A major player in a crowded field
- Bambu Lab R1 Review: This one stands alone
- Review: Apple’s hyper-pricey M5 Ultra Mac Studio made me into a vibe coder
- Hands On With Meta’s VR Glasses: An Apple Vision Pro Killer?
- Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Sell You a Tamagotchi? Meet Meta’s Muse Charm
- Scammers have been inserting fake songs onto real artist’s pages on Spotify and other platforms
- OpenAI reveals more instances of concerning AI model behaviors during testing
- Oversight Board says Meta’s rules for AI deepfakes are ‘consistently and fundamentally inadequate’
- FBI: Scammers Are Using AI To Impersonate Police To Defraud Users
- Hack at Marketing Vendor Exploited To Widely Spread ClickFix Malware Attack
- Fake calendar invites can infect your system, and they’re surging – how to protect yourself
- Mobile phishing is a bigger threat than email now – how to stay protected
- The shadowy SIM farms behind those incessant scam texts – and how to stay safe
- How to Stop AI Hacking? Some Companies Say the Answer Is More AI
- FBI: This North Korean Group Infected 30,000 PCs To Steal Crypto
- Apple’s $250 Million Siri AI Settlement Website Is Live. How to Claim Your Share
- Muse, Meta’s extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
- Hacker-on-Hacker Crime: ShinyHunters Is Trying to Extort CLOP Ransomware Group
- Claim up to $95 today from Apple’s Siri AI settlement – here’s how
- A stranger can learn a lot about you in 5 minutes online – how to check and delete it ASAP
- Inside AI Prompt Security: Why Stopping Every LLM Exploit Is Impossible
- ShinyHunters hackers claim to have 2-3TB of sensitive information about FBI employees
- FBI rushes to investigate if ShinyHunters hack of thousands of employees is real
- Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
- Rogue OpenAI Agent Hacked Australian Government Medical Website
- IV drips used for “detoxification” actually filled with toxins; dozens poisoned
- Alzheimer’s Is No Longer an Untreatable Disease, Major Report Concludes. Here’s Why.
- Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
- Grail’s Multi-Cancer Blood Test Gets FDA Committee Vote for Premarket Approval
- RFK Jr.’s CDC isn’t letting states order COVID-19 shots for kids, blocking access
- PearOS is the MacOS of Linux, and the latest version is better than ever
- Claude Code’s revised projects adds AI orchestration, but local developers must wait
- Apple Hid a Legendary ’80s Mac Mascot Inside Its New OSes. Here’s How to Find It
- The easiest way to find and remove spyware on your Android phone
- You can use Gemini to help you organize your files on Google Drive
- How to get Spotify’s best audio quality
- How to let Claude send emails for you
- FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion
- macOS 27 Golden Gate: The Ars Technica review
- Amazon bars Meta’s Muse AI from shopping on its site
- Winamp will be reborn in 2027 to take on streaming
- Microsoft: Internet Explorer’s IE Mode Won’t Be Around Forever
- OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol doubles its accuracy rate – for half the cost
- Claude Opus 5.5 delivers Fable 5.1 performance – and costs 40% less
- Free Adobe Premiere Video Editing App Arrives on Android
- New Anthropic, OpenAI models make same promise: A little more for a lot less money
- How to fix your Windows File History if the September update broke it
- My favorite Windows app makes moving to a new PC so easy – and it’s free
- Anthropic and OpenAI announce more powerful (and cheaper) AI models
- Anthropic Says Claude Drives 26% of Its Research and Development
- Expensive flash drives: When and why it’s worth paying more
- Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites
- Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
- Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — revelations come from legal briefs filed in NYT lawsuit
- House passes act to make AI data centers pay for grid upgrades to minimize impact on residents — measure directs states to consider adoption of federal standard within two years of passing
- What are the downsides of robot vacuums?
- Why do routers have so many antennas?
- Local opposition blocked 45 data center projects worth $68 billion in the second quarter of 2026 — data center investments reportedly still on track to hit $32 trillion by 2050
- What’s the 30-degree rule for TVs?
- What to consider when buying an Ethernet switch for your home network
- Adobe Completes Acquisition of Topaz Labs and Says Topaz Will Remain Its Own Brand
- Never use ChatGPT for these five tasks
- Meta’s new transoceanic undersea cable boasts a whopping petabit of bandwidth — Petal link between US and France will be twice as fast as the last
- After Hundreds of Battery Tests, I’ve Never Seen a Phone Last This Long
- Older iPhones Won’t Get Previously Promised Camera Controls After All
- Motorola’s Stylish New Phone ‘Pushes the Boundaries’ of Mobile Photography
- Xiaomi’s Gorgeous New 18 Series Phones With Triple Leica Cameras Will Go Global
- Considering a Level 2 EV charger? How to know if you need one
- The Slate Truck is cheap, but its battery range can’t compete
- Saudi Arabia wants a car industry, launches Ceer with two EVs
- BYD’s new ultra-luxe EV has coach doors and may be its first with solid-state batteries
- More Than 20 Years Later, Cornell’s Great Pumpkin Mystery Remains Unsolved
- The Top Song From Every Year in the 1980s
- Brian May’s Favorite Queen Song Marked a Pivotal Moment in the Band’s History
- The Enduring Mystery of the Loretto Chapel Staircase
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