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Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #180 (10/22/2026)
2026/10/23
Tech
Israeli firm used online ads to run vast spy operation, researchers say | Reuters
TikTok reportedly bans ads for Musk documentary before its wider US release - Engadget
Homeland Security bans DeepSeek use in federal civilian agencies - Engadget
Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs - Ars Technica
Google DeepMind Engineer Resigns in Protest of Pentagon Contract
1Password will let AI agents use your passwords without seeing them
Unauthorized AI agents are reportedly already accessing US bank accounts - Engadget
Gaming
Nintendo Switch 2 jailbroken in latest AI-assisted hack
Japanese acting union fights back against AI-generated voice use, proposing strict new guidelines, especially regarding the use of a deceased actor’s voice
Here’s the Top Steam Releases of September, 2026 along with compatibility ratings | GamingOnLinux
Dune: Awakening studio faces layoffs as it restructures following console release | Eurogamer.net
EA officially shutting down BioWare, cancels new Mass Effect
Following shock BioWare closure, scope of EA job cuts becomes clear as layoffs hit Respawn, Maxis, Full Circle, EA Motive, and more | Eurogamer.net
“This act is intended to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine“ - Umurangi Generation studio blocks new game Penguin Colony from being sold in Israel | Eurogamer.net
Hardware/Software Updates
New PS5 Update Is Out Now, And Sony May Be Tightening Security Before GTA 6 - GameSpot
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Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #179 (10/15/2026)
2026/10/16
Tech
Flock Safety is reportedly planning major layoffs now that everyone hates it - Engadget
Anthropic’s Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police - Ars Technica
Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices - Ars Technica
YouTube Music rolling out AI labels in the Now Playing screen
Netflix to lay off roughly 1,000 employees in biggest round of job cuts since 2022 - Engadget
Trump ballroom’s biggest donors were overwelmingly tech and telecom companies - Engadget
Gaming
Free Steam demo runs up $1,000 daily AI bill and forces devs to take out bank loan — studio eyes local hardware models to escape cloud limits as cheaper automatic fallback AI models create problems, game uses AI to process your voice and build responses
Video Game Reverse Engineering Community Shuts Down Because AI Has Made It Too Easy
Epic Brags That Its New ‘Vibe Coded’ Store Launcher Is Faster Than Steam
Epic Is Overhauling Its Anti-Cheat So That Fortnite Can Finally Come To A New Platform - GameSpot
NY congressman to introduce bill protecting video game ownership - Engadget
Big Walk Developers Say “Free Palestine” 🍉
Deals/Sales/Free Games
PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for October: Mafia: The Old Country, Horizon Forbidden West, Mycopunk and more
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Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #178 (10/08/2026)
2026/10/09
Tech
Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage
Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches - Ars Technica
Watch Footage of the Flock Search a Judge Ruled Unconstitutional
Apple Now Pushing iPhone Users Still on iOS 26 to Install iOS 27 - MacRumors
Skydance will combine HBO Max and Paramount+ into a single streaming service - Engadget
Bobby Kotick returns: former Activision boss becomes board member of Skydance, the new company formed by Paramount and Warner Bros | Eurogamer.net
PhotoCraft is an open-source, AI-built clone of Photoshop - OMG! Ubuntu
Gaming
Unity lean heavily into AI prompting games into existence with Unity Spark | GamingOnLinux
Ninja Theory developers announce they are facing redundancy, as the studio starts laying off staff following widespread Xbox cuts
Supermassive Games suffers layoffs as more than 70 developers seem to have left the company this week | Eurogamer.net
Star Wars Zero Company Developer Sees Portion Of Furloughed Workers Return - GameSpot
Refurbished PS5 Pros Are Now 50% More Expensive than New Ones at GameStop
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Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #177 (10/01/2026)
2026/10/02
Tech
New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators - Ars Technica
Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028 - Ars Technica
Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
Police may have new ways to access data on locked iPhones - Engadget
Gaming
PlayStation Wants You to Use Your Controller to Simplify Payments
Ubisoft Workers of Montreal Union petition to “preserve hybrid work” secures over 300 signatures
Here’s the top 50 most played games on Steam Deck for September 2026 | GamingOnLinux
Content Creation
Malicious Twitch chat messages can trigger code execution on OBS Studio
Hardware/Software Updates
SteamOS 3.8.28 stable released with big improvements for Steam Deck, Steam Machine and more hardware support | GamingOnLinux
Deals/Sales/Free Games
Steam Autumn Sale 2026 is live now with lots of discounts | GamingOnLinux
When Is The Next Steam Sale? Dates For 2026 And 2027 Sales Revealed - GameSpot
PlayStation Plus Monthly Games for October: F1 25, Hunt: Showdown 1896, Earth Defense Force: World Brothers 2
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Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #176 (09/17/2026)
2026/09/18
Tech
Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data - Ars Technica
AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed - Ars Technica
Instagram chief thinks a chronological feed is ‘much worse’ and says the quiet part out loud
Charges Against Man Who Destroyed 3D-Printed ‘Decoy’ Flock Camera Drastically Reduced After State Admits It Was Not Very Valuable
Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Allegedly Wiped Phone Before DHS Could Search It
Contest to Open for Ed Sheeran Flooded With Free Palestine Videos and Fart Memes
Gaming
IGN Ownership Chooses Busiest Time For Games Media In Years To Lay A Bunch Of People Off
Wardogs lead says the studio won’t hire people who decry crunch on social media
MindsEye Developer Seemingly Shutting Down after New Round of Layoffs
Activision Blizzard Sued Again For Alleged Gender Discrimination
Candy Crush developers are planning a strike for next week - Engadget
PS5 Linux dev quits after “the only hypervisor bug left” was reported to Sony | GamingOnLinux
Content Creation
Threads leans even further into podcasts with transcripts, analytics and more - Engadget
Hardware/Software Updates
iOS 26.7 now available for iPhone, here’s what’s new - 9to5Mac
iOS 27 and iOS 26.7 Fix More Than 100 Security Bugs - MacRumors
Apple releases macOS Tahoe 26.7 and macOS Sequoia 15.8 - 9to5Mac
New PS5 Update Is Out Now, And Sony Actually Added Some New Features - GameSpot
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Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #175 (09/10/2026)
2026/09/11
Tech
Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time | WIRED
Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and chairs - Ars Technica
Smear Campaign Says Anti-Flock Movement Is Chinese Propaganda
Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus. - Ars Technica
The Pentagon Asked OpenAI for Artificial Intelligence Designed to Rarely Say No
Popular navigation apps unlikely to ditch Mercator maps despite UN resolution - Ars Technica
Apple details how Apple Watch’s new Audio Intelligence features work in privacy paper
Gaming
The Legend Of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct: All The Biggest Announcements - GameSpot
Nintendo’s Latest Sale Is Made Possible By Tariff Refunds It’s Not Giving You - GameSpot
Hideo Kojima’s Physint now being published by Xbox, as PlayStation severs ties with Kojima Productions and Microsoft steps in to take over | Eurogamer.net
After Years Of Company Stalling, Blizzard Workers Win Mega-Contract That Applies To All Unionized Teams
Ubisoft Is Making Its Games Work Better on Steam by Letting You Uninstall Connect | Digital Foundry
Hardware/Software Updates
Apple Releases iOS 26.6.2 - MacRumors
Apple Announces iOS 27 Release Date - MacRumors
Deals/Sales/Free Games
PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for September: RuneScape: Dragonwilds, WWE 2K26, Ball x Pit, Date Everything! and more
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Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #174 (09/03/2026)
2026/09/04
Tech
Cisco probably violated Middle Eastern and Muslim employees’ civil liberties
Here’s What Apple is Paying John Ternus to Run the Company
Cops Are Asking Axon to Make Their Cameras Look Different From Flock So People Don’t Destroy Them
FBI investigates as hackers sell digital scans of 153M drivers licenses
MapQuest Tops App Store Charts After Refusing ‘Lake America’ Change - MacRumors
Gaming
State of Play & State of Play Japan: all announcements, trailers – PlayStation.Blog
Sony says ‘reasonable consumers’ know they don’t own the digital games they buy
New Sony Policy Could Lead To Legal Action Against Vocal PS5 Disc Critics
Game Pass Is Getting Worse, And More Expensive - GameSpot
Most Of Star Wars Zero Company’s Developers Were Furloughed Weeks Ago
Laid off id Software developer says crunch on Doom: The Dark Ages’ Revelations DLC was “brutal” with up to 17-hour days | Eurogamer.net
Indie Dev Releases Tearful Message After Multiple Laptops Are Stolen At Gamescom
‘This is horrifying’ Nvidia’s controversial DLSS 5 AI filter leaks and players are inserting it into every game | VGC
How does Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney reckon we can fight the industry’s “Crash 2.0”? By building more factories | Eurogamer.net
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Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #173 (08/13/2026)
2026/08/14
Tech
Zuckerberg’s superyacht ignored emergency channel, failed to aid stranded boat - Ars Technica
Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling “Unsafe”. - Gadget Review
City That Arrested Person for Clapping at Data Center Meeting Moves to Virtual Meetings for ‘Public Safety’
Roku Unleashes 24/7 AI Slop Channel
Apple is working on a way to authenticate that a photo came from an iPhone camera - 9to5Mac
Flock tries to make its cameras harder for cops to misuse - Engadget
US government to allow private companies to carry out cyberattacks on its behalf - Engadget
Cloud storage is great until your vendor goes out of business
Gaming
Saber Interactive’s CEO Matt Karch Can Get In The Bin
Indie game publisher Devolver Digital wants to go private | Eurogamer.net
Developer Cold Iron Studios shuts down cloud version of $60 game with no refunds - Ars Technica
Marvel’s Wolverine “fully playable” on disc when it releases, Insomniac clarifies, perhaps making it one of the last few PlayStation games that will be | Eurogamer.net
Content Creation
Twitch streamers can now refuse to let Amazon train its genAI models on their content - Engadget
Deals/Sales/Free Games
PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for August: Helldivers 2, Kingdom Come Deliverance II, Vampire Survivors, Hell is Us and more
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Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #172 (08/06/2026)
2026/08/07
Tech
Google rolls back the needless AI generation tools it added to Google Earth - Engadget
Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand
SpaceXAI says it will take a year to fully remove unpermitted gas turbines from its Mississippi data center - Engadget
Judge refuses xAI’s request to stop a Minnesota law banning ‘nudify’ apps - Engadget
Apple’s ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users’ Real IP Addresses
NJ antitrust suit accuses Amazon of unlawfully wielding power over delivery contractors - Engadget
The California Teamsters union is suing the state over self-driving trucks - Engadget
The SEC Bought Airline Data to Monitor Flights Worldwide
Cities Are Ditching Flock, Immediately Replacing It With Axon License Plate Readers
Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup? - Ars Technica
According to Statcounter, Linux on the desktop crossed over 7% globally
Gaming
Steam Numbers for July
Linux back over 4% in the July 2026 Steam Survey | GamingOnLinux
A PC cooling company shows Sony and Nintendo how it’s done, as it pledges to pass US tariff refunds onto customers
Nintendo reports incredible profits, and physical games still play a big part
EA is now officially owned by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and private equity
Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Has Guns Now, Nintendo Just Won’t Admit It - GameSpot
Halo Studios suffers layoffs despite success of Campaign Evolved
Content Creation
YouTube Bans Popular ASMR Artists, Accusing Them of Making ‘Sexually Gratifying’ Videos
Hardware/Software Updates
NVIDIA stable driver 595.91.07 and new feature driver 610.57.04 released for Linux
Apple Releases macOS Tahoe 26.6.1 With Security Fixes - MacRumors
Deals/Sales/Free Games
Get plenty of games by supporting the ‘Game industry hardship fund’
Beloved roguelite Moonlighter is free on Steam for a limited time
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Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #171 (07/16/2026)
2026/07/17
Tech
Class action accuses Apple of misleading users about Hide My Email’s privacy protections
New York enacts first US ban on data center construction - Engadget
Meta removes feature that let users generate AI images from public Instagram posts - 9to5Mac
Lawsuit claims Meta’s layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans - Ars Technica
Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory - Ars Technica
Gaming
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced studio Ubisoft Barcelona goes on three-day strike in protest of layoffs | Eurogamer.net
“We mean business“ - Bethesda union members to march in protest of sweeping Xbox job cuts | Eurogamer.net
Microsoft accused of unfair labor practices by US and Canadian video game unions - Engadget
Users flock to Xbox Player Voice portal to ask for an end to cycle of layoffs | Eurogamer.net
Sony faces an anti-trust complaint in Mexico over ending PlayStation physical media | Eurogamer.net
It looks like iFixit won’t be getting any more Steam Deck LCD spare parts | GamingOnLinux
Games Done Quick abruptly canceled SNK stream due to ties with Saudi Arabia - Engadget
Deals/Sales/Free Games
PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for July – Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Rise of the Ronin, Firefighting Simulator: Ignite and more
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Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #170 (07/09/2026)
2026/07/10
Tech
’Knockoff’ Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon
FTC reaches settlement that brings right-to-repair to John Deere farm equipment - Engadget
’Siri AI’ Lawsuit Update: Apple to Pay Owners of These iPhone Models - MacRumors
PSA: Flip these two Instagram toggles now to stop people using your face
Gaming
Death Stranding director Hideo Kojima “really sad” about Sony ending physical disc production, and says lack of media ownership has “frightening” possibilities | Eurogamer.net
Resetting XBOX
Xbox Layoffs Included 37-Year Veteran Who Designed One Of Xbox’s Best Features Ever - GameSpot
James Bond and Hitman developer confirms layoffs and studio closure, but its fantasy RPG lives on
As layoffs continue to ravage the games industry, a union across North America establishes a fund to help those impacted by it | Eurogamer.net
Asha Sharma Assigned To Federal Reserve’s ‘Productivity And Jobs’ Taskforce The Same Week She Oversaw 1,600 Layoffs (With Another 1,600 To Come)
Workers at MindsEye studio protesting controversial fan event this weekend after multiple rounds of layoffs | Eurogamer.net
Layoffs Hit GameSpot Again
Nintendo has detailed rollout plans for Switch 2 product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries, and Switch 1 consoles are being discontinued | Eurogamer.net
Must-have Steam dating app will help you decide what to play next
Deals/Sales/Free Games
Epic Games Store’s new free PC games revealed
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Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #169 (05/21/2026)
2026/05/22
Tech
iPhone 17 Pro Will Make Sports History This Weekend
Plex increasing Lifetime Plex Pass cost to whopping $750 - 9to5Mac
Kickstarter rolls back its mature content policy after outcry - Engadget
X accounts are limited to 50 posts and 200 replies a day unless they pay for a blue checkmark - Engadget
Meta has reportedly laid off 8,000 employees - Engadget
LinkedIn doesn’t want your AI slop anymore - Engadget
AI companies and data brokers even resort to fake forms to keep selling our data
ArXiv to Ban Researchers for a Year if They Submit AI Slop
Pennsylvanians use town hall meeting to rail against data center boom
Township Leader Resigns in Tears Over OpenAI Data Center Death Threats
After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet and Phone Ban
Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI
The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers
Disney faces a class action lawsuit over facial recognition tech - Engadget
Bitwarden scrubs ‘Always free’ and ‘Inclusion’ values from its website as longtime execs step down - Fast Company
Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz - Ars Technica
NVIDIA reveal more GPU driver security flaws for May 2026 | GamingOnLinux
Discord now has end-to-end encryption on all calls - Engadget
Amazon is facing a class action lawsuit for not refunding its customers after ‘unlawful’ tariffs - Engadget
Gaming
Sony hit with a class action lawsuit for allegedly profiting from tariff-related price hikes - Engadget
The PlayStation 5 Linux project has been upgraded to support more firmware | GamingOnLinux
Sony announces price increase for new PlayStation Plus subscribers “due to ongoing market conditions” | Eurogamer.net
It’s not just PS Plus Essential getting a price hike: Premium and Extra tiers are now more expensive too | Eurogamer.net
PlayStation just announced a new State of Play, and it’ll be over an hour long | Eurogamer.net
Xbox hires analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief strategy officer in another leadership revamp
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Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #168 (05/14/2026)
2026/05/15
Tech
ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir
Twin brothers wipe 96 gov’t databases minutes after being fired - Ars Technica
DOJ extracts $30m settlement from PayPal over minority-owned business program - Engadget
Amazon employees are “tokenmaxxing” due to pressure to use AI tools
Meta employees are protesting the company’s mouse tracking program - Engadget
Tech companies lobbied away stricter rules on gas-powered data centers - Engadget
A massive AI data center transforms rural Utah into a national flashpoint : Peoples Dispatch
Americans really don’t want AI data centers close to their homes - Engadget
University Claims Withholding Water From Nuclear Weapons Data Center Is ‘Unlawfully Discriminatory’ to Data Centers
Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers - Ars Technica
Microsoft’s massive Kenya AI data center would require switching off ‘half the country’ to meet power requirements, government says — $1 billion project stalls over capacity disagreements and lack of infrastructure
Amidst Xbox boycotts and media pressure, Microsoft reportedly restructures Israeli office after internal investigation into ethical violations | Eurogamer.net
Gaming
eBay rejects GameStop’s offer, calling it ‘neither credible nor attractive’ - Engadget
Nintendo announces Switch 2 price increase, consoles will soon be $500 in the US
Ahead of Switch 2 price increase, Nintendo’s switching up the game bundles
Developers of Party Animals announce an AI video contest - game gets a review bomb | GamingOnLinux
Double Fine Is Unionizing
Cosplaying Gamers Will Raid EA HQ To Protest Saudi Arabia’s $55 Billion Buyout - GameSpot
Slay The Spire 2 Gets More Bad Reviews Than First Game
Hardware/Software Updates
iOS, macOS, and iPadOS 26.5 updates arrive with encrypted RCS messaging and more - Ars Technica
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Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #167 (05/07/2026)
2026/05/08
Tech
Meta AI will analyze faces of teen users ‘but it’s not face recognition’
Google Chrome takes up 4GB of storage on your computer for AI, if you have space
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and NVIDIA will provide AI tech to Pentagon - Engadget
Google’s Pentagon AI deal reportedly drove the DeepMind team to unionize - Engadget
Building for the future (Cloudflare layoffs)
Coinbase lays off nearly 700 workers in ‘AI-native’ restructuring - Engadget
Maryland Lawmakers Press Apple Over Decision to Close Unionized Store - MacRumors
Apple Faces Dozens of Lawsuits Over AirTag Stalking After Class Action Denied - MacRumors
Senators ban themselves from prediction markets after candidates bet on own races - Ars Technica
DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian’s Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts | WIRED
ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to ‘Supplement’ Its Facial Recognition App
Hackers deface school login pages after claiming another Instructure hack | TechCrunch
Gaming
Full Metal Gear Solid 2 source code leaks online on 30th April | Eurogamer.net
ESA Says Bill Pushing For Offline Versions Of Live-Service Games Would Hurt Developers - GameSpot
GameStop is reportedly preparing an offer to buy eBay - Engadget
GameStop CEO Selling GameStop Stuff On Ebay To Fund Buyout Of Ebay - GameSpot
Sony will soon settle a PlayStation Store class action lawsuit for $7.8 million - Engadget
MindsEye Dev Reportedly Laid Off 170 Of 250 Employees - GameSpot
Xbox is ditching Microsoft’s Copilot AI - Engadget
Streamers And Voice Actors Refuse To Work With Popular New Gacha Game Over Gen AI Concerns
Google just bought a stake in the maker of Eve Online to train its AI models - Engadget
Hardware/Software Updates
Android 16 May update rolling out: Pixel display, slow wireless charging fixes
Pixel 10’s May 2026 update prevents you from installing older Android versions
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Tech Talk Thursdays Episode #166 (04/23/2026)
2026/04/24
Tech
Judge says White House can’t ‘strong-arm’ Apple into blocking ICE trackers
Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain
This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright
Startups Brag They Spend More Money on AI Than Human Employees
Meta is downsizing by about 10 percent
Hey Meta workers, are you getting paid for those keystrokes?
Apple CEO Tim Cook Stepping Down, John Ternus Taking Over - MacRumors
Mastodon was hit by a ‘major’ DDoS attack that briefly took down parts of the service
Colorado Age Attestation bill gets amendments to have open source excluded | GamingOnLinux
France’s national agency for managing IDs and passports suffered a data breach last week
Gaming
Sony will require age checks in the UK and Ireland to access PlayStation communication features
Former PlayStation Exec Shuhei Yoshida Says He Was Fired After Top Boss Asked Him To Do “Ridiculous Things” - GameSpot
The Studio Behind Last Year’s Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 Remasters Hit With More Mass Layoffs As It Tries To Adapt To The Video Game Industry’s New Normal
Save Money By Turning Your Xbox Expansion Card Into An SSD For Your PC - GameSpot
Nintendo Sued By Fans Who Want Tariff Refunds
Hardware/Software Updates
Apple Releases iOS 26.4.2 and iPadOS 26.4.2 With Bug Fixes - MacRumors
iOS 26.4.2 Patches Flaw That Let FBI Extract Deleted Signal Messages - MacRumors
New PS5 Update Is Out Now, And It Doesn’t Even Mention Stability
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS released: GNOME 50, Wayland-only and Linux 7.0
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