As US ties fray, Europe plans first undersea cable link to Greenland
Europe's Pan-Arctic Cable will bypass US to link Canada, Japan, and South Korea.
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Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a ‘significant leap’ in cybersecurity
Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement on Wednesday, Google highlights Carbon's top spot on the...
Gemini 4 Carbon is Google’s second new frontier model this month
Google introduces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier model.
Latest Drop By Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoS) Contains Contact Info For 40,000 DHS Employees
Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDoS) has been steadily pushing the limits of transparency and accountability for several years now. The project — spearheaded by Emma Best — does what other activists won’t… or perhaps...
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10 Things I Can’t Wait to See at Maker Faire Orlando
10 Things I Can’t Wait to See at Maker Faire Orlando Maker Faire Orlando has been on my bucket list even before I joined Make: in 2014. It is a long story I will refrain from. But one that has never lined up for me...
Touchscreen MacBook Pro Guide: Release date, price and new features
Macworld Apple has announced its first touchscreen MacBook Pro lineup, officially called MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display. Available in 14.2-inch and 16.3-inch sizes with M5 Pro or M5 Max processors, the new...
US sanctions Russians, North Koreans for laundering IT worker earnings
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Russian and North Korean nationals for allegedly laundering the earnings of illicit IT workers on behalf of Pyongyang.
Apple's New Touchscreen MacBook Pro Costs Up to $14,549
Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro models start at $2,899 for the 14-inch version and $3,399 for the 16-inch version, but configuring the machines with every hardware upgrade pushes their prices well above $14,000....
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How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material
By probing its molecular structure, biologists are uncovering how a tangle of unstructured proteins turns into a tough, flexible thread. The post How Spiders Spin ‘Silk Dope’ Into Nature’s Toughest Material first...
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Microsoft is ending Copilot support on smart TVs
Nearly two years after LG and Samsung announced at CES 2025 that their latest smart TVs would include access to Microsoft's Copilot, the company is ending support for the AI assistant's functionality on all TVs this...
Adding Touch Didn't Cost the MacBook Pro Any Battery Life
The PROLED MacBook Pro models continue to offer up to 24 hours of battery life despite the switch to a new OLED display and touch capabilities. Both the PROLED and the mini-LED 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro...
Apple reveals OLED touchscreen MacBook Pro with Dynamic Island and M5 Pro power in 3-pound design
Apple has revealed an all-new MacBook Pro with a tandem OLED touchscreen, responsive Dynamic Island and an M5 Pro/Max chipset.
Score a Microsoft Visio Professional 2024 Lifetime License on Sale for Just $50
Create professional flowcharts, organizational charts, and network diagrams with Microsoft's diagramming software. This Windows license is discounted by a huge 91% through Nov. 1!
The PHP Incident
The PHP security incident is now (almost) old news. The timeline looks something like this: In late August, Wiz Research discovered two serious remote code execution vulnerabilities in PHP called PHP2Shell. They...
Jadens JD-166 Review: Portable, Inkless Thermal Printer on Linux
A small, portable printer that prints A4 papers without ink on Debian-based Linux distros.
Touchscreen MacBook Pro Australia and Canada price: A$4,599 and C$3,999
The MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display starts at A$4,599 in Australia and $3,999 in Canada, and it arrives in both countries on Friday, 6 November. Apple published the local prices in its Australian press release...
GitHub saw 7.4B commits in September, adding 4M CPU cores and 160 PB of storage to keep up
GitHub is seeing unprecedented demand and is updating its core infrastructure to keep pace. In August, GitHub said it was The post GitHub saw 7.4B commits in September, adding 4M CPU cores and 160 PB of storage to...
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Amazon Adds an Alexa Photo Frame and a Bedside Clock to Its Echo Family
The new Echo Studio also gets a camera, and the Echo Show 16 debuts an AI-generated Alexa interface.
Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2026) and Colorsoft (2026) Review: Best for Accessories
The latest generation of Kindle’s 7-inch e-readers have a new look and new accessories. But are they worth the upgrade given Amazon’s new Kindle prices?
Amazon’s $500 Echo Show 16 Wants to Be the Center of Your Home
A larger screen, upgraded speakers, night vision and an optional glare-resistant display headline Amazon’s latest Echo Show.
Apple to Open Pre-Orders for Five New Products Today
Apple is set to open pre-orders for five new products on Wednesday, including its first yet-to-be-announced touchscreen MacBook Pro models. Pre-orders will open for the following new products: iPad mini with OLED...
Our favorite carpet-cleaning robot vacuum is 46% off ahead of Black Friday — swipe up Shark’s PowerDetect UV Reveal Robot Vacuum & Mop now
Don’t miss 46% off Shark’s PowerDetect UV Reveal Robot Vacuum & Mop ahead of Black Friday (it’s one of our top picks).
(Podcast) Designed in California 15: Building the Band (Part 3, Origin of the iPod)
Apple begins a crash program to build a music player by the end of 2001, aided by a fortuitous discovery in Japan. Hardware chief Jon Rubinstein recruits a brash young product manager, Tony Fadell, to figure out how...
Meta Earnings, Muse and the Frontier, Musebook
Meta's earnings come in the context of Zuckerberg delivering on his promise; if investors believe in Muse they must support Meta's spending on compute.
Nike Promo Codes and Discounts: 30% for October 2026
Check out our deals for Nike this October 2026, including 15% off select purchases.
FT Weekend Fest: Tech to save democracy
Giving citizens more power with AI and smartphones
Scripps Cuts 431 Jobs in Latest Round of Corporate Restructuring
E.W. Scripps Co. eliminated 431 positions across the company, according to a memo sent Tuesday by Chief Executive Officer Adam Symson.
Apple refreshes the iMac, entry-level MacBook Pro with the M6 chip
Additionally, the N1 chip brings Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.
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We hear from Ondřej Surý, the programmer whose PHP patches helped avert a cyber crisis.
Anthropic IPO warns its AI could blackmail people, become sentient, end humanity
Seven potential AI nightmares pulled from Anthropic's 93-page "Risk Factor" tome.
Re:Build, which spun out Slate Auto, raises $2.1B
The manufacturing accelerator bills itself as "America’s answer to Shenzhen."
30 Years Later, Magic’s Most Ridiculous 1-Mana Creature Is Still a Competitive Powerhouse
Who would win: An entire Magic: The Gathering eternal format, or one Shrimp?
Score $150 off Samsung’s ultra-slim S700D soundbar in fresh deal
Samsung's ultra-slim HW-S700D soundbar drops to $398 on Amazon, bringing Dolby Atmos and a wireless subwoofer for less.
Robinson: Raspberry Pi 5 on Fedora
Peter Robinson has written a blog post about the current state of Fedora support for Raspberry Pi 5 devices. According to Robinson, the upcoming Fedora 45 release will work—with caveats—on all variants of the...
Apple Also Announces iMac With M6
Just a speed bump, but speed bumps are good. Pricing and configurations: M6 with 2 Thunderbolt ports: Base price: $1500 RAM: 16 GB +0 24 GB +200 SSD: 256 GB +0 512 GB +200 1 TB +500 M6 with 4 Thunderbolt ports: Base...
ZacOS 9 and Mavernix: Two classic Apple desktops find their Wayland to Linux
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How Anthropic ships Claude with Claude: Separating the Brain from the Hands
Katelyn Lesse and Angela Jiang on Opus 5.5, the Claude Platform, and the engineering behind AI agents.