Microsoft Copilot now has a face
First there was Clippy. Now Microsoft Copilot has a face, with reactions to what you tell it. Microsoft is showing off how Copilot could “look”: as an anthropomorphic teardrop of sorts, with expressions that react…
July 2025
July 2025
Bargain! AMD leaves new Threadripper 9000 prices unchanged at $5,000
While AMD jacked up the price of its Threadripper Pro chips to equal a used car, consumers are getting a break: AMD is now leaving the price of its Threadripper 9000 series unchanged from the…
Avia Smart Deadbolt+ review: Coming home to HomeKit
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Outstanding industrial design Lots of ingress options—provided you have an iPhone Seamless integration with Apple Home and Home Keys Comes with two NFC fobs Cons Initial setup required multiple…
Watch: We test AMD’s RX 9070 GRE versus 9070, RTX 5070, and others
If you’re reading this anywhere outside of China, you probably haven’t seen the Radeon RX 9070 GRE. Because like previous GRE cards (“Golden Rabbit Edition/Great Radeon Edition” if you were wondering) it’s just for mainland…
How to copy the text in any image using the Windows Photos app
Microsoft has added an OCR function (Optical Character Recognition) to the Windows Photos app, which basically means it can now recognize text in an image and instantly extract it for you. To use this feature,…
Google took a month to shut down Catwatchful, a phone spyware operation hosted on its servers
Google has suspended the account of phone surveillance operator Catwatchful, which was using the tech giant’s servers to host and operate the monitoring software. Google’s move to shut down the spyware operation comes a month…
This Lenovo laptop with new Ryzen AI CPU and 16GB RAM is only $450 today
Dang, it’s hard to find a good, cheap laptop that’s actually worth using these days. But the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 has slipped below the $500 mark, and it didn’t have to cut its specs…
This 34-inch 1440p ultrawide gaming monitor is 47% off right now
If you’ve been dreaming about upgrading to a 1440p ultrawide monitor but haven’t yet because you like money in your wallet, then today’s a great day for you. Right now, this Koorui 34-inch 1440p ultrawide…
Supply-chain attacks on open source software are getting out of hand
sudo rm -rf –no-preserve-root / The –no-preserve-root flag is specifically designed to override safety protections that would normally prevent deletion of the root directory. The postinstall script that includes a Windows-equivalent destructive command was: rm…
‘What the hell is Nvidia?’ said Trump while presenting on AI
A few days ago, President Donald Trump admitted that he had never heard of Nvidia or its CEO Jensen Huang even as he wanted to break the company up, reports Tom’s Hardware. All of this…