OLED laptops: The good, the bad, the ugly
Once upon a time, OLED displays were prohibitively expensive. Nowadays, you can pick up a laptop with an OLED display for under $1,000. But are they really worth it? The answer might be more complicated…
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Microsoft’s AI stance would be laughable if it weren’t so bad
It’s been a long while since we last did this but it’s once again time to have a chat with the Winotaur, the Macalope’s Microsoft counterpart! THE MACALOPE: Hey, man! Long time no see! THE…
Why are tech companies so willfully bad at privacy?
You could once count on privacy as given. Even when PCs first became widespread in homes, they could serve as tools for this purpose. You could anonymously answer your most embarrassing questions using a digital…
Windows 11’s latest update is kind of insane, in a bad way
Microsoft has split the future of Windows between two user groups: those with AI-powered Copilot+ PCs and those without. Microsoft now says that the latest version of Windows 11—that’s Windows 11 version 24H2—will only be…
Why are laptop webcams always so bad?
It never fails. You get a shiny, brand-new laptop with ALL the bells and whistles, and yet the same thing lets you down every time. The built-in webcam. Even laptops that promise superior webcams ultimately…
Redis’ license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about
Enlarge / An Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center under construction in Stone Ridge, Virginia, in March 2024. Amazon will spend more than $150 billion on data centers in the next 15 years. Getty Images…
Don’t feel bad about using Chrome’s password manager
According to advice on the web, you should never use a browser’s password manager. Security experts particularly dunk on Chrome, the most popular browser. If they had their way, no one would touch it with…
As if two Ivanti vulnerabilities under exploit weren’t bad enough, now there are 3
Mass exploitation began over the weekend for yet another critical vulnerability in widely used VPN software sold by Ivanti, as hackers already targeting two previous vulnerabilities diversified, researchers said Monday. The new vulnerability, tracked as…
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