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Lend your iPhone with a space prepared for your guest. Meet Guest Session, explore its eight activities, and learn how to prepare a handoff with Guided Access and clear the session afterward.
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A New York Times investigation says New Matrix, a Chinese firm cleared by Commerce to assemble Nvidia H200 AI servers, lists an empty office in Beijing.
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The FT reports a US memo says officials believe Jensen Huang was romantically involved with a Megaspeed executive suspected of spying for China. Nvidia calls it business, and no one has been charged.
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Hackers are using AI and fake job offers. Google’s Titan Security Key stops fake login pages on your Apple Account, Microsoft account, Coinbase and Binance. Here’s how to set it up, and what it won’t do.
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Ubiquiti’s UniFi Travel Router is about the size of Apple’s MagSafe Battery Pack. Sign in to hotel Wi-Fi once on your phone, and every other device connects through it.
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Six pallets of Nvidia hardware left Oakland for Texas on August 29, picked up by a truck identified as a food transport company. Police lost it in San Bernardino County. No arrests yet.
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Twelve South’s $79.99 AirFly View adds a pairing screen, Bluetooth 5.3 and Auracast. But it’s rated for up to 16 hours of battery, versus 25+ on the cheaper AirFly Pro 2.
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OpenAI says its agents built exploits for 948 Linux kernel root bugs for $1.2M in API costs. A day earlier, voters rejected data centers in nearly every ballot measure, and OpenAI answered with a community compact.
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Wired headphone sales are growing again after five years of decline, and Bose released $99 USB-C noise-cancelling wired earbuds. Here is why people are plugging back in.
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Mrwhosetheboss printed and scored the most downloaded 3D prints on MakerWorld. A 16-hour sofa tray earned a 9, four prints got a 10, and the No. 1 download is a calibration boat.
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Xbox unveiled the Series X-BITE, a one-of-a-kind Series X built into a five-foot alligator. Here is how to enter before November 10.
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Tap the line between two apps and they open and close together. Plus battery, Touch ID, privacy and hinge tips for Apple’s foldable.
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We debloated a slow TCL Roku TV in 20 minutes. Turning off ACR tracking helped most, deleting apps helped a little. Here’s the checklist for Roku, Samsung, LG, Sony and Vizio, plus CleanFrame for Samsung Frame owners.
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Logitech’s limited MX Master 4 Special Edition hides programmer easter eggs like 0xFF + 1 and 09.17, keeps the same hardware, and sells for $119.99, the same as the standard model.
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The FBI says North Korea’s TraderTraitor hackers stole more than $6 billion from Binance. North Korea denies it, and Binance says it is covering every loss.
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Apple posted a record $114.5 billion September quarter, but the iPhone Duo wasn’t in it. John Ternus says Duo supply is constrained, with no date for when it catches up.
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After about two and a half weeks with the iPhone Duo, Marques Brownlee says he’s back on the iPhone 18 Pro, citing cameras and Face ID.
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Sam Altman argues DRAM belongs in data centers, not sitting idle in your PC. Here’s what he actually said, and where the argument falls apart.
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Most small PC cases look like a compromise. The Mugitya FE9 looks like the graphics card is the whole point.
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The RTX 5080 has entered RTX 5090 money. The RTX 5090 has entered a different universe—at least in some marketplace
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