Tech Releases

Redbox easily reverse-engineered to reveal customers’ names, zip codes, rentals

Android 15’s security and privacy features are the update’s highlight

Amazon’s first color Kindle e-reader, the Kindle Colorsoft, will run you $280

Apple A17 Pro chip is the star of the first iPad mini update in three years

Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78

Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today

Asahi Linux’s bespoke GPU driver is running Windows games on Apple Silicon Macs

Intel’s Core Ultra 200S CPUs are its biggest desktop refresh in three years

Former Apple hardware chief Dan Riccio is retiring

Maze of adapters, software patches gets a dedicated GPU working on a Raspberry Pi

Thunderbird Android client is K-9 Mail reborn, and it’s in solid beta

Apple brings years-old features to iCloud web interface

Samsung quits updating Galaxy Z Fold 2 that came out in 2020 for $2,000

Winamp really whips open source coders into frenzy with its source release

Samsung says it’s in “crisis,” apologizes for missing profit target

Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes

No more bricked iPads: Apple fixes several bugs in iOS, iPadOS, macOS updates

Microsoft details security/privacy overhaul for Windows Recall ahead of relaunch

Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025

Microsoft releases Office 2024, the latest buy-once-own-forever version of Office

Sonos CEO admits to insufficient app testing : “We released it too soon”

Helene takes ultrapure quartz mines offline, threatens tech supply chains