Tech Releases

Not just ChatGPT anymore: Perplexity and Anthropic’s Claude get desktop apps

Consumers won’t be offered all three years of extended Windows 10 security updates

Microsoft reports big profits amid massive AI investments

Apple’s M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max compared to past generations, and to each other

Proton is the latest entrant in the quirky “VPN for your TV” market

Amid controversial changes, Reddit is getting more popular—and profitable

Apple refreshes MacBook Pro lineup with M4 chips, introduces the M4 Max

AI, cloud boost Alphabet profits by 34 percent

GitHub Copilot moves beyond OpenAI models to support Claude 3.5, Gemini

Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV

Apple releases iOS 18.1, macOS 15.1 with Apple Intelligence

Apple’s $1,299 M4 iMac at long last bumps the base model to 16GB of RAM

Raspberry Pi OS’s yearslong switch from X Window to Wayland is now official

For the first time, beloved IDE Jetbrains Rider will be available for free

Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers

What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs

Removal of Russian coders spurs debate about Linux kernel’s politics

San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks

Streaming subscription fees have been rising while content quality is dropping

Qualcomm brings laptop-class CPU cores to phones with Snapdragon 8 Elite

Hands-on with the 2024 iPad mini: Spot the differences

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