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Monday January 5, 2026. 04:41 PM
Cherry Xtrfy is launching its first magnetic switch keyboards, using tunnel magnetoresistance sensing instead of Hall effect. Magnetic switches are increasingly used in gaming keyboards for their speed, adjustable actuation, and consistent input behavior. Magnetic switch...
Referred variously as a pirate site, a media archive and a shadow library, Anna’s Archive is notorious. The site was only recently in the headlines after it claimed to have “backed up” almost all of Spotify’s music catalog. Like many sites of its ilk – think...
A new working paper from researchers at the University of Hong Kong has found that Chinese graduate students who plagiarized more heavily in their master's theses were significantly more likely to pursue careers in the civil service and to climb the ranks faster once inside. ...
A lawsuit filed in federal court makes a simple accusation: McDonalds is lying about the composition of its McRib sandwiches. 'The name 'McRib' is a deliberate sleight of hand,' goes the claim. 'By including the word 'Rib' in the name of the sandwich, McDonald's knowingly...
For people who like to have access to all of their emails in one handy location Gmail has long offered the facility to import messages from other accounts using POP3. From this month that feature is going to be withdrawn. A note on Google’s support pages says, “Fetching...
At CES 2026, we went hands-on with the three-panel Samsung tablet that folds up to the size of a (large) phone.
Stack Overflow's monthly question volume has collapsed to about 300 -- levels not seen since the site launched in 2009, according to data from the Stack Overflow Data Explorer that tracks the platform's activity over its sixteen-year history. Questions peaked around 2014 at...
Microsoft's gone all-in on generative AI. The company boasts that 30% of recent code is generated by it. Satya Nadella, the CEO, now wants everyone to stop calling it 'slop.' 'We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication,' Nadella laments, emphasizing hopes ...
Version 1.30 of the GNU ddrescue data recovery tool has been released. Notable changes in this release include improvements to automatic recovery of a drive with a dead head, addition of a --no-sweep option to disable reading of skipped areas, and more.
NuraLogix has announced a home wellness device designed to turn a short selfie scan into insights about your long term health. The Longevity Mirror targets users who are interested in understanding how daily habits relate to future health outcomes, without relying on...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (tar), Debian (curl and gimp), Fedora (doctl, gitleaks, gnupg2, grpcurl, nginx, nginx-mod-brotli, nginx-mod-fancyindex, nginx-mod-headers-more, nginx-mod-modsecurity, nginx-mod-naxsi, nginx-mod-vts, and usd), Mageia (cups), Red...
It's January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worse Important news for Gmail power users: Google is dropping the feature whereby Gmail can collect mail from other email accounts over POP3.…
Samsung's co-CEO TM Roh has warned that product price increases are 'inevitable' as an unprecedented global memory chip shortage squeezes margins across the company's consumer electronics lineup -- from smartphones to televisions and home appliances. The South Korean giant,...
Direct-to-device services from low Earth orbit floated to plug coverage gaps Satellite phone services could play a part in Britain's troubled Emergency Services Network (ESN) project, including SpaceX's Starlink platform, to plug gaps in the coverage provided by terrestrial...
OneDrive is Microsoft's cloud-based storage service, and it's aggressively pushed on users of Windows. They want your files on their servers, and are willing to use dark patterns to get them there. But this is par for the course, and OneDrive goes further: it not only...
Outsourcer promises customers a service with 'AI at its core.' They just want a website that works Exclusive Capita has told users of its ailing UK civil service pension portal to wait until new chatbots go live before contacting it again about problems.…
Up until now, it’s always remained possible to activate Windows offline, by calling a phone number, going through a lengthy phase of entering digits on your phone dialpad, and carefully listening to and entering a string of numbers on the device you’re trying to activate....
Farewell, my lovely memory. If you decide to have a ‘big sleep’ in a meeting, fear not, a wearable could come to the rescue. Plaud has revealed its laudable ambitions with the unveiling of two products that could redefine how professionals capture and use information from...
America's tech companies and data center developers 'are increasingly losing fights in communities where people don't want to live next to them, or even near them,' reports the Associated Press: Communities across the United States are reading about — and learning from — each...
The historical series Shogun was an international hit that won a record 18 Emmy Awards. With production on season 2 starting, the writer and executive producer talk about their new challenges.
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