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Two months after reports that the robotics company Boston Dynamics would supply US Immigration and Customs Enforcement with some of its four-legged products resembling metal dogs, the company says it has no plans to abandon the deal despite objections from hundreds of employees. The controversy began in late August, with …

Surpassed only by the iPhone Duo, this year’s most anticipated Apple announcement is its launch of both a 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen display — the company’s last-to-the-party use of both technologies in one of its laptops. And despite the awful name, it’s more than just …

Halloween traditionally marks the last day of spooky season, but PlayStation Plus subscribers can keep the ghoulish, monstrous vibes going right through November. On Nov. 3, all subscribers will be able to play Dead Island 2, Monster Train and a plethora of Tomb Raider games. PlayStation Plus, which is Sony’s …

I had to suppress a shudder at the thought of how smudgy the touchscreen display on the new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR is going to get. Unlike every other Apple laptop, you can directly tap and swipe on this new MacBook Pro screen like an iPad or iPhone. I …

On Tuesday, defense contractor Anduril and chipmaker Qualcomm announced a partnership to build laptops entirely in the United States, starting with a single model in 2027. They also announced a “long-term goal” of pushing the computer industry to create “a fully domestic supply chain.” Even a single Made-in-USA laptop would …

The new Gemini 4 Carbon model offers improvements over Argon, which Google released earlier this month. It’s currently only available to a select group of cybersecurity defense companies, but it will eventually expand to other partners in its Fairwind Program. The company says Carbon reflects the “pace at which we’re …

The new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display, announced on Wednesday and available on Nov. 6, brings touchscreen control to Apple’s most premium laptop. Pricing starts at $2,899 for the entry-level M5 Pro with the smaller 14-inch display, or $3,399 for the 16-inch model, before any applicable education discounts. If …

Both of those premium configurations include the M5 Max chip with an 18-core CPU and 40-core GPU, $150 worth of nano-texture glass, 128GB of memory that adds an extra $2,000, and 16TB of storage which is the real budget breaker here thanks to the ongoing memory shortage. Maximizing the configuration …

Technology giant Microsoft says its profits for the three months to the end of September jumped to more than $36.6bn (£27.5bn), just days after announcing plans to cut its workforce by more than a quarter. On Monday, the Windows developer said it would offer voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 of …

Reddit is giving users new ways to sift through its billions of posts. The move follows recent platform changes that eliminated RSS feeds and limited access to the site’s classic desktop layout, Old Reddit. In a blog post published on Wednesday, Reddit says it will introduce For You and Following …

For the last several years, Readwise has been building tools for power readers. There’s the eponymous product, Readwise, which stores and categorizes your Kindle highlights to help you remember what you’ve read. There’s Readwise Reader, an app for reading newsletters, PDFs, and web articles you’ve saved for later. And now …

Asked about AI and the trend of college students booing tech CEOs at graduation ceremonies, Instagram head Adam Mosseri acknowledged in an interview that a lot of people really don’t like AI, and it’s not just young people and creatives. Appearing on the Colin and Samir podcast to talk about …

Google is back with another new frontier AI model, just two weeks after its last release. The new large language model is dubbed Gemini 4 Carbon, the company announced on Wednesday. And if you’re a fan of world models, there’s good news there, too: Google’s latest, Genie 4, also debuted …

The MPC Sample Key isn’t even formally announced yet, but Akai is already showing off what the modding community is cooking up through vibe coding. Akai has decided to embrace the explosion of hackers and custom firmware developers by giving them early access to the device, which will have open-source …

Details of more than 41,000 personnel working for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including thousands involved in immigration enforcement, have been leaked to the public. The leak includes names, work addresses, and phone numbers of DHS staff, including agents working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and …

A hacker stole a trove of personal information from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The breach exposes the names, job titles, phone numbers, email addresses, and office locations of more than 41,000 employees, including those in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), according …

I’ve been on a mission for a decade and a half to see that Apple fuses its iPad and Mac lines into something that would be the best of both worlds. I’ve been told that iPads and Macs would never merge, and that touch would never come to Macs. Well, …

Microsoft just posted the first quarter of its 2027 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $92.3 billion in revenue and a net income of $33.6 billion during Q1. Revenue is up 19 percent, and net income has increased by 32 percent. It’s a new financial year for Microsoft, so …

How to protect your airline miles Travel expert Katy Nastro tells Kurt ‘CyberGuy’ Knutsson that someone used her American Airlines miles and explained why saving your travel rewards may not pay off. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably spent years collecting …

Ultrahuman hasn’t had an easy time getting its smart rings into the US, but on Wednesday, it announced that the Ring Pro is officially available for purchase on the Best Buy, Target, Walmart and Ultrahuman websites and in 300 Best Buy stores. In the coming weeks, it will roll out …