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Apple finally has a touchscreen MacBook. Why now?

Apple is introducing a touchscreen laptop in the MacBook Pro with a PROLED XDR Display. Here's where it falls in the long timeline of touchscreen laptops.

Tom's Hardware · EN

Gamer's Asus TUF monitor blocks bullet fired through wall during Call of Duty session

A Redditor was playing Call of Duty when they heard gunfire outside their home. After hitting the deck, they discovered that their monitor had potentially saved their life.

Tom's Hardware · EN

16GB Raspberry Pi 5 hiked to $385, more than triple its launch price

The Raspberry Pi 16GB has gone up in price by $80 to $385. It now costs more than triple its January 2025 launch price.

Tom's Hardware · EN

Creality K3 Review: It’s a Tool Changer, not a game changer

Creality’s four-color tool changer is a good one, but is it too late?

Tom's Hardware · EN

Putin demands Russian data centers supply capacity to the state in wake of Ukraine drone attacks

President Putin has told non-state Russian data centers that they must set aside 10% of their total capacity for use by the country's own IT infrastructure.

Tom's Hardware · EN

Tachyum, developer of heavily-delayed universal Prodigy processor, voluntarily files for bankruptcy

Tachyum files for bankruptcy, the court in Bratislava initiates bankruptcy proceedings.

Tom's Hardware · EN

OpenAI considers rebranding data centers to 'AI compute campuses" as data center backlash intensifies

OpenAI expects AI to become a major issue in the 2028 presidential election and is preparing a policy and public relations push after the U.S. midterm elections. The company is also promoting the term “AI compute campuses” for its data centers as it seeks to address concerns over electricity demand, water consumption, pollution and rising utility bills

Tom's Hardware · EN

Does intelligence need a hard cap?

Calls for a new kind of slowdown were the talk of The Curve. PLUS: Slinking back to X

Platformer · EN

AI is solving math problems faster than humans can understand the solutions

OpenAI’s math breakthroughs may trigger an identity crisis for mathematicians. Who’s next?

Platformer · EN

X’s reverse eternal September

Why the onetime global town square now feels more like a clubhouse

Platformer · EN

The states come for OpenAI

Will the approach that beat Meta in New Mexico work against ChatGPT?

Platformer · EN

Joel Kaplan leaves Meta

Long a voice for Republicans inside the company, he played a leading role in pushing Meta to the right

Platformer · EN

Introducing Machine Gods

Why we're betting on AI realism. PLUS: The hell of PHP2Shell

Platformer · EN

The AI election that wasn't

Voters have other things on their minds — for now. PLUS: OpenAI’s clever policy to fight deepfakes, and the Anthropic S-1

Platformer · EN

What Google and Reddit's bad days have in common

AI search is underperforming for Google, and it's killing Reddit's traffic. What now?

Platformer · EN

Apple Is Entering Its Slop Era

I might finally buy an iPhone now that Apple has been taken down a peg.

404 Media · EN

Behind the Blog: Tech Support

This week, we discuss customer service and Proton fallout.

404 Media · EN

Proton’s CEO Cancels AI ‘Re-Interviews’

The move came after 404 Media published an investigation into how Proton CEO Andy Yen was aggressively pushing AI across Proton despite security concerns and the culture of fear he has created.

404 Media · EN

Scientists Analyzed Thousands of Psychedelic Trips. They Found Something Disturbing

A newly released database of more than 25,000 anonymized calls from the Fireside Project’s Psychedelic Support Line opens a rare window into psychedelic experiences outside of clinical settings.

404 Media · EN

‘Wake Up Call:’ Fanfiction Writers and Readers React to AO3 Outage

Writer and readers share what they're feeling and doing in the aftermath of the AO3 outage. It's anything but Wattpad.

404 Media · EN

People Used to Drink Wine Made From Ground-Up Mummies. Now, Scientists Are Studying It

In a new study perfectly timed for Halloween, scientists dug into the chemical properties of a once-popular beverage with purported medicinal benefits: wine made with ground-up Egyptian mummies.

404 Media · EN

Reaping and sowing, CEO edition

Also: Consider the Apple slop, Texas data center troubles, and more from 404 Media around the web.

404 Media · EN

Voting in 2026 Is Getting an AI Slop 'I Voted' Sticker

My polling place was handing out AI slop to midterm voters.

404 Media · EN

BYD expands EV shipping fleet as wars upend freight costs and key trade routes

China’s EV giant says a shortage of ships is holding back its exports.

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