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Apple Just Blocked Hackers From Taking Advantage of This Serious Security Flaw
Apple released three new security updates for Macs on Thursday, Aug. 6. You don’t need to be running the latest version, macOS 26, to take advantage of these updates, either. […]
How to Count Calories Accurately (and Why You Might Want To)
We may earn a commission from links on this page. If you want to start tracking how many calories you eat—whether for weight loss, weight gain, or just out of […]
Gemini Notebook turned my forgotten Kindle highlights into an interview with a year of my own reading
Kindle’s highlight file usually sits untouched after export. I care about what I read, so I want a way to talk back to my own reading. Dumping a year of […]
Google’s $100 TV box does more than stream, and your smart TV can’t match it
I bought the Google TV Streamer 4K to replace an aging Chromecast. Three weeks later, I pulled a $40 smart home hub out of my network closet because the streamer […]
I forced Pixel onto 4G for a week, and the battery difference was ridiculous
Battery life has easily become the biggest frustration with my Pixel, so I’m constantly experimenting to squeeze a little more life out of it. Over the past few months, I’ve […]
Windows proved my laptop wasn’t actually sleeping when I closed it
I pulled my laptop out of my bag after a commute lasting a little over an hour, and it was warm. Not “just came off my desk” warm. Bag-cooking warm, […]
A developer rebuilt Notepad without the AI, and now it’s exactly what the original was
For decades, Notepad was one of the few Windows apps that demanded almost nothing from you. You opened it, typed, saved the file, and closed it. There was little formatting, […]
I called file copies “backups” for years — Restic proved me wrong in a weekend
For years, I had file copies that I assumed were backups. One was an external drive, the other a cloud sync folder, and the third was a second disk. This […]
Your favorite Linux distro probably descends from one of these three operating systems
Trace the ancestry of many Linux distributions still in widespread use, and the same family lines keep resurfacing. Ubuntu inherited much of its foundation from an older project, while Fedora, […]