Norton releases Neo, another AI browser with built-in safety tools
Norton's Neo is a new browser that adds the usual AI features like page summarization and other quick queries, plus it includes the company's security tools such as tracking protection, phishing defenses, and ad blocking. Neo joins a growing category of AI browsers alongside options like OpenAI Atlas and Perplexity Comet .
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Console modder builds smallest-ever PlayStation motherboard using original hardware
As Tom's Hardware highlights, the motherboard in the first-gen PlayStation measures roughly 10 inches by seven inches. Sony managed to shrink that down to around 7.5 x 5.5 inches with the PS One, but thedrew's PS One redesign checks in at just three inches by 2.5 inches. Had he used...
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Android 16 QPR2: What's new as Google moves to twice-yearly OS releases
Since Google rolled out the first version of Android in 2008, it has mostly released one major update each year. But this often resulted in fairly new Android phones having to wait months to receive the latest version of the OS after it landed on Pixel devices.
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Amazon is building AI "factories" to run Trainium and GPU racks inside customer data centers
One of the biggest challenges in rolling out AI across enterprise environments is fully tapping into each organization's unique requirements, data sets, and existing infrastructure. If you're a startup with no legacy systems to plug into, every new AI product can look like a perfect fit. Established companies, however, don't...
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xAI employee praised by collegues for working 36 hours without sleep
xAI employee Parsa Tajik wrote on X that he recently left the company's office after 36 hours of working without sleep. "Although I was dead, I was also super energized. Incredibly grateful to be a part of this team. Happy Thanksgiving!" he wrote.
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Microsoft Teams may soon tell your boss when you enter or leave the office
A Microsoft Teams update planned for January 2026 will automatically update users' locations to indicate which building they are located in. Although the feature will likely facilitate office coordination, it could also help bosses enforce stricter surveillance.
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Helldivers 2 gets a new slim PC version that cuts the install size from 154GB to 23GB
Like many modern big releases, the huge amount of storage space taken up by Helldivers 2 has been a point of contention among players since launch.
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Sam Altman orders "code red" for ChatGPT as rival AI models catch up
The memo describes a "code red" as the highest internal urgency level OpenAI uses for product and engineering issues, above "yellow" and "orange." Altman said the company had previously been in a "code orange" state for ChatGPT, but the shift to "code red" signals that improving the chatbot's day-to-day experience...
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The OLED Burn-In Test: 21-Month Update
We've spent 21 months stress-testing a 4K OLED with nonstop productivity work. Now, after 5,000 hours of static use on our MSI 321URX, it's time to revisit how burn-in is shaping the panel.
Steam could be headed to phones, tablets, and other Arm hardware
Valve recently told The Verge that it has spent years funding the development of emulators and translation layers to make x86 games playable on Arm chips. Work by developers both inside and outside the company could make Windows titles run smoothly on Android and other platforms without porting or streaming.
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