Google just lost its final appeal over Android, $4.7 billion EU fine stands
"The appeal brought by Google and its parent company Alphabet against the judgment of the General Court is dismissed, thereby confirming the penalty imposed for Google Search's abuse of a dominant position in the context of the Android operating system," the court said.
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Intel raises prices on the Core Ultra 200S Plus CPUs people actually liked
As spotted by leaker harukaze5719, Intel has updated the Recommended Customer Price on its product pages for the Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus.
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Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone with zero AI features
Plummer is the man who claims to have created some major Windows features, including the original Task Manager application. Now, the YouTuber and retired developer shared his latest creation: a text editor named TinyRetroPad, which is designed to mimic Notepad's text editing functionality while staying as small as possible on...
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Apple expects its $2,500 foldable iPhone Ultra to sell 10 million units this year
Nikkei Asia reports that Apple has told suppliers to prepare for about 10 million foldable iPhones in 2026, up from forecasts of 7 million to 8 million units a few months ago.
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As Sony exits physical media, Microsoft is testing a way to link your Xbox discs to digital licenses
Sources recently provided The Verge with new details regarding Microsoft's previously leaked attempts to tie physical copies of Xbox games to digital entitlements. The rumor has reignited speculation over whether Microsoft will follow Sony's decision to stop selling physical games.
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Former PlayStation boss calls Valve's Steam Machine "meh," asks if he's "going back to PS4 days"
Yoshida is one of many people who bought a Steam Machine following its official launch, despite its high price. He posted an image of the device next to his TV, along with his thoughts after playing with it for a few hours. Most were far from positive.
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A Microsoft Defender flaw is now being linked to ransomware attacks
BlueHammer became public on April 2 in an unusual fashion. A researcher using the names Chaotic Eclipse and Nightmare Eclipse released exploit details before Microsoft had a patch ready, saying they were unhappy with how the company handles vulnerability reports. That early release reduced the window defenders usually have to prepare.
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Apple's Hide My Email feature may be exposing users' real addresses
Hide My Email, available through iCloud+, lets users create random addresses that forward messages to their real inbox.
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Testing AMD Radeon's Biggest-Ever Software Upgrade: FSR 4.1 on RDNA 3
AMD's new FSR 4.1 INT8 upscaler gives RDNA 3 GPUs a massive image quality upgrade . We examine visual quality, performance, and how closely it matches the RDNA 4 version.
Amazon says restricting Fire TV sideloading is about safety. It's also about piracy
In a recent interview with Cord Busters, Aidan Marcuss, Amazon's VP of Fire TV, warned that sideloaded apps can carry malware and enable piracy. He stopped short of explicitly linking piracy concerns to the decision to restrict sideloading on newer Fire TV devices, but the connection is hard to miss.
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