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Samsung stirred the wide foldable race, but I’m more excited for an upcoming exotic rival
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 8 brought a major redesign to the company’s foldable lineup. We now have a shorter, almost passport-like body that opens into a 7.6-inch display with a more media-friendly 4:3 aspect ratio. This feels like a more natural fit than Samsung’s squarer last-gen foldables. It also has a more portable 201 grams […]
Apple defied global PC sales slump in Q2 ’26 with MacBook Neo
The global PC market declined by 4% year-over-year in Q2 2026, but as Lenovo, Dell, and HP struggled, Apple’s MacBook Neo helped it buck the downward trend. New data shared by Counterpoint Research shows that global PC shipments plummeted to 65 million units in the second quarter of the year. This brought an end to […]
Brydge ProDock Trio review: A space-saving MacBook dock
The Brydge ProDock Trio is a rarity amongst Thunderbolt docks, offering a compact vertical MacBook stand alongside a MagSafe phone charger. All USB-C and Thunderbolt docks I’ve tested have been largely the same as boxes that connect with a bundled cable. They have different ports and different technical specs. Brydge goes a different route, opting […]
Apple Store app may soon get an AI-powered shopping assistant
Apple has updated the Apple Store app’s privacy policy, adding terms regarding a yet-to-be-released virtual shopping assistant. Here are the details. Apple expands AI use in retail As spotted by MacRumors, the Apple Store App & Privacy page now features a segment called Virtual Shopping Assistant, which says: Where the Apple Store app virtual shopping […]
AI agents aren’t confidently wrong because of bad context — they’re wrong because of bad data engineering
You spend weeks tuning an AI chatbot. Answers are accurate. Stakeholders sign off, and you ship it. Three months later, the system is confidently wrong about a third of what users ask. Nobody changed the model, and nobody touched the prompts. The world moved, pricing changed, a policy updated, a product spec shipped a new […]
Apple updates macOS 28 guidance with direct encrypted APFS conversion
Users who rely on encrypted HFS+ drives will no longer need to decrypt them before converting them to APFS for macOS 28 compatibility. Here’s what that means. Apple revises macOS 28 migration guidance for encrypted HFS+ drives A few weeks ago, Apple published a support document explaining that starting with macOS 28, “the Mac OS […]
As Ransomware Blackmail Surges, Governments Mull a Ban on Paying Up
Ransomware attacks on small and medium-sized businesses have surged over the past two years, prompting some governments to begin investigating a ban on paying up for data recovery, Ars Technica reports. Although the evidence suggests that paying up just emboldens attackers, for affected companies with no clear alternative, it’s often the more attractive option. Ransomware […]
Russia Returns World’s Most Heavily-Armed Warship To The Sea After $5B Facelift
The Russian nuclear-powered missile cruiser the Admiral Nakhimov is believed to be close to a return to operational status after it was spotted by satellite undergoing sea trials in Kola Bay on June 25, 2026. The Kirov-class ship, which will likely be assigned as the new flagship of Russia’s Northern […]
Pixel Watch 5 could get more memory and almost nothing else
Google’s Pixel Watch 5 is expected to look almost identical to last year’s model, and a new leak suggests the familiar approach could continue under the shell. A Google Play Console listing reportedly identifies the upcoming smartwatch under the codename “godric.” More importantly, it points to the same old Qualcomm platform Google has used for […]
The credential that let OpenAI’s agents into Hugging Face exists in most enterprises right now
When Hugging Face got hit last week, co-founder Clement Delangue suspected a frontier lab, given the agent’s sophistication. He was right. Delangue said on X that after a day working with OpenAI he strongly believed there was no malicious intent and that it was mind-blowing the whole thing had happened autonomously. The two OpenAI models […]