From PC Mag: AI-powered note-takers aren't a novel concept, but Plaud’s new One Explorer Edition combines the tech with a pair of earbuds to listen in on conversations, make detailed notes, and even instruct AI agents to undertake tasks on your behalf.

Following the Note and NotePin devices, Plaud...

From PC World: “5K2K” is a very nerdy kind of term that’s getting a lot of popularity right now. It’s a semi-standard resolution for a monitor, 5120×2160 — essentially the same kind of ultrawide stretch you get for a 27-to-34-inch monitor design, but blown up to 4K. Alienware’s newest OLED gaming...

From CNET: Samsung’s Galaxy S26 FE may be the company’s lower-cost flagship, but the phone’s getting nearly all of the same software features we first saw on the company’s more expensive phones. And it better be, as it’s also getting a $50 price bump over last year’s S25 FE, with this year’s phone...

From Corsair Press Release: SCUF Gaming (NASDAQ: CRSR), creator of the high-performance gaming controller category, today announced the SCUF Nemesis Pro 8K PC controller family, introducing both the SCUF Nemesis Pro 8K PC Wireless and SCUF Nemesis Pro 8K PC Wired. The new controllers combine up to 8...

From Turtle Beach Press Release: Turtle Beach Corporation (Nasdaq: TBCH), today revealed the all-new Vulcan II XP Full-Size Mechanical RGB Gaming Keyboard. Built on the award-winning Vulcan design, the Turtle Beach® Vulcan II XP combines hot-swappable TITAN HS mechanical switches for easy...

From PC Mag: Logging into your personal accounts is a major stumbling block for agentic AI tools: you tell your assistant to complete a task, but they need your credentials to do so. Now, ChatGPT Work is further automating that.

A new feature announced on Tuesday allows ChatGPT Work to log in to...

From PC World: In the newest versions of Chrome—152.0.7977.64/65 for Windows and macOS, and 152.0.7977.64 for Linux—the developers have fixed over 320 vulnerabilities, some of which are critical. According to Google, none of the patched vulnerabilities are being exploited in the wild yet.

Google...

From CNET: Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta has struck a deal with the 29 US states currently suing the tech giant for intentionally designing its social media platforms to be addictive and harmful to children and teens. Reuters first reported the settlement, saying the company could pay a...

From PC Mag: The latest Xperia phone is part of Sony's more affordable 10 series, although the price is now much higher than last year's Xperia 10 VII, presumably due to a RAM-crisis-focused price hike.

Sony-built Android phones are no longer sold in the US, so the new Xperia 10 VIII is highly...

From PC World: Reseller bots are hitting online retail listings at almost ten times the rate of genuine traffic, according to one security researcher. I do a little digging into reseller listings on Amazon and Newegg.

When an in-demand product gets scarce, the vultures of consumerism descend...