From PC World: Have you ever tried to click “back” on a website, but instead of returning to the previous page you ended up on a wall of ads? This can happen when websites or advertising networks use JavaScript to alter your browser’s history. It’s especially common in mobile browsers.

In a recent...

From CNET: For years, Google has been accused of harvesting data from Android phones without users' consent. A California lawsuit was settled for $314 million last year, and another class action lawsuit recently reached a resolution that could mean payouts for another 100 million people.

While not...

From PC Mag: Six months after its reveal, Google’s desktop app for Windows is now available to help you search your computer's files, other apps, Google Drive, and the web with various AI-powered Gemini features.

The Google desktop app for Windows is available worldwide in English and works...

From PC World: The first cracks in the government’s router ban have appeared: many of Netgear’s routers are now exempted from the FCC’s rule banning the sale of foreign-made routers, and Adtran can ship its service routers, too.

Netgear announced that it had earned a conditional approval from the...

From CNET: Adobe is diving deeper into agentic AI and expanding its partnership roster in a new deal with the AI developer Anthropic. Adobe on Wednesday introduced its latest conversational, agentic creative assistant, which is the technological foundation for its work with Anthropic.

Firefly is...

From PC Mag: The ongoing memory chip shortage has caused yet another laptop manufacturer to raise prices. As reported by Windows Central, prices for Microsoft Surface laptops have increased by $100 to $300, depending on the model. The revised prices are now live on the Microsoft Store, mainly...

From PC World: Microsoft recently published a new support page with an explanation of why it discontinued telephone activation of Windows: “Beginning December 3, 2025, the traditional telephone-based product activation automation process has been moved from telephone to online. […] The new digital...

From CNET: Several high-end Apple computers are sold out on the company's online store, and there's no indication when they'll be back in stock. Multiple RAM-intensive configurations of the M4 Mac Mini and Mac Studio are now listed as "currently unavailable."

The affected configurations include the...

From PC Mag: The Lenovo Legion Go 2 price is skyrocketing, and the latest hike hits the best version money can buy.

The 2TB handheld with 32GB of RAM and an AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme originally cost $1,479.99, but it's now $2,849.99 on Lenovo’s website. That’s up $1,370 from its launch price in October...

From PC World: According to BleepingComputer, there’s a serious vulnerability in Acrobat Reader that can be exploited to steal sensitive data.

Security researcher Haifei Li says that hackers have been abusing this “highly sophisticated, fingerprinting-style PDF exploit” since December, meaning just...