From The Verge: After a soft launch with fashion / culture brand Kith, Bose is officially announcing its new Ultra Open Earbuds today. Priced at $299, they feature a very unique design that wraps around and attaches to your outer ear instead of extending into your ear canal. A silicone-coated flex...

From PC World: It only took three years, but Microsoft is finally fixing one of its annoyances in Windows 11’s File Explorer.

The “show more options” double menu? No, unfortunately not. But Microsoft is at least adding explanatory labels to the icons within File Explorer, now describing what they...

From CNET: After a challenging few weeks dipping into wild new virtual worlds in an expensive headset, coming back to a game like Mario vs. Donkey Kong feels as comforting as the blanket I have wrapped around me. Cute little Mario is jumping around as I try to help him solve puzzles and keep that...

From Lexar Press Release: Lexar is excited to announce the Lexar® Professional SL600 Portable SSD. With spectacularly fast USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 performance of up to 2000MB/s read and write, it’s perfect for photographers, videographers, and content creators as well as business professionals looking to...

From The Verge: DuckDuckGo has added a new “Sync & Backup” feature to its privacy-first browser that will keep passwords, bookmarks, and favorites constant across all of your devices — without setting up an account. Falling right in line with its usual claims that it won’t track you or collect your...

From PC World: Slack will soon begin rolling out what it calls “Slack AI” to its customers, featuring smart search, channel recaps, and summaries — and a number of caveats, too.

Slack has been trying to integrate AI into its conversational interface for about a year now, and some of this sounds...

From CNET: OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company behind the ChatGPT chatbot, is testing a version of ChatGPT that remembers what users told it before. The chatbot can now use that information in subsequent conversations, the company said Tuesday.

Not all users will get the new memory feature...

From The Verge: Apple’s iMessage is not being designated as a “core platform service” under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Commission announced today. The decision means the service won’t be hit with tough new obligations, including a requirement to offer...

From PC Mag: AI regulation is moving forward in Europe.

The European Union's Internal Market and Civil Liberties Committees voted overwhelmingly in favor of supporting the Artificial Intelligence Act Tuesday, allowing the AI Act to move forward toward becoming law in the region.

While the AI Act...

From PC World: The early days of Windows 11 and its hardware requirements were simply a mess. According to a new potential discovery, the upcoming Windows 11 24H2 might be a little simpler — older PCs simply won’t boot.

And by old PCs, we mean old PCs. A Twitter user claims that he has discovered a...