From PC Mag: Apple’s most affordable iPhone is finally getting an update. The iPhone SE 4 is expected to be announced next week and go on sale later this month, Bloomberg reports.

Apple expects the iPhone SE 4 to “spur growth and entice consumers to switch from other brands.” However, the company...

From PC World: Acer’s Helios laptops are gaming designs in the classic sense: big, chunky, and chock-full of high-power parts. The newest models of the Predator Helios Neo AI line don’t break with that tradition, upgrading to the latest Intel processors and newest Nvidia graphics cards. They’ll...

From CNET: The UK government has demanded that Apple weaken security measures that keep people's data private so that it can more easily access iCloud accounts and other services, The Washington Post reports.

Security officials have asked the company to create backdoor access through its security...

From Corsair Press Release: Add an extra dimension of storage and organization to almost any desk with the CORSAIR Multi Frame Pegboard. This versatile add-on easily attaches to a desk with just two clamps, delivering a vital upgrade to available storage space. It can be attached in less than 30...

From Corsair Press Release: CORSAIR is excited to announce the newest addition to its modular desk family; the Platform:4. This desk measures four feet across (120cm), providing a spacious work and gaming surface in a more compact form than its predecessor, the six-foot-wide Platform:6. Despite its...

From Turtle Beach Press Release: Turtle Beach Corporation (Nasdaq: TBCH) today announced its groundbreaking new Turtle Beach® VelocityOne™ Multi-Shift three-function gear shifter and handbrake is now available. Not only is VelocityOne Multi-Shift the perfect expansion to Turtle Beach’s VelocityOne...

From The Verge: Lyft announced a new partnership with Anthropic to use the Claude AI assistant to handle customer service requests.

Claude is already being put to use handling service inquiries from drivers, reducing the average resolution time for a request by 87 percent, the company said.

In an...

From PC Mag: Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor business no longer faces a contractual expiration date from Arm Holdings. In October, Arm threatened to cancel Qualcomm's license to develop chips based on Arm's designs. However, Qualcomm said in an earnings call this week that Arm had lifted that risk...

From PC World: Last week’s optional Windows 11 update, known as patch KB5050094, was nice because it fixed several issues, including broken USB audio playback and Auto HDR for gaming.

But like with so many Windows 11 24H2 patches in the past, this update has broken a few things itself, reports...

From PC Mag: AMD’s gaming desktop processor, the Ryzen 9800X3D, is so popular it helped the company’s PC chip business reach record revenue.

“We had record desktop channel sell-out in the fourth quarter in multiple regions as Ryzen dominated the best selling CPU lists at many retailers globally,”...