From CNET: Instagram will soon alert some parents if their teen repeatedly tries to search for terms related to suicide or self-harm within a short period. Instagram owner Meta said on Thursday that it's rolling out the new notifications to parents in the US, UK, Australia and Canada, with other...

From PC Mag: Valve, the maker of Steam and many of PC gaming’s most popular titles, is being sued by New York for its use of loot boxes. New York Attorney General Letitia James filed the lawsuit, claiming that loot box systems enable gambling habits and are particularly harmful for younger people...

From PC World: Microsoft has walked back a controversial change to its feature roadmap that would have put millions of older printers at risk.

Earlier this month, Microsoft’s feature roadmap page had indicated that older “V3” and “V4” printer drivers would be deprecated, or ended. If a user’s...

From CNET: ADT on Tuesday announced an interesting new acquisition for anyone looking to the future of home security -- and it's no surprise AI is a part of the story. In a $170 million deal, ADT has purchased Origin AI, which specializes in people detection in spaces like the inside of your home...

From PC Mag: We have been hearing about Apple’s plans to launch a touch-screen Mac for quite a few years, and this week, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman provided fresh details on how the rumored device is shaping up.

According to Gurman, Apple will revamp the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros with touch...

From PC World: Microsoft is testing a new Windows 11 feature that allows AI assistants to access app windows in the taskbar.

The feature—called “Share any window from my taskbar with virtual assistant”—allows you to share a specific window with, for example, Copilot without manually starting a...

From CNET: Meta is joining OpenAI as one of the major tech companies to take a stake in chipmaker AMD, as part of an AI hardware buying frenzy. Meta and AMD on Tuesday announced a partnership that will involve CEO Mark Zuckerberg's tech giant buying billions of dollars' worth of AMD Instinct GPUs in...

From FinalWire Press Release: FinalWire Ltd. today announced the immediate availability of AIDA64 Extreme 8.25 software, a streamlined diagnostic and benchmarking tool for home users; the immediate availability of AIDA64 Engineer 8.25 software, a professional diagnostic and benchmarking solution for...

From PC Mag: Apple has announced it will shift some of its Mac mini production from Asia to the US later this year. The production will begin at Foxconn’s Houston facility, and the goal is to eventually meet the Mac mini demand in the region.

Apple’s chief operating officer, Sabih Khan, shared the...

From PC World: In the new Chrome versions 145.0.7632.116/117 for Windows and macOS and 145.0.7632.116 for Linux, the developers have fixed 3 newly reported security vulnerabilities. According to Google, none of these vulnerabilities are being exploited for attacks in the wild.

In the Chrome...