From PC Mag: The baffling Windows 11 update bug that corrupted SSDs now appears to be linked to storage drives running pre-release firmware.
Memory component supplier Phison says that "engineering preview firmware" appears to be the culprit after a PC building group in Taiwan figured it out.
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From PC World: If you’ve been wondering when the “AI” branding spigot might be turned down a notch, AMD’s answer is that it won’t be anytime soon.
At an AMD breakfast at IFA 2025 this week, Jack Huynh, senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s Computing and Graphics Group, said that AMD...
From CNET: In the series of predictable events leading up to every iPhone launch is the moment the Apple Store goes down -- and it's just happened.
There's just hours to go until the Apple event, during which the company is set to announce the iPhone 17 series and updates to its wider product...
From PC Mag: Google has finally revealed Gemini usage limits for free and paid customers. As 9to5Google reports, limits were previously categorized as limited, expanded, and highest access, but now, we have exact numbers.
Free users receive up to five prompts on the 2.5 Pro model daily, with a 32...
From PC World: I think even non-techy people can tell the difference between Microsoft’s Surface line and the omnipresent iPad at this point, even as both product lines get more features that cross the line between consumption tablet and laptop alternative. Maybe that’s why a Microsoft promo showed...
From The Verge: Dish parent company EchoStar is selling wireless spectrum licenses to SpaceX for around $17 billion, the companies announced on Monday. SpaceX says it will use the spectrum to create the “next generation” of Starlink’s cellular satellite service, which customers of the EchoStar-owned...
Rock climbing is a fascinating sport. It challenges both the body and the mind in ways few activities do. At first glance, it looks like nothing more than pulling yourself up a wall, but the reality is much more complex. It demands tremendous grip strength, as every finger and tendon works together to hold on. For beginners, climbing often feels like a test of pure hand strength, but as the routes get more advanced, the entire body comes into...
Lately, one of my friends has been getting into bouldering. With that, I have come out of hiatus and began my adventure once again. There is something refreshing about starting anew from the very basis. It is important to note I was never actually "good", more so "adequate", when it comes to bouldering. Generally speaking, I knew how it worked, but I did not know how to do it. Back to my friend, I found myself trying to teach them more...
From PC Mag: A jury has ordered Google to pay $425 million for collecting users' data even after they disabled a tracking feature on their Google accounts.
As Reuters reports, the class-action lawsuit was filed in 2020, and it accused Google of collecting search and activity data through third...
From PC World: The big smart home manufacturers have been leaking like sieves as of late, giving us juicy early previews of their super-secret upcoming releases. Philips Hue recently fell victim to its own leak that revealed its entire fall product lineup, and now Google appears to have unwittingly...
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