Right to repair isn’t a hobbyist crusade. It’s a fight over ownership

Right to repair is usually framed as an e-waste issue, but the sharper problem is ownership. A dying battery shouldn’t turn a device you paid for into company property again.

The hidden labor of modern tech support is turning us all into unpaid employees

Modern tech support keeps selling self-service as convenience, but every chatbot loop and repeated explanation adds up to unpaid labor.

‘Resistance is futile’: the 5 most revealing quotes from Computex 2026 — and what they tell us about the future of computing

Weighty quotes from the likes of Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, with a Borg-like prediction from Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon.

Gemini could soon offer a troubleshooting mode and save you a trip to help manuals

A new Gemini Troubleshooting mode has been spotted in the wild, offering step-by-step guidance and interactive widgets for fixing everyday problems more efficiently.

Apple could offer MacBook Ultra in two sizes with one-of-a-kind OLED display

Apple’s MacBook Ultra could arrive in Q3 2026 with a new hybrid OLED display, two size options, and the biggest MacBook redesign in years.

How much data does your favorite messaging app collect? New study shows 90% of messaging apps now include AI that puts privacy at risk

Are your private chats truly secure? New research from Surfshark dives into the most popular messaging apps, revealing alarming data harvesting and AI privacy risks. See why Signal came out on top.

You can now send emails directly from ChatGPT on the web

You can now draft, edit, and send emails entirely inside ChatGPT on the web, thanks to a new update to the platform’s writing blocks feature.

Meta’s smart glasses might soon sport facial recognition — and the code to power this dystopian feature is already present in the Meta AI app on your phone

The Meta AI app has quietly had facial recognition code added to it, which could one day allow the company’s smart glasses to identify people.

Creative’s Katana V2X speaker potentially has a serious vulnerability that could allow hackers to attack your PC, and there’s only one way to avoid it

PC system vulnerabilities are seemingly more common than we thought, as a researcher finds a major issue in a popular speaker that can hack a user’s PC.