Confused about your PC specs or hardware? Windows 11’s Copilot app is getting new powers to help you ‘understand your device’
 Confused about your PC specs or hardware? Windows 11’s Copilot app is getting new powers to help you ‘understand your device’

Copilot app’s new ‘PC insights’ feature has been greeted with some skepticism.

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Apple’s app subscription bundles are too rigid and inflexible — here’s how I’d overhaul them if I were CEO-to-be John Ternus
 Apple’s app subscription bundles are too rigid and inflexible — here’s how I’d overhaul them if I were CEO-to-be John Ternus

Apple’s app subscription bundles are too rigid and inflexible. They’re in desperate need of a rethink.

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Sega Dreamcast driver fixes appear in Linux 7.2-rc3 — fabled console remains in favor while iconic computing architectures like i486 fall by the wayside

A set of updates for Sega Dreamcast hardware has been merged into the Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel this weekend.

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Windows 95 didn’t detect installers, it ‘guessed’ based on the file name, says veteran dev — it simply checked for words like setup, install, inst, or localized equivalents

The full match list ran to six terms: setup, install, inst, imposta, ayarla, and felrak.

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Save 84% on a two-year ExpressVPN subscription, offering four additional months for free — upgrade your privacy for under $70 with no-logs access to servers in 105 countries worldwide
 Save 84% on a two-year ExpressVPN subscription, offering four additional months for free — upgrade your privacy for under $70 with no-logs access to servers in 105 countries worldwide

Right now, you’ll save $378 in total on over two years’ worth of ExpressVPN, now priced at $69.72, with four extra months thrown in for free.

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Meta’s super-sensing AI glasses are still in the works, and I don’t know if I should be excited or terrified
 Meta’s super-sensing AI glasses are still in the works, and I don’t know if I should be excited or terrified

Is never forgetting anything ever again worth the cost of an always-watching AI? Meta certainly hopes so, as its super-sensing AI glasses edge one step closer to reality according to new report.

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I read Careless People, the Meta tell-all — and it made me want the chapter Sarah Wynn-Williams couldn’t write
 I read Careless People, the Meta tell-all — and it made me want the chapter Sarah Wynn-Williams couldn’t write

Reading Careless People helped me understand how Facebook’s internal culture may have allowed Mark Zuckerberg’s strange metaverse obsession to become Meta’s defining idea.

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Meta just fixed a privacy vulnerability with its Ray-Ban smart glasses, but could cameraless designs be the better future?
 Meta just fixed a privacy vulnerability with its Ray-Ban smart glasses, but could cameraless designs be the better future?

I hate cameraless smart glasses, so I’m glad Meta just solved a big vulnerability with its specs.

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Sick of trying to find a USB and Windows key? Microsoft has just made reinstalling Windows 11 less painful
 Sick of trying to find a USB and Windows key? Microsoft has just made reinstalling Windows 11 less painful

Windows 11 reinstallations will be available via the cloud, which includes appropriate drivers and doesn’t require a USB drive.

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Companies are now using automatic Windows installers to display Adware through the Microsoft Store when you install new hardware — customer immediately gets McAfee ads on their PC after connecting new LG monitor; here’s how to block the new ads

LG monitors apparently auto-install an app on your PC when you first connect them, all thanks to the Microsoft Store.

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