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In the shadows, evil lurks: “energy vampires” that can drain your laptop’s battery dry when you need it most. These apps can slurp up power day and night, killing your laptop …
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Via TechHive
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10/29/26
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I recently used a coding agent to build Task Viewer, a small community helper for IBM Bob that we use internally at IBM. It’s a convenience plug-in to Bob, with no critical production role. Despite …
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Via O'Reilly
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10/29/26
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Anthropic and OpenAI say they’ve disproved a key tenet of computer science. Researchers are struggling with the fall but also feel like “overexcited bunnies” as they look at new questions to …
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Isabella Ward (via Wired)
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10/29/26
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Illicit software on the computers of some of the world’s best online poker players allowed the accused cheater to see what cards were in the victims’ hands—and trounce them at the tables.
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Ben Dowsett (via Wired)
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10/29/26
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Macworld
This has been a year of major change with Apple’s MacBook lineup. 2026 started with simple and limited choices, and it’s ending with a robust lineup that broadens the …
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Via Macworld
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10/29/26
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The Hisense UR8 RGB MiniLED is more affordable than competitors and offers exceptional color accuracy, but is otherwise just OK.
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John Brandon (via Wired)
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10/29/26
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Apple might be behind Google in AI, but its approach to the iPhone 18 Pro is the one I actually want.
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Dhruv Bhutani (via Android Authority)
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10/29/26
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Gallup began tracking employee engagement in 2000, when 26% of employees in the US said they were engaged. That figure stayed steady between 26% and 30% through 2013, then climbed to a peak of …
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Via TechSpot
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10/29/26
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Pentium used to be a name you'd look for on a new PC. By the time Intel retired it alongside Celeron, both had settled into a very different part of the market.
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Via BGR Tech
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10/29/26
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They fit better than they look and stay put when you move, but Snap’s $2,195 Specs still feel like a developer prototype in search of a purpose.
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Boone Ashworth (via Wired)
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10/29/26
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Attachments in New Outlook come undone thanks to Windows' fundamental interconnectedness of things
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Richard Speed (via The Register)
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10/29/26
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This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues …
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Madhulika Srikumar, Claire Leibowicz (via MIT Technology Review)
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10/29/26
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Death Clock promises to predict when you’re going to die and help you extend your time on Earth. After a month, I felt like it was sucking the life out of me.
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Jason Parham (via Wired)
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10/29/26
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Love at first watt? Apparently, yes.
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Shimul Sood (via Android Authority)
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10/29/26
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Climate change itself is increasingly fueling climate change. Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases are driving up global temperatures, setting off dangerous feedback loops that we have not fully …
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James Temple (via MIT Technology Review)
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10/29/26
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Reencle has made your favorite kitchen composter cheaper—with a few compromises.
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Kat Merck (via Wired)
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10/29/26
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The glowing Apple logo has returned to the back of the MacBook Pro, but how does it glow? Now we know.
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Via TechnoBuffalo
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10/29/26
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Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Apple's touchscreen MacBook Pro is designed for the iPad generation, with an optimized macOS, and the company is right to move on from Steve Jobs' skepticism …
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Via Techmeme
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10/29/26
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The firm that helped set up Elon Musk’s America PAC is behind the new group, which will work with election officials to pursue policies aligned with Donald Trump’s false election fraud claims.
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Justin Glawe (via Wired)
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10/29/26
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The company also laid off around 500 people two years ago.
Read more: Dropbox cutting 200 global roles
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Tim Barnwell (via Silicon Republic)
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10/29/26
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