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The gaming market has had a rough go of it this decade – first COVID slowed down the rollout of the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, then the crypto boom vacuumed up available GPUs, now AI has made RAM chips the new gold. This has led to smartphone makers rising prices, but PCs and consoles are just as affected – the PS5, the Xbox, the Steam Deck and the Nintendo Switch all got more expensive. And that’s just some of the more high-profile products. Services are feeling the pain too – Microsoft wanted to raise the price of Game…

I don’t mind paying for good software, and YouTube Premium is actually a decent subscription even after the recent price hike. But now that I’ve tried LibreTube, I don’t think I’ll ever subscribe to YouTube Premium again. LibreTube is a free, open-source YouTube client for Android that offers a cleaner, more privacy-focused way to watch YouTube. I first tried it while exploring open-source alternatives for Google’s apps, and the more I’ve used it, the more it has become my default way to watch YouTube. Related 7 video sites that are better than YouTube If you’re done with YouTube, here are…

Shimul Sood / Android AuthorityOpen Notebook is virtually a clone of NotebookLLM’s core functionality, including stand-out features like audio summaries, the ability to ask questions about your research sources, and so much more. Of course, nothing is perfect, and it isn’t without catches. Below, I’ll dive into what I love about Open Notebook, what is less ideal about it, and how to give it a try for yourself. Would you consider Open Notebook over NotebookLM?102 votesYes, I’m certainly interested in trying it out.75%I’m already using it and highly recommend it.11%No, this looks too complicated.12%I’ve already tried it and wasn’t a…

Artificial IntelligenceA Startup Claims It Broke Through a Bottleneck That’s Holding Back LLMsWill Douglas Heaven | MIT Technology Review ($)”According to Subquadratic, it has developed a new kind of LLM, called SubQ, that is faster and cheaper and uses a lot less energy than any other model on the market. The company also claims that SubQ is able to process up to 12 times as much text at once than most other models, allowing it to carry out a range of data-heavy tasks, such as analyzing hundreds of documents or entire code bases.”RoboticsThe Next Humanoid Robot Might Not Look Human…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Sonos Era 100 SL: two-minute reviewThe Sonos Era 100 SL is a wireless speaker that features nearly all the strengths of 2023’s original Sonos Era 100, but at a cheaper price. While it isn’t a surprise that there have been some trade-offs to get that cost down, I doubt they’ll be a dealbreaker for most people.Sonically speaking, there aren’t many sacrifices at all. In the mid-range, the Era 100…

Normally Plex is one of those platforms that doesn’t draw much attention to itself. People use it to watch movies and shows every day, and most changes are subtle. Something that’s drawing the wrath of the internet, however, is an incoming price spike for the service’s Lifetime Pass, which is rising from $250 to $750. That’s a tremendous sum to pay for any software that isn’t a corporate suite. For some perspective, $750 would get you three years of Adobe’s Creative Cloud photography plan, which includes Photoshop, Lightroom, and 1TB of storage. There are games with Hollywood budgets that sell…

Law enforcement agencies in four countries, working with Europol and private partners, have disrupted SocGholish infrastructure and cleaned up nearly 15,000 infected WordPress websites. Active since 2017 and also known as FakeUpdates, SocGholish is a malware framework injected into websites running popular content management systems, such as WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal, either via known vulnerabilities or stolen credentials. The framework acts as a JavaScript-based dropper, deploying various malware families as part of drive-by downloads, including ransomware, banking trojans, spyware, and more, and has been one of the most used loaders for years. SocGholish is operated by a Russian-speaking threat actor…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech It’s not exactly straightforward to navigate New York City by car. Manhattan, in particular, is a confusing maze of one way streets, pedestrians are everywhere, construction zones can bring traffic to a standstill, and the weather weather varies immensely. But beyond the many practical challenges Waymo’s fleet of self-driving vehicles would face on New York City’s roads, what’s really holding the company back is something else entirely. As the New York Times reports, the Google-owned Waymo is running into major political roadblocks that…

Adobe is bringing AI assistants to some of its biggest creative apps. New chatbot-style tools are now rolling out in public beta for Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, InDesign and Frame.io. The new assistants are designed to handle repetitive tasks and help users make edits using natural language prompts. Rather than digging through menus or learning complex workflows, users can simply describe what they want to do. Then, the software does much of the heavy lifting. For Photoshop users, that means being able to reorganise layers, swap backgrounds, resize assets for different platforms and make other edits by describing the desired result.…

Many modern Windows applications add background triggers and package scripts that become part of the Windows startup path. You may be expecting Task Manager to manage these additions, but it only shows you a fraction of them, making it difficult to accomplish any real Windows cleanup. When I need real visibility, I turn to Autoruns because it uncovers hidden scheduled tasks and deep-seated bloatware in a way the Task Manager doesn’t. After running it on one of my old laptops, I was shocked to see 161 startup entries that the Task Manager did not catch. You need it to thoroughly…