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After setting up a new Android phone, the first thing I do is dig into the gesture settings and flip on a bunch of toggles that are off by default. The problem is, unless you go looking through gesture menus and keyboard settings, you’d never know they’re there. Android doesn’t surface them during setup, and nothing afterward ever points you in their direction. You just get the defaults and move on. Swipe down for notifications Stop reaching for the status bar Digvijay Kumar / MakeUseOf By default, swiping down on your home screen opens a search page. It’s useful if…

Lava launched the Lava Shark 4G last March, and followed it up with the Shark 5G in May. Today, the Indian handset maker announced the Lava Shark 2, which is a 5G smartphone and is powered by the Unisoc T8200 SoC. The Lava Shark 2 has 4GB of RAM and 64GB of onboard storage, expandable up to 1TB via a microSD card. The smartphone runs Android 16 out of the box, without ads and bloatware, and comes with the promise of one Android OS upgrade and security updates for two years. The Lava Shark 2 is built around a 6.75″…

Anthropic says its Claude Mythos model discovered thousands of severe vulnerabilities across more than 1,000 open source software (OSS) projects. According to the AI giant, Mythos Preview has identified more than 23,000 potential vulnerabilities. Of these, 1,900 have been reviewed by external security firms, and 1,726 have been confirmed, including over 1,000 rated ‘high’ or ‘critical’ severity. The findings are still being reviewed, and Anthropic estimates that nearly 3,900 critical and high-severity vulnerabilities will be confirmed based only on current findings. As the scans are ongoing, the company believes the number of severe vulnerabilities may reach 6,200. Anthropic says more…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Rest easy, paranoid gamers. Riot Games says its Vanguard anti-cheat tool won’t “brick” the computers of hackers ruining everyone’s fun in its multiplayer games. And that’s too bad, since cheaters deserve to suffer at least twice as much as the beleaguered gamers that willingly subject themselves to grinding MMR in one of the company’s titles already do. The brouhaha stems from a Vanguard update the “Valorant” and “League of Legends” maker released last week that targets notoriously hard to detect direct memory access…

Asus today announced the new VM441QA AiO in India. This is an all-in-one PC and the first in the industry to run on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X chipset. The ASUS VM441QA AiO has a sleek all-white design that just looks like a professional monitor from the front. You get a 23.8-inch 60Hz 1080p anti-glare display with touch support. Inside, there is a first-generation Snapdragon X chip (likely just the base X1-26-100) with 8-cores and clocked at 2.97GHz. It has an Adreno X1-45 GPU and 45TOPS Hexagon NPU. There’s 16GB of LPDDR5X memory with a choice of 512GB or 1TB SSD…

TL;DR Ferrari has unveiled the Luce, its first-ever EV, featuring a futuristic OLED dashboard designed by Samsung Display. The car’s layered dashboard uses Samsung’s HIAA display technology, originally developed for Galaxy phone punch-hole cameras, to combine OLED screens with real mechanical gauges. Luce’s overall design was done by former Apple design chief Jony Ive, the man who helped shape the iPhone hardware for years. At a time when most modern cars are replacing physical controls with giant flat touchscreens, Ferrari is trying something very different with its new Luce supercar, its first-ever EV. And surprisingly, the tech behind it originates…

Radiology Associates of Richmond (RAR) has disclosed a data breach impacting the protected health information of 266,000 individuals. According to the healthcare organization’s incident notice, the data breach occurred on or about July 25, 2025, when hackers accessed its internal systems. RAR did not say when the intrusion was discovered, but said that it worked with external cybersecurity experts to contain the attack and investigate its scope. “After an extensive forensic investigation and manual document review, RAR’s investigation concluded on or about April 6, 2026, that files containing protected health information pertaining to a limited number of individuals were acquired…

Freda Duan estimates XAI Colossus 1 has ~$6B annual rent. Colossus 2 is leasing roughly one-third of its total compute capacity to $Anthropic. I am extending the analysis to renting out one third to one half of the new construction. This does not included distributed compute from Tesla cars, Tesla bots, new servers with Tesla Powerwalls and Tesla Superchargers and then the Space based AI. That covers:150,000 H100s50,000 H200s30,000 GB200s Separately, $Anthropic’s total payment to $SpaceX is $15B per year, based on the SpaceX S-1 “$1.25B per month through May 2029, with capacity ramping in May and June 2026 at…

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. Honor 600: two-minute reviewThe Honor 600 is the brand’s latest mid-range phone, offering an iPhone-style design and a whole host of innovative AI features to Android users. Priced from £549.99, it’s a more affordable alternative to the flagship Honor 600 Pro, which was released around the same time for £899.99. But how does it hold up against other mid-range phones?Let’s kick off with that AMOLED display. Coupled with its…

One of many reasons for escaping Windows (as I assume is for a majority of us as well) was to get rid of unnecessary pre-installed packages. This is especially true for laptops, which come with a lot of junk. Even then, Windows just seems to never stop getting in your way. Be it forced updates, interrupting adverts or a general push to annoy the user in the most trivial way possible, there’s a lot that Microsoft could learn from the open-source community. Using KDE as my desktop environment had so far been a breeze on CachyOS, or so I thought.…