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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. VZMORE AX9 Max AI: 30-second reviewThe AX9 Max instantly feels premium, with a full metal build and a huge array of ports on the front and back. However, as you look closely at the embossed detailing around the edges and a logo that seems to blend the old Cadillac and Ferrari logos, something about the aesthetics starts to looks a little less premium.Aesthetics aside, the build quality is solid…

Modern Windows 11 is bloated and ships with some questionable defaults that most certainly affect your overall performance. Simply put, there’s a lot more you’re leaving on the table with Microsoft’s proprietary operating system, at least in its stock configuration. Which is where “optimization” software comes into play. There are a seemingly infinite number of these scripts floating around, but there has never been a decent all-encompassing, universal solution. Until now, that is. I recently tried out Hypertune, a piece of tuning software that promises to do everything in one app. It’s also officially supported by multiple anti-cheat software (including…

I absolutely love organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screens. When compared to traditional liquid crystal display (LCD) panels, OLED displays are, on average, punchier, more vivid, and inkier in their black levels. Even Mini-LED, which is a step-up from bog-standard IPS LCD, fails to truly capture the visual qualities innate in a good OLED. Considering OLED’s display quality, it’s no surprise that many of the highest-tech consumer electronics out there — whether they be phones, tablets, laptops, or TVs — feature OLED configurations. Some manufacturers have even gone a step further by outfitting their flagship devices with tandem OLED screens, which…

Networking solutions provider Arista Networks on Thursday rolled out patches for an exploited zero-day vulnerability in its centralized management tool VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO). The critical-severity security defect is tracked as CVE-2026-114625 (CVSS score of 9.9) and is described as a remotely exploitable SQL injection. “VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) on-prem has a security issue where this issue may allow a remote attacker to access privileged internal functionality and impact the VCO host,” Arista notes in its advisory. Successful exploitation could impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of both VCO and the data it manages. “On an affected system, any authenticated user can…

Explanation: This Rosetta spacecraft selfie was snapped on October 7th, 2014. At the time the comet-chasing spacecraft was about 472 million kilometers from planet Earth, but only 16 kilometers from the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Looming beyond the spacecraft near the top of the frame, dust and gas stream away from the comet’s curious double-lobed nucleus. Bright sunlight glints off one of Rosetta’s 14 meter long solar arrays. In fact, two exposures, one short and one long, were combined to record the dramatic high contrast scene using the CIVA camera system on Rosetta’s still-attached Philae lander. Its chosen primary landing…

Half off £1,199.99 leaves £600 in your pocket and a robot vacuum that empties its own bin and refills its own tank. Roborock’s Qrevo Curv 2 Pro is the machine behind that maths, with Amazon dropping it from £1,199.99 to £599.99 in a limited-time deal that saves you £600, a full 50% off the price it carried at launch. This robot vacuum washes its mops at 100°C, and it’s back down to £599.99 With 25,000 Pa suction and a dock that empties its bin and refills its tank, the Roborock Qrevo Curv 2 Pro is down to £599.99, half price.…

Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Watch England vs France in a 2026 Rugby League World Cup Pool B/C encounter at the Perth Rectangular Stadium that has taken on unexpectedly biblical proportions for Brian McDermott’s Wall of White. The three-time runners-up’s opening-game defeat means nothing but a heavy victory is good enough.England’s mauling at the hands of Tonga a week ago was arguably the big upset of the opening round of fixtures. That 30-12 defeat means they are in real danger of not making it through to the semi-finals, and they…

A China-linked threat actor has been using the open source AI penetration testing framework Artex to automate a recent ConnectWise hacking campaign targeting hundreds of organizations, Microsoft reports. Tracked as Storm-0940 and active since at least 2021, the APT is known for relying on password spraying and the exploitation of vulnerable internet-facing applications to hack into organizations across multiple sectors. Starting in early September 2026, the threat actor was seen abusing Artex to automate its attacks, and previous reporting by CrowdStrike, Zscaler, and Recorded Future linked this AI-powered activity to attacks targeting South Korean financial institutions. Now, Microsoft says Storm-0940…

In the wake of high-profile hacking incidents involving advanced artificial intelligence agents, some politicians and business executives have been calling for an AI kill switch: a safeguard that could shut down these AI systems in an emergency.The idea is that, if a model were to behave in dangerous ways, a kill switch would allow humans to regain control over that system by metaphorically flipping a switch from “on” to “off.”Several efforts at AI regulation in 2026 have focused on the notion of a kill switch. These include proposed congressional legislation such as the AI Kill Switch Act, and California Gov.…

Military working dogs charge into places the rest of us would flee. So, I understand why anyone would want to breed tougher, healthier dogs for the job. Warhound, a new startup from Colossal Biosciences co-founder Ben Lamm and Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey, has stepped out of stealth with $200 million to clone and gene-edit working dogs for American troops, police departments, and emergency services (via TechCrunch). A really great perspective from a journalist who was actually part of the working dog program on various problems that have existed for decades and how WARHOUND can help solve these problems while also…