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Apple has reportedly taken notice of the popularity of the likes of the Google Fitbit Air and Garmin Cirqa — screenless fitness trackers designed for background activity tracking without smartwatch-style screens or notifications, originally associated with Whoop. Like the best smart rings, these passive ‘set and forget’ trackers work in the background to collect fitness…

Apple’s latest Mac Studio M5 Ultra has arrived – with massive performance, and a massive price tag to go with it. Is it worth it? Well… that all depends. I studied 10 Mac Studio articles in-depth to find the real-world performance gains, and whether the M5 Ultra can ever justify its full cost. What reviews…

With the introduction of the iPhone Duo, U.S. smartphone customers can now choose from seven contemporary folding smartphones, including one from Google, two from Motorola, and three from Samsung. The number of laptops with foldable screens ever produced is far fewer: one each from Asus, Huawei, HP and two from Lenovo. While the Galaxy Z…

Looking for a different day? A new Quordle puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Friday’s puzzle instead then click here: Quordle hints and answers for Friday, September 25 (game #1705). Quordle…

Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints. What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and…

Two opposing senses of destiny collide in the 2026 AFL Final at Melbourne Cricket Ground. Fremantle’s first ever flag would be historic, ending the second-longest drought in the AFL, while Brisbane are on the brink of becoming only the second team in league history to secure three straight titles. Remember, the Lions reached the AFL…

Fable‘s achievement list has been nailed down, say associate game directors Craig Littler and Will Kennedy They say players won’t have to do “30,000 playthroughs” to achieve 100% completion They want to keep the list secret for now to not “spoi the surprise” Playground Games has confirmed it has locked down Fable‘s trophy list, but…

Hacktron chained a libheif heap overflow, reached through ImageMagick on OpenAI’s Discourse forum, leveraging an OpenAI SSO flaw to briefly take over employee ChatGPT and Codex accounts The researchers themselves invoked XKCD #2347, whose 2020 alt text happens to name ImageMagick as the dependency that will one day break ImageMagick served as only the pathway…

Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Friday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Friday, September 25 (game…

Bitdefender launches privacy tool built specifically for autonomous AI agents Each agent task gets a disposable, temporary connection that deactivates when the task is done VPN for AI Agents runs on a Model Context Protocol server architecture entirely Bitdefender has introduced VPN for AI Agents, a standalone privacy tool built specifically for the autonomous software…