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• 8 ways Google just upgraded accessibility in its apps and Pixel devices (zdnet.com)
  Google favorites like Search, Maps, and Assistant Routines are getting accessibility upgrades. Here's what's new.
• Want a simple, stable, and secure Linux distribution? Then SpiralLinux is for you (zdnet.com)
  SpiralLinux is the working person's Linux. Here's why you should give it a try.
• The Ars Technica 2005 holiday shopping guide (arstechnica.com)
  It's time to start that holiday season shopping, and Ars is here to help with …
• Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch (theverge.com)
  Frictionless facial recognition in the Ray-Ban Meta glasses is a serious threat to society, even more so because Meta is so cozy with Ameri…
• Honor’s Magic V6 is the first foldable with an IP69 rating (theverge.com)
  The Magic V6, announced at MWC 2026, is also the thinnest foldable yet, and packs the biggest battery.
• AI will change the role of developers forever, but leaders say that's good news (zdnet.com)
  Senior execs at two blue-chip organizations explain how they're embracing automation and why everyone in these businesses -- including IT p…
• So how's PGR3 on the 360? First impressions inside. (arstechnica.com)
  Does the 360's flagship racer have what it takes?
• Microsoft to make Office XML format an ECMA standard (arstechnica.com)
  Microsoft wants to make its new XML document format an Ecma standard, but …
• I tested Meta's Tom Brady and Kendall Jenner AI chatbots and it was weird (zdnet.com)
  If you're feeling lonely, Meta might have an uncomfortable answer for you.
• Honor’s thinnest tablet doesn’t come cheap. (theverge.com)
  The MagicPad 4 is thinner than any other iPad or Android tablet, but with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and 165Hz OLED display it probably shouldn’t…
• Cerebras and Abu Dhabi's M42 made an LLM dedicated to answering medical questions (zdnet.com)
  The open-source Med42 neural net was fine-tuned with a data set of 700,000 question and answer pairs.
• Honor claims its Robot Phone will launch later this year (theverge.com)
  The Honor Robot Phone’s 200-megapixel main camera is supposedly built into the smallest 4DoF gimbal around.
• Of all the odd things to be rare, the 360 hard drive? (arstechnica.com)
  No one saw this coming, the hard drive may be the hardest add on to track down …
• Hands-on with the Magic V6. (theverge.com)
  Honor’s new foldable is the thinnest one yet (though only just), but packs a bigger battery than any before. Here are a few of my first imp…
• Nielsen on gaming and gamers (arstechnica.com)
  A new survey looks at the pervasiveness of gaming, and comes up with some …
• I tried to return something to Temu. Here's what happened (zdnet.com)
  Wondering whether you can return your Temu purchases? You can as long as you follow a few important rules.
• Almost 3,000 360s on eBay - will one of them be yours? (arstechnica.com)
  So you don't have a preorder and neither are you waiting in line. How about …
• How to enable speech-to-text in Linux with this simple app (zdnet.com)
  If you'd like to add speech-to-text on the Linux operating system it's much easier than you might think, with the help of a simple Flatpak…
• Soundcore has announced the Space 2 budget headphones at MWC 2026 (theverge.com)
  Soundcore’s Space 2 are an evolution of budget headphones with improved ANC over the Space One and a redesigned 40mm driver.
• EFF challenges Diebold exemption in North Carolina (arstechnica.com)
  The Electronic Frontier Foundation is going to court in order to prevent …
• Lego’s Smart Brick is here, and it transforms these new Star Wars sets (theverge.com)
  Lego’s new Smart Brick powers eight Star Wars sets, which are available now. Here, we’ve rounded up where to buy each kit and what’s includ…
• Simple Sharing Extensions look to extend RSS (arstechnica.com)
  Simple Sharing Extensions is Microsoft's next great XML specification. How …
• Invest in lifelong learning with this $100 membership (zdnet.com)
  Upskillist provides courses on a wide range of topics related to numerous industries. Grow your skills now with this discounted $100 member…
• Do early adopters drive up prices for everybody? (arstechnica.com)
  A good read on how hardware prices have been creeping upwards, and not just …
• Opera One now allows you to do even more with AI (zdnet.com)
  The Opera browser continues to innovate around AI technology. With the latest release, you'll find new tools to make using the built-in Ari…
• The Swiss Army knife of DVD players - Oppo OPDV971H (arstechnica.com)
  What am I more excited about, the 360 or this DVD player? Take a wild guess.
• Kalshi voids some bets on Khamenei because it’s “tied to death” (theverge.com)
  Kalshi voids some bets on Ayatollah Khamenei’s ouster because it’s ‘“directly tied to death” but users say rules barring ‘“profiting from d…
• Lawsuits galore against Sony over rootkit; RIAA head doesn't get it (arstechnica.com)
  The Sony rootkit fiasco just keeps getting better. Texas joins the anti-Sony …
• TikTok will automatically enable captions on every video uploaded (zdnet.com)
  It's a major leap in accessibility and a plus for people who watch with the sound off, but it can add a step or two for creators.
• Generative AI is everything, everywhere, all at once (zdnet.com)
  Businesses want in on generative AI and are willing to do anything to ride the wave.
• Piping in sunlight (arstechnica.com)
  Let there be light? Rattenberg, Austria plans to use mirrors to bring sunlight …
• Portable Sonos Play speaker leaks on Canadian Best Buy (theverge.com)
  A leak of the new portable Sonos Play speaker suggests it’s a more rugged successor to the Move 2.
• Equinix's data center system upgrade results in hours-long disruption at banks (zdnet.com)
  A glitch in a scheduled 'chilled water system' upgrade disrupted operations for Equinix's data center customers, including two banks in Sin…
• We finally saw the Robot Phone move. (theverge.com)
  Honor’s gimbal-equipped smartphone is here at MWC, and unlike at CES, it’s actually turned on. I got to see the phone unfold, look around,…
• Everything you ever wanted to know about skinning Windows (arstechnica.com)
  Interested in skinning XP?
• Flipper Zero can be used to crash iPhones running iOS 17, but there's a way to foil the attack (zdnet.com)
  It basically performs a denial of service (DoS) attack on iPhones. Here's how it works and what you can do to protect your phone.
• Keep track of your Xbox Live friends with XBList (arstechnica.com)
  It's like Trillian, but not really. And speaking of which, wouldn't that be a …
• A robot arm with puppy dog eyes is one of Lenovo’s desktop AI concepts (theverge.com)
  Lenovo debuted two new concept devices at MWC that use AI to handle office tasks like scanning and summarizing documents, and sorting out y…
• Snag yourself an Xbox 360 on release day (arstechnica.com)
  So the cutoff date came and went, and your chances of a preorder with it. If …
• Microsoft unveils extensions to Fabric, Azure for healthcare AI (zdnet.com)
  These new offerings seek to bring together multiple modalities of medical data for greater analysis, and also bring large language models t…
• Today is the day: 360 hours away from launch. The Opposable Thumbs coverage begins. (arstechnica.com)
  Finally, the system is going to be let loose. The Opposable Thumbs coverage …
• iPhone 15 Pro Max users are reporting burn-in problems with the OLED display (zdnet.com)
  Several accounts of screen burn-in point to ongoing quality control issues with the latest, most expensive iPhone model.
• Dell to try AMD (arstechnica.com)
  Forbes lets slip the big news that we all suspected was coming: after years as …
• How to turn on flash notifications on Android 14 (and why you should) (zdnet.com)
  Never miss a notification again with this Android setting.
• The new Yoga 9i 2-in-1 from Lenovo has an angled ‘canvas mode’ for easier note-taking (theverge.com)
  Also new are the Yoga Pro 7a and Yoga Slim 7i clamshell laptops.
• TiVo's support for iPod and PSP portends battle (arstechnica.com)
  TiVo's latest move challenges the notion that users should have to pay for …
• Gene regulation and human brains (arstechnica.com)
  Several recent findings provide support for a model that explains how complex …
• Top 15 Best Buy flash sale deals still available: MacBooks, robot vacuums, and more (zdnet.com)
  Even if you missed the flash sale, you can still score tech deals at Best Buy that rival those of Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days.
• Singapore and US sync up on AI governance and set up joint group (zdnet.com)
  Both nations have mapped their respective AI governance frameworks to ease compliance and they will also establish a group to exchange insi…
• Lenovo’s redesigned ThinkPad Detachable tablet has a bigger screen and legit keyboard (theverge.com)
  Lenovo is announcing a bunch of new ThinkPad laptops for MWC 2026 in Barcelona, as well as a new ThinkBook 2-in-1. The highlight is the new…