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If Windows Widgets have been stressing you out with too much information to handle, all those red badges, random pop-ups, and a panel that opens every time your cursor drifts close to the taskbar, Microsoft has finally heard you. A new Beta build is rolling out a full “quiet by default” overhaul to Widgets. What’s interesting is that the list of things being turned off is longer than the list of things being kept as is. So what exactly is Microsoft turning off? Quite a lot of things. Microsoft is disabling Open on Hover and Taskbar badging. It is also…
Intel‘s rumored NVIDIA RTX chip could make the PC graphics fight a lot more complicated. Erdi Ozuag, a former editor at Turkish tech site DonanimHaber who now reports on tech through YouTube, says that Intel’s current roadmap lists its first x86 client processors with NVIDIA RTX graphics for the first quarter of 2028. That timing lines up with a possible CES 2028 announcement, but Intel hasn’t confirmed a product name, specs, configuration, or launch date. Özel Haber: Intel’in güncel yol haritasına göre, NVIDIA grafik birimine sahip olan yeni nesil işlemciler için hedeflenen tarih 2028 ilk çeyreği, planlar değişmediği takdirde CES…
Intel’s rumored Serpent Lake processors may have a launch window. According to hardware tipster FX57, Intel is targeting the first quarter of 2028 for processors featuring Nvidia graphics technology. If the schedule remains unchanged, the chips could debut at CES 2028. The leak does not mention Serpent Lake directly, but previous roadmap reports have linked the codename to a future Intel SoC that pairs Intel CPU cores with an Nvidia RTX graphics tile instead of the company’s own Arc graphics technology. What Nvidia-powered Serpent Lake could mean for Intel Serpent Lake first surfaced in leaked roadmaps earlier this year and…
If you use an iPhone, you have probably collected a few of Apple’s privacy email addresses without thinking much about them. Soon they will all look the same. Apple has confirmed in a developer post that it will fold Sign in with Apple and iCloud+ Hide My Email into one shared domain (private.icloud.com), later this summer. It’s a small backend tweak that saves you from having to remember both. What is changing with Apple’s private.icloud.com domain? Right now, these two features hand you addresses on totally different domains. Sign in with Apple gives you a masked address on privaterelay.appleid.com when…
If you’ve been relying on ChatGPT or Claude to help you with your writing, a new study suggests the polished output you’re getting may be giving you false confidence. Research published in the Computers and Composition journal found that AI writing tools create a “fluency trap,” where refined, confident-sounding output masks shallow thinking and gives writers a false sense that the work is done. Fluent doesn’t mean finished Abram Anders, associate professor of English at Iowa State University, and co-author Emily Dux Speltz, assistant professor at the Department of Humanities and Communication at the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, followed 38 undergraduate…
A new Mac app is betting that the reason your hydration reminders fail is that they are too easy to ignore. Apps like Loook take a gentle approach, nudging you to hydrate alongside reminders for posture and eye breaks. Hydration Hostage takes the opposite stance. Built by a solo developer, the app sits in your menu bar and takes over your screen on a predefined schedule until the camera confirms you actually drank water. How it works Hydration Hostage uses Apple’s Vision framework to handle verification. Given that the app requires camera access, the developer has been upfront about the…
Facebook has rolled out a batch of AI-powered features, with the headliner being AI Mode, a new way to get answers to questions directly inside the app using Meta AI. An AI layer on top of Facebook Search In a blog post, Facebook explains that the new AI Mode works from both the Feed and the search bar, pulling answers from public content across Meta’s apps, including Groups and Reels, to surface what real people are saying rather than returning a list of links. The feature is powered by Meta AI, which runs on the company’s Muse Spark model. The…
Xbox is reportedly closing Ninja Theory, the Cambridge, England-based studio behind the Hellblade series, according to The Verge. Sources familiar with the matter said the studio’s staff were informed about the closure on Monday, just over a week after the studio appeared at the Xbox Games Showcase to announce Senua, a new entry in the franchise. Part of a wider Xbox reset The reported closure extends beyond Ninja Theory, with Bloomberg revealing that Double Fine, the San Francisco studio known for Psychonauts, and Montreal-based Compulsion Games, maker of South of Midnight, are also in active negotiations to spin off from…
Microsoft is reportedly planning to add buy now, pay later (BNPL) support to the Xbox storefront, with code spotted on the Xbox website pointing to upcoming integrations with Klarna and PayPal. Splitting the cost of Xbox purchases The code snippet, shared by Better xCloud on X (via Windows Central), reveals that Xbox users will be able to spread the cost of purchases across weeks or months either with or without interest, depending on the duration. Both Klarna and PayPal are listed as BNPL providers in the code, though Microsoft has yet to announce the feature or share a launch date.…
Google has been slowly phasing out Manifest V2, the older framework that powers many Chrome extensions, since October 2024. For most users, ad blockers like uBlock Origin stopped working by default well over a year ago. Power users found technical workarounds that kept them alive a little longer, but Chrome’s next update removes the last of those loopholes for good. The last flag falls A recent Chromium code commit, spotted by CyberNews (via 9to5Google), removes the kExtensionManifestV2Disabled flag, which developers had been using as a backdoor to keep Manifest V2-based extensions running in Chrome. Google describes the flag as “dead…