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Lenovo’s leaked Copilot+ Legion laptops sound less like a raw power grab and more like an attempt to make gaming laptops easier to live with. According to a Windows Latest report, Lenovo is preparing new Legion 7a and Legion 5a models for a CES 2026 reveal, built around unannounced AMD Ryzen AI 400 series processors and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50-series Laptop GPUs. The idea is Lenovo AI Engine+ working with Legion Space to adjust power, fan speed, and efficiency in real time. The pitch, as described in the leak, is that you would spend less time tweaking profiles when you…

With the Pixel 10 series, Google introduced Magic Cue, an AI-powered feature that analyzes how you use your phone and offers tailored suggestions and app actions to make everyday tasks quicker and smoother. So far, it has been limited to Google’s latest flagships, but the company appears to be working on bringing something similar to more Android phones. According to Android Authority, Google is prepping a new feature call Contextual Suggestions, which will offer users “helpful suggestions from apps and services based on their routine activities and locations.” The company has already started testing this feature in Google Play Services…

A security warning is a nasty surprise, especially when the add-on in question claims it exists to protect your privacy. Researchers at Koi Security say Urban VPN Proxy, a VPN extension for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, began logging users’ AI assistant conversations and sending them to a data broker. Urban VPN Proxy looked reputable, with a 4.7-star rating, Google’s featured badge, and more than six million installs on Chrome. Another 1.3 million people installed it on Edge. But Koi says the extension’s behavior changed after a quiet update on July 9, 2025, when the publisher shipped version 5.5.0. From…

ChatGPT is joining the likes of YouTube, Apple Music, Google Photos, and Spotify by rolling out a personalized year-end summary that looks back at how users spent their time with the chatbot in 2025. The new feature, called “Your Year with ChatGPT,” lets users revisit the chats and ideas that shaped their year. OpenAI announced the feature in a recent post on X, revealing that it’s rolling out to users in the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia “who have reference saved memory and reference chat history turned on.” Once it’s live, users in these regions will see a…

A popular archive hub says it has published a Spotify backup as bulk torrents totaling 300TB or roughly 86 million music files – and Spotify has confirmed the breach. The group, called Anna’s Archive, says it has SQLite databases that contain the largest publicly available music metadata database, covering 256 million tracks and 186 million unique ISRCs. Anna’s Archive says it usually focuses on text because it’s dense, but its mission is preserving knowledge and culture across media. It also claims it found a way to scrape Spotify at scale and sees this as a start at building a preservation-focused…

Mozilla is promising a Firefox AI kill switch, but you won’t get it soon. In a reply to a Reddit open letter aimed at Mozilla’s new CEO, a Mozilla figure posting as user anthony-firefox said a real kill switch to turn off AI features is coming in Q1 2026. That reply tries to reassure anxious users on two fronts: Firefox has to serve “almost everyone” (developers, Linux users, students, parents, and people who never change a default), and it will stay built around user control. The letter, written by a self-described developer and everyday user, argues the problem is less…

With the likes of SpaceX rattling off rocket launches seemingly every other day, you could be forgiven for thinking that sending massive vehicles to space had become as easy as baking a cake. But as two rocket failures on December 22 shows, the launch process remains as complex as ever. The first of this week’s two failures came when the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZS-5) aboard its H3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center about 620 miles south-west of Tokyo. The first part of the rocket’s flight looked good, but the second stage engine’s…

Sony Honda Mobility (SHM) says its AFEELA will add AFEELA PS Remote Play, letting you stream games from a PS5 or PS4 at home onto the car’s built-in interface. SHM is calling it the first vehicle to integrate PlayStation Remote Play directly into the in-vehicle infotainment system. It is an easy pitch for anyone who has killed time in a parking lot or sat through a long pickup line. SHM says the idea is to play while the car is stopped, or to keep passengers entertained on longer trips, using the cabin display and audio instead of a separate screen.…

It was exactly a decade ago, on December 21, that SpaceX entered the record books by becoming the first organization to recover an orbital-class rocket by landing it vertically back on Earth. Coming seven years after the idea was first mooted by SpaceX chief Elon Musk, and following four failed landing attempts, a Falcon 9 booster returned to Cape Canaveral in Florida just minutes after deploying 11 Orbcomm OG2 communications satellites, remaining intact as it settled upright on the ground. You can watch the remarkable moment via the video player embedded at the top of this page. The breakthrough saw…

Valve is bringing Steam Deck LCD sales to a close for one of its core configurations. On the Steam Deck store page, Valve says it is “phasing out the Steam Deck LCD 256GB model,” and that it “will no longer be available” once remaining stock is gone. The same message makes a point of separating sales from support. Valve says it will “continue to provide support for Steam Deck LCD on an ongoing basis,” which should ease concerns for people who already own an LCD model. Right now, the store listing shows the Steam Deck LCD 256GB priced at $399…