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  1. “Immensely disappointing”: Nike killing app for $350 self-tying sneakers 

    Without updates or ability to download after August, app will become useless.

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  2. Notepad’s spellcheck and autocorrect are rolling out to everybody after 41 years

    It's still bare-bones by most standards, but Notepad has evolved a lot recently.

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  3. ChatGPT’s much-heralded Mac app was storing conversations as plain text

    The app was updated to address the issue after it gained public attention.

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  4. Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after release

    Amazon giving refunds for business bot, will focus on home version instead.

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  5. Japan wins 2-year “war on floppy disks,” kills regulations requiring old tech

    But what about fax machines?

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  6. Apple Vision Pro, new cameras fail user-repairability analysis

    Meta Quest 3, PS5 Slim also received failing grades despite new right-to-repair laws.

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  7. Google’s greenhouse gas emissions jump 48% in five years

    Google's 2030 "Net zero" target looks increasingly doubtful as AI use soars.

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  8. Surface Pro 11 and Laptop 7 review: An Apple Silicon moment for Windows

    Superfluous AI features and compatibility issues don't detract from good PCs.

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  9. Bleeding subscribers, cable companies force their way into streaming

    Companies like Charter brought about the streaming industry they now want to join.

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  10. 30 years later, FreeDOS is still keeping the dream of the command prompt alive

    Project's creator talks to Ars about where FreeDOS has been, where it's going.

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  11. Apple’s Vision Pro goes on sale outside the US for the first time

    Since February, the headset has only been available in the United States.

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  12. Researchers craft smiling robot face from living human skin cells

    Human cells isolated from juvenile foreskin are flexible enough to grin when moved.

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  1. Google Translate just nearly doubled its number of supported languages

    This includes common languages like Cantonese and lesser-known ones like Manx.

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  2. Apple’s “Longevity, by Design” argues its huge scale affects its repair polices

    Apple must consider volume, but also the world outside its closed loop.

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  3. Patent document showcases the cloud-only streaming Xbox console that never was

    Microsoft couldn't get the price of its streaming Xbox low enough to release it.

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  4. OpenAI’s ChatGPT for Mac is now available to all users

    It supports pretty much everything but API calls.

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  5. iOS 18’s drive-formatting option shows how far iPhones have come for power users

    The beta's Files app lets you format external drives in APFS, exFat, and FAT.

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  6. Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11

    But most Microsoft account sign-in workarounds for Windows 11 continue to work.

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  7. Larry Finger made Linux wireless work and brought others along to learn

    Remembering Finger, 84, who learned as he went and left his mark on many.

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  8. iFixit says new Arm Surface hardware “puts repair front and center”

    Both devices make it relatively easy to get at the battery and SSD.

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  9. $200-ish laptop with a 386 and 8MB of RAM is a modern take on the Windows 3.1 era

    Pocket 386 supports external accessories and will just barely run Windows 95.

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  10. Citing national security, US will ban Kaspersky anti-virus software in July

    Kaspersky blames the "present geopolitical climate and theoretical concerns."

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  11. 40 years later, X Window System is far more relevant than anyone could guess

    One astrophysics professor's memories of writing X11 code in the 1980s.

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  12. Apple Intelligence and other features won’t launch in the EU this year

    iPhone Mirroring and SharePlay screen sharing will also skip the EU for now.

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  1. Win+C, Windows’ most cursed keyboard shortcut, is getting retired again

    Win+C has been assigned to some of Windows' least successful features.

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  2. Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”

    Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted.

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  3. Reports: Apple is halting its next high-end Vision in favor of something cheaper

    Finding a lower-price replacement for its high-end displays could be difficult.

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  4. Windows 11 24H2 is released to the public but only on Copilot+ PCs (for now)

    The rest of the Windows 11 ecosystem will get the new update this fall.

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  5. MacBook Air gets hosed, other models hold steady in macOS 15 as Intel support fades

    Sequoia is both more and less generous to Intel Macs, depending on the model.

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  6. Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model

    Because of Swiss laws, there are no shareholders, and only one mission.

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  7. After a few years of embracing thickness, Apple reportedly plans thinner devices

    Thinness is good, as long as it doesn't come at the expense of other things.

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  8. TDK claims insane energy density in solid-state battery breakthrough

    Apple supplier says new tech has 100 times the capacity of its current batteries.

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  9. Retired engineer discovers 55-year-old bug in Lunar Lander computer game code

    A physics simulation flaw in text-based 1969 computer game went unnoticed until today.

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  10. Give yourself a day to tackle all your recommendation and subscription guilt

    Opinion: It never ends, but you can triage and help out your favorite creators.

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  11. Microsoft delays Recall again, won’t debut it with new Copilot+ PCs after all

    Recall will go through Windows Insider pipeline like any other Windows feature.

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  12. “Simulation of keyboard activity” leads to firing of Wells Fargo employees

    With worker surveillance on the rise, vendors sell devices to fake keyboard and mouse movement.

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