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10 easy software tweaks to make an old Windows laptop feel like new

Your old Windows laptop will feel like new by the time you’ve gone through all these software tweaks. If you still notice ...

The 7 Best Computer Speakers to Upgrade Your Desk

From audio on a budget to ultimate surround sound, find your match.
CNET

Windows 10 Users Can Still Get Free Security Updates. Here's How

Microsoft no longer officially supports Windows 10, so do this if you want to keep using your older PC securely.

Bad Wi-Fi at home? Try my 10 go-to ways to fix your internet this weekend

You don't have to buy a new computer to get Wi-Fi 7 speeds. There are external Wi-Fi dongles, such as the Asus RT-BE58 Go or Acer Wave D7, that you can plug into an available USB port to get Wi-Fi 7 ...

I sped up my Windows 11 PC with these 5 easy changes

The first thing I do on any Windows 11 PC to boost performance is adjust the visual effects. These include features such as shadows and animations built into Windows. While they look nice and help the ...

Why your smartphone will get costlier and ‘dumber’

Every silicon wafer used to build a brain for an AI supercomputer is a wafer denied to your next Android phone or Dell laptop.| Business News ...
The New York Times

Quiz: Do You Speak 2025?

An assortment of absurd, useful and funny words and phrases entered the vernacular this year. How well do you know them? By Miya Lee and Kendall Blomfield By the end of 2024, words like slop, brat, ...
Bleeping Computer

CISA flags ASUS Live Update CVE, but the attack is years old

An ASUS Live Update vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-59374 has been making the rounds in infosec feeds, with some headlines implying recent or ongoing exploitation. The CVE documents a historic ...
Techlicious

First Things to Do After You’re Forced to Update to iOS 26

Updating your iPhone to the new version of iOS isn't like just a routine software upgrade – it’s a reset of how your phone looks, behaves, and sometimes even how you interact with it dozens of times a ...
PC Gamer

Stalker 2 gets a new zoning permit in its 'Stories Untold' update, adding 8 missions and 7 locations as you explore what's giving Stalkers 'headaches, nosebleeds, and even ...

The patch also stops 'massive mutant hordes' spawning at the Plant location in the Garbage. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...
PC Gamer

You won't be able to play Valorant until you update your motherboard BIOS: 'this is a necessary step in our arms race against hardware cheats'

This should mean fewer cheaters going forward. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add us as a preferred source on Google If you have ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft: Recent Windows updates break RemoteApp connections

Microsoft has confirmed that recent Windows updates trigger RemoteApp connection failures on Windows 11 24H2/25H2 and Windows Server 2025 devices in Azure Virtual Desktop environments. RemoteApp ...