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Apple's latest MacBook Pro introduces a PROLED XDR (OLED) display, touch support, and modern OS features like the Dynamic Island, according to a writer who has used the iPad Pro as a primary computer since 2015. The reviewer says they have ordered the new laptop to test as a potential full-time replacement, but notes it lacks a cellular connectivity option that exists on iPad Pro models.
A QR code hides its destination until you have already opened it. susQR is a free web tool that checks the link first, and it is worth keeping one tap away.
Google has launched Gemini 4 Carbon, its second new frontier AI model in a month following Gemini 4 Argon. The model improves on coding, agentic tasks, scientific reasoning and multimodal understanding, with Google saying its biggest gains are in cybersecurity, including more than doubling secure-code generation rates versus Argon. Carbon will first go to select cyber defenders before wider release, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
An agent is a language model given tools and a loop. That single design choice explains both why agents can finish real work and why they fail in ways a chatbot never could.
Android Authority reports that Google is developing an automatic local backup feature in Quick Share settings that saves phone files directly to a PC. New code strings indicate the tool will not support Samsung-branded computers, extending an earlier exclusion that already ruled out Samsung phones.
Quishing works because a QR code gives you nothing to judge before you commit. Here is what the scams look like in practice and the habits that defuse them.
Alphabet reported quarterly results that fell short of analyst expectations, with growth in search advertising revenue slowing. The company's cloud-computing division showed strength, but Alphabet posted negative free cash flow of $9.1 billion for the period.
A new router upgrades the link between your devices and the router. Almost nothing people complain about lives on that link, which is why the box rarely delivers the numbers on it.
Amazon unveiled five new smart home products, including two new device categories: the $200 Echo Time alarm clock/hub and the $230 Alexa Photo Frame. It also introduced an upgraded $100 Echo Dot, a $250 Echo Studio with a built-in Home Camera, and a redesigned $500 Echo Show 16 available for preorder with December shipping. Amazon additionally announced Alexa Home Map, a feature that generates 3D interactive maps of a home's interior and exterior.
In a WIRED interview, Apple's John Ternus, Johny Srouji and Greg Joswiak discussed the company's decision to add touch input to the newly announced 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro with OLED XDR displays. Ternus said touch is meant to supplement, not replace, the trackpad and keyboard, while Srouji said advances in custom silicon and thermal design allowed Apple to add touch without making the laptop heavier or thicker.
Apple's newly announced MacBook Pro models use a tandem OLED display the company brands PROLED XDR, built on the same stacked-panel technology introduced with the M4 iPad Pro. Apple states the screens reach up to 2,000 nits peak HDR brightness and a 10,000,000:1 contrast ratio, surpassing the 1,600-nit Mini LED displays in current models, while also covering wide P3 and HDR color ranges.
A memory-corruption vulnerability, CVE-2026-97631, rated 9.5 out of 10 in severity, has been found in the TianoCore EDK II codebase that underpins UEFI firmware used by nearly all major hardware vendors including AMI, Insyde, and Phoenix, as well as Microsoft's Project Mu fork. The flaw lies in an ICMP component and lets attackers run malicious code before Secure Boot and other defenses load, though the payload itself does not persist across reboots. A planned coordinated disclosure for January was disrupted when AMI published a pull request detailing the bug and its fix last month, prompting TianoCore to issue a public advisory last week.