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Apple's macOS 27 Golden Gate introduces an appearance slider that lets users control how clear or opaque the Liquid Glass design looks across the system, replacing the previous two-option toggle. The slider affects elements like the Dock, desktop widgets, and Now Playing bars in apps such as Apple Music and Podcasts, defaulting to a medium setting with a live preview during adjustment.
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.
Riot Games has postponed the launch of team voice chat for League of Legends, which had been announced for NA/OCE regions in the upcoming 26.20 patch. The League of Legends Dev Team said on social media that the feature was pushed back to meet quality standards, but did not give a new release date or specify the reason for the delay.
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.
A banking industry group representing major U.S. banks released a report expressing concern about agentic commerce, where AI agents make purchases on behalf of consumers. The report warns that this emerging shopping method could lead to increased scams, fraud, and payment disputes.
Passkeys replace a secret you know with a key your device holds. That single change removes most of what makes phishing work, and it changes how account recovery should be set up.
Anti-aliasing is the graphics setting that smooths jagged, stair-stepped edges created when curved or diagonal lines are drawn on square pixel grids. Modern games offer multiple approaches, including supersampling methods like MSAA, post-process filters like FXAA and SMAA, and temporal techniques like TAA and DLAA that reuse data from previous frames.
Three copies, two kinds of media, one off-site. The rule is old because it keeps surviving the specific ways people actually lose files.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple is widely testing a home hub smart display powered by Siri AI, which could debut as early as next month. The device reportedly uses Face ID for user recognition and will come in both stand-mounted and wall-mounted versions, with its own home screen, widgets and StandBy-like clock faces.
Most laptops that feel slow are not short of processing power. They are held back by a hard drive, a lack of memory, a clogged fan, or a browser doing too much.
In Ulanqab, a farming region in Inner Mongolia known as China's 'potato capital', large-scale data centre construction is underway alongside agricultural land. Workers described the project as proceeding in multiple phases, with one phase completed roughly every year and more planned. These facilities are intended to provide the computing power behind China's AI ambitions.
A survey by academic mentoring platform Nova Learning found that the share of middle and high school students naming Computer Science and AI as their top academic interest dropped from 42.3% in 2025 to 27.9% in 2026, while Engineering's share nearly doubled, rising from 11.9% to 23%, led largely by Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Separately, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reported an 8.1% drop in undergraduate Computer and Information Science enrollment at four-year institutions, to about 606,000 students, even as Engineering enrollment grew.