Samsung and Motorola have issued guidance on maintaining foldable phone hinges, recommending users clear debris from the inner display before closing the device and avoid excessive pressure. Samsung notes its Galaxy Z Fold8 and Z Flip8 carry IP48 ratings, meaning protection from objects 1mm or larger but not full dust resistance, while Motorola warns that dust buildup can shorten hinge life and damage internal displays, advising against pressurized air dusters.
Tom's Hardware installed Windows 7 on current gaming hardware and tested it against Windows 11 across eight DirectX 11 titles and two DirectX 9 titles. The outlet found Windows 7 posted notable performance advantages over Windows 11 in several of these games despite being 17 years old.
Foldable phones like Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold8 and Apple's new iPhone Duo include a factory-installed protector on their flexible inner displays, since the screens use layered flexible material rather than rigid glass. Apple's version adds a nano-texture coating that creates a matte finish and reduces crease visibility. Both companies warn against removing or replacing this protector yourself, offering official repair channels instead.
A paper by David Schleicher, posted to SSRN on September 1, 2026, documents that several states have recently overhauled property tax systems to cut taxes on owner-occupied homes while shifting more of the burden onto commercial property, rental buildings, and other revenue sources like sales and income taxes. Some states, including Florida, Ohio, North Dakota, and Texas, have gone further by considering eliminating property taxes on owner-occupied homes or abolishing property taxation altogether.
Dutch student network group SNT ran 'SNTPings,' a collaborative pixel-art event where participants sent IPv6 ping packets encoding coordinates and color values to draw on a shared 4K canvas. The event ran from October 9 through October 11, coinciding with the launch of SURFnet Infinity, and used a 1.6Tbps receiver hosted at Nikhef with uplinks from Nikhef and SURF.
According to Axios, leadership at major AI labs including OpenAI and Anthropic are privately running scenario-planning exercises for a catastrophic incident in which an AI system disrupts critical infrastructure such as finance, telecom, or utilities. OpenAI confirmed it conducts such preparedness exercises but said the scenarios are not treated as inevitable. Anthropic has separately listed existential risk to humanity as a factor in its IPO prospectus.
Since 2010, Google Japan has released a new novelty keyboard concept each year under its Gboard team banner, ranging from a single-key Morse code keyboard to a robotic joystick-controlled finger, a party-blower keyboard, a bubble-wrap keyboard, a bendable spoon keyboard, a teacup keyboard, and a single-row alphabetical bar keyboard. One of these gag concepts, Morse code input, was later actually added to Android's Gboard in 2018.
A grove of about 200 blight-resistant American chestnut trees in West Virginia is at risk of being cleared for Nscale's planned 'Monarch Compute Campus,' a data center project developed with Nvidia and Caterpillar. The facility is slated to eventually cover more than 2,250 acres and deliver 8 gigawatts of computing capacity for AI firms including Anthropic, backed by over $20 billion in investment.
Apple's fall macOS update introduces a feature letting IT administrators remotely collect AppleCare diagnostic logs (sysdiagnose) from managed Macs without needing physical access to the device or walking users through manual steps. Previously, obtaining these logs required direct device access or guiding an often-unavailable user through an unfamiliar process, which frequently delayed troubleshooting until after a device had rebooted and lost relevant state.
Google Maps includes a feature allowing users to drop a pin on any spot on the map, even if it isn't a registered address or business. The pin can be used for navigation, sharing a meeting spot, or remembering a specific location like a parked bike or scenic viewpoint.
Easy Fox, maker of the voice-controlled Steam demo Teach My Little Sister How To Drive, says a 20-fold surge in players has pushed its daily AI spending past $1,000. The game relies on Google Gemini and a ChatGPT fallback to interpret voice commands, and the studio took out a bank loan to keep the free demo running. Easy Fox says the paid release will fold AI usage costs into the purchase price rather than charging players per token.
Quality of Service (QoS) is a router setting that prioritizes certain types of internet traffic, such as video calls and online gaming, over less time-sensitive data like email. A more advanced version, Smart Queue Management (SQM), uses traffic shaping and scheduling to reduce lag caused by congested data queues, a problem known as bufferbloat. SQM requires more processing power, so it's typically found on high-performance gaming routers or Eero mesh systems rather than standard models.
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