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40 Best Toys for Kids in 2025: Our Editors Found the Hottest Gift Ideas for All Ages

Best kids' toys overall Hex Bots Wall Crawler Gecko CNET's Bridget Carey says this won her over "both as a mom and as someone who delights in making my co-workers squirm." By using a remote -- that can be as far as 25 feet away -- you can make it scale walls or perform spin tricks, she explains. To charge it, there's a USB-C port and you'll need two AAA batteries for the remote. Read our review here. $25 at Walmart Close RealFX Disney Stitch Not just any puppet -- this amazing 18-inch-tall Sti

DJI won’t sell you an Osmo 360 in the US — but these retailers will

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. We knew DJI had a hard time importing its drones into the United States to the point that many shelves have gone bare, but it’s not just drones anymore. Today marks the first time it’s formally skipping the US with a non-drone product, its 8K Osmo 360 c

Microsoft: Russian hackers use ISP access to hack embassies in AiTM attacks

Microsoft warns that a cyber-espionage group linked to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) is targeting diplomatic missions in Moscow using local internet service providers. The hacking group tracked by Microsoft as Secret Blizzard (also known as Turla, Waterbug, and Venomous Bear) has been observed exploiting its adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) position at the internet service provider (ISP) level to infect the systems of diplomatic missions with custom ApolloShadow malware. To do this, th

Should you turn on Adaptive Power on iOS 26? Here's my advice after testing it

Does iOS 26's Adaptive Power Mode work? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways The new Adaptive Power Mode in iOS 26 seems to noticeably improve battery life. The performance hit from activating this feature appears to be negligible. Be aware, though, that the iOS 26 public beta seems quite crashy right now. One of the features that I've been testing out in the public beta of iOS 26 is Adaptive Power. This is a feature that monitors battery usage, and when it is higher than usua

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Microsoft to disable Excel workbook links to blocked file types

Microsoft has announced that it will start disabling external workbook links to blocked file types by default between October 2025 and July 2026. After the rollout, Excel workbooks referencing blocked file types will display a #BLOCKED error or fail to refresh, eliminating security risks associated with accessing unsupported or high-risk file types, including, but not limited to, phishing attacks that utilize workbooks to redirect targets to malicious payloads. This change is being introduced

Kali Linux can now run in Apple containers on macOS systems

Cybersecurity professionals and researchers can now launch Kali Linux in a virtualized container on macOS Sequoia using Apple's new containerization framework. During WWDC 2025, Apple announced a new containerization framework that allows Apple Silicon hardware to run isolated Linux distros in its virtualized environment, similar to Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2). To get started, users on macOS Sequoia with Apple Silicon can install the container CLI via Homebrew and initialize

Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting

Ubiquiti just released UniFi OS Server in Early Access, allowing you to self-host the complete UniFi network stack on your own hardware. Initially, it will support UniFi Network and Innerspace. Besides UniFi Network and InnerSpace, you can also run UniFi Identity on UniFi OS Server, which was not possible with the self-hosted UniFi Network server, for example. Let’s take a look at how to install and configure UniFi OS Server. Requirements The currently known requirements for UniFi OS Server a

DJI Has a New 360 Camera That You Can't Have (Yet?)

DJI, best known for its drones, gimbals and action cameras, is releasing its first 360 camera, the Osmo 360. It has some impressive specs, with big 1-inch sensors, 8K video at 50 frames per second and 120-megapixel photos. The 360 camera market certainly isn't crowded. Insta360 is the biggest name, followed by Kandao and GoPro with its refreshed-but-aging Max. The Osmo 360 seems interesting on paper, but then there's the little wrinkle that for now it's not available in the US. The reasons why

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Still Using Windows 10? Here's How to Get Another Year of Updates for Free

Officially, Microsoft will stop providing new security updates for Windows 10 PCs after October 14, 2025, a little over a decade after its initial release. It's a stick that Microsoft is using to push upgrades to the newer Windows 11, whether you install it on a PC you already have or buy a brand-new PC to meet Windows 11's system requirements. But if you can't or don't want to upgrade to Windows 11, Microsoft has made it reasonably simple to get an extra year of Extended Security Updates (ESUs

iOS 26 code leaks new Home app feature integrated with Maps

Apple’s Home app hasn’t had any new publicized features in iOS 26 yet, but a code leak just revealed a new feature in the works that relies on Apple Maps’ new upgrades. ‘Adaptive Temperature’ could come to Home app, powered by new Maps features in iOS 26 Steve Moser, in a post on X, has shared code he discovered in the iOS 26 beta that references an in-the-works Home app feature. That feature: Adaptive Temperature. "Adaptive Temperature" hidden in iOS 26 beta Home app Just as Maps learns

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Microsoft now pays up to $40,000 for some .NET vulnerabilities

Microsoft has expanded its .NET bug bounty program and increased rewards to $40,000 for some .NET and ASP.NET Core vulnerabilities. Madeline Eckert, a senior program manager for Researcher Incentives and Bounty at Microsoft, stated that these changes aim to more accurately reflect the complexity involved in discovering and exploiting .NET vulnerabilities. "We're excited to announce significant updates to the Microsoft .NET Bounty Program. These changes expand the program's scope, simplify the

Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you

LWN wrote an article which opens with the assertion "Linux users who have Secure Boot enabled on their systems knowingly or unknowingly rely on a key from Microsoft that is set to expire in September". This is, depending on interpretation, either misleading or just plain wrong, but also there's not a good source of truth here, so.First, how does secure boot signing work? Every system that supports UEFI secure boot ships with a set of trusted certificates in a database called "db". Any binary sig

Ubiquiti Launches UniFi OS Server for Self-Hosting

Ubiquiti just released UniFi OS Server in Early Access, allowing you to self-host the complete UniFi network stack on your own hardware. Initially, it will support UniFi Network and Innerspace. Besides UniFi Network and InnerSpace, you can also run UniFi Identity on UniFi OS Server, which was not possible with the self-hosted UniFi Network server, for example. Let’s take a look at how to install and configure UniFi OS Server. Requirements The currently known requirements for UniFi OS Server

The Kremlin's Most Devious Hacking Group Is Using Russian ISPs to Plant Spyware

The Russian state hacker group known as Turla has carried out some of the most innovative hacking feats in the history of cyberespionage, hiding their malware's communications in satellite connections or hijacking other hackers' operations to cloak their own data extraction. When they're operating on their home turf, however, it turns out they've tried an equally remarkable, if more straightforward, approach: They appear to have used their control of Russia's internet service providers to direct

Microsoft's Azure revenue tops $75 billion as AI demand accelerates

What just happened? Microsoft's Azure division has disclosed that it generated over $75 billion in revenue during its 2025 fiscal year, a milestone that offers fresh insight into the scale and momentum of the company's core cloud business. The figure represents an annual growth rate of 34 percent for Azure, underscoring how Microsoft's continued investment in cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure is accelerating its transformation into a formidable challenger in the highly competitive

Microsoft ends tradition of naming competitors in regulatory filings

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella leaves after attending a meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 30, 2024. Microsoft has abandoned a decades-long tradition of calling out the names of its rivals in regulatory documents. When the 50-year-old technology company released its annual report Wednesday, the 101-page document contained zero references to longtime foes Apple and IBM . Nor did it mention privately held challengers such as Anth

Spikes in malicious activity precede new security flaws in 80% of cases

Researchers have found that in roughly 80% of cases, spikes in malicious activity like network reconnaissance, targeted scanning, and brute-forcing attempts targeting edge networking devices are a precursor to the disclosure of new security vulnerabilities (CVEs) within six weeks. This has been discovered by threat monitoring firm GreyNoise, which reports these occurrences are not random, but are rather characterized by repeatable and statistically significant patterns. GreyNoise bases this on

This thermostat mistake was costing me hundreds: 3 tips to get the best temperature control

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Have you ever found yourself in a thermostat tug-of-war? One room feels like a sauna, another like an icebox, all while your trusty thermostat claims your home is at a perfectly average and comfortable 72 degrees? The truth is, you're probably not imagining things, and the culprit could be hanging right there on your wall. As it turns out, where your thermostat is located can make a world of difference to both your comfort and your energy bills. Also: How to disable ACR on yo

Should you let iOS 26 slow down your iPhone for better battery life? I tried it to find out

Does iOS 26's Adaptive Power Mode work? Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways The new Adaptive Power Mode in iOS 26 seems to noticeably improve battery life. The performance hit from activating this feature appears to be negligible. Be aware, though, that the iOS 26 public beta seems quite crashy right now. One of the features that I've been testing out in the public beta of iOS 26 is Adaptive Power. This is a feature that monitors battery usage, and when it is higher than usua

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Potatoes Evolved From Tomatoes, Study Reveals

That’s it. That’s the news. Genome biologist Sanwen Huang knows a thing or two about potatoes. But his latest potato breakthrough may be his most shocking yet: potatoes are descended from tomatoes. In a Cell paper published today, Huang’s team reports that the modern potato likely emerged about 9 million years ago, when tomato plants married the etuberosum, a potato-like species common to Chile. The origin of the modern potato has puzzled scientists for years, but the new results finally give p

Microsoft becomes the second $4 trillion company

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft’s stock price has risen so much today that it has passed a $4 trillion market valuation for the first time in its 50-year history. The software maker is the second company to be valued at $4 trillion, after Nvidia reached a market cap of over $4 trillion earlier this month. Microsoft has reached this milestone thanks to better-than-expected earnings, and the company

TikTok gets long-overdue fact-checking enhancement, plus new parental controls

Video streaming platform TikTok is finally introducing community fact-checking, in the form of TikTok Footnotes – the equivalent to X’s Community Notes. This is initially available in the US only. The company has also announced new parental controls, aimed at giving oversight of both TikTok consumption and uploads by teens … Community Notes have played a valuable role on the social network formerly known as Twitter. Hoaxes and disinformation has been a growing problem on X, and the Community N

iOS 18 vs iOS 26 compared: Here’s all the new app icons coming to your iPhone home screen

As well as a refreshed new look for system components like buttons and tabbars, the Liquid Glass redesign of iOS 26 also extends to app icons. For the first time since iOS 7, Apple has redrawn all of the system apps with new artwork. That means a whole new look is coming to your iPhone home screen this fall. In this post, we share a side-by-side of the iOS 26 app icon and its iOS 18 counterpart, so you can decide for yourself how much of a step forward the new visual style represents. The new

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Spikes in malicious activity precede new CVEs in 80% of cases

Researchers have found that in roughly 80% of cases, spikes in malicious activity like network reconnaissance, targeted scanning, and brute-forcing attempts targeting edge networking devices are a precursor to the disclosure of new security vulnerabilities (CVEs) within six weeks. This has been discovered by threat monitoring firm GreyNoise, which reports these occurrences are not random, but are rather characterized by repeatable and statistically significant patterns. GreyNoise bases this on

Ford to reveal more about its new low-cost electric vehicles on August 11

Ford is set to reveal more information about its upcoming low-cost electric vehicles at an event in Kentucky on August 11. And the company is talking a very big game: CEO Jim Farley said Wednesday that the announcement is “a Model T moment” for Ford. Farley made the comments after Ford revealed its electric vehicle division posted a loss of around $1.3 billion in the second quarter of 2025. Sales of the company’s top two EVs, the F-150 Lightning and the Mustang Mach-E, are declining, all while

Startup and Nobel laureate collaborate to create GPU financial exchange

What just happened? A new financial marketplace aims to offer crucial risk management tools to a resource at the center of the tech industry's explosive growth. If successful, the initiative could make access to high-performance compute more predictable and affordable. The world of artificial intelligence is built on computing power, and at the heart of that engine are graphics processing units. These chips are in such high demand that they have often been compared to oil during the gold rush,

After laying off 15,000 employees, Microsoft reveals Xbox Game Pass revenue hit nearly $5 billion

What just happened? Despite Microsoft laying off over 15,000 employees so far this year, the company has just revealed that revenue from its Xbox Game Pass service reached almost $5 billion for the first time over the last year. Overall company revenue for the fourth fiscal quarter was up 18%, while net income jumped 24%. Microsoft's Xbox content and services revenue, which include Xbox Game Pass, was up 13% for the quarter. CEO Satya Nadella said on an earnings call that Game Pass revenue had

Microsoft officially tops $4 trillion in market cap, joining Nvidia in exclusive club

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella speaks in front of the OpenAI logo at the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle, Washington, on May 19, 2025. The $4 trillion club has a second member. Microsoft shares climbed more than 5% Thursday following a better-than-expected earnings report, lifting the software giant's market cap above the $4 trillion mark. The company joined chipmaker Nvidia , which hit $4 trillion for the first time earlier this month. Microsoft reported 18% revenue growth,

Meta, Microsoft roar higher on strong earnings as AI spending booms

Shares of Meta soared 12% and Microsoft popped 5% on Thursday, after the companies reported better-than-expected earnings that beat on top and bottom lines. Microsoft topped the $4 trillion market cap benchmark with the move, joining Nvidia in the club. Both Meta and Microsoft have been investing heavily in artificial intelligence infrastructure in recent years, and the companies said they expect to continue to shell out billions in capital expenditures. Meta said capital expenditures will ra

Ollama's new app

Ollama’s new app is now available for macOS and Windows. An easier way to chat with models Ollama’s macOS and Windows now include a way to download and chat with models. Chat with files Ollama’s new app supports file drag and drop, making it easier to reason with text or PDFs. For processing large documents, Ollama’s context length can be increased in the settings. Note: this will require more memory. Multimodal support Building on Ollama’s new multimodal engine, images can be sent to mod