‘I want to cancel’: YouTube Premium quietly hikes its US prices for the first time in three years, forcing many users to consider the unthinkable

Google has aggravated YouTube Premium subscribers once again with an unexpected price hike.

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Microsoft has begun stripping out AI from Windows 11 — but it’s already being criticized for not going far enough

Notepad change shows a rebrand of AI tools, not a removal, and it has skeptics worried.

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French government says it’s ditching Windows for Linux — country accelerates plans to ditch US-based software in digital sovereignty push

France is accelerating its digital sovereignty plans. In an official press release this week, the country’s DINUM announced its “exit from Windows in favor of workstations running on the Linux operating system.”
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Ambitious hacker reduces worst-case memory latency by up to 93%, but with severe downsides — 1960s bottleneck overcome by hedging memory accesses to avoid running into DRAM refresh stalls

The clever software trick works on both x86 and Arm to radically reduce worst-case memory latency, but it has severe limitations, too.
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Meta’s smart glasses are getting a major AI boost, but it doesn’t address its biggest problem

Meta has said its new Muse Spark AI is coming to Meta glasses, and you should expect a big boost.

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Bizarre bug in macOS is a ‘ticking time bomb’ that takes out networking capabilities if a Mac is left on for too long

Thinking of leaving your Mac turned on for a couple of months? Beware of a weird macOS bug that’ll take out your networking.
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macOS has a 49.7-day networking time bomb built in that only a reboot fixes — comparison operation on unreliable time value stops machines dead in their tracks

The macOS networking stack has a bug that creates a 49.7-day-long countdown to disaster that currently requires a reboot to fix, as discovered by AI service provider Photon.
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I love my Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses but this summer I’m gonna swap them for standard shades — and the BanRay movement proves I’m not alone

“Meta cannot be trusted with this” — an anti-smartglasses movement is brewing.

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Microsoft is ‘working hard on migrating all of Windows to modern UX’, and jazzing up Windows 11’s design — but can it make good on all its recent promises?

A Microsoft exec is promising work on the design front to ‘help Windows 11 feel more polished and coherent’.

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Did Microsoft not hear about the RAM crisis? Windows 11’s new Copilot app is quite the memory hog

Microsoft promised to hone Windows 11’s RAM usage — but confusingly the new Copilot app is a memory hog.

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