External USB/Thunderbolt SSDs and/or hard drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to add storage capacity to your system as well as back it up. External drives are also…
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Rude to ChatGPT? Don’t be surprised if it gets weird
Is it weird to say “thanks” to AI? I’ve caught grief in the past for saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, but I still do it, even though…
Microsoft PowerToys just made multi-monitor life way less miserable
Microsoft’s collection of free PowerToys apps shines when it identifies the things you hate about Windows computing, and solves them with a keystroke. April’s 0.99 update adds Power Display and Grab And…
Best VPNs for Android: 5 top picks for phones and tablets
Many people’s daily browsing is now done on their mobile devices. So it’s more important than ever to have a great VPN that works well on your phone. While some services work…
Your old prompts won’t work with GPT-5.5. Try these instead
OpenAI’s latest and most powerful model, GPT-5.5, has been topping benchmark charts and impressing users with its coding and reasoning abilities, not to mention the sheer quantity of facts at its fingertips….
Google just patched 30 high-risk Chrome security vulnerabilities
In the new Chrome versions 147.0.7727.137/138 for Windows and macOS and 147.0.7727.137 for Linux, a whopping 30 security vulnerabilities have been patched in the lead up to the next generation of Chrome….
Best laptops 2026: Premium, budget, gaming, 2-in-1, and more
Finding the right laptop for your lifestyle is more complicated than you may think. One quick search in Google and you’re hit with a tidal wave of countless models and price points….
Microsoft open-sources 86-DOS 1.00, the ancestor of Windows
Microsoft just released the source code for 86-DOS 1.00, made available as an open-source project on GitHub. The release marks the 45th anniversary of 86-DOS 1.00, created by Tim Paterson, which would…
This RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC is $1,000 cheaper than you can build yourself
FOR $1,000 OFF Acer Gaming PC with RTX 5070 Ti GPU View Deal You could try to build a gaming PC on a budget right now, but you shouldn’t. Between RAM, storage,…
Why Windows updates keep getting bigger and more bloated
Over time, Windows updates have become increasingly comprehensive and much larger in file size. The monthly cumulative updates that Microsoft releases every Patch Tuesday now regularly exceed 4 to 5 GB each,…