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VPN downloads surge in Australia after age checks hit porn sites, online games, and social media 9 March 2026 at 14:19

VPN downloads surge in Australia after age checks hit porn sites, online games, and social media

9 March 2026 at 14:19

Following the introduction of the new online safety codes, VPN apps have shot up the Australian free iPhone app chart. VPN Super Unlimited Proxy moved from 40th place to 7th, Proton VPN moved from 174th to 19th, and NordVPN went from 189th to 13th, according to Sensor Tower data.

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Here are the 15 products Apple just discontinued as new iPhones, iPads, and Macs arrive 8 March 2026 at 23:16

Here are the 15 products Apple just discontinued as new iPhones, iPads, and Macs arrive

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8 March 2026 at 23:16

The whole point of discontinuations is to funnel buyers toward the latest products. It also keeps the product lineup cleaner and less confusing. Anyway, here's the full list that's gotten the boot:

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Experimental lithium-metal battery delivers 700 Wh/kg and works in extreme cold 8 March 2026 at 21:40

Experimental lithium-metal battery delivers 700 Wh/kg and works in extreme cold

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8 March 2026 at 21:40

Unlike much of the news in the energy storage field, which often focuses on cathode breakthroughs, this study zeroes in on the chemistry of electrolytes – the medium that shuttles lithium ions between electrodes.

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Nintendo sues the US government over "unlawful" Trump-era tariffs 8 March 2026 at 18:05

Nintendo sues the US government over "unlawful" Trump-era tariffs

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8 March 2026 at 18:05

The claim, obtained by Aftermath, recounts how President Donald Trump raised historically high import tariffs last year and how the Supreme Court struck them down last month. Per the court's decision, Nintendo is demanding an unspecified sum in refunds, plus interest.

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The MacBook Neo is a $500 Wake-Up Call for the Entire PC Industry 8 March 2026 at 16:23

The MacBook Neo is a $500 Wake-Up Call for the Entire PC Industry

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8 March 2026 at 16:23

Apple's $599 MacBook Neo isn't for you. But it might be the most important laptop announcement in years - and the budget Windows market should be paying close attention.

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Mozilla says Claude AI uncovered over 100 Firefox bugs in just two weeks, including 14 high-severity flaws 7 March 2026 at 21:02

Mozilla says Claude AI uncovered over 100 Firefox bugs in just two weeks, including 14 high-severity flaws

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7 March 2026 at 21:02

Mozilla is now working with Anthropic's Frontier Red Team to identify and patch potentially dangerous security vulnerabilities in Firefox. According to Mozilla, the AI company approached them a few weeks ago with results from a newly developed, AI-assisted bug-hunting method. The approach appears to work, Mozilla said, and could ultimately...

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Modder turns a PS5 into a Linux Steam Machine, runs GTA V with ray tracing 7 March 2026 at 19:17

Modder turns a PS5 into a Linux Steam Machine, runs GTA V with ray tracing

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7 March 2026 at 19:17

Nguyen, known online as theflow0, has turned a retail PlayStation 5 into a Linux gaming box powerful enough to run Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced with ray tracing at 1440p and 60 frames per second.

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At MWC 2026, the telecom industry pivoted from 5G to AI-powered 6G 7 March 2026 at 17:54

At MWC 2026, the telecom industry pivoted from 5G to AI-powered 6G

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7 March 2026 at 17:54

Heading to Barcelona for this year's Mobile World Congress, I had a feeling there might be some early discussions on the potential for 6G. Boy, was I wrong. Instead of 6G being a sideline topic, it was the center of attention for many of the vendors there.

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Arc Raiders bug was saving Discord private chats and login tokens in plaintext files 7 March 2026 at 15:29

Arc Raiders bug was saving Discord private chats and login tokens in plaintext files

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7 March 2026 at 15:29

Developer Embark Studios has acknowledged that Arc Raiders' Discord SDK logged more user data than intended and issued a hotfix to address the problem. The studio says Discord logging has now been disabled while the team investigates to ensure no deeper issues remain.

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BYD showcases Blade EV battery with ultra-fast 9-minute recharging 6 March 2026 at 23:16

BYD showcases Blade EV battery with ultra-fast 9-minute recharging

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6 March 2026 at 23:16

BYD showcased the new platform during its Disruptive Technology event on Thursday. According to the automaker, the Flash charger is able to take the battery from 10% to 70% in just five minutes and from 10% to 97% in only nine minutes when at room temperature. In extreme cold (-30...

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Call of Duty co-founder claims Activision pushed to make a game about Iran invading Israel 6 March 2026 at 22:34

Call of Duty co-founder claims Activision pushed to make a game about Iran invading Israel

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6 March 2026 at 22:34

Glasco, a co-founding developer of both Infinity Ward and the Call of Duty franchise, now works as a consultant in the video game industry. He shared his recollection of Activision's pressure on social media, joining an ongoing discussion about the unusually blunt way the Trump administration is embedding video game...

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Tinder settles age discrimination lawsuit for $60 million, see if you qualify for a payout 6 March 2026 at 21:55

Tinder settles age discrimination lawsuit for $60 million, see if you qualify for a payout

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6 March 2026 at 21:55

According to the plaintiff, Tinder charged users aged 29 and older more for premium subscriptions such as Tinder Plus and Tinder Gold, while offering cheaper rates for the same services to users in their teens and 20s. The lawsuit claimed the tiered pricing model violated multiple California laws, including the...

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Seagate is now shipping HAMR disk drives holding up to 44TB of data 6 March 2026 at 18:33

Seagate is now shipping HAMR disk drives holding up to 44TB of data

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6 March 2026 at 18:33

Seagate introduced the Mozaic 3+ platform in 2024, turning the heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) dream into a real product for customers in need of massive storage capacities. The HDD maker is now introducing the next-generation Mozaic 4+ drives, which offer capacities up to 44TB.

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London doctor carries out remote robot surgery on cancer patient 1,500 miles away 6 March 2026 at 17:56

London doctor carries out remote robot surgery on cancer patient 1,500 miles away

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6 March 2026 at 17:56

The milestone procedure saw Professor Prokar Dasgupta, based at The London Clinic's robotic center in Harley Street, operate on 62-year-old patient Paul Buxton, who was in St Bernard's Hospital in Gibraltar, a British overseas territory in southern Spain.

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TCL unveils 4K 240Hz OLED dual-mode monitor that's just 6.4mm thick 6 March 2026 at 17:18

TCL unveils 4K 240Hz OLED dual-mode monitor that's just 6.4mm thick

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6 March 2026 at 17:18

The recently unveiled 32X3A is a 31.5-inch display that can switch between 4K at 240Hz and 480Hz at a lower resolution, likely 1080p, with a grayscale response time of 0.03 milliseconds. According to ITHome, the OLED display covers 99% of the sRGB and DCI-P3 color gamuts. Anti-glare and anti-reflective coating...

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GTA Online players in Australia will soon face age checks under new R18+ gaming rules 6 March 2026 at 16:42

GTA Online players in Australia will soon face age checks under new R18+ gaming rules

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6 March 2026 at 16:42

The requirement states that search engines, social media platforms, pornographic websites, app stores, gaming providers, and generative AI systems – including explicit chatbots – must take "meaningful steps" to prevent children from being exposed to age-inappropriate content.

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Epic beat Google in court, but Tim Sweeney can't criticize Play Store policies until 2032 6 March 2026 at 16:03

Epic beat Google in court, but Tim Sweeney can't criticize Play Store policies until 2032

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6 March 2026 at 16:03

The revelation came this week, when the binding term sheet for Epic's settlement with Google showed that Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, once the industry's most vivid critic of platform monopolies, is bound by a non-disparagement clause that bars him from publicly criticizing Google on matters related to Play Store distribution...

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Anthropic says it will sue Pentagon over supply chain risk label 6 March 2026 at 15:15

Anthropic says it will sue Pentagon over supply chain risk label

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6 March 2026 at 15:15

The clash centers on two red lines Anthropic refused to drop during negotiations with the Department of Defense: using Claude for mass domestic surveillance of Americans and for fully autonomous weapons. Anthropic says those carveouts are narrow, reasonable, and have not affected any government mission to date. The Pentagon disagreed.

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The OLED Burn-In Test: Two Years Later 6 March 2026 at 14:19

The OLED Burn-In Test: Two Years Later

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6 March 2026 at 14:19

After 6,500 hours of heavy productivity use, we revisit our intentionally abused 4K QD-OLED monitor to see how burn-in has progressed under one of the worst-case scenarios for OLED panels.

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Nvidia says its investments in OpenAI and Anthropic are likely its last 6 March 2026 at 07:37

Nvidia says its investments in OpenAI and Anthropic are likely its last

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6 March 2026 at 07:37

Huang's explanation was brief, but the implications are broad. Nvidia, whose products have become indispensable to generative AI infrastructure, sits in a position few companies have ever occupied: both supplier and shareholder to the firms building the software atop its hardware. That arrangement, once mutually reinforcing, now appears increasingly tangled.

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Microsoft confirms "Project Helix," a next-gen Xbox that runs both Xbox and PC games 6 March 2026 at 04:55

Microsoft confirms "Project Helix," a next-gen Xbox that runs both Xbox and PC games

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6 March 2026 at 04:55

Asha Sharma, who recently replaced Phil Spencer as the head of Microsoft's Xbox division, provided a short update on the company's next-generation console. Revealing the codename "Project Helix," she confirmed that the upcoming device aims to lead in horsepower and will support both Xbox and PC games.

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Surging NAND costs could hurt Nintendo Switch 2 software sales 6 March 2026 at 00:31

Surging NAND costs could hurt Nintendo Switch 2 software sales

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6 March 2026 at 00:31

Many associate the NAND crisis with higher priced memory sticks for desktops or laptops, more expensive consumer electronics like Raspberry Pi hobby boards, and smartphones with less RAM than we are accustomed to. Companies like Nintendo also have to be cognizant of how the shortage will affect software sales.

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Apple M5 chips introduce a new "super core" tier in its CPU design 5 March 2026 at 23:48

Apple M5 chips introduce a new "super core" tier in its CPU design

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5 March 2026 at 23:48

On the surface, the change might look like semantics. But it reflects a broader evolution inside Apple Silicon that moves beyond the traditional mobile-processor model where "big" cores handle demanding work and "little" cores handle background tasks for efficiency's sake. By renaming its cores (in pure Apple's marketing style), the...

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Nvidia reportedly developing RTX 5050 with 9GB VRAM, revised RTX 5060 using GB205 die 5 March 2026 at 22:31

Nvidia reportedly developing RTX 5050 with 9GB VRAM, revised RTX 5060 using GB205 die

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5 March 2026 at 22:31

According to noted tipster MEGAsizeGPU, the new GeForce RTX 5050 variant will feature three 3GB GDDR7 memory modules operating at 28Gbps, instead of the 20Gbps GDDR6 modules used in the original version. The updated configuration will provide a total of 9GB of VRAM across a 96-bit memory interface, delivering up...

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Trump calls on Big Tech to supply their own electricity for AI data centers (updated) 5 March 2026 at 12:59

Trump calls on Big Tech to supply their own electricity for AI data centers (updated)

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5 March 2026 at 12:59

Update (March 5): Major tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Oracle, OpenAI, and xAI have now signed a voluntary "ratepayer protection pledge" at the White House, promising to cover the energy costs of their rapidly expanding AI data centers rather than passing those costs on to local electricity customers.

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Scientists develop nanomaterial that targets cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue 5 March 2026 at 21:28

Scientists develop nanomaterial that targets cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue

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5 March 2026 at 21:28

Iron is essential to biological function, and iron-based nanomaterials may become valuable tools in the long-term effort to develop cancer treatments. Researchers at Oregon State University have engineered a new "nanoagent" using an iron-based metal-organic framework (MOF) structure and demonstrated its ability to destroy cancerous cells in laboratory experiments.

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DOJ seizes LeakBase, one of the world's biggest hacker forums 5 March 2026 at 20:26

DOJ seizes LeakBase, one of the world's biggest hacker forums

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5 March 2026 at 20:26

The Department of Justice describes LeakBase as a clearinghouse for hacked databases. Alongside the "hundreds of millions" of account credentials, it offers credit and debit card numbers, banking details, and other personally identifiable information that can fuel account takeovers and fraud.

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Lawmakers launch probe into hidden "eavesdropping" risks in modern computers 5 March 2026 at 19:48

Lawmakers launch probe into hidden "eavesdropping" risks in modern computers

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5 March 2026 at 19:48

Senator Ron Wyden and Representative Shontel Brown have called on the Government Accountability Office to examine whether modern computers and phones remain vulnerable to what was once known as TEMPEST surveillance.

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Amazon's latest round of layoffs hits its robotics unit 5 March 2026 at 18:36

Amazon's latest round of layoffs hits its robotics unit

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5 March 2026 at 18:36

The division that was axed on Tuesday is responsible for designing robots and other conveyances, primarily in warehouses, writes Reuters.

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Meta's smart glasses raise privacy alarms as data labelers review intimate recordings 5 March 2026 at 17:59

Meta's smart glasses raise privacy alarms as data labelers review intimate recordings

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5 March 2026 at 17:59

The work, known as data labeling, is how Meta trains its computer vision systems. Each frame reviewed helps improve the algorithms powering its augmented reality assistant. Behind that feedback loop, however, human labor fills in the gaps machines still can't bridge.

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The US Supreme Court is not interested in enforcing copyright for AI-generated images 5 March 2026 at 17:28

The US Supreme Court is not interested in enforcing copyright for AI-generated images

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5 March 2026 at 17:28

Computer scientist Stephen Thaler has repeatedly tried to turn an AI-generated image into copyrightable material, but the US Supreme Court has now declined to even hear his arguments. Thaler created the Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience (DABUS) AI system, which was listed as the author of an...

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Google cuts Play Store fee to 20% and opens the door to third-party app stores 5 March 2026 at 16:51

Google cuts Play Store fee to 20% and opens the door to third-party app stores

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5 March 2026 at 16:51

With these changes, Google is signaling that Android's future lies in greater openness – on its terms. Developers will soon see lower transaction fees, new options for distributing apps, and greater freedom in payment processing, particularly in the US, UK and Europe.

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Nvidia could bring back the RTX 3060 in mid-March as the memory crisis bites 5 March 2026 at 16:23

Nvidia could bring back the RTX 3060 in mid-March as the memory crisis bites

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5 March 2026 at 16:23

At the beginning of January, leaker hongxing2020, who has a long and impressive record when it comes to revealing Nvidia's plans, claimed Team Green has told its partners that the RTX 3060 will be returning in the first quarter of 2026.

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Could the Trump administration rerun the TikTok playbook on Fortnite? 5 March 2026 at 15:58

Could the Trump administration rerun the TikTok playbook on Fortnite?

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5 March 2026 at 15:58

A source familiar with the matter recently informed the Financial Times that top White House officials are discussing whether to force Tencent to divest its ownership stakes in American and Finnish game companies. Internal negotiations between Tencent and multiple US agencies date back to the first Trump administration, when the...

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Intel's 18A node debuts in the data center with the 288-core Xeon 6+ 5 March 2026 at 15:15

Intel's 18A node debuts in the data center with the 288-core Xeon 6+

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5 March 2026 at 15:15

The new chips mark a turning point for Intel's strategy in cloud and telecommunications workloads, where efficiency and integration are now prioritized over sheer clock speed.

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The White House used Call of Duty "nuke" killstreak footage in a video showing real US strikes on Iran 5 March 2026 at 14:15

The White House used Call of Duty "nuke" killstreak footage in a video showing real US strikes on Iran

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5 March 2026 at 14:15

The X account included the words "Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue" in the post. The video starts with a player activating a CoD: MW3 MGB (Mass Guided Bombs) killstreak. It's basically the game's secret nuke – which is somewhat concerning given its use here – activated by achieving...

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A Game of Thrones movie about Aegon the Conqueror is reportedly in development 5 March 2026 at 07:51

A Game of Thrones movie about Aegon the Conqueror is reportedly in development

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5 March 2026 at 07:51

Masthead image: Aegon with his sister-queens Visenya and Rhaenys. Credit: Amok

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Google will start shipping a new Chrome version every two weeks 5 March 2026 at 04:08

Google will start shipping a new Chrome version every two weeks

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5 March 2026 at 04:08

Google has announced a notable shift in how Chrome updates will roll out. Starting September 2026, the Chromium-based browser will move to a two-week release cycle. In practice, that means a new major Chrome version every 14 days, though Google notes that early-stage builds and experimental channels will follow slightly different rules.

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Google Pixel 10a reviewed: familiar formula delivers strong value 5 March 2026 at 03:48

Google Pixel 10a reviewed: familiar formula delivers strong value

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5 March 2026 at 03:48

Reviews of the Pixel 10a describe it as a minor update over last year's model, with mostly cosmetic changes and similar hardware. Despite the limited changes, critics say it remains one of the best budget Android phones thanks to its reliable performance, strong cameras, and competitive $500 price point.

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