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PDFsam 6.0 adds compression tools and PDF 2.0 support
Posted on Tuesday March 31, 2026
PDFsam Basic is a free, open-source tool for splitting, merging, and organizing PDFs. Version 6.0 adds three compression modes, better support for PDF 2.0 and UTF-8 text, stronger handling for malformed files, and more quality-of-life improvements.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
A Supermicro co-founder is accused of smuggling $2.5B in AI servers to China
Posted on Tuesday March 31, 2026
Federal authorities recently charged Yih-Shyan Liaw, along with a company employee and an outside contractor, with smuggling roughly $2.5 billion worth of such servers to China. The case not only jolted investors – Supermicro's stock lost a third of its value the following day – but also reignited debate in...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Instagram is testing a new paid tier that allows users to watch Stories anonymously
Posted on Tuesday March 31, 2026
Instagram is testing a new subscription to the photo-and-video-sharing service called Instagram Plus. Pilot schemes have started in Mexico, Japan, and the Philippines, and it'll likely make its way to the US eventually.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Students in China are renting smart glasses to cheat on exams
Posted on Tuesday March 31, 2026
Vivian, a university student in Hebei province who requested a pseudonym to speak freely to Rest of World, said her Rokid glasses help her pass difficult subjects. "Any subject that I may fail at," she said. The glasses can read text from her exam paper and project answers directly onto...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Samsung wants $400 for a tablet keyboard, even more than Apple
Posted on Tuesday March 31, 2026
Samsung released a $210 Book Cover Keyboard Slim for the Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra when the tablet launched. It arrived alongside a more expensive option, the Pro Keyboard, in Korea earlier this month, and it's now available in the US.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
New RCS standard could enable cross-platform video calls, if Apple and Google play along
Posted on Tuesday March 31, 2026
While the upgrade is technical in nature, its implications are broad. If widely adopted, it could allow an Android user and an iPhone owner to move a conversation from text to video within their native messaging apps – no third-party links or app downloads required. GSMA describes this as a...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Apple M5 Max MacBooks are getting surprisingly close to real gaming PCs
Posted on Tuesday March 31, 2026
Since Apple introduced new MacBook Pro models featuring the M5 Pro and M5 Max processors earlier this month, YouTuber Andrew Tsai has analyzed their performance in dozens of high-end PC games. Although MacBooks are not traditionally seen as gaming devices, Tsai's results suggest that the latest models can handle numerous...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Americans are using AI more, but fear of job losses is growing
Posted on Tuesday March 31, 2026
Quinnipiac University's survey, which questioned 1,397 adults, found that while Americans are increasing their use of AI, their views on artificial intelligence are becoming more negative.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
"Tech neck" is becoming a new concern as phone use reshapes how we age
Posted on Tuesday March 31, 2026
"Some of those fixed dramatic horizontal lines do become worse because people are literally spending hours on their phone and looking down," Dr. Melanie Palm, a cosmetic dermatologist in Solana Beach, California, told The Wall Street Journal.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Doom now runs over DNS, loading from nearly 2,000 text records
Posted on Tuesday March 31, 2026
A recently released port of Doom can load into memory from Cloudflare without ever writing files to the disc. The project encodes the iconic first-person shooter's shareware version into 1,964 DNS TXT records, which boot the game via a PowerShell command.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »