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Alphabet spins out GFiber as it merges with Astound in major broadband deal
Posted on Monday March 16, 2026
The sale marks a turning point for GFiber, which began in 2012 as Google Fiber – a bold experiment aimed at challenging the sluggish US internet market. Its gigabit speeds, demonstrated first in Kansas City, were ahead of their time but proved difficult to expand profitably.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft is backing away from putting Copilot everywhere in Windows 11
Posted on Monday March 16, 2026
Microsoft previewed Copilot Suggestions in notifications as far back as 2024, but the feature was never rolled out, even in preview builds for Windows Insiders. According to Windows Central, the company decided to scrap the AI-powered feature following severe backlash over the Windows Recall tool, which many cybersecurity experts viewed...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Doom: The Dark Ages is the first Denuvo DRM game of 2025 to be cracked
Posted on Monday March 16, 2026
A "cracker" known as Voices38 recently shared their latest release: a Denuvo-free version of Doom: The Dark Ages. The newest entry in id Software's FPS franchise has now entered the wild world of PC piracy, though it remains an 81 GB download with significant hardware requirements, including a powerful gaming GPU.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Apple launches AirPods Max 2 with stronger ANC, lossless audio, and live translation
Posted on Monday March 16, 2026
Pre-orders for the AirPods Max 2 open March 25 in more than 30 countries, with general availability beginning in early April. Apple is sticking with the familiar industrial design, which means the sequel looks a lot more like a spec and feature refresh than a dramatic reimagining.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
GIMP 3.2 arrives with performance improvements and workflow refinements
Posted on Monday March 16, 2026
Popular Photoshop alternative GIMP has been updated to feature non-destructive Link and Vector Layers, an upgraded MyPaint Brush tool, and expanded file format support including SVG export. The update also brings UI and stability improvements.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Meta is pulling the plug on Instagram's encrypted messages
Posted on Monday March 16, 2026
Unlike WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, where E2E encryption is either the default or automatically applied to certain message types, Instagram's deployment had always been partial and manual. The feature was available only to a subset of users and had to be explicitly enabled.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Digg relaunch fails after two months as bots and AI agents flood the site
Posted on Monday March 16, 2026
The new Digg experiment is ending in a resounding fiasco. The beta version of the rebuilt social sharing portal has already been shut down – a "difficult" decision that forced the company to significantly downsize its development team. Building new internet projects in 2026 is a completely different experience, Digg...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft says Samsung Galaxy app bug, not Windows update, locked some users out of C: drive
Posted on Monday March 16, 2026
Because the failures appeared around March Patch Tuesday and followed recent security updates, plenty of people blamed Microsoft's latest patches. Now, the company says the real culprit was not Windows itself, but Samsung software.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Samsung wins in court after German judge says some TCL "QLED" TVs aren't really QLED
Posted on Monday March 16, 2026
A central question was whether TCL's 'QLED' televisions actually used quantum dots – the nanoscale semiconductor particles that give QLED displays their enhanced color range and brightness. According to the court, TCL's advertised QLED models "do not deliver the color reproduction expected from QLED TVs," effectively misleading consumers about the...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Google quietly pulls AI "health tool" that summarized Reddit advice
Posted on Monday March 16, 2026
Launched in March 2025 on mobile in the US, What People Suggest leveraged AI to collate information from various online discussion platforms, such as Reddit, Quora, and X, and share it with users. An example Google gave was someone with arthritis wanting to know how others with the condition exercise.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »