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Your Fire TV Stick has a developer menu that unlocks features Amazon doesn’t advertise
Published May 14, 2026, 2:45 PM EDT Aggy is a veteran writer and editor in the technology and gaming space. Having served as a Managing Editor for high-traffic digital publications, alongside being an editor and consultant for over a dozen sites. Aggy’s published work spans a wide and respected array of tech and gaming outlets, including...
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Carbon credits are flawed, but they can still help save forests
A logging yard in the Amazon rainforest Tarcisio Schnaider/Getty Images In 1986, an energy CEO heard a briefing about climate change and felt guilty that his company was building a coal-fired power plant in Connecticut. The company eventually paid to plant trees for timber in Guatemala so farmers would stop cutting down intact forest, in...
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Google denies copying Liquid Glass, but nobody’s buying it
Image: Google Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Google’s I/O promo video featuring a transparent, glowing Android mascot sparked controversy over potential copying of Apple’s Liquid Glass interface design. Macworld highlights that Android president Sameer Samat denied the plagiarism accusations despite widespread user concerns on social media platforms. The controversy appears strategic given...
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What Anthropic’s Mythos Means for the Future of Cybersecurity
Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced that its new model, Claude Mythos Preview, can autonomously find and weaponize software vulnerabilities, turning them into working exploits without expert guidance. These were vulnerabilities in key software like operating systems and internet infrastructure that thousands of software developers working on those systems failed to find. This capability will have...
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John Ternus is not inheriting your father’s Apple
Image: Apple/Youtube It’s only Tuesday morning but there’s already blockbuster news this week that will change the course of Apple events. And that is that the third macOS Tahoe beta is available to developers. Ha-ha! No, that’s not it. It’s that in the middle of writing this column that was going to be about the...
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iOS 27 may not support iPhone 11, 2nd-gen iPhone SE
Image: Foundry We’re about eight weeks away from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference on June 8, when Apple will preview the next generation of operating systems. iOS 27 is expected to feature major Siri and AI enhancements, but one question user have is what iPhone will be able to run iOS 27. A leaker who goes...
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This macOS bug is so rare, you’ll probably never experience it
Image: Apple Software developer Photon recently posted about a curious bug that they found in macOS involving TCP networking, which is widely used by computers for internet connectivity. Apparently, if a Mac that’s online is left on for exactly 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, and 47 seconds, the Internet connection stops working. The issue...
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iOS and iPadOS 26.4.1 is out to fix iCloud syncing bug
Image: Foundry Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld reports Apple released iOS 26.4.1 and iPadOS 26.4.1 to address a critical iCloud syncing bug from the previous iOS 26.4 update. The bug prevented devices from receiving iCloud data change notifications, affecting all CloudKit apps including Apple’s Passwords app and third-party applications. iPhone and...
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This one Developer Options setting actually makes old Android phones faster
Published Apr 5, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT Yadullah Abidi is a Computer Science graduate from the University of Delhi and holds a postgraduate degree in Journalism from the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. With over a decade of experience in Windows and Linux systems, programming, PC hardware, cybersecurity, malware analysis, and gaming, he combines deep technical knowledge...