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Seagate’s massive, 30TB, $600 hard drives are now available for anyone to buy

Seagate’s massive, 30TB, $600 hard drives are now available for anyone to buy

Seagate’s heat-assisted drive tech has been percolating for more than 20 years.

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Chinese firms rush for Nvidia chips as US prepares to lift ban

Chinese firms rush for Nvidia chips as US prepares to lift ban

H20 chips, designed to skirt export bans, are back after Trump meets with CEO.

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Corporate inadequacy has rendered my favorite rediscovered gadget useless

Corporate inadequacy has rendered my favorite rediscovered gadget useless

Without rare, proprietary tech, these earbuds are useless.

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Pebblebee tracker’s new SOS alert reminds us that updates can be good for gadgets

Pebblebee tracker’s new SOS alert reminds us that updates can be good for gadgets

AirTags don’t have an alert system; Tile trackers charge for the feature.

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Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower

Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower

Coders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.

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Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks

Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks

GPUhammer is the first to flip bits in onboard GPU memory. It likely won’t be the last.

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Office problems on Windows 10? Microsoft’s response will soon be “upgrade to 11.”

Office problems on Windows 10? Microsoft’s response will soon be “upgrade to 11.”

Security updates will continue, but new features will require Windows 11.

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Chrome OS is “combining” with Android, but what does that mean?

Chrome OS is “combining” with Android, but what does that mean?

Google’s Sameer Samat doesn’t get into what “combining” means.

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New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering

New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering

Grok 4’s “reasoning” shows cases where the chatbot consults Musk posts to answer divisive questions.

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