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YouTube Now Lets You Lock Your Account on a Shared TV

11 Sep 2026 46 views
YouTube's new account lock puts a 4-digit code on your TV profile - how to switch it on, unlock it from your phone and reset a forgotten code.
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Tim Cook Now Recommends the Galaxy Z Fold 8

11 Sep 2026 70 views
A satirical look at Samsung's Tim Cook ad for the Galaxy Z Fold 8, starring a New Zealand estate agent, not the Apple one - with the real facts at the end.
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Prime Video Is Now Using AI to Make Dubbed Actors' Lips Match the Dialogue

10 Sep 2026 136 views
Amazon now reshapes actors' mouths with AI so English dubs line up, starting with Maxton Hall - and unlike last year's anime dubs, the voices stay human.
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LG Rejects Spy TV Report as 'Not True' - Here Are the Settings to Turn Off Anyway

10 Sep 2026 165 views
LG denies its webOS TVs listen in standby but confirms they scan your home network - what the report found and the five settings worth switching off.
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Windows 10 End of Support: What Happened Next, and Where You Stand in 2026

9 Sep 2026 11.447 views
Windows 10 support ended in October 2025, but free security updates now run to October 2027 - here is how to enrol and what your options are.
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Why Microsoft Made Windows 10 Free - and Why It Was Never Really Free

9 Sep 2026 6.695 views
The free Windows 10 upgrade was a migration offer rather than a giveaway - who actually paid for it, and what the bill looks like now that support has ended.
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Jellyfin 12.0 Lands With a Faster Library and a New Default Look

8 Sep 2026 404 views
Jellyfin's biggest release in years drops the 10.x numbering, speeds up large libraries and breaks a few old clients on the way in.
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CDs Are Selling Again. Your Laptop Probably Cannot Read One

4 Sep 2026 351 views
CD revenue jumped by more than half in the first half of 2026, on machines that mostly cannot read a disc any more.
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OpenAI Astra Launches: Browser Control and Hidden Reasoning

4 Sep 2026 608 views
OpenAI's most capable model yet can operate a browser on its own, and it shows less of its reasoning than the one before it.
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Windows Says Virus Protection Is Off. Microsoft Says It Is Not.

3 Sep 2026 661 views
Microsoft has confirmed that the "Turn on virus protection" pop-up appearing on Windows 10 and 11 is a false alarm, with no fix released yet.
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Adobe Is Retiring the App That Replaced Premiere Clip

3 Sep 2026 400 views
Adobe shuts Premiere Rush down on 30 September 2026, and the app meant to replace it on Android is still an Early Access beta.
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Windows 11 Finally Lets You Say No to OneDrive Backup

1 Sep 2026 424 views
Microsoft is rolling out an Opt out of backup button that finally lets Windows 11 users refuse OneDrive for good.
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Apple's Secret Weapon for Streaming: From WaveOne to PICO

30 Aug 2026 15.623 views
The 2023 acquisition story with its ending attached: Apple published PICO in 2026, and a WaveOne co-founder is on the paper.
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After Nine Years Frozen, LAME Is Moving Again - What Is in 4.1

29 Aug 2026 539 views
The MP3 encoder inside Audacity and most CD rippers is being developed again, and the next release fixes a quality bug that has been wrong for years.
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Is AI Enabling Next-Generation Codecs? Three Years On

28 Aug 2026 10.083 views
Neural codecs stopped being theoretical. JPEG AI is a published standard, Apple bought its way in, and AI encoding already runs in your streaming apps.
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Copilot Just Took 3.3 GB of Your Windows 10 Drive Without Asking

18 Aug 2026 1.675 views
A Copilot app that installs itself and claims over 3 GB, explained in plain terms, with the removal steps and the settings that keep it away.
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ChatGPT Atlas Is Gone - Here Is What to Use Instead

18 Aug 2026 1.257 views
OpenAI retired the ChatGPT Atlas browser on 9 August 2026, and here is what happened to your bookmarks and which browser to move to.
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It Is Not Your Download - Why Some APKs Refuse to Open

13 Aug 2026 1.241 views
Why some Android apps install perfectly and then refuse to open, and how to check a file before you download it.
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MakeMKV's Site Keeps Going Down - Here's What the Error Means

12 Aug 2026 2.452 views
Why makemkv.com throws Cloudflare errors, what they actually mean, and where to get MakeMKV and its beta key while the site is unreachable.
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How to Install an APK Safely on Android (2026)

10 Aug 2026 1.656 views
How to install an APK on Android without taking risks - the checks to run first, the permissions that should stop you, and what Google's September 2026 rules change.
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