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Enlarge / Wikipedia’s decades of content can be a light to you in dark places, and now you can choose the dark for yourself. Aurich Lawson | Getty Images | Wikipedia Dark mode, night mode, light-on-dark design, or whatever you want to call the version of computer content that doesn’t feel blindingly bright at night,…
Now that decent Arm-powered PCs exist, Qualcomm’s CEO wants to make them cheaper
Enlarge / Microsoft’s Arm-powered Surface Laptop 7. We’re still waiting for Arm chips to make their way into cheaper PCs. Andrew Cunningham For the first time in the decade-plus that Microsoft has been trying to make Arm-powered Windows PCs happen, we’ve finally got some pretty good ones. The latest Surface Pro and Surface Laptop (and…
Sonos’ $30M app fail is cautionary tale against rushing unnecessary updates
Sonos Addressing blowback from Sonos’ wildly unpopular app redesign will cost the company $20 to $30 million “in the short term,” according to CEO Patrick Spence. In May, Sonos launched an updated app that aggravated many users due to its removal of common functions, like accessibility features and the ability to edit playlists and song…
Apple reportedly plans updated M4 Mac mini that’s actually mini
Enlarge / Apple’s M2 Pro Mac mini. Andrew Cunningham Apple hasn’t updated its Mac mini desktop lineup since the beginning of 2023, when it added M2 and M2 Pro chips and discontinued the last of the Intel models. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that the update drought will end later this year, when the mini will…
Blocking AI bots from Microsoft, others has been “pain in the a**”: Reddit CEO
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is standing by Reddit’s decision to block companies from scraping the site without an AI agreement. Last week, 404 Media noticed that search engines that weren’t Google were no longer listing recent Reddit posts in results. This was because Reddit updated its Robots Exclusion Protocol (txt file) to block bots from…
Loss of popular 2FA tool puts security-minded GrapheneOS in a paradox
Enlarge / Graphene is a remarkable allotrope, deserving of further study. GrapheneOS is a remarkable ROM, one that Google does not quite know how to accommodate, due to its “tiny, tiny” user numbers compared to mainstream Android. “If it’s not an official OS, we have to assume it’s bad.” That’s how Shawn Wilden, the tech…
