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Firefox 151 brings a big privacy boost and fixes 30+ security flaws

The latest version of Firefox for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android brings a number of improvements to privacy protection, the built-in PDF viewer/editor, and the VPN feature, plus fixes for over 30 security vulnerabilities. Updates are also available for the ESR versions. The free VPN feature that was introduced back in Firefox 149 now offers a choice of several virtual locations. Firefox’s…
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Google is turning the brain dump into a productivity feature

We’ve all been in this situation: You know what you want to say, but you’re too mentally exhausted, distracted, or confused to actually say it. Google’s new conversational AI, Docs Live, wants to help. The metaphor Google is using here is a “brain dump,” and Google is applying this technique to Docs, Gmail, and Google Keep. Google’s trying to offload more of the “thinking” away…
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Meet Windows 11’s Dev Drive, the gaming speed trick hiding in plain sight

You might be inclined to blame insufficient graphics performance for a Windows system’s failure to hit its limit during gaming. But often it’s memory and file access that slow things down. This is precisely where a so-called “dev drive” can help. This refers to a volume introduced by Microsoft based on ReFS (Resilient File System). A dev drive is optimized for many simultaneous accesses to…
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Smart TV vs. streaming box: Which is better in 2026?

Buying a new TV and a new streaming device used to be separate decisions, as televisions didn’t always come with adequate smart TV software. These days, though, it’s virtually impossible to buy a television that isn’t a smart TV, with Roku, Fire TV, or other streaming…
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AMD is bringing FSR 4 to older Radeon cards, but you’ll have to wait

FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is AMD’s alternative to upscaler tech like Nvidia DLSS, and it’s pretty good. But the latest frame generation goodies in FSR 4 are only available to the latest Radeon 9000-series cards on the RDNA 4 architecture, a move that has rankled gamers using older but still powerful Radeon 7000 and 6000 cards. Today, AMD is officially changing its tune… but it’ll…
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