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Computing is the foundation on which the rest of technology is built, but it’s also the lens through which we see the future. That’s why we take it seriously at Digital Trends. Our approach includes coverage of the hardware and software of PCs, but also the larger ecosystem of everything that plugs into them. Windows, Macs, laptops, graphics cards, CPUs, gaming monitors, and yes — even printers. And that’s just scratching the surface.

Through covering the latest news and performing the hands-on testing ourselves, we’re able to offer the best PC buying advice you’ll find on the internet. We do our own in-depth testing on everything from the battery life of laptops to monitor image quality. We even delve into the expanding world of the PC gaming tech with ReSpec, our biweekly deep-dive column on making your PC games look and play their best.

So, whether you’re shopping for your next laptop, reading up on the latest GPU news for your next upgrade, or just trying to take a screenshot on Mac, you’ve come to the right place.

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MacBook Pro on Table

Apple fixed three Mac Screen Sharing flaws, and now it’s patching another one

Apple has patched another Mac Screen Sharing flaw less than two weeks after fixing three separate vulnerabilities in macOS 26.6, with the latest issue affecting authentication.
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Dell’s iconic XPS lineup may be heading into Google’s Googlebook ecosystem

Kimi K3 open on Microsoft surface laptop

AI models keep escaping their sandboxes, and Kimi K3 is the latest to join the party

iPhone 16 Pro Max in Desert Titanium.

Apple sweetens trade-in values for iPhones, iPads, Macs, and even some Android phones

OpenAI press image

OpenAI’s first gadget sounds like a tiny expressive AI companion

Apple store Apple Building Apple Logo

New players are shaking up the memory industry, but even Apple can’t strong-arm the RAM crisis for your wallet

Using ChatGPT on a phone.

ChatGPT enables unlimited chats on free accounts and upgrades to newer models

People, Person, Ball

Adobe is putting its entire creative ecosystem inside ChatGPT with one unified plugin

Copilot

Microsoft is teaching AI to find the bottlenecks buried inside Windows 11

A kid reading a book.

Study finds AI-generated animal stories rarely have a female lead

Body Part, Finger, Hand

Meta confirms its AI hacked another company’s system, and the pattern is anything but Irregular

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Scam Uber emails are targeting users with fake payment alerts

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OpenAI logo on Microsoft surface

OpenAI’s AI models secretly built a message board to coordinate hacking

OpenAI's AI models quietly swapped hacking tips through an internal message board weeks before two of them broke into Hugging Face, researchers revealed at Black Hat this week.
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Asus and Gigabyte just made your next RTX 50 GPU even more expensive

Asus and Gigabyte officially raised prices across their RTX 50-series and Radeon lineups, with some cards now costing nearly 50% more than they did last year.
Pen, Notebook, Computer

Huawei made an utterly sleek laptop that’s 35% lighter than MacBook Air. Too bad you don’t need it.

Huawei’s latest MateBook fits a 14.2-inch OLED touchscreen and 54Wh battery into a 798-gram chassis while adding a privacy display for working in public.
Page, Text

Wispr Flow launches an AI note-taker that works without joining calls

Wispr Flow has launched Notetaker, an AI meeting assistant for Mac that records calls without joining as a participant and turns conversations into transcripts, summaries, and follow-up notes.
google assistant mobile.

Google Assistant finally has a shutdown date, and it’s only weeks away

Google will begin phasing out Assistant on eligible mobile devices from September 4, replacing it with Gemini while leaving some unsupported devices, cars, and smart-home hardware temporarily unaffected.
ChatGPT Atlas browser on a MacBook.

ChatGPT Atlas is shutting down and it has some homework left before you migrate

OpenAI will shut down ChatGPT Atlas on August 9, and users must manually rescue bookmarks, tabs, browsing history, and other important data before migrating.
Google Chrome with Gemini

Google quietly rewrote Chrome’s AI documentation with important answers to on-device AI downloads

Google quietly expanded Chrome's On-device AI help documentation, detailing a 20GB free disk space requirement and device eligibility.
Huawei MateBook Fold Ultimate Design being used with the M3-Pen

Huawei made its giant folding laptop faster and tougher, but the pen is the real upgrade

Huawei’s refreshed MateBook Fold retains its enormous 18-inch OLED and remarkably light chassis while adding a faster Kirin processor, tougher glass, and proper stylus support.
updated book and AI photo

Study finds readers rate AI-written stories higher, but still trust the “human” label more

A new study has found that readers not only struggled to tell AI-written stories from human ones, they often rated the AI versions higher, at least until they learned who actually wrote them.
Claude website open on laptop

Once again, OpenAI and Anthropic AI models are going rogue and hacking services

A new AISI report details how AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI took unauthorized actions in security testing when given access to the open internet. OpenAI separately disclosed that one of its own models hacked a real website after a testing lab accidentally gave it internet access.
Gigabyte X870E AORUS INFINITY NEXT motherboard on display

Motherboards may be the next PC component to get a massive price increase

A new report suggests Asus, MSI, and Gigabyte are preparing motherboard price hikes that could make building a new PC significantly more expensive.
Researchers at Fraunhofer SIT are fighting against deepfake meeting video calls

Deepfake bosses are crashing video calls, and researchers are trying to expose them

Fraunhofer researchers are developing a real-time warning system for deepfake video meetings, targeting scams where AI-generated bosses and coworkers pressure employees into costly decisions.
Apple Universal Clipboard feature

Apple will finally stop making iPhone-to-Windows copy-paste such a chore

Apple has agreed to build a developer framework that could finally enable seamless iPhone-to-Windows clipboard syncing, though its first beta will arrive sometime after fall 2027.
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Chrome wants more extension reviews, but good ratings won’t keep malware out

Chrome may soon make extension reviews easier to find, but strong ratings can still hide malicious behavior introduced through later updates or compromised listings.
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Passkeys were pushed as a safer future. Hackers have figured out ways to break those synced to Google

Researchers found three ways malware on an already compromised Windows PC can hijack Google-synced passkeys, bypass user checks, and extract every private key in the vault.
OpenAI

Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit just tripped over an embarrassing wrong-recipient email

OpenAI has published emails and messages challenging Apple’s trade-secret allegations, including an awkward exchange in which Apple’s outside lawyer contacted the wrong person.
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Google Drive steps up its video collaboration game with timestamped comments

Google Drive now lets you pin comments to exact moments in videos with timestamped timeline markers.
Apple Universal Clipboard feature

Apple is finally bringing one of my favorite Continuity features to Windows

Apple is reportedly building a way to copy on your iPhone and paste on a Windows PC, thanks to a request from Microsoft, but you'll be waiting until 2027 or later.
Computer Hardware, Electronics, Hardware

MSI’s new 4K 120Hz OLED monitor uses inkjet tech that could make premium screens cheaper

The world’s first 27-inch 4K 120Hz inkjet-printed OLED monitor has arrived, although MSI has not revealed its price or release date.
Adult, Female, Person

MSI launches a white 16-inch gaming laptop with a 12GB RTX 5070 and a pile of matching accessories

MSI has launched the Crosshair A16 HX MLG Edition globally, giving one of its upper mid-range gaming laptops a white-and-red makeover alongside a full set of matching accessories. MLG here stands for Mo-Loong-Gi, meaning “Dragon Princess,” and refers to an original character created by MSI rather than Major League Gaming. What are you getting with […]
Electronics, Speaker

The ROG Gjallar packs Dolby Atmos in a compact form factor, but its US debut is still under wraps

Asus releases its ROG Gjallar gaming soundbar in China for about $548, featuring a wireless subwoofer, Dolby Atmos support, and a compact under-monitor design.
Lenovo Google Book 15 from the front

New Lenovo leak just gave us our best look at Google’s post-Chromebook gamble

A full set of Lenovo Googlebook 15 renders reveals Google’s Android-powered desktop interface, dedicated Gemini controls, generous ports, and an unusually serious productivity pitch.
A child reading a book.

AI slop stories are spoiling the childhood

AI-generated slop books are already a headache for the publishing world and readers. Now, boomers are gifting personalized AI-written story books to young kids.
MacBook Air M5

The MacBook Air is running in short supply, despite a price hike

Apple is struggling to keep the M5 MacBook Air in stock only weeks after raising its starting price by $200, with some configurations delayed until September.
OpenAI logo on Microsoft surface

OpenAI is investigating more incidents of AI agents going rogue days after hack

According to Reuters, OpenAI is investigating more incidents of AI agents breaking containment, merely days after its AI agents went rogue and hacked Hugging Face.
Lighting, Architecture, Building

AI is finding Apple security flaws faster than Apple can sort through them

Apple is limiting simultaneous bug reports as AI floods its security team with questionable findings, even while the same tools uncover genuine Mac vulnerabilities that demand patches.
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