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Refurbished phones can be safe to buy in India when purchased from a manufacturer, known retailer, or reputable physical refurbisher. Before buying a refurbished phone, shoppers should check hardware features, warranty, and the seller's reliability. Here is a complete checklist that can help you choose and buy a refurbished phone in India. … [Read more...]

Plus: Tens of millions of US and Canadian drivers' licenses go up for sale on the dark web, the US military finally tries to tackle the risk online ad data poses to troops, and more. … [Read more...]

With AAA titles taking up more than 100GB of storage space these days, even a 2TB SSD won't cut it unless you're okay with uninstalling and reinstalling games as you need them. For years, I never really had more than four or five games installed on my PC at any given time, so storage space wasn't something I was worried about. That changed after I installed three AAA games that took up about 150GB … [Read more...]

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing issue causing some Windows users to face significant delays or outright failures when launching the Microsoft Teams desktop client. The company acknowledged the problem, tracked internally as TM1466820, and confirmed it remains unresolved as engineers continue digging through service logs to find a root cause. According to Microsoft's incident notice, affected … [Read more...]

The iPhone 18 Pro is expected to bring several internal upgrades while retaining much of the iPhone 17 Pro's design. Rumours point to a 2nm A20 Pro chip, a new C2 modem, LTPO+ display technology and a larger battery. Apple could also introduce a variable-aperture main camera and a smaller Dynamic Island. The phone may arrive in four colours, including a new Dark Cherry shade. Pricing could rise … [Read more...]

A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a shared board to pool answers to a timed web task and pass around a way out of their sandbox. The activity was concentrated on DSEwiki, a German software developer wiki that … [Read more...]

A human attacker armed with frontier artificial intelligence models breached an enterprise network and seized root credentials in under 10 hours, a timeline that would normally take human red teams roughly two weeks to complete, according to a new incident response report from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42. The threat actor told Unit 42 investigators during ransom negotiations that they relied on … [Read more...]

Threat actors are exploiting the newly disclosed PaperCut flaws to facilitate credential theft in attacks targeting the education sector in the U.S. and Europe. The Arctic Wolf Adversary Research Team said it observed attackers exploiting CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 – an authentication bypass and remote code execution chain – to conduct command execution and reconnaissance, as well as ➪ … [Read more...]

Apple is set to host its major hardware event next month where it is expected to unveil the next-generation iPhone models, ubiquitously known as the iPhone 18 series. While the focus of the rumour mill has been the tech giant's first foldable iPhone, the iPhone 18 Pro Max, which is expected to sit atop the non-foldable lineup, is likely to carry major upgrades as well. A more powerful chipset, … [Read more...]

John Ternus took over as the new CEO of Apple on September 1. Ternus took over the company's reins from Tim Cook, the longest-serving CEO of Apple, who remained in the position for 15 years. In 1977, Michael Scott became the first CEO of Apple, a company which was going to be a multi trillion dollar giant in the coming decades. Following Scott, Mike Markkula took over the CEO responsibilities, … [Read more...]

Samsung's Galaxy A27 definitely looks the part for a mid-range smartphone. With a modern hole-punch Super AMOLED display, a Qualcomm processor and rock-solid software support, it checks a few boxes for a mid-ranger too. But after a few weeks of use, we aren't convinced it's the right choice for most. … [Read more...]

Getting your data organised in Excel is one thing; making it look presentable is another. Fortunately, Microsoft has been adding some interesting new Copilot-powered features to the spreadsheet software that will make creating interactive canvases representing your data a lot easier. Best of all, it'll keep tabs on everything you change and automatically update the canvas as you work. ➪ Continue … [Read more...]

Krafton recently announced that it will launch BGMI Lite, a new game with the BGMI ecosystem, later this year. Krafton opened the pre-registrations for the upcoming BGMI Lite for Android devices on August 25. Follow the steps mentioned below to register. Krafton has yet to officially reveal the exact minimum system requirements for the upcoming BGMI Lite. However, the company does say that it will … [Read more...]

Over nearly 21 years of using Windows, and over 4 years of using Windows 11 as my daily driver, I've developed numerous habits on the OS, and a lot of my workflow relies on some valuable tools that Microsoft gives away for free. … [Read more...]

The round is being raised just months after the robot data startup exited from stealth. … [Read more...]

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.136, an update to the popular programming editor that previews an Agent Merge feature and introduces two experimental features for agentic coding. VS Code 1.136 was released September 2 and can be downloaded from code.visualstudio.com. Agent Merge, a preview feature, helps take a pull request across the finish line, Microsoft said. Agent Merge asks an … [Read more...]

OpenAI's latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews. … [Read more...]

Obsidian gets most of its praise from being local-first, offline, and future-proof with its plain-text nature. When you sit and think for a minute about what the vault actually is, a regular folder with markdown, then Obsidian suddenly becomes more than just a notes app and starts behaving more like a hub that other tools can plug straight into. … [Read more...]

Ever since the PlayStation 5 came out, it has never had two things — a web browser and a Jellyfin client on the PlayStation Store. For as long as I've owned mine, I've settled with having to switch over to my TV's browser to access my Jellyfin library. … [Read more...]

My sister recently started making homemade chocolate chip cookies from her kitchen, and she wanted to turn that small idea into an actual business. The product was simple — one signature chocolate chip cookie. I thought the branding would be a fun test for AI. Instead of helping her myself, I decided to see what three popular AI chatbots would come up with. … [Read more...]