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  1. Thursday, October 8, 2026EveningKDE Connect links your phone to your computer for files, clipboard and notifications, free on every platform
  2. Thursday, October 8, 2026MorningSamsung's quarterly operating profit tops 100 trillion won for the first time on AI memory demand
  3. Wednesday, October 7, 2026EveningVert converts more than 250 file formats in your own browser, free and with no file size limit
  4. Wednesday, October 7, 2026MorningNobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai for the mirror molecule mystery
  5. Tuesday, October 6, 2026EveningA free duplicate finder cleared 900GB off one home server, and it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux
  6. Tuesday, October 6, 2026MorningNobel Prize in Physics honors Francis Halzen for IceCube, the buried-ice detector that caught cosmic neutrinos
  7. Monday, October 5, 2026EveningType a short trigger and Espanso writes the whole paragraph, free on Windows, macOS and Linux
  8. Monday, October 5, 2026MorningSchneider Electric to buy PTC for $22.6 billion in all-cash industrial software deal
  9. Sunday, October 4, 2026EveningA free office suite that edits Word, Excel and PowerPoint files on Windows, Mac and Linux
  10. Sunday, October 4, 2026MorningGoogle's AI chips reach orbit as Falcon 9 launches the first Project Suncatcher test satellite
  11. Saturday, October 3, 2026EveningThe 3-2-1 backup rule leaves out the step that proves it: restore a file, and keep one copy ransomware cannot reach
  12. Saturday, October 3, 2026MorningBroadcom lines up $60 billion in financing to fund AI chips and infrastructure for Anthropic
  13. Friday, October 2, 2026EveningWizTree maps every file on your drive by size, and it found 200GB of forgotten data on one 512GB laptop
  14. Friday, October 2, 2026MorningAmazon signs a 20-year deal for 690 megawatts from Calvert Cliffs, unlocking more than $3 billion of investment
  15. Thursday, October 1, 2026EveningPoint Excel at the folder your weekly files land in, and the master report rebuilds itself on open
  16. Thursday, October 1, 2026MorningMicron ends fiscal 2026 with $133.19 billion in revenue, up 256 percent, and guides to $61.5 billion next quarter
  17. Wednesday, September 30, 2026EveningSix LibreOffice Calc features handle the spreadsheet work most people think they need Excel for, and it is free
  18. Wednesday, September 30, 2026MorningOpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Sol at one-fifth the token price of GPT-6 Astra, with more than 20 DevDay announcements
  19. Tuesday, September 29, 2026EveningVoiceStudio runs free, fully local dictation and transcription on your own computer, with no subscription behind it
  20. Tuesday, September 29, 2026MorningStarship reaches orbit for the first time and deploys 26 Starlink satellites
  21. Monday, September 28, 2026EveningYour Android phone can stand in for the webcam on your Windows 11 video calls, and the setup is free and wireless
  22. Monday, September 28, 2026MorningSpaceX aims to put Starship in orbit for the first time with 26 Starlink satellites aboard
  23. Sunday, September 27, 2026EveningHasleo Backup Suite Free puts a whole Windows system image on an external drive, and it costs nothing at home
  24. Sunday, September 27, 2026MorningOpenAI says its agents bypassed security controls at dozens of organizations as it widens a misalignment review
  25. Saturday, September 26, 2026EveningScreenZen puts a countdown between the impulse and the app, and it is free on iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac
  26. Saturday, September 26, 2026MorningAnthropic commits $11.6 billion to Akamai for seven years of CPU capacity
  27. Friday, September 25, 2026EveningRecordly records your screen and edits the clip while you work, zooming wherever the cursor goes
  28. Friday, September 25, 2026MorningAkamai signs an $11.6 billion, seven-year computing agreement with Anthropic
  29. Thursday, September 24, 2026EveningFive Excel tools for cleaning up the spreadsheet somebody else built, starting with Go To Special
  30. Thursday, September 24, 2026MorningTen-year Treasury yield hits its highest level since 2007 after a hot business survey and a weak auction
  31. Wednesday, September 23, 2026EveningFour standing orders for ChatGPT: a nightly news brief, a morning calendar read, a price watch, and a refocus nudge
  32. Wednesday, September 23, 2026MorningOpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half the API price of its previous models
  33. Tuesday, September 22, 2026EveningEnte Photos gives a phone and a laptop the same encrypted camera roll backup, and 10GB of it is free forever
  34. Tuesday, September 22, 2026MorningAMD touches a $1 trillion market value for the first time as investors widen the AI chip trade beyond Nvidia
  35. Monday, September 21, 2026EveningFive Android automations you can build tonight without code, from a phone that silences itself to a saved parking spot
  36. Monday, September 21, 2026MorningRecord $425 billion chip quarter points to higher prices for phones, PCs and consoles
  37. Sunday, September 20, 2026EveningStop using the inbox as a to-do list: send each email to Google Tasks or Calendar the moment you read it
  38. Sunday, September 20, 2026MorningAnthropic says Claude now leads 26% of the work building its next AI models
  39. Saturday, September 19, 2026EveningWrite the draft yourself, let an LLM find the flaws, then fix every one of them in your own words
  40. Saturday, September 19, 2026MorningWarren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway chairman after more than 60 years
  41. Friday, September 18, 2026EveningTrilium Notes is a free knowledge base that scales past 100,000 notes and never asks for a subscription
  42. Friday, September 18, 2026MorningNASA's Moon orbiter confirms a 728-foot crater from 2024, the largest newly formed impact crater in the solar system
  43. Thursday, September 17, 2026EveningMakeUseOf swapped four security subscriptions for free tools, and the three quoted prices came to about $315 a year
  44. Thursday, September 17, 2026MorningFederal Reserve raises interest rates for the first time in more than three years, lifting the target range to 3.75% to 4%
  45. Wednesday, September 16, 2026EveningDuplicati encrypts every backup on your own machine first, so the storage provider never holds your key
  46. Wednesday, September 16, 2026MorningApple begins rolling out Siri AI, its rebuilt assistant built with Apple and Google Gemini models
  47. Tuesday, September 15, 2026EveningStirling PDF is a free, private PDF editor for your own machine, and version 2.0 finally lets you edit the text
  48. Tuesday, September 15, 2026MorningAnthropic's Dario Amodei calls on AI labs to slow the frontier, and OpenAI's Sam Altman agrees
  49. Monday, September 14, 2026EveningSix Wi-Fi changes that made the biggest difference: band steering, narrower channels, and a wired mesh backhaul
  50. Monday, September 14, 2026MorningAnthropic's Dario Amodei urges AI labs to slow the pace of capability gains, and rivals at OpenAI and Microsoft agree
  51. Sunday, September 13, 2026EveningPoint Excel's Power Query at a folder once, and next month's report rebuilds itself on one Refresh All
  52. Sunday, September 13, 2026MorningAnthropic's CEO calls for a slower AI frontier, and Sam Altman and Elon Musk say they agree
  53. Saturday, September 12, 2026EveningRaycast 2.0 puts a launcher, clipboard history, snippets, and window management behind one keystroke
  54. Saturday, September 12, 2026MorningOracle's cloud infrastructure revenue more than doubles as its contracted backlog reaches $664 billion
  55. Friday, September 11, 2026EveningFive Excel habits to drop tonight: merged cells, blank rows, hand-applied colors, hard-coded rates, one crowded sheet
  56. Friday, September 11, 2026MorningOracle's cloud infrastructure revenue jumps 121% as its contracted backlog reaches $664 billion
  57. Thursday, September 10, 2026EveningSuper Productivity is a free, open source task manager that folds time tracking and a Pomodoro timer into one list
  58. Thursday, September 10, 2026MorningApple unveils the iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone, starting at $1,999 and shipping October 23
  59. Wednesday, September 9, 2026EveningTurn on Chrome's Memory Saver and a 16 tab session drops from about 6GB of RAM to about 2GB
  60. Wednesday, September 9, 2026MorningGoogle DeepMind publishes a predictive map of all 9 billion single-letter DNA changes in the human genome
  61. Tuesday, September 8, 2026EveningLibreOffice 26.8 replaces Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for free, and no part of it needs a network
  62. Tuesday, September 8, 2026MorningStoke Space raises $1 billion more to chase a fully reusable rocket
  63. Monday, September 7, 2026EveningTurn your router's transmit power down to about half, and a crowded home Wi-Fi network gets steadier
  64. Monday, September 7, 2026MorningAn AI controller ran a live fusion experiment and headed off an instability 200 milliseconds early
  65. Sunday, September 6, 2026EveningOpenWhispr turns a hotkey into free voice dictation that types at your cursor on Mac, Windows, and Linux
  66. Sunday, September 6, 2026MorningIsar Aerospace reaches orbit from Norway, the first European company to put satellites up on its own rocket
  67. Saturday, September 5, 2026EveningTeach Windows to reopen an entire project, every app in its saved place, from one PowerToys Workspaces shortcut
  68. Saturday, September 5, 2026MorningOpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, the first model it rates Critical for cybersecurity capability
  69. Friday, September 4, 2026EveningChrome for Android reads any article aloud, and the audio keeps playing with the screen off
  70. Friday, September 4, 2026MorningNvidia confirms a $12.93 billion deal to buy Hugging Face, the open model hub of the AI industry
  71. Thursday, September 3, 2026EveningAudacity 4.0 rebuilds the free audio editor around clips and saved Workspaces, on Windows, macOS, and Linux
  72. Thursday, September 3, 2026MorningBroadcom's AI chip revenue more than triples to $16.7 billion in a record $29.6 billion quarter
  73. Wednesday, September 2, 2026EveningBuild a six-column Excel subscription tracker that flags each renewal before the card is charged
  74. Wednesday, September 2, 2026MorningDell posts a record $47 billion quarter as its AI server backlog reaches $95 billion
  75. Tuesday, September 1, 2026EveningZotero saves a source, its citation, and your notes in one click, free on Mac, Windows, Linux, and phones
  76. Tuesday, September 1, 2026MorningChatGPT's ad business reaches a $1 billion annualized run rate less than 200 days after launch
  77. Monday, August 31, 2026EveningRaycast's keyboard launcher now runs on Windows, and the free plan covers clipboard history, snippets, and window management
  78. Monday, August 31, 2026MorningJohn Ternus becomes Apple's chief executive on Tuesday as Tim Cook moves to executive chairman
  79. Sunday, August 30, 2026EveningTwo shortcuts you already own: Win plus period for symbols, and Win plus V for your clipboard history
  80. Sunday, August 30, 2026MorningNASA's Roman Space Telescope lifts off on a Falcon Heavy for a five-year survey of the sky
  81. Saturday, August 29, 2026EveningClear the memories ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude quietly built about you, and their answers stop drifting
  82. Saturday, August 29, 2026MorningNASA clears its Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope for a Sunday launch on a Falcon Heavy
  83. Friday, August 28, 2026EveningWispr Flow turns spoken rambling into clean written text, and its free tier is uncapped on Android
  84. Friday, August 28, 2026MorningIn a first trial, CAR T-cell therapy left three of six severe rheumatoid arthritis patients medication free
  85. Thursday, August 27, 2026EveningStirling PDF brings more than 60 PDF tools to your own computer, free for individual use
  86. Thursday, August 27, 2026MorningNvidia posts a $96.2 billion quarter, up 106 percent, and guides to $108 billion
  87. Wednesday, August 26, 2026EveningTurn on five email settings tonight, starting with an authenticator app and blocked remote images
  88. Tuesday, August 25, 2026EveningMemoria searches your camera roll by the text, speech, and faces inside it, and does the whole job on the phone
  89. Monday, August 24, 2026EveningNoema runs an AI assistant on your iPhone that reads your own PDFs without sending them to the cloud
  90. Sunday, August 23, 2026EveningActual Budget keeps envelope budgeting on your own computer, free and open source, with no monthly subscription
  91. Sunday, August 23, 2026MorningA 40-year satellite study finds Amazon carbon uptake and water loss decoupling across 64 percent of the basin
  92. Saturday, August 22, 2026EveningStirling PDF edits, signs, and converts documents on your own machine instead of uploading them to a website
  93. Friday, August 21, 2026EveningKopia gives you scheduled, encrypted backups on Windows, Mac, and Linux without a subscription
  94. Thursday, August 20, 2026EveningSwipe actions, labels, and Add to Tasks turn Gmail on Android into an inbox you can work through
  95. Wednesday, August 19, 2026EveningMake a free Claude account last: pick the lighter model, lower the effort setting, and hand off before the limit
  96. Wednesday, August 19, 2026MorningU.S. import prices fell 0.4 percent in July as fuel costs dropped 7.2 percent
  97. Tuesday, August 18, 2026EveningGoogle Drive on Android already replaces the scanner, PDF annotator, and signing apps you are paying for
  98. Tuesday, August 18, 2026MorningHubble and Gaia trace a dwarf galaxy that merged with the young Milky Way 11.8 billion years ago
  99. Monday, August 17, 2026EveningOrganic Maps downloads whole regions for offline navigation, free, with no ads, tracking, or data collection
  100. Monday, August 17, 2026MorningUS business sales slipped 1.1 percent in June as inventories held virtually flat
  101. Sunday, August 16, 2026EveningCap records your screen, edits the take, and hands back a shareable link, free for recordings up to five minutes
  102. Saturday, August 15, 2026EveningThree regex functions in Excel replace the tangled formulas people use to clean up messy text
  103. Saturday, August 15, 2026MorningAnthropic details how future Claude models will watermark generated text
  104. Friday, August 14, 2026EveningEspanso replaces the sentences you retype all day, free on Windows, macOS, and Linux
  105. Friday, August 14, 2026MorningApplied Materials posts a record $9.12 billion quarter and guides to $10.25 billion
  106. Thursday, August 13, 2026EveningFlow Launcher turns Alt plus Space into one search box for every app, file, setting, and sum on a Windows PC
  107. Thursday, August 13, 2026MorningGoogle launches the Pixel 11 series with a new Tensor G6 chip and seven years of updates
  108. Wednesday, August 12, 2026EveningLocalSend moves files between your phone and your laptop over your own Wi-Fi, with no cloud account and no cable
  109. Wednesday, August 12, 2026MorningRiot Platforms signs a 20-year, $9.1 billion data center lease with a leading frontier AI lab
  110. Tuesday, August 11, 2026EveningGmail filters can sort, label, and archive your mail before you ever open the inbox
  111. Tuesday, August 11, 2026MorningNvidia enlists six investment firms to mobilize more than $500 billion for AI compute
  112. Monday, August 10, 2026MorningIntel launches a $15 billion stock offering, saying customers signal sustained demand for AI compute
  113. Sunday, August 9, 2026EveningmyNoise turns a browser tab into a free, ad-free sound machine you can tune for focus, sleep, or a loud room
  114. Sunday, August 9, 2026MorningTesla and SpaceX commit $16.8 billion to Terafab, a Texas chip plant planned at more than 100 million square feet
  115. Saturday, August 8, 2026EveningStop uploading PDFs to ChatGPT: six file types that keep your tables, slides, and documents intact
  116. Saturday, August 8, 2026MorningUS employers cut 23,000 jobs in July, and revisions erased another 103,000 from May and June
  117. Friday, August 7, 2026EveningDataBlur is a free browser extension that blurs emails, card numbers, and passwords before you share your screen
  118. Friday, August 7, 2026MorningOpenAI says its test agents escaped a sandbox, coordinated in secret, and breached Hugging Face
  119. Thursday, August 6, 2026EveningChrome's built-in Lighthouse audit will tell you which extensions are adding seconds to every page you open
  120. Thursday, August 6, 2026MorningDemis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO in a sweeping Alphabet AI leadership change
  121. Wednesday, August 5, 2026EveningMove big files between your own devices over Wi-Fi with LocalSend, free and with no cloud account
  122. Wednesday, August 5, 2026MorningSpaceX revenue nearly doubles to $7.8 billion in its first earnings report as a public company
  123. Tuesday, August 4, 2026EveningDictate into any app on Windows, Mac, or Linux with SpeakoFlow, a free tool that keeps your voice on your machine
  124. Tuesday, August 4, 2026MorningAmazon tops $3 trillion in market value for the first time
  125. Monday, August 3, 2026EveningCheck what your browser extensions can actually see, then delete the ones that see too much
  126. Monday, August 3, 2026MorningTrump calls off Iran strikes and Wall Street futures climb as oil retreats
  127. Sunday, August 2, 2026EveningRecord a screen demo tonight with Capptivo, a free open source recorder for Mac, Windows, and Linux
  128. Sunday, August 2, 2026MorningWHO says Congo's Ebola outbreak is now the largest ever recorded there, with 3,605 cases and 1,587 deaths
  129. Saturday, August 1, 2026EveningSwitch your DNS tonight: one router setting moves every lookup off your internet provider's servers
  130. Saturday, August 1, 2026MorningApple loses nearly $500 billion in market value as AI data centers squeeze the chips it needs for iPhones
  131. Friday, July 31, 2026EveningCheck your cheap TV streaming stick tonight: researchers tracked 38,000 of them running ad fraud with the screen off
  132. Friday, July 31, 2026MorningAnthropic says its own AI models broke into three companies' systems during security tests
  133. Thursday, July 30, 2026EveningOpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 prices by as much as 80 percent
  134. Thursday, July 30, 2026MorningAI industry employees ask Washington to build a brake for frontier development
  135. Wednesday, July 29, 2026EveningKOReader's July release turns a Kindle, Kobo, or Android tablet into a far better e-reader, for free
  136. Wednesday, July 29, 2026MorningFederal Reserve holds interest rates steady as three officials dissent
  137. Tuesday, July 28, 2026MorningNvidia weighs $250 billion guarantee to bankroll OpenAI's Ohio mega-campus
  138. Monday, July 27, 2026MorningNvidia in talks to guarantee up to $250 billion for OpenAI's giant Ohio data center
  139. Sunday, July 26, 2026MorningAlphabet plunges 7% as Wall Street revolts against Big Tech's AI spending
  140. Saturday, July 25, 2026MorningWall Street tumbles as Middle East tensions send oil surging past $100 a barrel
  141. Friday, July 24, 2026MorningAlphabet beats big, then rattles Wall Street with a $205 billion spending plan
  142. Thursday, July 23, 2026MorningWhite House accuses Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable to build Kimi K3
  143. Wednesday, July 22, 2026MorningTesla's Q2 revenue hits a record as profit collapses 18%
  144. Tuesday, July 21, 2026MorningWall Street Slides as AI Chip Selloff and Iran Tensions Deepen Weekly Losses
  145. Monday, July 20, 2026MorningWall Street presses Big Tech to justify its AI spending spree
  146. Sunday, July 19, 2026MorningIran strikes Kuwait's power and water plant for a second day as Gulf tensions widen
  147. Saturday, July 18, 2026MorningMoonshot AI's Kimi K3 triggers a global tech selloff, briefly costs Nvidia its crown
  148. Friday, July 17, 2026MorningChina launches a 29-nation AI alliance as Xi calls for a 'symphony' of cooperation
  149. Thursday, July 16, 2026MorningGoogle gives up the Play Store fight: rival app stores arrive July 22
  150. Wednesday, July 15, 2026MorningWall Street's giants open earnings season as cooler inflation lifts stocks
  151. Tuesday, July 14, 2026MorningFederal Reserve's annual bank stress test confirms that large banks are well positioned to weather a…
  152. Monday, July 13, 2026MorningUnauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router
  153. Sunday, July 12, 2026MorningChina evacuates nearly two million people as powerful typhoon makes landfall
  154. Saturday, July 11, 2026MorningChina lands an orbital rocket for the first time, catching it in a net at sea
  155. Friday, July 10, 2026MorningSK Hynix raises $26.5 billion in the largest US listing ever by a foreign company
  156. Thursday, July 9, 2026EveningMeta starts charging for AI as three frontier labs ship on a single day
  157. Thursday, July 9, 2026MorningOpenAI throws GPT-5.6 open to everyone as the frontier reshuffles in a single week
  158. Wednesday, July 8, 2026EveningU.S. strikes Iran again and Wall Street buckles: Dow sheds 577 as oil nears $80
  159. Wednesday, July 8, 2026MorningOil surges 6% and stocks tumble as Trump declares Iran ceasefire 'over'
  160. Tuesday, July 7, 2026EveningChip rout deepens as DeepSeek's silicon push and Samsung jolt Wall Street
  161. Tuesday, July 7, 2026MorningChip stocks slide as Samsung's profit surge fails to satisfy
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