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In July, software engineer Julian Joseph became the latest victim of the tech industry’s sweeping job cuts. Facing his second layoff in two years, he dreaded spending another couple months hunched over his laptop filling out repetitive job…

The ad sleuths who figure out ways to detect ads and engineers skilled at blocking them are working hard to figure out how to evade YouTube’s blocker blockade, in private Slack groups and discussion on GitHub projects. But progress has been…

Flash is dead and has been for years. Every major web browser disabled the infamous plug-in back in 2020 (the main thing we all remember about that otherwise uneventful year). Most of us didn't mourn the buggy, overused service, which was a…

First things first, turn on your Steam Deck, press the Steam button, and scroll down to Power, press A, and then select Switch to Desktop.From here, click on the little blue shopping bag icon on your taskbar. This will open the Discover…

Screenshot: AppleDigital passwords have existed since the 1960s, and we haven’t come up with a better option...until now. An tech industry-wide group called the FIDO Alliance aims to get rid of them, and for good reason: Passwords are easy…

Photo: Evan Lorne (Shutterstock)When you browse the internet, you probably notice a small lock icon that appears in the URL bar. It’s common internet security advice to look for this lock whenever visiting a new site, to make sure your…

Photo: Sattalat Phukkum (Shutterstock)If you see a blue check on Twitter these days, it’s likely because that accounts now pays for Twitter Blue and not because they verified their identity with the company. But thanks to the company firing…

Screenshot: ChitChatMicrosoft Edge, and only Microsoft Edge, employs artificial intelligence as your browser co-pilot, thanks to the integrated Bing sidebar. But nothing is stopping you, or clever developers, from adding a ChatGPT sidebar…

Image: CKA (Shutterstock)ChatGPT is dominating discussions in all corners of the tech world and beyond right now, and it’s easy to see why. Whether you’re interested in artificial intelligence tools or not, you no doubt have come across…

Learning a new language is tough, man. Plenty of us have tried every app under the sun, put in the work day in and day out, and yet have no ability to hold a conversation with someone in this new language. Most of these apps’ methods of…