The billionaire Meta chief executive was questioned by lawyers over whether use of Instagram harms children. Read...

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If you’re in the market for a gaming laptop that’ll let you play the latest triple-A games but you don’t want to blow your entire bank account or credit card on one, then here’s a screaming good deal for you: B&H is selling the Lenovo Legion 5i for $400 off. That means this normally $1,699.99 machine is now attainable for just $1,299. Boom! The Lenovo Legion 5i has a configuration that’s more than enough to handle just about anything you throw its way, from passion projects to work tasks and, of course, gaming. With an impressive 20-core Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX CPU and a whopping 32GB of DDR5 RAM, this thing will handle Windows 11 with aplomb. It also has a 1TB SSD for storing all your apps and games. Given the current RAM and SSD shortage, this is an excellent price for the hardware you’re getting. But on top of all that, you’re also getting an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 GPU with ray tracing, upscaling, and multi-frame generation capabilities to unlock smooth and gorgeous visuals in triple-A games—the ones available now and the ones to come in future years. Enjoy all the best gameplay on this laptop’s vibrant 15.1-inch OLED display at its native 2560×1600 resolution, 165Hz refresh rate, and 1,000 nits of brightness. Other specs worth noting include: HDMI 2.1 for video output; Thunderbolt 4, USB-C, and triple USB-A connections; fast Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.3; 1080p webcam; and RGB backlit keyboard.It weighs an acceptable 4.4 pounds and measures 0.85 inches thick. It’s hard to do better than this at this price, especially now with the RAM and SSD crunch driving prices up. Get this Lenovo Legion 5i for $1,299 before this hot B&H deal expires! If you want to go even cheaper, check out our picks for the best gaming laptops under $1,000. Save $400 on the Lenovo Legion 5i with 32G RAM and RTX 5060 GPUBuy now via B&H Read...

It seems we now have something new to worry about while browsing the web. Windows Central reports that hackers have discovered a new security vulnerability in Windows that allows them to install malicious software on your computer via fake CAPTCHA pages. The hackers use fake CAPTCHA pages—which are designed to mimic standard security checks—to trick users into installing malicious software (“Stealthy StealC Information Stealer”) via keyboard commands. Similar to another CAPTCHA attack from last year, users are prompted to press the Windows key + R shortcut (which launches the Windows Run prompt), followed by Ctrl + V (which pastes a malicious command into the Run prompt), and then Enter (which runs the malicious command). Experienced Windows users should immediately notice that something is wrong when a page asks you to open the Windows Run prompt and paste something using the shortcut action. What ends up happening is that the fake CAPTCHA page loads a PowerShell command into your Windows clipboard, which is then executed when you following the instructions. That PowerShell command downloads malware without you noticing. Security experts at Level Blue recently wrote that the new attack can be used to access login information for web browsers, Outlook, Steam accounts, and cryptocurrency wallets, among other things. Read...

It’s been a long road, gettin’ from there to here… with “there” being Windows 7’s release way back in 2009, and “here” being Mozilla’s eventual end of support for it in the latest version of Firefox. As of version 115, Firefox will no longer support Windows 7, 8, or 8.1. If you’re hearing taps in the background, you’re not the only one. Version 115 is actually already pretty out of date—the latest generational release is 147 as of this writing. Version 115 is back in the Extended Support Release channel, a staggered version of the browser designed to get major updates less frequently (only once a year or so), sticking to only essential security patches on an advanced scale. It’s designed for enterprises that need more stability, or as is the case here, functionality on older software and hardware. Updates to the 115 ESR version will be offered “until the end of February 2026.” Firefox’s support for older versions of Windows is actually pretty protracted already. Initially, Mozilla had intended to sunset its support in 2024, but ended up extending it twice. Previously, there was some ambiguity about yet another extension with an estimated end date, according to Neowin, but Mozilla has spelled it out as of now. Other browsers ended official support for Windows 7 long ago. Mozilla has a few suggestions if you’d like to hang on… but you can probably guess what they are. On the release page, the company suggests upgrading to Windows 10 (tricky!) or Windows 11, or switching over to Linux (where Firefox is often the pre-installed default). Read...

Big firms edge away from VMware after Broadcom deal, shifting select workloads to cloud while keeping core systems in place for now. Read...

For all its supposed intelligence, “AI” seems to make a lot of stupid mistakes—for example, scanning and summarizing emails marked “confidential” in Microsoft Outlook. That’s the latest issue with Microsoft’s Copilot assistant, according to a bug report from Microsoft itself. Copilot Chat in Microsoft 365 accounts is able to read and summarize emails in the Sent and Drafts folders of Outlook, even if they’re marked confidential… a mark that’s specifically designed to keep automated tools out. BleepingComputer summarizes the issue labeled “CW1226324” and says that a fix is being rolled out to affected accounts. There’s no timeline for when the fix will be available for all users. (Unfortunately, the full report isn’t available for viewing by the general public—you need Microsoft 365 admin privileges just to see it.) The problem is, as you might guess, alarming. The confidential feature in Outlook is often used for things like business contracts, legal correspondence, government or police investigations, and personal medical information. It’s the kind of stuff you absolutely do not want scanned by a large language model, and definitely not sucked up into its training data, as is so often the case. Microsoft isn’t saying how many users are affected, but it is saying that “the scope of impact may change” as it investigates the problem. How comforting. That’ll really get people to start using Copilot, right? Read...

Microsoft surprised the Windows community with its somewhat-recently announced Windows 11 26H1 update, which won’t be available on all Windows PCs. Now, the company is revealing important details about this Windows update, namely which PCs will be getting it. What we’ve known up to this point is that only certain Arm computers will receive Windows 11 26H1. The majority of Windows 11 users, who are running on Intel or AMD processors, will therefore not receive this Windows update. As Microsoft said previously: “Windows 11, version 26H1 is not intended as a feature update for existing devices and will not be offered through Windows Update.” Unlike most big updates for the operating system, Windows 11 26H1 doesn’t bring any new features but only makes changes under the hood. However, according to Microsoft, “Windows 11, version 26H1 is a hardware-optimized release […] with capabilities tailored specifically for those platforms.” It’s unclear what that means yet. That said, Microsoft has been rolling out Windows 11 26H1 to compatible Arm PCs since February 10th, 2026 and plans to support this version until March 4th, 2028 on Windows 11 Home and Pro (while Enterprise and Education editions will be supported until March 13th, 2029). The new bit of information we now have is that only the following PCs with these three processors will receive Windows 11 26H1: Snapdragon X2 Plus (“X2P”) Snapdragon X2 Elite (“X2E”) Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (“X2E”) This information was quietly put forth on this support page. This means the first generation of Arm-based Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon CPUs won’t be able to take advantage of Windows 11 26H1. Further reading: Microsoft just forked Windows 11 Read...

Microsoft has confirmed two separate bugs in Windows 11 that affect some users, reports Windows Latest. The most serious issue can cause a so-called Black Screen of Death (BSOD) with the error code KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE. The bug has been linked to certain graphics card configurations and a bug in the system file dxgmms2.sys, which manages DirectX memory. At the same time, a bug in the optional January update (KB5074105) is causing problems with Wi-Fi. Some PCs apparently can’t connect to Wi-Fi networks that use the WPA3-Personal security protocol. According to Microsoft, both of these issues have been fixed in Windows 11 Build 26200.7840 (KB5077181) and later versions, which was released earlier this month and is now being rolled out to users in stages. Read...

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6 with major coding and computer-use upgrades, keeping pricing flat at USD $3 and USD $15 per million tokens. Read...