For months, a group of Hood County, Texas, residents has been pushing to create a new town of their own. The effort began in March, when citizens living in a 2-square-mile unincorporated stretch of the county, about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth, started gathering signatures to form what they hope will become the city of Mitchell Bend.
By April, organizers believed they had enough support and submitted their petition to county officials. After it was verified, Hood County Judge
Images in long-form content can (and often should) do more than illustrate. They help set the pace, influence how readers feel, and add character that words alone can’t always convey.
Getting Creative With Images in Long-Form Content originally published on CSS-Tricks, which is part of the
Season 3 has more episodes than the previous two seasons. Here's what you need to know. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/the-summer-i-turned-pretty-isnt-over-yet-season-3-schedule-and-how-to-watch/#ftag=CADf328eec
The Reds head to the north-east to face the Magpies, with the Alexander Isak transfer saga still rumbling on between the two teams. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/premier-league-soccer-stream-newcastle-vs-liverpool-live-from-anywhere/#ftag=CADf328eec
The company has been granted a permit to test its self-driving vehicles in the Big Apple. Here's everywhere Waymo operates now, and where it's set to arrive soon. https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/waymo-gets-the-green-light-to-test-in-new-york-city-everything-to-know-about-the-robotaxi/#ftag=CADf328eec
As power outages become more common, purchasing a home generator may be a top priority. Use this as a guide before you make the investment. https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/should-you-buy-a-home-generator-key-costs-to-keep-in-mind/#ftag=CADf328eec
First models reportedly will be black and white, with five cameras and less of a visible crease. https://www.cnet.com/tech/details-about-the-first-iphone-foldable-are-coming-into-focus/#ftag=CADf328eec
Google's new Gmail feature lets you tame your cluttered inbox without any hassle. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/managing-your-gmail-subscriptions-has-never-been-easier-with-this-new-feature/#ftag=CADf328eec
Here are hints and the answer for today's extra-tough Wordle for Aug. 25, No. 1,528. https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/todays-wordle-answer-is-tough-hints-and-help-for-aug-25-1528/#ftag=CADf328eec
The gluten-free pastas take mere minutes to prepare. Around $5.50 per serving, they cost less than it would to make from scratch. https://www.cnet.com/health/nutrition/a-year-later-and-im-still-obsessed-with-daily-harvests-5-premade-pasta-dishes/#ftag=CADf328eec
Nearly half of US adults don't want a meal kit subscription. I was in that camp, but having another baby could change that. https://www.cnet.com/health/meal-kit-subscriptions-werent-for-me-until-i-considered-postpartum-recovery/#ftag=CADf328eec
Finchetto unveils photonic switch that could outpace electronics a thousandfold, reshaping hyperscale networking for the AGI era.
Andy Cohen and Ariana Madix expertly feign concern while picking gleefully at fresh wounds. Here's how to watch the Love Island USA season 7 reunion online.
The beauty of a mini PC is that it’s small enough to take up very little space on your desk, powerful enough to get you through the day without breaking a sweat, and affordable enough for anyone. For example, check out today’s hot mini PC deal: the Kamrui E3B mini PC is only $278 at Amazon right now if you use promo
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$500 is something of a sweet spot for budget laptops. There are plenty of them that slide under that price…and very few that I’d actually recommend, since I think you need a decent processor and at least 16GB of RAM to run Windows 11 well. Today’s HP deal, cutting an OmniBook 5’s price nearly in half, is a budget laptop actually worth buying. It’s going
An apparent leak of the planned notebook CPU releases from AMD and Intel have revealed both company’s plans through 2025 and beyond, showing off a complex AMD roadmap that extends in 2027 with the release of “Gator Range” and AMD’s Zen 6 architecture.
The roadmap was published on the website of Seleno, a Spanish electronics manufacturer, and downloadable fr
ASRock has launched a special 16-pin power cable with over-temperature protection for its Taichi and Phantom Gaming power supplies.
On this day 34 years ago, an unknown computer science student from Finland humbly announced that a new free operating system project was 'starting to get ready.'
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI is suing Apple and OpenAI, as reported by Reuters. The suit accuses the companies of illegally conspiring to stop rival AI companies from getting a fair shot on the App Store, alleging they have "locked up markets to maintain their monopolies and prevent
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is bullish on the future of robotics, and sees it as the
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Most food is still fine to eat even after its sell-by date, but that doesn't stop supermarket chains from throwing it out. I tried an app that lets you buy groceries that are deemed "on the bubble" for up to 50% off. https://www.cnet.com/news/grocery-stores-toss-30-of-food-this-app-lets-you-buy-it-for-cheap-before-they-do/#ftag=CADf328eec
Joe Gebbia, who also did work for Elon Musk's DOGE project, says he wants government services "to be as satisfying to use as the Apple Store." https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/the-white-house-wants-to-beautify-us-websites-this-airbnb-co-founder-is-in-charge/#ftag=CADf328eec
Soon, you can catch these offbeat anti-heroes on streaming. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/marvels-thunderbolts-hits-disney-plus-this-week-heres-when-to-watch/#ftag=CADf328eec
While industry analysts are predicting Apple will release new AirPods Pro 3 this fall, they're also saying the second-gen AirPods Max won't be arriving anytime soon. https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/report-dont-expect-new-airpods-max-2-at-apples-iphone-17-event/#ftag=CADf328eec
The lawsuit alleges that Apple and OpenAI's deal to bring ChatGPT to iPhone users is an "anti-competitive scheme" that hurts competitors like xAI. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/elon-musk-sues-apple-openai-over-iphone-ai-deal/#ftag=CADf328eec
I love taking my Switch 2 on the road, but its battery life can pose a problem for longer journeys. Thankfully, this case has me covered in more ways than one.
I haven't had the offer of extended Windows 10 support yet - and neither have quite a few others reportedly.
Great sound quality is important, but so are dashing looks – these 5 headphone models are among the most stylish that money can buy.
https://www.techradar.com/audio/headphones/5-best-looking-headphones
Google’s estimates on energy usage might be a lowball, experts say.
European firms overwhelmingly depend on American digital infrastructure, leaving vital industries exposed to foreign oversight, surveillance risks, talent drain, and geopolitical leverage.
Sennheiser has announced a major software update for its flagship Ambeo Max, a soundbar first released in 2019.
FreeVPN.One, a popular Google Chrome Web Store VPN extension with over 100,000 installs, has been secretly grabbing screenshots of every website the user visits and sending them to a domain controlled by the software's anonymous developer.
YouTube admits it’s modifying videos with machine learning—but insists it’s not AI. Creators say it’s a breach of trust.
https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/youtube-admits-video-tampering-not-ai
If you're running LLMs locally on your PC using Ollama there's one key hardware spec you need to take into consideration. If not, your performance will tank.
We caught up with Ion Hazzikostas and Holly Longdale to talk about the past, present, and future of World of Warcraft.
You might have played around with God modes in PC games before, where you type in a code to get supernatural powers that defy the normal physics of the game or make you invincible. Surprise! Windows 10 and 11 has one of those too.
In Windows’ case, though, you don’t get supernatural powers. What you get is access to a whole heap of commands that you’d norma
Picking the right laptop can be difficult, especially since there are so many options out there and so many specs to consider. And don’t get me started on price! Because today’s laptops are all over the place. But if you’re in the market for a higher-end machine, the Asus ROG Strix G16 is one you’ll love for years to come—and right now, instead of shelling out the us
“If the product is free, you are the product.”
You can apply that thinking to pretty much anything supported by advertising or data collection, including tools like Chrome and Gmail. (And you’re not paying to read these words, are you? Food for thought.) But one VPN tool, claiming to increase user privacy and security, might be snooping on the people it’s
If you want to continue using Windows 10 safely after October 2025—and if an upgrade to Windows 11 is off the table for you—then you should know that Microsoft offers three different options (see below) for extending security updates for Windows 10. To extend security updates, you’ll have to cl
PC builders with ASRock motherboards paired to the latest AMD processors have been having some rotten luck lately. And while BIOS updates allegedly had things resolved earlier this summer, it looks like the problems haven’t gone away. Amid failing CPUs a
If you’re going to get an insanely large monitor for your PC, you might as well splurge on the best out there, right? I’m talking about something like this 49-inch Samsung Odyssey OLED that’s 44% off on Amazon, with its price slashed down to just $899.99. That’s an insane $700 savings on one of the biggest and badde
Microsoft has released a new test version of Windows 11—version KB5064093, also known as Windows Insider Preview Build 26200.5761. Among the new features is the ability to resume apps from an Android phone directly on the PC. The firs
When it comes to storing or transferring private files, a physical drive is hard to beat. Compared to cloud storage, physical drives are safer, faster, and more reliable. And right now, you can snag the 256GB Samsung Bar Plus flash drive for just $22 on Amazon, which is a great get as it’s 33% cheaper than its origi
Like most of you, I’ve been using Windows for basically my entire life. And I’ve only briefly been tempted by the alternatives… but with Microsoft’s behavior as of late, those temptations are becoming less brief. If you feel the same way, you might want to check out PC
In recent years, Mozilla Firefox has lost a good deal of market share in the web browser space. It’s hard to pin that loss on any one factor, but part of it has been its slow speed in adding several popular browser features.
One such feature? Progressive web apps! Also known as PWAs, progressive web apps are basically websites that can be installed onto you
A fast solid-state drive (SSD) is indispensable for modern PCs and laptops. Unlike with traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), operating systems launch much faster, apps load much faster, and files transfer much faster with SSDs. And if you’re going to add an SSD to your setup, you’re likely best off with a 1TB drive as that size offers the best bang for your buck.
Elon Musk lays out his highly-ambitious plans to scale xAI's compute power to 50 million H100-equivalent GPUs in the next five years. He doubles down on the vision while open-sourcing Grok 2.5 and even claiming that eventually billions of AI GPUs' worth of power will be in the palm of xAI's hands.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/elon-musk-doubles-
Brave and Guardio have revealed serious vulnerabilities in the AI-powered Comet browser.
Rising power demands from AI GPUs like Nvidia's Blackwell and future Rubin and Feynman processors are pushing data centers beyond air and cold-plate cooling, making immersion cooling appear inevitable within a few years despite high costs and complexity. But is the industry ready?
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/liquid-cooling/immersion-cooling-fo
A Microsoft Xbox 360 console that refuses to play due to ‘bad debt’ has raised more than a few eyebrows.
AMD’s leaked mobile roadmap suggests Zen 6-based Medusa and Gator Range CPUs will arrive in 2027, bringing Copilot+-ready NPUs to premium, mainstream, and gaming laptops, while Zen 5-powered Gorgon Point will hit in 2026, and older chips like Mendocino and Hawk Point will persist at the entry level for quite a while.
As an iPhone user who has watched the release of foldable Android mobile phones with envy, I can't wait for 2026. Yes, Apple's 2025 iPhone launch event is next month, but I've been eyeing Apple's first foldable iPhone, rumored to launch next year. It's part of three years of Apple's planned iPhone redesigns.
While this would be a new addition
We now have the opening dates for Netflix's branded entertainment complexes that we first learned of in 2023. The 100,000-square-foot amusement centers
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I recently released v3 of Base, my SQLite editor for macOS.
The goal of this app is to provide a comfortable native GUI for SQLite, without it turning into a massive IDE-style app.
The coolest features are
- That it can handle full altering of tables, which is quite finicky to do manually with SQLite.
- It has a more detailed display of column constraints than most editors. Each constraint is shown as an icon if active, with full details available on clicking the icon.
This update
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President Donald Trump is calling national security and privacy concerns related to
Ryan is joined by Tuhin Srivastava, CEO and co-founder of Baseten, to explore the evolving landscape of AI infrastructure and inference workloads, how the shift from traditional machine learning models to large-scale neural networks has made GPU usage challenging, and the potential future of hardware-specific optimizations in AI.
The most effective learning doesn’t happen in a classroom. It happens during work. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/08/25/making-continuous-learning-work-at-work/
As if to hit back at Google’s lengthy dunk on wired headphones, the most beautiful USB-C pair of cans I’ve ever seen just landed in my inbox – for $68
3 Body Problem season 2 is currently in production, and according to one of its new stars, episodes are 'pretty epic.'
Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles.
https://www.techradar.com/gaming/nyt-connections-today-answers-hints-26-august-2025
Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram.
https://www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/nyt-strands-today-answers-hints-26-august-2025
Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions.
https://www.techradar.com/computing/websites-apps/quordle-today-answers-clues-26-august-2025
The future is here, with agentic AI tools changing our lives, prompting new concerns about trust, ethics, and privacy.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/agentic-ai-unlocking-new-potential-demanding-new-rules
How cyber criminals are weaponizing psychology over malware with scattered spider, the techniques they are using, and the warning signs to look out for.
Justin Ridge, Principal Engineer at Nokia, explores the next steps for streaming technology to meet its full potential.
Microsoft Excel's new Copilot AI is great at classifying, summarizing, and generating content, but sucks at any task requiring accuracy or reproducibility.
This week, Square Enix has ordered a cease and desist order against the maker of the Mare Synchronos mod for Final Fantasy XIV, demanding it's shut down. This action has been met with severe backlash from fans, who are review bombing the MMORPG on Steam as we speak.
https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/why-final-fantasy-xiv-fans-are-review-bombing-the-game-
Imagine yourself at work in a busy office. Colleagues chatter away. Your boss approaches your desk, as you’re asking a question of Copilot: How do I win the Northwind account? They notice, turn, and give you a look.
What is that look? Condescending? Approving? Collegial? And how do you feel when you receive it? Like you’re part of the team or that
I don’t know how your tech drawers look, but mine are filled with wires I’ll likely never use again because technology has advanced quite a bit. Thankfully, USB-C seems to be here to stay since there is no wrong way to plug these things in. It’s not just smartphones, tablets, and laptops that use these, however, but also a long list of gadgets.
We’ve scoure
IT and security experts have long recommended using password managers to keep your login data safe and in one place. They’re generally considered reliable and secure, but a common vulnerability has now been discovered in 11 providers that hacker
Dolby Atmos in your living room isn’t as easy as it sounds. Whether you’re dealing with a component A/V system or a soundbar, your speakers must be carefully positioned and calibrated to create that immersive Atmos experience—and if your furniture is in the way, you’ll just need to move it.
But with its new FlexConnect technology, Dolby is looking to make
If the Wi-Fi suddenly disappears, it’s not always the internet provider’s fault. Sometimes the culprit is a simple power outage. All it takes is a brief interruption for your router to restart or go totally offline. This is especially frustrating during important video calls or right in the middle of a critical update. The easy fix? A power bank as an emergency power
No, you aren’t imagining things. Microsoft has indeed started showing full-screen notifications more frequently in Windows 10 since the August 2025 update, reports Windows Latest.
The nagging notifications warn that suppor
Efforts to commercialize UltraRAM have made a significant stride forward with the development of a scalable new industrial process.
The 20TB Seagate Expansion Desktop HDD is currently available at Amazon for $229—one of its best prices to date for the hard drive.
A prisoner has complained about his legal appeals being stymied by ancient 'like 1985' computer resources.
Google is changing the way you confirm if contacts are legit. The company has begun rolling out a QR code to verify that the person you're communicating with is, in fact, who they say they are, 9to5Google reports. The feature is currently available in beta.
An end-to-end encryption card isn't anything new, bu