Asus announces 'immediate internal review' of 800-series motherboards following string of 9800X3D failures — users report multiple chip failures in recent days

tomshardware - Asus says it is investigating reports concerning its 800-series motherboards and 9800X3D processors following user complaints of hardware failures.

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Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop

Simon Sharwood / theregister - Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming ‘silly ones’ The maintainer of popular open-source data transfer tool cURL has ended the project’s bug bounty program after maintainers struggled to assess a flood of AI-generated contrib…

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Microsoft confirms strange Windows 11 update bug affecting Outlook POP accounts

Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - Some users of Outlook are reporting that they are experiencing problems after installing the KB5074109 update for Windows 11. Released just a few days ago, the update is causing Outlook to hang or freeze. While Microsoft has acknowledged the reports, it i…

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Sony, Anker, and other headphones have a serious Google Fast Pair security vulnerability

Andrew Liszewski / theverge - Several Bluetooth audio devices from companies like Sony, Anker, and Nothing are susceptible to a new flaw that can allow attackers to listen in on conversations or track devices that use Google's Find Hub network, as reported by Wired. Researchers from K…

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Verizon just had a big outage. Here's what we know

John Ruwitch / npr - Verizon says a software problem caused the glitch and they are conducting a postmortem, but experts say outages are "a fact of life" these days.

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Anthropic’s Claude Cowork is a fresh drag on software stocks. Are investors overreacting?

@MarketWatch / x - Anthropic’s Claude Cowork is a fresh drag on software stocks. Are investors overreacting? trib.al/knLU72a— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) Jan 15, 2026

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Apple Releases New Firmware for AirPods Pro 3

iclarified - Apple has released a firmware update for the AirPods Pro 3 today. The new version is 8B34, up from the 8B30 build released last month.Continue ReadingShare Article:Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, EmailFollow iClarified:Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Ne…

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Instagram denies data breach: So whats up with those sketchy change password emails?

mashable - Instagram said there wasn't a data breach, but the company did fix a bug that led to an external actor sending password reset emails.

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I Tested the Honor Magic 8 Pro and Found a Huge Problem With the Camera

Andrew Lanxon / cnet - I discovered a catastrophic problem with this phone's cameras and it needs to be fixed fast.

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Logitech Caused Its Mice To Freak Out By Not Renewing a Certificate

msmash / slashdot - An anonymous reader shares a report: If you're among the macOS users experiencing some weird issues with your Logitech mouse, then good news: Logitech has now released a fix. This comes after multiple Reddit users reported yesterday that Logi Options Plus…

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'I Switched To eSIM in 2025, and I am Full of Regret'

msmash / slashdot - Google's Pixel 10 series arrived this year as the company's first eSIM-only lineup in the United States, forcing users who wanted to review or buy the new phones to abandon their physical SIM cards entirely. Ryan Whitwam, a senior technology reporter at A…

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No, It’s Not Just You – Steam Is Currently Down, Website and Store Pages Offline [Update]

David Carcasole / wccftech - Update 24/12/2025 3:36 pm EST - The Steam store and website are back online. Altogether, the store was only offline for a little over an hour. You can go back to redeeming those gift cards and squeezing every cent out of them during the Winter Sale. That …

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I am heartbroken by the antisemitic terrorist attack on Jews celebrating Chanukah at Bondi Beach. My thoughts are with the victims, their families, and all of our Australian Ohana. Thank you to Ahmed al-Ahmed for his incredible bravery—turning tragedy int

@Benioff / x - I am heartbroken by the antisemitic terrorist attack on Jews celebrating Chanukah at Bondi Beach. My thoughts are with the victims, their families, and all of our Australian Ohana. Thank you to Ahmed al-Ahmed for his incredible bravery—turning tragedy int…

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Apple Updates AirPods Pro 3 and AirPods Pro 2 Firmware to 8B30 and 8B28

iclarified - Apple released firmware updates today for the AirPods Pro 3 and AirPods Pro 2. The new firmware version is 8B30 for the AirPods Pro 3, up from the 8B25 build released last month. The AirPods Pro 2 have been updated to version 8B28, up from 8B21.Continue R…

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HBO Max’s Mad Men 4K release is the opposite of a remaster

Charles Pulliam-Moore / theverge - Though HBO Max was very proud to announce that it would be the first platform to stream Mad Men in 4K, the show's new rollout has been an absolute mess. When HBO Max subscribers fired up the app yesterday hoping to see Don Draper and company in glorious 4…

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Shopify is down, disrupting Cyber Monday shopping

Kris Holt / engadget - Here’s hoping the retailers offering tasty Cyber Monday deals that caught your eye aren’t having trouble with Shopify. The ecommerce platform is experiencing some issues. According to a support page, some merchants were having trouble logging into the Sho…

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Years-old bugs in open source tool left every major cloud open to disruption

Jessica Lyons / theregister - Fluent Bit has 15B+ deployments … and 5 newly assigned CVEs A series of "trivial-to-exploit" vulnerabilities in Fluent Bit, an open source log collection tool that runs in every major cloud and AI lab, was left open for years, giving attackers an exploit …

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Apple prepares a system-wide code cleanup in iOS 27 to pave the way for AI

Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Apple is reportedly planning a strategic shift for its next major operating system update, iOS 27, prioritizing system stability and performance refinement over the introduction of flashy new features. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his Power On …

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iOS 27 will reportedly focus on performance improvements and AI upgrades

Cheyenne MacDonald / engadget - After years of introducing major changes with its annual iOS releases, Apple may be altering its approach next time around, instead focusing on refinement over a bevy of flashy new features. According to Mark Gurman in this week's Power On newsletter, for…

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