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As a travel router, the TP-Link Roam 7 has gone through a lot. TP-Link first announced it at the beginning of 2025 as the TL-WR3602BE, then made it available for purchase on August 5 of the same year under that same cryptic name. In early 2026, TP-Link quietly adopted a new “Roam” branding for its travel routers. With that, “TL-WR3602BE” became the “Roam 7 BE3600” (and the previous Wi-Fi 6 version, “TL-WR3002X”, became the “Roam 6 AX3000”). While a bit confusing, the new naming convention makes sense. Here’s the bottom line: The TP-Link Roam 7, designed to rival the ASUS RT-BE58…

Over the weekend, AMD said it planned to do just that in a firmware update scheduled for release next month. More often than not, the chipmaker refers to TSME as Memory Guard. “Regarding certain non-PRO Ryzen 9000-series desktop processors, a BIOS option to enable Memory Guard was previously available but was removed in a recent update,” AMD said in an email. “Based on valuable community feedback, we will reinstate this option in an upcoming BIOS release in July.” The company has yet to explain why it removed the protection. Critics speculate that AMD dropped it in an attempt to steer…

This won’t make the already-controversial AI training endeavor any more popular. PJ McDonnell/Shutterstock Meta has paused use of an AI training program that tracks its own employees’ keystrokes and mouse movements. The company has suspended the Model Capability Initiative, not because of workers’ understandable displeasure around being (almost) perpetually monitored or for potentially breaking privacy laws, but because it caused an internal data leak. Business Insider reported that sensitive data collected through MCI, including employees’ private conversations, performance data and transcriptions, was made inadvertently available to the entire Meta staff. “We have carefully designed this program…

Beware: Dating an AI chatbot may lessen your chances of finding love.A new study from Match Group, the dating company behind popular dating apps like Tinder and Hinge, found that nearly half (47%) of the roughly 1,000 people ages 18 to 39 it surveyed “view AI in romantic contexts negatively.” And it’s a hard pass for most singles if you’re interested in AI companion apps, like Kindroid and Replika. Two in five singles aged 18 to 39 refuse to date someone who uses these apps, including over half (51%) of women aged 18 to 24, according to Match Group’s findings.Online dating can…

The country of Georgia has finally arrived on Google Street ViewGoogle has highlighted several major sights worth seeingThe imagery is available in Google Maps and Google EarthStreet View is still expanding, almost 20 years after Google first launched it, and the East European country of Georgia is the latest to be added to the platform — with some spectacular sites and landmarks included, besides all the roads and highways.”Georgia is a country defined by the scale of its history and the dramatic diversity of its landscapes,” says Google, who worked with the Georgian government to get the country on the…

Tesco is also dealing with migration challenges related to data security because its new, unnamed virtualization software is incompatible with the Veeam and Zerto products it uses. “Manifestly unfair and excessive” price hike Tesco initially requested at least 100 million pounds (about $133.6 million) in damages each from Broadcom, VMware, and reseller Computacenter, plus interest. In its recent filings, Tesco said it turned down at least four offers from Broadcom to continue using VMware and Broadcom’s mainframe tech. One offer charged $23.5 million (about 17.6 million pounds) for VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 and mainframe software and support services for a…

The Wall Street Journal reviewed 1,105 videos along with guidance given to creators for crafting their posts. Polymarket In case you needed another reason to be wary of those videos showing people winning big on Polymarket, an investigation by The Wall Street Journal has found that the company is paying social media creators to post misleading content promoting the prediction market. Of the 1,105 TikTok videos the publication reviewed, 778 appeared to show someone placing a bet — but a closer look reportedly revealed that none of the latter featured the actual Polymarket website, instead using…

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today’s NYT Strands puzzle has a fun topic, though it might be better suited for October. Some of the answers are difficult to unscramble, so if you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story.  If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page. Read more: NYT Connections Turns 1:…

Two teams eyeing their first win at the FIFA World Cup 2026 meet in Los Angeles as Belgium face Iran in Group G on Sunday, June 21.Belgium needed a second-half own goal to salvage a draw against Egypt in their World Cup opener but finished strongly. Romelu Lukaku forced the equaliser just 22 seconds after coming off the bench, leaving manager Rudi Garcia with a selection dilemma. Belgium’s record scorer has played only 69 minutes for Napoli this season due to injury and is without a goal in his last eight World Cup appearances, but showed against Egypt that he…

Some of the SpaceX investors on Kahlon’s ledger are easy to identify: the Indian politician Abhishek Singhvi; Betsy DeVos, the former US secretary of education; a British Virgin Islands company owned by Indonesian billionaires. But others on the list are shell companies whose ultimate owners remain hidden. One such company is a Delaware LLC called HAL9001 Partners Fund I, which invested roughly $10 million in a SpaceX fund in 2020. The incorporation documents for HAL9001 were signed by the venture capitalist Roman Sobachevskiy. The Treasury Department recently fined a company that was co-owned by Sobachevskiy hundreds of millions of dollars…