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Formula 1 has been receiving star treatment from Apple for awhile, and now the racing series will literally be getting even bigger. Apple is partnering with IMAX to show five races from the 2026 season. The Miami Grand Prix on May 3, the Monaco Grand Prix on June 7, the British Grand Prix on July 5, the Italian Grand Prix on September 6 and the United States Grand Prix on October 25 will be aired live at select IMAX theaters in the US.Apple landed a five-year deal for the US broadcast rights to Formula 1 last fall and there’s already…

Apple is facing a lawsuit filed Thursday by West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey over allegations that iCloud is being used to store and distribute child sexual abuse material online. McCuskey alleges that Apple knew about this “for years” and “chose to do nothing about it.”The lawsuit contains alleged iMessage screenshots between Apple executives Eric Friedman and Herve Sibert acknowledging the storage and distribution of CSAM on iCloud back in February 2020.”In an iMessage conversation about whether Apple might be putting too much emphasis on privacy and not enough on trust and child safety, Friedman boasted that iCloud is ‘the…

Todd Howard has discussed The Elder Scrolls 6 in a new interviewHe said that it will return to the studio’s “classic style” of explorationHe also reiterated that “it’s going to be a while yet” until the game arrivesBethesda director Todd Howard has indicated that The Elder Scrolls 6 will be something of a return to form for the studio compared to Starfield and Fallout 76.Speaking in a video interview with KindaFunny (via IGN), Howard revealed that “the majority of people who made Skyrim” are still at the studio and hard at work on the next installment. He also claimed that…

Ubiquiti’s UNAS Pro 4 (model UNAS-Pro-4) is the final server in the Next-Gen UniFi Storage series, which includes four servers unveiled by Ubiquiti last year. It becomes available for purchase today. As a four-bay network-attached storage server, it’s similar to the UNAS 4 in terms of capacities. However, there are significant differences between the two. This quick take will highlight the differences to help you decide which one to bring home. Related stories on Ubiquiti and Wi-Fi Pros Rackmount design with dual SFP+ ports to deliver fast performance, comparatively affordable Four drive bay with advanced RAID support and optional NVMe SSD cache…

Migrations are ongoing Broadcom introduced changes to VMware that are especially unfriendly to small- and-medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and Gartner previously predicted that 35 percent of VMware workloads would migrate else by 2028. CloudBolt’s survey also examined how respondents are migrating workloads off of VMware. Currently, 36 percent of participants said they migrated 1–24 percent of their environment off of VMware. Another 32 percent said that they have migrated 25–49 percent; 10 percent said that they’ve migrated 50–74 percent of workloads; and 2 percent have migrated 75 percent or more of workloads. Five percent of respondents said that they have not…

Google has announced that using its newly incorporated Lyria 3 model, Gemini users will be able to generate 30-second music tracks based on a prompt, or remix an existing track to their liking. The new model builds on Gemini’s pre-existing ability to generate text, images and video, and will also be available in YouTube’s “Dream Track” feature, where it can be used to generate detailed backing tracks for Shorts.Like some other music generation tools, prompting Gemini doesn’t require a lot of detail to produce serviceable results. Google’s example prompt is “a comical R&B slow jam about a sock finding their…

Stoves are disappearing at the Kitchen and Bath Industry Show, at least to the naked eye. A new stove concept from SKS, dubbed the “Hidden Induction Stove,” debuted here at KBIS in Orlando, Florida, and transforms an everyday stone countertop into a fully functional induction cooktop. We saw the stovetop in action. Well, sort of. The pot of water sitting atop the counter appeared to be boiling with a steady flow of steam rising from within — no sign of an actual stovetop. Further inspection revealed that the stove wasn’t on and the steam was being produced by a small device…

Samsung has announced pre-order perks for the Galaxy S26 seriesIn the UK and other parts of Europe this includes the ability to double your storage for freeHowever, this particular perk isn’t currently listed in the US or AustraliaRising memory prices are a real worry for this year’s smartphones, as it’s expected that costs will climb, and in turn, there was some doubt over whether Samsung would offer its usual pre-order perk of double storage. But we now know that the company will — at least in some regions, and with some caveats.The company now lets you register your interest in…

Over the past 15 years, password managers have grown from a niche security tool used by the technology savvy into an indispensable security tool for the masses, with an estimated 94 million US adults—or roughly 36 percent of them—having adopted them. They store not only passwords for pension, financial, and email accounts, but also cryptocurrency credentials, payment card numbers, and other sensitive data. All eight of the top password managers have adopted the term “zero knowledge” to describe the complex encryption system they use to protect the data vaults that users store on their servers. The definitions vary slightly from…

Texas is suing Wi-Fi router maker TP-Link for deceptively marketing the security of its products and allowing Chinese hacking groups to access Americans’ devices, Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced. Paxton originally started looking into TP-Link in October 2025. Texas Governor Greg Abbott later prohibited state employees from using TP-Link products in January of this year.TP-Link is no longer owned by a Chinese company and its products are assembled in Vietnam, but Paxton’s lawsuit claims that because the company’s “ownership and supply-chain are tied to China” it’s subject to the country’s data laws, which require companies to comply with requests…