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Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Honor Magic 8 Pro review: Two-minute reviewAfter its strong showing with last year’s Magic 7 Pro, Chinese smartphone maker Honor is back with another excellent flagship. The Honor Magic 8 Pro is everything you could want from a top of the line smartphone, with a stacked spec sheet that features Qualcomm’s superb Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC (the same chip that powers the likes of the more expensive…

For more than a month, security practitioners have been warning about the perils of using OpenClaw, the viral AI agentic tool that has taken the development community by storm. A recently fixed vulnerability provides an object lesson for why. OpenClaw, which was introduced in November and now boasts 347,000 stars on Github, by design takes control of a user’s computer and interacts with other apps and platforms to assist with a host of tasks, including organizing files, doing research, and shopping online. To be useful, it needs access—and lots of it—to as many resources as possible. Telegram, Discord, Slack, local…

HarperCollins is tapping into AI to bring some of its book franchises to life. Specifically, the publisher is teaming up with Toonstar, an AI animation studio, to turn them into digital shows. The first project will be an adaptation of Lisa Greenwald’s “Friendship List” series, which will also be joined by a graphic novel.You’d be forgiven for being unaware of Toonstar, a studio that received some buzzy early on for simplifying typically complex animation pipelines with AI, but has mostly remained under the radar. Its biggest claim to fame is producing StEvEn and Parker YouTube series, which has amassed 3.38…

Amazon’s Prime Day sale is one of the biggest shopping events of the year. But for 2026, Amazon is reportedly shifting the dates of its annual sale, according to Bloomberg. Rumors are that the online retailer is moving the event from July to June, which means you could get your hands on some incredible deals that much faster — a big win if you didn’t get everything on your wish list during the company’s Big Spring Sale. But it also leaves you less time to budget and less time for competitors to plan any concurrent sales, as many have done…

Duc app exposed 360,000 unencrypted customer filesData included IDs, addresses, and transaction detailsDatabase secured after researcher alerted companyDuc App, a Canadian money transfer service provider, was leaking sensitive customer data to the wide web, allowing anyone with an internet connection and a browser to access it.Security researcher Anurag Sen from CyPeace recently discovered a publicly accessible Amazon-hosted storage server with sensitive data on hundreds of thousands of people.This included people’s names, home addresses, but also the dates, times, and details of their transactions. They also contained driver’s licenses, passports, and other documents collected during the Know Your Customer (KYC) registration…

Here’s some exciting news for fans of Wi-Fi 7 and UniFi hardware: The dream of fast Multi-Link Operation (a.k.a. STR MLO) is about to come true in a big way. In case you’re new: this development means your UniFi mesh system’s real-world performance will improve significantly. Still confused? Let’s dig in! The Ubiquiti AirWire (U-AirWire) is the first UniFi Wi-Fi 7 adapter with STR MLO. It’s shown here using the 5GHz band, as STR MLO has not yet been enabled on the broadcasting side, which will happen soon in the US. Related stories on Ubiquiti and Wi-Fi STR MLO and…

So where do we go now? The researchers said that both the RTX 3060 and RTX 6000 cards are vulnerable. Changing BIOS defaults to enable IOMMU closes the vulnerability, they said. Short for input-output memory management unit, IOMMU maps device-visible virtual addresses to physical addresses on the host memory. It can be used to make certain parts of memory off-limits. “In the context of our attack, an IOMMU can simply restrict the GPU from accessing sensitive memory locations on the host,” Kwong explained. “IOMMU is, however, disabled by default in the BIOS to maximize compatibility and because enabling the IOMMU…

In a surprise release, OpenAI has made ChatGPT’s Voice mode available through Apple CarPlay. If you’re running the latest version of both iOS and the ChatGPT app, and own a CarPlay-compatible vehicle, you can check out the experience. To get started, download all the necessary software, connect your iPhone to CarPlay and select “New voice chat” from ChatGPT. When the in-app text indicates ChatGPT is “listening,” you can start a conversation.There are some notable limitations to using ChatGPT Voice with CarPlay. For one, OpenAI’s chatbot can’t control car functions. If you want to adjust the cabin temperature or skip tracks,…

YouTube TV and Hulu Plus Live TV are popular among cord-cutters looking for a cable-like viewing experience. Jeffrey Hazelwood/CNETAre you aiming to replace cable TV? Two popular streaming platforms happen to be among of our favorite picks for cord-cutters and cord-cutter wannabes: Google’s YouTube TV and Disney-owned Hulu Plus Live TV. Both streamers offer a swath of live channels, such as CNN, ESPN and TNT, along with local stations ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC, among others  — all without a cable box.Yet, pricing for each service has steadily increased over the past few years. Currently, the least-expensive plan for YTTV is $83 a month,…

Apple has officially kicked off celebrations for its 50th birthday, and we’ve been following along the festivities through our live coverage.We’ve covered some of the best Apple products the company has released in the last half century (and some of the misses, too) and we’ve even taken a deep dive into the products that didn’t quite make it also.If you’ve also been following along and you’re also in a bit of a celebratory mood, then you can also join in on the fun by checking out these deals for a few of our favourite current-generation Apple products.I’ve highlighted savings on…