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It felt like half of the internet was dealing with a hangover from the morning of October 19 to the early hours of October 20. A severe Amazon Web Services outage took out many, many websites, apps, games and other services that rely on Amazon’s cloud division to stay up and running. That included a long list of popular software like Venmo, Snapchat, Canva and Fortnite. Even Amazon’s own assistant Alexa stuttered, and if you were wondering why the internet seemed to be against you — you weren’t imagining it. The good news is that, Amazon announced by 6:53PM Eastern…

Wikipedia has seen a decline in users this year due to artificial intelligence summaries in search engine results and the growing popularity of social media, according to a blog post Friday from Marshall Miller of the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization that oversees the free online encyclopedia.Don’t miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. Add CNET as a preferred Google source.In the post, Miller describes an 8% drop in human pageviews over the last few months compared with the numbers Wikipedia saw in the same months in 2024.”We believe that these declines reflect the impact of generative AI…

Oura, the company behind the Oura Ring, has redesigned its companion appThe app has a new look, layout, and AI-powered insightsNew features include a Cumulative Stress metric and advanced AI-powered Cycle TrackingOura Ring 4 and Oura Ring Generation 3 users are getting a redesigned app with AI-powered features pushed to the forefront.The new-look app promises, according to an Oura press release, ‘deeper personalization’ and ‘intelligent curation’ – in other words, you’re getting less of a static interface and more features, metrics, and advice selected and generated by AI. It’s not just a new coat of paint: the makers of one…

This post will help you install Windows 11 on an Intel-based Mac. If you have a Mac powered by Apple’s M-series chip, you can’t install Windows on it without using an emulator, a virtual machine, which is not ideal. That said, in this case, you can forget about Windows altogether, which is why you wanted to use a Mac in the first place. On the other hand, if you have a Mac powered by an Intel CPU, you can use the Boot Camp Assistant (BCA) app to install Windows 10 natively as a dual-boot option alongside macOS. All you need is…

And speaking of cost, Haiku 4.5 is included for subscribers of the Claude web and app plans. Through the API (for developers), the small model is priced at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. That compares to Sonnet 4.5 at $3 per million input and $15 per million output tokens, and Opus 4.1 at $15 per million input and $75 per million output tokens. The model serves as a cheaper drop-in replacement for two older models, Haiku 3.5 and Sonnet 4. “Users who rely on AI for real-time, low-latency tasks like chat assistants, customer service…

Links have proven to be a tricky thing when it comes to social media engagement. On platforms like Threads, data suggests that people often don’t click the links in posts, and creators on X have complained that posts including links don’t get as much visibility. X is now trying to solve that. Head of product Nikita Bier shared that the platform is “testing a new link experience” that lets people open a link without leaving the original post entirely, so they can still view the Like, Repost and other buttons. The test is rolling out to iOS users first.”To help…

When to watch the Atlanta Falcons vs. San Francisco 49ersSunday, Oct. 19, at 8:20 p.m. ET (5:20 p.m. PT).Where to watch The Falcons-49ers game will be broadcast nationally on NBC and streamed on Peacock. The Atlanta Falcons are starting to look frisky. They’ve won their last two games to get to 3-2 on the year, with second-year quarterback Michael Penix Jr. looking more comfortable with each passing week and Bijan Robinson looking like one of the best running backs in the league. The Falcons face a 49ers team tonight that’s 4-2 but has been beset with injury, the latest blow coming…

As far as mini PCs go, my absolute favorite is the Apple Mac mini (M4). It’s powerful, compact, and robust, and right now only $30 more than its lowest price ever. That means you can pick up the incredible Apple Mac mini (M4) at Best Buy for $499 (was $599).This model of the Mac mini has the super powerful M4 chip, 16GB of memory, and a 256GB SSD. The fact that you can get it for under $500 is frankly a little ludicrous. I’ve no idea why it doesn’t get more airtime, but let me assure you, you’re not going…

The TUF Gaming BE6500 Wi-Fi 7 router (model TUF-BE6500) is the fourth dual-band Wi-Fi 7 router from ASUS, and the first officially designated as a gaming router. In a way, it’s the Wi-Fi 7 version of the Wi-Fi 6 TUF-AX5400 I reviewed a few years ago. Short for “The Ultimate Force,” ASUS’s TUF brand is its non-ostentatious alternative to its ROG (or Republic of Gamers) product line. Among other things, the hardware doesn’t have the fancy RGB lighting, which is a trade-off for a lower cost, while the functionality remains the same. In that sense, it’s my type of gaming…

Thousands of networks—many of them operated by the US government and Fortune 500 companies—face an “imminent threat” of being breached by a nation-state hacking group following the breach of a major maker of software, the federal government warned Wednesday. F5, a Seattle-based maker of networking software, disclosed the breach on Wednesday. F5 said a “sophisticated” threat group working for an undisclosed nation-state government had surreptitiously and persistently dwelled in its network over a “long-term.” Security researchers who have responded to similar intrusions in the past took the language to mean the hackers were inside the F5 network for years. Unprecedented…