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If you’ve been waiting to try Apple TV+, now’s the time to jump in. You can get six months of access for only $36 for Black Friday, giving you a chance to stream award-winning originals like Severance, Ted Lasso and The Morning Show. The offer is live for a limited time through December 1, so if you haven’t signed up before, it’s a great time to see what the service has to offer. The biggest caveat to the deal is that you must subscribe directly through Apple and not through a third-party service.Apple TV+ continues to build one of the…

At the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix race, Rich Johnson can hear the distant percussive blats of the F1 cars racing in downtown Las Vegas, but he won’t get to see them all weekend. And he’s fine with that.Although he’s in town specifically for the event, his main focus is ensuring that, in the event of any emergencies, first responders can communicate and coordinate effectively. I spent time with Johnson, the associate director of network disaster recovery for AT&T, to learn more about an important piece of the race weekend that most people won’t — and shouldn’t have to…

The massive annual Argos Black Friday sale is already in full swing this week so there’s no need to wait if you’re looking to get your shopping done early. In fact, the retailer is constantly releasing new Black Friday deals on everything from home furnishings to smartwatches – including some of our favourite models, in fact.- Check out the Argos Black Friday sale in fullI’ve been scanning through today’s huge Argos Black Friday sale to find the best deals on products that we recommend. Highlights include Ninja air fryers, LG OLED TVs, Apple iPads, and plenty of cheap home appliances…

If you’re looking to start or expand your network using UniFi hardware, which has become increasingly relevant to home and SMB users since the beginning of 2025, here’s some good news: Ubiquiti today announced a long list of devices with special pricing during its first UniFi Black Friday sale event. These devices span the entire ecosystem. Specifically, they include UniFi Cloud Gateways (or “routers”), PoE switches, access points, security cameras, and more. In short, there’s something for everyone. Those who want to start with UniFi today should start with a cloud gateway (a.k.a. “router”), and if you have already had…

Thousands of Asus routers have been hacked and are under the control of a suspected China-state group that has yet to reveal its intentions for the mass compromise, researchers said. The hacking spree is either primarily or exclusively targeting seven models of Asus routers, all of which are no longer supported by the manufacturer, meaning they no longer receive security patches, researchers from SecurityScorecard said. So far, it’s unclear what the attackers do after gaining control of the devices. SecurityScorecard has named the operation WrtHug. Staying off the radar SecurityScorecard said it suspects the compromised devices are being used similarly…

There’s no denying Apple’s massive reputation in the tech world. And it appears it’s not just hype — our reviews put an Apple product at the top of our buying guides to tablets, smartwatches, smartphones and laptops. But Apple devices aren’t cheap. That’s why it’s a good idea to wait for Apple Black Friday deals. You won’t find pure discounts at Apple’s site, but retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Target, Best Buy and more are happy to discount iPads, Apple Watches, MacBooks, and AirPods— and we’ve rounded up the best sales right here. Check out the best Black Friday Apple deals…

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.Today’s Connections: Sports Edition is a fun one. If you know a Gen Z person, you might be familiar with their favorite nonsense phrase, “6-7.” The puzzle editors throw a 6 and a 7 into the puzzle today just to see if we’re paying attention. Do the numbers end up in the same group? I bet you know the answer to that one. If you’re struggling with today’s puzzle but still…

The biggest perk of reviewing TVs professionally is getting hands-on time with a wide range of models, including each brand’s flagship models. 2025 yielded a bumper crop of fantastic TVs – I can’t remember a time when I’ve been more impressed with the picture quality of new sets – and many of these are now getting discounts in the Black Friday deals.A few of the flagship TVs I tested in 2025 have earned a spot in our best OLED TVs guide. One of those, the Panasonic Z95B OLED TV, has yet to get a Black Friday deal, though it’s early…

The UniFi Device Bridge Switch (a.k.a. UDB Switch, model UDB-Switch) announced by Ubiquiti today is a unique PoE network switch—it’s more than a typical one. Besides being a standard PoE unmanaged switch, it can also use Wi-Fi as the uplink in a UniFi environment. And that flexibility can be a game-changer. Here’s the bottom line: The UDB Switch is a versatile device that combines a Multi-Gig PoE+ switch and a fast Wi-Fi 7 media bridge in a compact hardware box. The result is a solution that has more than enough to justify the suggested retail price of $299. Suppose you…

Cloudflare’s proxy service has limits to prevent excessive memory consumption, with the bot management system having “a limit on the number of machine learning features that can be used at runtime.” This limit is 200, well above the actual number of features used. “When the bad file with more than 200 features was propagated to our servers, this limit was hit—resulting in the system panicking” and outputting errors, Prince wrote. Worst Cloudflare outage since 2019 The number of 5xx error HTTP status codes served by the Cloudflare network is normally “very low” but soared after the bad file spread across…