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As if PCs weren’t expensive enough already, Microsoft is reportedly now charging OEMs more for Windows licenses

Taiwanese news site United Daily News reports that, according to one source, Microsoft is charging Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) significantly more for Windows licensing fees this year than in previous years (via Wccftech). These are the fees that PC makers, for instance, must pay to Microsoft to package their machines with the operating system. UDN […]

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Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models

Anthropic will watermark text generated by its models, including Claude, to comply with European regulations, the company now says. The AI model maker confirmed the watermarking in an updated support page. EU AI Act’s Transparency Code, which took effect on August 2, requires AI companies to mark AI-generated or edited content in a way other

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You can now order this Android phone with a physical QWERTY keyboard

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. There was a time when phones with QWERTY keyboards were all the rage. That’s no longer the case today, where a bulk of the phones we see on retail shelves are conventional slab-style devices. However, some brands have tried to resurrect the idea

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Apple faces class action lawsuit for ‘fraud’ over iCloud Private Relay flaw

Security researchers last week revealed a flaw in Apple’s iCloud Private Relay feature. While this is supposed to protect your IP address from the websites you visit, a vulnerability means that it often fails to do so. Any time there’s a problem with an Apple product or service, a class action lawsuit is sure to

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After a slow start, Alan Wake 2 is finally doing the numbers for Remedy and has hit another major milestone

The developer-publisher shared the news in its half-year financial report covering January to June, where it announced the investigative horror shooter reached the 3 million sales milestone during the second quarter of the year. The last time Remedy offered an Alan Wake 2 sales update was in February last year, when the company announced it

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A strange Google Home app bug is automatically switching on smart lights across homes

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. A strange new bug in the Google Home app for iOS is turning smart lights on across users’ homes whenever the application is opened. While Google recently rolled out a major Google Home update packed with third-party camera support and performance tweaks, this

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Cisco warns of high-severity ClamAV flaws with public exploits

Cisco warned of two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting the Secure Endpoint Connector that allow threat actors to crash the ClamAV scanning process in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The security flaws (tracked as CVE-2026-20337 and CVE-2026-20338) were found in the ZIP archive parser of ClamAV (Clam AntiVirus), the open-source and cross-platform engine used to scan files for malware.

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Firefox stunts on Edge as Microsoft gears up to neuter adblockers: ‘uBlock Origin isn’t going anywhere’

Earlier this year, Google Chrome annoyed a whole lot of adblock users by killing support for Manifest V2 extensions. It’s a Manifest V3 world now, which means the permissions and APIs that thoroughgoing adblockers like uBlock Origin rely on are a thing of the past on Chrome (it’s since been replaced by a pared-down version:

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Early OnePlus 16 hype suggests firm may have ditched its key markets too soon

Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. The OnePlus 16‘s ins and outs remain nebulous, but it’ll seemingly pack a 165Hz display according to pre-release marketing slides, while rumors point to the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 SoC, a 200MP periscope camera, and a roomy 9,000mAh battery. It sounds brilliant

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