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See you next October, champ: Ka Ying Rising bids Sydney farewell
As Ka Ying Rising left Sydney, his trainer and jockey finally celebrated The Everest win with a few expensive bottles of red wine and cigars.

The AWS outage took down my Ring cam, and everyone else’s too
Did you wake up to unresponsive Ring cameras on Monday? Join the club. Amazon Web Services went on the fritz early Monday morning, and it took out a slew of online services with it—everything from Apple TV and Hulu to Reddit and Roblox. Plenty of cloud-connect smart home devices got hit by...

Google’s ‘Privacy Sandbox’ user tracking initiative is officially dead
If I offered you an alternative to conventional tracking cookies on the web, you might be interested, especially if you care about digital privacy. If I told you it was made by Google, the biggest provider of advertising and tracking data on the planet, you might be a lot less...

Cloud services outage knocks out websites globally
Potentially millions of users were left unable to access Canva, Amazon, Snapchat and Alexa in a global outage.

Your PC won’t boot. Stay calm—here’s how to get your data back
If your computer won’t start you might be pulling out your hair at the prospect of losing all your precious data. But all isn’t necessarily lost. If the drive is corrupted or dead, you are in a pickle. Any attempt to retrieve data in that case is going to be very...

Iranian official sparks renewed criticism as video of daughter's controversial wedding resurfaces

Firefighters battle blaze on Wellington's Tory St
A fire investigator is at the scene of a blaze that's caused disruption in central Wellington.

Several emergency call-outs hours before severe weather warning kicked in
High winds have been wreaking havoc in some parts of both islands thoughout the day.

Dell 16 Premium review: A beautiful mistake of a laptop
At a glanceExpert's Rating Pros Design looks and feels premium Great performance Beautiful OLED screen Speakers are excellent Cons Keyboard and touchpad abandon tactile feedback Limited ports (no USB Type-A or HDMI) Middle-of-the-road battery life Expensive Our Verdict The Dell 16 Premium is a premium take on a bad idea. The hardware is powerful, the design is beautiful, and it feels...

Amazon services 'recovering' as Snapchat and banks among sites hit by outage
Platform outage checker Downdetector said the issues have impacted more than 1,000 different businesses.

This killer Ryzen mini PC with tons of RAM is 33% off and perfect for home
I don’t know about you, but my desk has very little space to spare so I replaced my laptop with a mini PC—and I couldn’t be happier. Not only does a mini PC take up way less room, it’s way more affordable than a comparably specced laptop. Right now, for...

Advertising Software Stocks Q2 Results: Benchmarking AppLovin (NASDAQ:APP)

Automation Software Stocks Q2 Earnings: SoundHound AI (NASDAQ:SOUN) Best of the Bunch

Windows 11’s Multiple Desktops saved my sanity—even when I missed one big feature
I’ve lived a multi-monitor lifestyle since the CRT days. I’ve since upgraded over the years, most recently to an ultrawide monitor paired with a portrait 1080p screen, and didn’t think much of it… until I decided one day that maybe my fellow PCWorld staffers were right about virtual desktops. Windows has...

Intel Core Ultra & Windows Copilot: What local AI can (and can’t) do
Microsoft has introduced a new device category with Copilot+. Only laptops with a dedicated Neural Processing Unit (NPU), at least 16 GB of RAM and a fast NVMe SSD fulfil the minimum requirements. Intel is addressing these requirements with the Core Ultra series, which combines classic CPU cores with GPU acceleration...

EU urged 'to be more creative' to fight bypassing of Russia sanctions

How I instantly free up hard drive space in Windows 11
If you’re getting down low in the amount of available space on your PC’s hard drive, sometimes it can be difficult to find files to delete to free it up. That’s why Windows has a tool to do it for you. Windows Disk Cleanup locates files to clean up. It’s...