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This $15 indoor security camera doubles as a baby monitor (40% off)
The TP-Link Tapo C100 home security camera is tiny and practical, perfect for watching your kids and/or pets and keeping an eye on your home while you’re away. And right now, this camera is only $15 on Amazon. That’s a solid 40% off its MSRP! The Tapo C100 is an indoor camera that can double as a baby monitor. It delivers 1080p video and can do night vision for up to 30 feet. Day or night, you’ll be able to monitor what’s going on in your home, as the camera sends your phone notifications whenever it detects motion. It even has two-way audio, so you can talk to your baby or chastise your pets for chewing on your slippers again. If you don’t want to rely on cloud storage, you can pop in a 512GB microSD card. (We recently wrote about the Lexar Play microSD card on sale. While that particular deal focused on the 1TB version, the 512GB version is still on sale for $35!) At the same time, you can also connect the camera with Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa and control it with voice commands, for example to bring up a live feed. Go ahead and feel safer when you leave the house with this TP-Link Tapo C100 security camera for $15. And while you’re here, I want to remind you that Amazon’s Spring Sale event is coming up and we’ve already dug up some excellent early deals for you. $15 for a home security camera is a total bargainBuy now at Amazon

Elon Musk's carmaker Tesla raises concern over Trump tariffs
The electric carmaker’s warning about tariffs comes despite its boss's key position in the Trump administration.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves insists changes to welfare spending needed
Labour MPs have been expressing unease about the proposed cuts to welfare, ahead of announcements next week.

NRL Highlights: Panthers v Roosters - Round 2
Penrith Panthers host the Sydney Roosters in Round 2 of the 2025 NRL Premiership at CommBank Stadium, Sydney.

It looks like Asus redesigned the scratchy PCIe slots on its motherboards
Asus has been having some trouble with its high-end gaming motherboards. As the newest graphics cards launched, reviewers noticed some scratches and chips on motherboards with the Q-Release Slim system, which lets you pull a card out of its PCIe slot without using latches or buttons. Based on some retail photos, the latest Asus motherboards seem to have revised the problematic slots. Twitter/X account Uniko’s Hardware spotted a visibly distinct latch mechanism on the Asus X870E Apex motherboard, which is now up for pre-order on Newegg. They speculate that the bracket between the initial retention peg (that first cutout section on the slot of the GPU itself) and the x16 pin area removed a metal bar. It looks like it’s either plastic or a much different, thinner metal construction now. We’re talking about tiny revisions of a fairly involved design here, but as VideoCardz.com notes, it makes sense that Asus would want to get the design right on its most expensive motherboards. Q-Release Slim is a feature on only a few Asus motherboards, with the intended function being the ability to remove a heavy GPU with one hand and a slight pulling motion from the front but not the middle. Q-Release (sans Slim) offers a more straightforward option, an extended lever and button that essentially moves the hard-to-reach retention clip to a far more accessible spot on the motherboard. PCWorld’s Adam Patrick Murray, who’s probably built more PCs than he’s had hot meals at this point, prefers this one. After years of being careful with the sometimes-finicky process of installing and removing GPUs, it feels unnatural to simply grab and yank one out without some secondary protection. Once again, I’ll point out that the scratching issues on Q-Release Slim motherboards have only been noticed by professional graphics cards testers and reviewers, who plug in and remove cards way more frequently than most at-home desktop PC builders. And even among that small batch of reports, damage to the GPU connections has been entirely cosmetic with no functional issues. But if I were spending two grand (or more) on a new graphics card and another several hundred dollars on a top-of-the-line motherboard to go along with it, I wouldn’t want the latter to scratch up the former. Asus seems to have acknowledged this, if only fleetingly with some official statements. But yeah, it’s probably worth a little more R&D if they want to keep this feature alive for future motherboard designs. The adjusted slots are only on pre-order pages so far, so we’ll have to wait for reviews to see if the new Q-Release Slim mechanism is improved.

Mullins' Cheltenham four-timer led by 100-1 Poniros
Poniros stuns a capacity crowd on Cheltenham Gold Cup day with a 100-1 win in the Triumph Hurdle for trainer Willie Mullins.

'A little bit early' to fight for pole - Hamilton fifth in practice
Lewis Hamilton says he expects it to be "a little bit early" for him to be able to fight for pole position at the Australian Grand Prix.

Has Tuchel's first squad revealed England's short-term strategy?
Thomas Tuchel is a proven winner and his first England squad shows the focus is on achieving that short-term goal, writes Phil McNulty.

Otter chaos filmed in Shetland family's kitchen
An otter knocked items over as it ran around the surprised family's kitchen in Shetland.

Asylum seekers housed 'unlawfully' at air base
Three men took the government to court over what they described as "prison-like" conditions.

Men denied life-extending prostate cancer drug
NHS England says it cannot afford to offer abiraterone, which is available in Scotland and Wales.

Florence and Pisa on alert as flooding hits Italy
Tuscany's president advises residents to exercise "the utmost attention and caution".

Thief who murdered Amazon driver jailed for at least 30 years
Mark Ross given 30-year minimum term for killing driver whose van he was trying to steal in crash.

Hawthorn teammates clash heads
Jack Scrimshaw and Josh Battle have a nasty collision as Hawthorn meets Essendon.