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Lovable’s $400M funding show vibe coding means business
PCWorld supports the basic vibe-coding concept. In fact, one of our writers says he “utterly loves it.” Well, here’s a surprise. It turns out there’s a AI development platform called Lovable—think vibe-coding with serious enterprise scaffolding behind it—and now the same investor that owns PCWorld is also an investor in Lovable. On...

Microsoft’s August update fixes a Windows flaw that’s already being attacked
As part of August’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released security updates that address 398 new vulnerabilities. Alongside Windows and Office, other products and services are also affected: Teams, Exchange Server, Hyper-V, Windows Defender, Visual Studio, and Microsoft’s cloud services. Microsoft classifies 42 of the vulnerabilities as critical. Among the remainder, all but...

Act fast! This Acer laptop with 16GB of RAM is just $400
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Chorus outage hits over 20,000 internet services across Auckland
The event is currently under investigation with Chorus’ technical teams.

No thanks Adobe — This PDF editor’s lifetime license just dropped to $29.97
TL;DR: Use code SAVE5 to get a SwifDoo PDF Pro lifetime license for $29.97 (reg. $129). Dealing with PDFs gets frustrating fast when the tools you need are locked behind paywalls. Most editors like Adobe Acrobat push you toward a subscription even when all you want to do is clean up a form or convert a...

Microsoft Edge is about to lose uBlock Origin, too
Remember how one of the best adblockers, uBlock Origin, was effectively killed by Google Chrome? It’s happening again, and this time on Microsoft Edge. Throughout 2024 and 2025, Google said that it was migrating its extension support from what is called Manifest, from version 2 to version 3. Now Microsoft says...

Gmail offers fully encrypted email. But better alternatives exist
Email that only your recipient can read—sounds like a great idea for sensitive messages, right? Especially if you could have that within Gmail. Technically, you can. Google does offer full end-to-end encryption (EE2E) for email, which blocks everyone but you and your recipient from reading its contents. Not even Google would...

Peladn WO4 5600H review: An affordable mini PC that welcomes upgrades
At a glanceExpert's Rating Pros Solid multi-core performance Two LAN ports (2.5 Gbit/s and 1 Gbit/s) for NAS and networking Magnetic cover for tool-free upgrades Stable temperatures with no audible throttling Three display outputs, plus Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 Cons Older platform without a modern iGPU or NPU SATA SSD noticeably slows down the system RAM in the test...

I’m starting to think I got the last good GPU deal
In November, around the U.S. Black Friday deal rush, I bought a new graphics card. That was nine months ago, and I think it might be the last time — at least for the foreseeable future — that I’ll get a decent price on any computer hardware. In this week’s...

AWS adds Bedrock web search & DynamoDB vector search
Customers can now build AI apps with live web data and vector search in one AWS stack, reducing database sprawl and latency.

Chorus outages hit fibre internet across Auckland
An overnight network update was responsible for fibre outages affecting as many as 32,000 connections, Chorus says.

Chorus outages affecting fibre internet across Auckland
RNZ readers on the North Shore, Whangaparaoa and Papatoetoe have all reported issues with internet.