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To help protect your privacy while using your PS5, you can customize certain settings to control what information is visible to others, restrict who can communicate with you, and manage your account security. This includes limiting who can see your online status, gaming history, and profile information, as well as controlling access to your account and console. Under Settings, head to Users and Accounts  > Privacy  > View and Customize Your Privacy Settings. Here, you can control who can see your real name, profile picture, friends list, game activity and history, and who can send friend requests or interact with you online. For each of the variables in this menu, I recommend choosing “No One” and “Close Friends Only.” This should significantly reduce unwanted friend requests or spam.Also: How to clear your TV cache (and why it makes such a big difference)If you’re like me, you don’t feel a need to infuse Sony’s database with more personal information than required, such as the voice data collected through your DualSense controller’s microphone.Under Privacy, scroll down to “Control how your data is collected and used” to access three options: Data You Provide, Personalization, and Voice Data Collection. For the former (Data You Provide), change the setting to Limited. For Personalization, I recommend turning off all four of the sub-options, including Standard Personalization. For the latter, switch to Don’t Allow for Voice Data Collection. More

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x <!–> ZDNET’s key takeaways The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x is currently available for $1,299 on Best Buy. It combines an impressive 3K OLED display with a solid battery life – two things that historically don’t go together That said, certain apps’ lack of optimization for Windows on ARM might limit some […] More

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ZDNET’s Kerry Wan takes a photo with the Google Pixel 10 Pro camera. Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNETIsaac Reynolds has been working on the Pixel Camera team at Google for almost a decade — since the first Google Pixel phone launched in 2016 More

Roman Tiraspolsky/iStock Editorial / Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source<!–> on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Amazon is ending the Prime Invitee program. The program let people share Prime shipping outside their home. Customers are being rolled into the Amazon Family program. It’s the end of an era for Prime Invitee users. Through […] More

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Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge <!–> ZDNET’s key takeaways The Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge currently sells for $699 for the 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage configuration. With its sleek profile and solid hardware, this phone sets a new standards for mobile devices. You’ll have to settle with subpar battery life and the absence of […] More