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    YouTube is using AI to verify your age now – and if it’s wrong, that’s on you to fix

    5./15 WEST / Getty Images AI age verification is coming to YouTube, and it’s almost certainly going to be a frustrating process for some people. Also: How to download YouTube videos for free – 2 ways, including my favorite In an announcement yesterday, the streaming video service says it’s “extending our built-in protections” by letting AI […] More

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    Should you buy XR glasses for work and travel? This discounted pair made me a believer

    RayNeo Air 3S <!–> ZDNET’s key takeaways The RayNeo Air 3S is available for $225 These XR glasses provide advanced micro-OLED screens, dual speaker chamber design, and a 201-inch screen visual experience There are no light-blocking shades or electrochromic dimming capability, and productivity support is limited to native MacOS and Windows support. more buying choices […] More

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    Ubuntu Linux lagging? Try my 10 go-to tricks to speed it up

    Yuichiro Chino/Getty Unless you’re using a computer from the ’90s or early 2000s, typically speaking, Ubuntu runs very well on most machines. I’ve found it to be fairly predictable in that respect. However, nothing is perfect, and you might run into an instance where the open-source operating system doesn’t perform up to your standards. Also: […] More

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    5 preinstalled apps you should delete from your Samsung phone immediately

    Prakhar Khanna/ZDNETSamsung phones are well known for One UI, one of the most functional and intuitive Android interfaces. While it’s highly customizable, these phones often come with preinstalled bloatware. Some built-in Samsung apps, such as Wearable and Wallet, are useful within the Samsung ecosystem. However, there are at least five first-party apps that even dedicated Samsung users rarely touch.The preinstalled bloatware apps can vary by device, price, and lineup, but many are common across all Galaxy phones. While you might not be able to uninstall all of them, they’re easy to disable and can be re-enabled if you ever need them.Also: I changed 10 Samsung phone settings for an instant performance boostWhile these apps aren’t necessarily useless or mindless bloatware, every user’s needs differ. If you’re not using them, it’s a good idea to uninstall or disable such Samsung apps to save memory and reduce background battery usage. More

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    Linux PC acting up? How to check for bad blocks on a hard drive – before it’s too late

    synthetick / Getty Images I’ve had it happen before. Back when drives consisted of spinning, magnetic platters, that dreaded “tick” was a sure sign a hard drive was failing. Once upon a nightmare scenario, I waited too late and wound up losing everything on my drive. Sure, I could have recovered that data, but at […] More

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    Google’s NotebookLM can now turn your content into narrated slides

    Google’s NotebookLM went viral due to its Audio Overviews feature, which creates AI-generated podcasts between two hosts based on your content. Now, Google has also made a much-anticipated leap into video.  Also: Google’s new AI tool Opal turns prompts into apps, no coding required On Tuesday, Google launched Video Overviews, a feature originally unveiled at […] More

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    For programmers, even as AI adoption climbs, trust wanes

    fotograzia/Getty Images Programmers are using AI more than ever, but they don’t like or trust the tools very much, according to the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey. The survey of almost 50,000 developers found that 84% now use or plan to use AI tools in their workflow, up from last year (76%). Over half of professional developers […] More