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Mastodon—and the pros and cons of moving beyond Big Tech gatekeepers

Handbrake video transcoder adds official AV1 codec support in latest release

New York governor signs modified right-to-repair bill at the last minute

Don’t call it a refresh: The 6 most adventurous laptop designs of 2022

iOS 16 exploit lets you set the system font to Comic Sans (and other things)

Amazon begins drone deliveries in California and Texas

Twitter rival Mastodon rejects funding to preserve nonprofit status

New GeForce RTX 3050 variant offers the same performance but lower power use

Old dog, new trick: Microsoft tests a tabbed UI for Notepad.exe in Windows 11

2022 in GPUs: The shortage ends, but higher prices seem here to stay

Apple’s business under growing threat from China’s Covid wave

Meta and Alphabet lose dominance over US digital ads market

Google vs. Amazon: The smart display showdown

With voice assistants in trouble, Home Assistant starts a local alternative

Driver updates will fix abnormally high power use for AMD’s new RX 7900 GPUs

Review: ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 5 is impressively fast, with the right settings

Eufy publicly acknowledges some parts of its “No clouds” controversy

Raspberry Pi 5 not arriving in 2023 as company hopes for a “recovery year”

Lenovo announces cheaper Mini LED monitors with 140 W power delivery

It might be time for Apple to throw in the towel on the Mac Pro

Lenovo updates ThinkPad laptops with fresh CPUs, recycled metals

Webcam buying guide: The Ars picks, from affordable to extravagant

Someone tries to sell a Pixel Tablet prototype, posts pictures

Corsair says bug, not keylogger, behind some K100 keyboards’ creepy behavior

PineTab 2 is another try at a Linux-based tablet, without the 2020 supply crunch

Review: HP’s Dragonfly Folio G3 stays cool and quiet in faux leather

Amazon Games branches out, announces it will publish the next Tomb Raider

OnePlus targets a Mac-first, quieter design with its first mechanical keyboard

Today’s best deals: Google devices, iPads, headphones, and more

Oppo prototypes Magic Mouse-looking health tracker for the whole family

Meet Ghostwriter, a haunted AI-powered typewriter that talks to you

YouTube moderation bots will start issuing warnings, 24-hour bans

Only iPhones that can’t run iOS 16 are getting new iOS 15 updates

Report: Apple plans to support sideloading and third-party app stores by 2024

Google’s Black Friday deals are back, including that $299 Pixel 6a deal

Plugable’s $13 USB adapter adds Bluetooth 5.0 to your older PC or build

Chrome’s “Manifest V3” plan to limit ad-blocking extensions is delayed

Xiaomi’s new phone takes a ton of inspiration from Apple, as usual

Support for Windows 7 and 8 fully ends in January, including Microsoft Edge

Raspberry Pi inventory improving, could reach pre-pandemic levels in 2023

Radeon 7900 XTX and XT review: Faster, hotter, and cheaper than the RTX 4080

The weekend’s best deals: A bunch of Apple devices, Surface, Xbox, Meta Quest, and more