Best Chromebooks and Googlebooks (2026): Laptops With a Google Touch
While Google is heralding a new series of laptops called Googlebooks, Chromebooks are sticking around—for now. These are the ones to consider.
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Today
Weekly poll: do touchscreens on laptops make sense?
“We’ve done tons of user testing on this and it turns out it doesn’t work. Touch surfaces don’t want to be vertical. It gives a great demo, but after a short period of ti
Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024)
87 points and 40 comments on Hacker News.
Yesterday
Here’s how the new MacBook Pro and macOS 27 are optimized for touch
Apple just unveiled the new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR , its first MacBook with a touch display. While Apple already added a handful of touch optimizations to macOS 27 G
Keyboards of The Verge
What is a keyboard if not the original brain-computer interface? You can tap on a touchscreen or talk to the computer, but if your work involves getting information out o
HMD Pulse Pro 2nd Edition shows up at a retailer with a new chipset
HMD launched the Pulse Pro back in April 2024, and now a refreshed version of the device has shown up at a retailer in Thailand according to a tipster on X. It's called H
Bolt Graphics powers on its first Zeus GPU
Bolt Graphics has been working on its simulation-centric Zeus GPU for a while now and has reached a significant milestone: a successful test run.
MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR looks awesome, but I’m not rushing to upgrade
After five years, Apple released its first major MacBook Pro overhaul since the M1 Pro/M1 Max models, and well… it was a little bit underwhelming from a design perspectiv
Windows 11 tries new shortcuts for Xbox gaming mode and search
The latest Windows 11 Insider build adds some powerful new search features and quick settings while in Xbox mode. The Xbox shortcuts let you control things like Bluetooth
Sam Altman is upset at you for hoarding RAM in your own computer
Sam Altman, in an interview, said it's 'terrible' for people to have 'a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM' that they barely use.
9to5Mac Overtime 088: Finally, a touchscreen MacBook
Jeff and Fernando discuss everything from Apple’s big week of new hardware releases, including the M6 MacBook Pro, iPad mini 8 with OLED, and, of course, Apple’s new MacB
ASRock B860 Challenger Wifi Motherboard Review: Entry-level ATX at a great price, with drawbacks
ASRock’s B860 Challenger Wifi covers the basics and performs well, but slower USB ports, weaker VRMs, and a dated BIOS keep it from standing out, even at the lower price.
Developer builds a complete Intel 486 PC emulator in a browser
A developer has created a full Intel 486 PC system, using 100% pure-JavaScript, in a browser.
Goth aesthetic gone wild: a user's self-inflicted black screen of non-death in Windows 3.1’s
Labeled in black on black - controls for a galactic hyper-hearse or ill-advised Windows theme?
Modder uses a trash 4-kW air conditioner radiator for his test bench to see how well it can cool a PC
TrashBench repurposes a trash AC radiator for his test bench to see how well it can cool a PC — RTX 3080 didn't run much above ambient temperature
Tech sleuth claims to have found the oldest GUI application that still works with Windows 11
A technology enthusiast claims that the oldest GUI application that still runs on Windows 11 is CDPLAYER.EXE from November 1992.
Chocolate Caterpillar or Chocolate Teapot? Top up the disk space for Windows 10 to find out
London's Oxford Street signage shows its underwear to passing tourists
Friday, Oct 30
Intel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake
Intel is being hurt by PC sales as the AI industry gobbles memory and other components causing PC prices to rise.
Critical Linux kernel flaw allows remote root attacks on MPTCP servers
Security researchers at Anthropic have developed an exploit for a critical Linux kernel vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute commands a
Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk
Asked about supply chain shortages, like the ongoing RAM shortage, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that it's "terrible" to have RAM in personal PCs instead of
Nvidia store quietly pulls the RTX 5080 following RTX 5090 removal
First the RTX 5090, now the RTX 5080. Nvidia quietly removes the RTX 5080 listing from the marketplace as prices explode to 2.2X MSRP on the retail market.
Intel’s woes wipe out $1 trillion of semiconductor market cap in one day
Intel's gloomy outlook for its PC business wipes out $1 trillion of semiconductor market capitalization in a day, barely affects Apple.
Best Buy is bundling a $100 gift card with touchscreen MacBook Pro preorders
While the new touch-enabled MacBook Pro with the PROLED XDR screen is available for preorder across a few major retailers, Best Buy is sweetening the deal by including a
The new iPad mini's battery capacity is no longer a mystery
Apple unveiled the iPad mini (2026) on Monday with an OLED screen and the A20 Pro chipset, and while it told us the battery is rated at 18.9Wh, it didn't give its capacit
TCL 27C2A Pro 27-inch QD-Mini LED 4K gaming monitor review: Extreme color and brightness
TCL’s 27C2A Pro is a super-bright 27-inch 4K Mini LED gaming monitor with full-array local dimming (2,304 zones), Quantum Dot color, 160 Hz, 320 Hz/FHD mode, HDR10 and Ad
Intelligence agency misplaced 'a very significant number' of removable drives
An investigation revealed that thousands of drives have been lost, with officials having no idea where they could be.
British intelligence agency misplaced 'thousands' of storage devices, years later still can't say how many
Other agency errors included an unchecked software bug that led to Terrorism Act detentions
Intel leaker reveals Moon Lake chip as a likely replacement for N-series SoCs
An Intel leaker revealed Moon Lake chip as a likely replacement for N-series SoCs with four lower-power-efficiency cores, no performance cores, and a 6-watt TDP
Benchmarking Nvidia’s Vera CPU for the data center — standalone Vera tested against Granite Rapids-AP and EPYC Turin
Nvidia gave us access to its Vera data center CPU for testing against Intel's Granite Rapids-AP and AMD's EPYC Turin.
Binance links $6.3 billion crypto theft to compromised DevOps laptop
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, has linked the theft of about $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency to a DevOps engineer's compromised laptop. [...]
Show HN: Ghostman – A fast, keyboard-driven TUI API client and webhook inspector
49 points and 26 comments on Hacker News.
PC chip plunge wipes out a quarter of Intel’s value
CEO predicts massive datacenter CPU boom, coming soon, but production problems mean Chipzilla may not cash in
Apple’s best MacBook Pro decision this week had nothing to do with touch
Apple’s new touchscreen MacBook Pro brings plenty of welcome upgrades, but one of the best things about this week’s launch is what the company decided not to change. more
9to5Mac Daily: October 29, 2026 – New MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from 9to5Mac . 9to5Mac Daily is available on iTunes and Apple’s Podcasts app , Stitcher , TuneIn , Google Play , or throug
Thursday, Oct 29
Report: Apple expected to ship up to 1.5 million OLED touchscreen MacBook Pros in 2027
A new report from TrendForce explores Apple’s impact on the OLED notebook market following the launch of its first touchscreen MacBook Pro, and the company’s own shipment
Touchscreen MacBook Pro with OLED, new iPad mini, and more
Benjamin and Chance break down all the announcements from Apple’s ‘Pro and tell’ event, featuring the new OLED MacBook Pro with touchscreen, M6 iMac, and the updated iPad
Linux Kernel TCP Flaw With 9.8 CVSS Score Affects Ubuntu, Red Hat and Other Distributions
A flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP code, tracked as CVE-2026-98432, affects Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and other Linux distributions. The kernel's own CVE tea