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Synology lowers NAS entry costs without removing future hardware upgrade flexibility Four new NAS models arrive with expandable memory and familiar hardware Lower default memory creates cheaper starting prices across the new lineup Synology has introduced the DiskStation neo+ Series, a new lineup built to give buyers more flexibility over cost and performance from the outset. The series includes four models — the DS1825neo+, the DS1525neo+, the DS925neo+, and the DS725neo+ — each sharing hardware with existing Plus units. The company says each new unit is built on the same platform as its Plus Series counterpart but ships with a different default memory setup and price tag. Synology created room for future upgrades All four models rely on AMD processors with 64-bit architecture and include a hardware encryption engine. The DS725neo+ uses an AMD Ryzen R1600 processor featuring 2 cores, 4 threads...

Chinese research vessel lingered above critical Pacific undersea communications infrastructure Taiwan's Coast Guard warned the vessel to turn away from the Pacific Light Cable Network Windward linked slow vessel movements with recognized intelligence-gathering behavior A Chinese-flagged research vessel was recently observed loitering directly above an undersea cable system connecting Taiwan to the United States. Taiwan's Coast Guard filmed the encounter and warned the 200-foot ship to alter its course away from the cable route. The cable is the Pacific Light Cable Network, an 8,000-mile fiber-optic system linking Taiwan, the Philippines and the US. A pattern consistent with intelligence gathering Maritime analysis platform Windward tracked the vessel moving at slow speed directly over the cable route in the Philippine Sea. The company described such slow-speed movement over critical under...

If you're of a certain age, you'll remember the frisson of excitement around the launch of Gmail back in 2004. The idea of getting 1GB of storage space completely free of charge seemed wild — and all of your messages could be got at in a simple web browser tab. As someone who had become accustomed to deleting emails to save space, and painstakingly moving over message archives manually every time I got a computer upgrade, this sounded fantastic. So did being able to get at my emails from any device I wanted, instantly (that seems less appealing these days, somehow). Something else Gmail has done really well down the years is act as a hub for other email accounts, letting you import and send messages from other accounts inside the Gmail interface — with all the benefits of powerful search, filtering, and spam flagging tools. Now though, most of that functionality is going away. These are f...

A developer has a 28.9-million-parameter model generating TinyStories-style text at 9.88 tokens per second, fully offline, on a $10 microcontroller It was achieved by fitting a language model on a chip with 512KB of RAM by leaving most of it in flash storage The project is available on GitHub under an MIT license A developer going by slvDev has a 28.9-million-parameter language model generating text on an ESP32-S3, a microcontroller built for sensor nodes and smart plugs, at 9.88 tokens per second, with nothing leaving the chip. The project, esp32-ai, went up on GitHub under an MIT license in late July 2026, was showcased on the Better Stack YouTube channel, and has since collected over 3,600 stars and has more than 470 forks of the underlying code. Given the underlying hardware's limitations, the attempt meant the model, which was trained on the TinyStories dataset by Microsoft Research, h...

Welcome to the Blu-ray Bounty July 2026. This is where we test the latest 4K releases of each month that we think will be perfect for showing off your home theater. If you’re new to the Blu-ray Bounty, you can check out previous editions here , where we’ve reviewed over 100 discs since starting in November 2024. 4K Blu-ray is easily one of the best ways to enjoy a movie at home, especially when it’s on the best TVs and best soundbars . I personally use it as my main source for testing AV equipment, thanks to its uncompressed picture and audio quality. In last month’s June 2026 Blu-ray Bounty , I tested seven discs, including Speed Racer (which is one of the best discs I’ve ever tested , and you can expect to see it as reference source in future reviews), EPiC: Elvis Presley In Concert , Bullet In The Head (1991), Body Heat, Avatar: Fire & Ash, Five Easy Pieces and 36 Hours . In this month’s...

Researchers tested AI-generated patches on six CVEs with poor success rates Many fixes failed, altered behavior, or introduced new vulnerabilities Guidance improved outcomes, leading to FLAWED evaluation harness release When using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) to fix vulnerabilities, security professionals are most of the time just robbing Peter to pay Paul, experts have warned. Researchers from 1Passwords Off-by-1 Labs analyzed fixes proposed by two frontier models - ChatGPT 5.5 at “medium” effort, and Claude Opus 4.8 at “high” effort. As an experiment, the researchers took six recently disclosed CVEs and produced 6,080 patches using two frontier, cyber-capable reasoning models. The results were underwhelming to say the least - of all the proposed patches, just a quarter (26%) fully resolved the issue. FLAWED work? This obviously leaves plenty to be desired, as half (49.3%) of the p...

The Apple AirPods Pro 3 have just received a surprise price cut at Amazon, bringing the excellent premium earbuds down to just $189 (was $249) at the retailer. That's the lowest price since the retailer's annual Prime Day mega-sale back in June, and likely the best deal we'll see for a while. Ever since Prime Day, these buds have stubbornly held at $199, which is the usual 'sales price' for Apple's premium buds. Even though the record low is officially $169, the AirPods Pro 3 only hit that on one occasion over Prime Day, so today's price cut is definitely worth considering. Even at $189, the AirPods Pro 3 are an excellent buy for anyone looking for some high-end buds. Not only do they feature excellent noise cancellation, but they're packed with new features like heart rate monitoring and Live Translation. The AirPods Pro 3 are cheaper today at Amazon Amazon has d...