
Days after rolling out its early Black Friday discounts, Proton VPN released its fall and winter product roadmap, announcing the addition of five new free server locations, a new VPN architecture and a command-line Linux interface. The new server locations — Mexico, Canada, Switzerland, Norway and Singapore — bring the total number of servers available…

AMD’s latest Ryzen AI Max APUs might be designed primarily to crunch through heavy AI workloads, but they are also quite capable gaming beasts. Integrated graphics enthusiast RandomGaminginHD on YouTube benchmarked a Minisforum MS-S1 Max mini-pc boasting AMD’s flagship Ryzen AI Max 395+ APU, and was astonished at the APU’s performance in games. The chip’s…

Aging is a natural part of life, but it doesn’t have to mean losing mobility or strength or getting weaker. If you want to remain independent and active well into your silver years, it’s entirely possible. You just need to adjust the type of activities you’re engaging in. Staying active is one of the most effective ways…

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OpenAI has started selling power users extra credits for its Sora AI video generation tool. An extra 10 video gens will retail for $4 through Apple’s App Store. The company currently has a limit of 30 free gens per day, a rate that will likely decrease as OpenAI starts to monetize the offering. Bill Peebles,…

Siblings Casey and Calley Means—wellness darlings of the Make America Healthy Again movement, despite being rife with potential conflicts of interest—are both missing from the political arena, at least for now. Casey Means, President Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, was scheduled to appear virtually at a Senate confirmation hearing today, but the hearing was postponed…

Tim Cook says Apple has plans to embed more third-party AI tools into the company’s operating systems. “Our intention is to integrate with more people over time,” Cook said in an interview with CNBC. Apple has already embedded ChatGPT into Siri, with a Google Gemini integration said to be in the works and rumors swirling…

The saga of a 61-year-old man jailed for more than a month after reposting a Facebook meme has ended, but free speech advocates are still reeling in the wake. On Wednesday, Larry Bushart was released from Perry County Jail, where he had spent weeks unable to make bail, which a judge set at $2 million.…