The Australian government is seeking support from global tech giants as it works to strengthen the country's online safety laws and artificial intelligence (AI) regulations. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who met Apple CEO Tim Cook at the tech company's headquarters in Cupertino, California, on Saturday, said that "Australia can't do it alone" when it came to protecting children from the dangers of the internet. "We're putting stronger rules in place to keep Australians safe online," he said. "And now, big tech companies like Apple are stepping up too." Albanese, who is also in the United States for the United Nations General Assembly, used his trip to call for stronger AI regulation after dire safety warnings from industry leaders.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. The Asus ProArt KD300 is stylish and high-quality, but it's unclear why it's being marketed to creative professionals. Unclear what the'professional' angle is I've no idea what makes the ProArt a keyboard specifically for professionals, and the extra-compact layout won't be to everyone's taste. But it's backed by a smart and user-friendly system, and the quality is undeniable. It's hard to find good mechanical keyboards that aren't marketed as "gaming keyboards," but this one from Asus is just that.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. I waded through Amazon's cheap junk to find the best deals under $50, from portable monitors to ergonomic mice and more. You might be able to find a diamond in the rough every so often, but those diamonds are getting harder to find in a sea of trash that keeps growing. For every Anker, there are dozens of no-name knockoffs to wade through. But I went through it to find the real gems, all so you don't have to.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. The 2026 Asus Zenbook 14 provides almost the same quality experience as the luxury ZenBook A14 at half the price. Asus strikes the right balance with the ZenBook 14, delivering a laptop that feels premium without costing a fortune. A small SSD and a small battery bring the rating down slightly. But if you use the laptop wisely, these drawbacks are less of an issue.

PCWorld reports that Mozilla Firefox 156 delivers a notable 45 percent speed improvement when opening PDFs, making the browser more efficient for everyday users. The update also brings better CPU and memory handling for large JPEG files, benefiting those on lower-powered hardware. Additional fixes address VPN connectivity stability and DNS over HTTPS issues, ensuring smoother and more reliable browsing overall. Today, Mozilla released Firefox 156 to the Release channel, which is basically all users in the general public. It's a pretty limp update by all accounts, without any standout new features and just a handful of minor bug fixes spread out across components. The built-in PDF reader launches about 45 percent faster than before, which is great if Firefox is your PDF reader of choice.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Logitech's MX Mechanical is a premium wireless keyboard, but it has a thing or two to learn from smaller specialist manufacturers. The MX Mechanical fails to live up to my high expectations, based on Logitech's superb flat keyboards. The features are there, but the physical construction means it rattles and makes a lot of noise. Logitech makes one of the best slim, laptop-style keyboards I've ever used.

After an unsettling report that accused LG's smart TVs of spying on its users, the company has responded by saying that "some recent media coverage may have contributed to misconceptions about how LG smart TVs work." To address the claims made in a lengthy video published on Gamers Nexus, LG said that its "smart TVs do not continuously record or transmit user's conversations." LG released a comprehensive statement a few days after the 135-minute long video from Gamers Nexus was published, which claimed the Korean electronics company's smart TVs can capture audio recordings even when the TV is asleep or unplugged from the network, as well as collecting sensitive data like IP addresses, geographic locations, names of nearby WiFi networks and devices connected to those networks even if they're not connected to the TV. The report was conducted by Gamers Nexus alongside Level1 Techs and independent cybersecurity researchers. Following the report, LG denied these claims in statements to news outlets, but the company put out a much longer response on its website.

South Korean consumer-electronics company LG has denied allegations that its smart televisions record ambient conversations, listen while on standby and store recordings for later transmission. On Wednesday, the company told Al Jazeera that voice data is only recorded when a user presses and holds the voice button on the TV remote or activates its "Hi LG" wake word, after the user has activated the Far-Field voice recognition feature. "Other than these instances, the TVs do not collect or record ambient conversations," LG said, adding that voice data is only processed via explicit user commands. "The audio is immediately deleted if the wake word is not recognised," the company said. The statement comes after a 135-minute investigative report released on Monday by a popular tech media outlet and YouTube channel, Gamers Nexus, with Level1Techs and independent security researchers.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Worried that your smart TV is spying on you? Here's what will help, and what won't. The impetus is a 135-minute video from Gamers Nexus, digging into the data that LG can collect from its users. The most shocking claim is that LG's TVs can persistently listen to what you're saying even when the power is off (albeit only if you plug in an external USB webcam).

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