Anker's 14-in-1 docking station is on sale for $170 right now at Amazon, a 37% discount and near its best price ever. One of the best things you can get for your laptop is a docking station. This 14-in-1 Anker model is on sale for $170 right now, a 37% discount off its original $270 price and very close to its best-ever price. It's gone down to $162 two times in the past, otherwise this $170 deal is its lowest--for just a few bucks more, it's still an excellent deal. Laptops have gotten slimmer and lighter over the last decade, but in order to do that, they've have to sacrifice ports.

Your data can get stolen through a company you've never heard of A company may do everything right. Then a partner falls victim to hackers--and it becomes a headache for us everyday folks. Cybersecurity for businesses involves a lot of jargon unfamiliar to us consumers, and for good reason. Such language generally doesn't apply to our lives. But one concept has begun affecting us everyday users more--supply chain attacks.

Claude's AI watermarks are coming, but AI detectors aren't going anywhere AI text watermarks and AI writing detectors may sound like the same thing, but they do very different jobs. Regular "Prompt Mode" readers already know that Claude AI watermarks are coming, and that they'll allow us to tell whether a given piece of text was either written or otherwise "processed" by Claude. But here's a question I've been getting a lot lately: With Claude watermarks on the way, do we still need AI writing detectors? Of course, if we asked that questions to GPTZero, Originality.ai, Copyleaks, Turnitin, or any of the popular AI detection services with paid tiers, they'd surely say "yes."

I still don't know who the Googlebook is for Sorry, Google: The launch of the Googlebook is about a month away and I'm still exceptionally skeptical. In this week's Smart Mode newsletter, I explain why. I understand Chromebooks, and so do you: They're lean, efficient devices designed to surf the web without breaking the bank. But everything I've seen recently says that Google's next effort, Googlebooks, are headed in the opposite direction. Productivity begins with your choice of device, and Google's Chromebooks have been spectacular in their pursuit of efficiency.

LG is selling a blazing fast OLED QHD monitor, the envy of anyone who wants massive FPS counts for Counter-Strike or Valorant, for half off its retail price. If you're someone who gets panicked at the idea of having to play a computer game at a paltry 60 frames per second, I think I've found the best monitor deal for you. Today you can get an LG OLED gaming monitor for $499.99 on Amazon . That's about $150 above the baseline for affordable OLEDs right now but this one has a 480Hz panel, double the standard speed. The LG UltraGear 27GX790A-B (catchy!) looks pretty normal for an OLED at first glance.

Here's how to keep your privates, private Sexortion is an old concept, but the FBI's latest warning about it is new. Long before the internet, people blackmailed others over sexually explicit photos or videos. But this week, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation released a fresh warning around hackers and sexortion--an alert aimed at both adults and children. In its public service announcement, the FBI says sexual exploitation actors have been breaking into "social media and personal accounts" to download any saved explicit content. The stolen images and video then gets spread to criminal forums and marketplaces, often with personal details like name, email, phone number, social media username, and date of birth also shared.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. It's the usual 27-inch, 1440p, 240Hz setup, and don't expect any extras. But this is the cheapest name-brand OLED monitor on the market right now. Since we can't afford any of the components that actually go inside our gaming PCs, 2026 is a great time to upgrade the stuff on the outside. Fortunately, those slick OLED monitors have never been more affordable.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. The next time someone asks for PC help, don't explain it--show them! If someone asks you how to do something on your computer, how do you respond? There are in fact many ways to show people how to perform a task, and this edition of Smart Mode gives you my favorites. "Hey, can you show me how to do this?"

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. I'm starting to think I got the last good GPU deal My $500 RTX 5070 Ti is now a $1,300 problem. In November, around the U.S. Black Friday deal rush, I bought a new graphics card. That was nine months ago, and I think it might be the last time -- at least for the foreseeable future -- that I'll get a decent price on any computer hardware. In this week's issue of Boost Mode, I'll brag a little about my find, and explain why something that good is unlikely to come again any time soon.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. PC building is more fun when you have no idea what you're doing A strange little hacker gadget reminded me that confusion, failure, and experimentation were always the best parts of building computers. I don't know about you, but the whole reason I got into upgrading and building PCs is because I wanted to play . My age hadn't hit double digits by the time the game shipped on DOS in '94, but a year or two later I got my hands on a copy and realized our old family PC didn't have the chops to run id's latest. Thus began my 30+ years of PC enthusiasm, starting with me getting frustrated by memory management (death to HIMEM) and leading me here as a PCWorld veteran who can work a screwdriver and a solder gun almost as well as anyone.