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Developer Tools 4 min How to Self-Host Home Assistant with Docker Running the container instead of a supervised install gives up the add-on store, which is a real trade. And br... KE Kenji Tanaka 31 Aug

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Developer Tools 4 min How to Self-Host Jellyfin with Docker The decisions that are awkward to undo are all made in the first ten minutes: mount media read-only, choose pa... KE Kenji Tanaka 30 Aug

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Consumer Tech 6 min ChatGPT's Temporary Chats Can Now Read Your Memory and Be Saved A personalised temporary chat uses your memories, custom instructions and plugins while still creating none of... AM Amelia Wong 30 Aug

A television in a living room with a remote, the subscription service whose price has now risen four years running

Business 6 min Apple TV Now Costs $14.99 a Month, Its Fourth Rise in Four Years Reported as a two-dollar rise, it is 50 per cent in twelve months. The annual plan went up faster than the mon... EV Eva Chin 29 Aug

Business 6 min Apple's First Keynote Under New CEO John Ternus Is on 9 September John Ternus becomes chief executive on 1 September, eight days before the event, with Tim Cook moving to execu... EV Eva Chin 29 Aug

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Consumer Tech 7 min Meta Fixed the Smart Glasses LED Bypass. The LED Was Never the Problem. Covering the capture light mid-recording no longer works, which closes a real loophole. Deliberate concealment... AM Amelia Wong 29 Aug

Seen over a shoulder, two hands hold a phone with a message thread open and the on-screen keyboard raised — illustrative of the text conversations whose limits have been lifted.

Consumer Tech 7 min ChatGPT Just Went Unlimited for Free Users. Read the Word "Text" Carefully. The message cap is gone for typing, a better model is behind it, and file uploads, images and voice all keep t... AM Amelia Wong 11 Aug

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Privacy & Data 7 min Section 230 Is a Defence, Not a Shield From Being Sued, the Ninth Circuit Says Meta, TikTok, Snap and Google must face more than 3,000 consolidated addiction lawsuits. The court did not rej... PR Priya Nair 11 Aug

A professional video camera and lenses arranged on a studio desk — illustrating the creators who must now clear double the threshold to earn.

Consumer Tech 5 min YouTube Is Doubling What a New Creator Must Earn Before Earning From February 2027, new applicants need 8,000 watch hours or 20 million Shorts views, double the current bars.... AM Amelia Wong 11 Aug

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Health & Wellness 8 min Researchers Push Back on the FDA's 2026 Wellness-Device Guidance — What It Means for Wearable Owners A Nature Biomedical Engineering Comment published on 23 June 2026 argues that the FDA's 2026 General Wellness... AM Amelia Wong 2 Jul

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Health & Wellness 7 min Your Fitness Tracker Wants to Be a 'Health Platform' Now — What That Means for Your Wallet and Your Data Oura, Whoop, Garmin and others are turning rings and watches into subscription 'health platforms' built around... AM Amelia Wong 11 Jun

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Health & Wellness 4 min The Oura Ring 5 is here, smaller and screenless, as smart rings have a moment Oura has launched its fifth-generation smart ring: 40 per cent smaller than the last one, US$399, and shipping... AM Amelia Wong 1 Jun

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AI & ML 6 min Waymo's newest robotaxi is Chinese-built, and it is already picking up riders Waymo has started letting select riders into its next robotaxi, a minivan-style vehicle built on a Zeekr chass... AM Amelia Wong 1 Jun