Windscribe review: Despite the annoyances, it has the right idea

Windscribe is a virtual private network (VPN) with intense "How do you do, fellow kids?" energy. It has servers in 69 countries and an annual plan that costs $69, an obsession with the sex n [...]

CyberGhost VPN review: Despite its flaws, the value is hard to beat

CyberGhost is the middle child of the Kape Technologies VPN portfolio, but in quality, it's much closer to ExpressVPN than Private Internet Access. I mainly put it on my best VPN list because it& [...]

Enterprises using multiple AI models are underestimating failure rates by 2.25x

A team routing queries across a coding specialist, a logic specialist, and a generalist model assumes each will cover the others' blind spots. A new study evaluating 67 frontier models from 21 pr [...]

Mullvad VPN review: Near-total privacy with a few sacrifices

Mullvad, a virtual private network (VPN) named after the Swedish word for "mole," is often recognized as one of the best VPNs for privacy. I put it on my best VPN list for exactly that reaso [...]

Private Internet Access VPN review: Both more and less than a budget VPN

I came into this review thinking of Private Internet Access (PIA) as one of the better VPNs. It's in the Kape Technologies portfolio, along with the top-tier ExpressVPN and the generally reliable [...]

Govee's CES lineup includes a ceiling lamp that simulates skylights

Govee, which makes some of the more unique and interesting smart lighting products, has a new batch at CES 2026. That includes two ceiling lights (one of which simulates a skylight) and a floor lamp t [...]

Norton VPN review: A VPN that fails to meet Norton's standards

One thing I need to make clear right from the start: this is a review of Norton VPN (formerly Norton Secure VPN, and briefly Norton Ultra VPN) as a standalone app, not of the VPN feature in the Norton [...]

AI is inflating student grades, and the effect points to outsourced work, not better learning

A UC Berkeley study of more than 500,000 grades found that courses heavy on writing and coding saw grades jump after ChatGPT launched. The effect shows up mainly in homework, a sign that AI is replaci [...]

The skills that earn top grades are the ones AI can fake best

GPT-4o boosted grades on a marketing assignment by nearly a full point on a five-point scale in an experiment with 1,053 Bocconi University students. Whether they actually learned anything wasn't [...]