I'm currently holding the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 in my hands, only putting it down now to type this and tell you that, as I see it, it's the nearest thing we have at the moment to an iPhone Ultra, the folding iPhone we expect to meet in person on September 9. And what I wonder is not just if the real iPhone Ultra will be good enough to glow up the foldable category so that it eventually rivals standard flagship phones, but whether if it can rise above the foldable bar set by Samsung and, to a lesser extent, its rivals.
The iPhone Ultra will arrive on the tiny island that is foldable phones amid a group of well-established competitors. Apple's slow walk into this category has allowed Samsung, Google, Huawei, Motorola, and Oppo to hone their skills in creating thin, light, and powerful folding phones, often featuring excellent screens, battery life, and cameras.
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 is not the best of them. Don't get me wrong, it's an excellent foldable phone, but it's not the thinnest, doesn't have the longest battery life, and has just two rear cameras. On the other hand, the passport shape (when folded) makes it compelling in a way that's hard to quantify and temporarily unique among current foldable options. When opened, it has a screen size that is nearly as large as those found on other foldables, but in an oddball 4:3 screen aspect ratio.
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The design is intentional, with Samsung hoping to bridge the gap between the clamshell-style and fashion-forward Galaxy Z Flip and the far more powerful, productivity-first Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra.
Samsung is filling the gap in the hope of vastly expanding what remains a very tiny market. I know there are reports that Samsung is selling out the Z Fold 8, with one report claiming that it sold out and is now rushing out a million more units. Overall sales for the Z8 line (Fold, Flip, and Ultra) might be in the 4-to-5M unit range. That sounds pretty good, but a look at typical iPhone sales after launch quickly puts those numbers in perspective.
What the industry believes, or at least hopes, is that the arrival of the iPhone Ultra cracks open the market in ways Samsung and its folding counterparts haven't yet. This notion is predicated on the assumption that the iPhone Ultra will be substantially better than Samsung's folding line.
Except it probably won't be. I fully expect it to be an exciting and excellent smartphone, but Samsung, more than any other company, has come close to perfecting the art of the fold. The Z Fold 8 Ultra unfolds flat, has an almost creaseless screen, and is as light and thin as a standard flagship, while offering twice the utility.
The folding iPhone : what we expect
Gemini's AI rendering of the iPhone Ultra based on all available spec rumors. It's far from perfect but gives you an idea of what to expect. (Image credit: Gemini)
Apple's folding iPhone is not even expected to match the Z Fold 8 Ultra in style and features. In fact, it's a fair bet it will be in a form factor almost exactly the same as the Z Fold 8. That's right, we all expect Apple to produce the same kind of Passport-style foldable, right down to the pair of rear cameras with no telephoto lens in sight. This shouldn't be too surprising since most believe Apple is sourcing its folding display from Samsung Display.
Among the rumors I've read about the 5.5-inch (folded), 7.8-inch (unfolded) iPhone Ultra is that it will be built with a combination of aluminum and titanium, just like the Z Fold 8. It will, at 4,5mm, be no thinner than the Z Fold 8 when unfolded. The chief design distinction might be the use of what's rumored to be called "liquid metal" to try and fully erase the crease (something the Z Fold 8 Ultra and Z Fold 8 have nearly done).
Apple might have an edge, though, where it counts: performance. Most expect the A20 chip paired with 12GB of RAM and Apple's own C2 cellular model. All of this could make this a faster foldable, even if the average user never notices.
Some believe that Apple doesn't need to make the world's best foldable; it simply needs to deliver it to a willing market. How many people have been holding off on buying a foldable because Apple doesn't offer one? That could be millions of people, and if that's the case, it might be the Apple cachet that grows the foldable phone market to a previously unimaginable scale.
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This week, Nokia launched new retro phones, and w...
This week, Nokia launched new retro phones, and we got an extended look at GTA 6.
To catch up on all of this and plenty more, scroll down for our recap of the week’s biggest tech news stories.
And if you want to test your memory of last week’s news, try our quiz and see if you can get full marks.
7. Nokia debuted new retro phones
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The original Nokia may be gone, but its spirit lives on under its new HDM Global owner — and this week we welcomed the new Nokia 300 Charge, a dumbphone that’s brimming with handy features.
There are no touchscreens or apps here, which potential buyers will consider a good thing. But the 300 Charge does have a handy power bank mode, which lets you charge up other gadgets via its USB-C port. If you want an emergency camping phone, it also has a “high-power” LED flashlight.
Sadly, there’s no international pricing for the 300 Charge yet, but it is showing on HMD’s global website — so we will hopefully see this practical, anti-doomscrolling phone get a worldwide launch.
This week we’ve been at Gamescom, and it was a treat.
There was the unusual batch of conferences like Gamescom Opening Night Live and the Future Games Show which showcased exciting new games and updates like our very first look at the highly anticipated The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past DLC.
Meta has reached a settlement in a landmark social media trial that could have seen it pay out the company’s entire market cap had it lost. The case, which was brought by several states’ Attorneys General, alleged that Meta’s products were designed to addict teens and may have caused them mental harm.
Without admitting any wrongdoing or fault, Meta will instead pay a more modest $18 billion, and has agreed to several self-imposed restrictions such as hiding likes on teens’ profiles, an optional algorithm-free feed, and a two-hour daily time limit (cumulative across Instagram and Facebook) — though this limit would drop to one hour if TikTok, Snap and YouTube also agree to self-regulate.
Some aren’t convinced this is anything more than another slap on the wrist, but perhaps this effort will finally curtail our social media addiction epidemic.
It’s been a big week for Garmin fans and anyone who likes gloriously powerful adventure watches. Two new Garmin flagships, the Fenix 9 and Fenix 9 Pro, arrived for hiking duty — and we’ve already taken the latter out on a 12 km trip in the French Alps.
Garmin’s Fenix 8 was already packed with features, but its successor brings some meaningful upgrades. One standout is ‘Garmin Epic’, which helpfully combines your stats across big trips like multi-day backpacking excursions. We also like the Fenix 9 Pro’s new green light for boosting our camping night vision. For an in-depth debrief, check out our hands-on review below.
Gamers, we ate good this week as, on top of Gamescom, we also got the Extended Look at Grand Theft Auto6, and any complaints about the Netflix debut washed (mostly) away as we saw the game in the fullest glory we’ve seen thus far.
Explosive action, intense car chases, character swapping, beautiful lighting, an expansive map, tense story moments, and the return of the six-star rating.
Not everyone was impressed, but there are always haters online. For most, GTA 6 looks like the best yet, and it can’t come soon enough.
Back in 2024, Apple revived the Mac mini with a sportier, more compact design and an M4 chip. And this week it came back for generation two.
Apple stuck with the same chassis that doesn’t skimp on ports, but upgraded the internals with either the M6, which is Apple’s first 2nm chip, or the M5 Pro for those who need an even more substantial setup.
The downside? The Mac mini with M6 starts at $899 / £899 / AU$1,449 for 256GB of storage and 16GB of RAM — that's a $100 increase in the US over the current price of the M4 model — while the M5 Pro starts at $1,699 / £1,699 / AU$2,699 with 512GB of storage and 24GB of RAM.
The most eagerly anticipated Apple Event of the year — if not in recent years — finally has a day, September 9, and a time, 10AM PST. This is the moment when we will watch freshly minted CEO John Ternus run his first Apple keynote and, we think, finally meet the iPhone Ultra, a.k.a. the folding iPhone.
That’ll probably be the event’s “one more thing,” but there will be so many other things like new iPhone 18 Pro phones, a new HomePod mini, an updated Apple TV box, Apple Watch Series 12, and so much more. It’s set to be a jam-packed event. We’ll have a team on the ground and back at TechRadar home base covering it all on Wednesday. Buckle in!
The Bundesliga is back, with Harry Kane and Bayern Munich beginning their title defence this Friday against VfB Stuttgart. Bayern will once again be the team to beat, but the likes of Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund, and RB Leipzig will be looking to challenge their dominance.
The best part? You can watch almost all of it completely FREE this season. In a landmark deal, the Bundesliga has struck a new five-year agreement – so through the summer of 2031 – with US broadcaster Versant, splitting its coverage between USA Network and Fandango.
At least 30 matches per season will air on cable channel USA Network, while the remaining 270-odd games will stream completely free on Fandango. Yes, that’s the same Fandango widely known as a platform for booking movie tickets and renting movies online.
The move comes off the back of a hugely successful 2026 World Cup in the US, with broadcasters hoping to turn the country's newfound interest in soccer into something longer-lasting.
Robin Austermann, Bundesliga Americas Executive Vice President, said that “the 2026 World Cup has highlighted the tremendous growth potential of soccer in the US”, and that they aim to “transfer the casual soccer fan from the World Cup into a season-long Bundesliga fan.”
But while Fandango's Bundesliga streams are completely free for viewers in the US, what if you're traveling abroad? Can you still access those free live streams? You absolutely can, with a VPN. Read on to find out how.
How to watch Bundesliga free in the US
Fandango actually has two apps: the regular Fandango app for going to the movies, and Fandango Stream, which is the one you'll need for watching at home or on your phone. You can also access Fandango Stream through your browser.
Download the Fandango Stream app (or the Fandango app on a connected TV), or visit Fandango Stream in your browser.
Next, click on the Bundesliga tile and select your match. That's it! There's no cost, subscription, login or registration required.
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Fandango's free Bundesliga streams are officially available in the US, so you'll need a VPN if you're traveling outside the country and want to access them.
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ChatGPT’s growing collection of plugins has alwa...
ChatGPT’s growing collection of plugins has always sounded more useful than it sometimes felt. A long directory can make every integration look equally promising, even though some become regular tools and others enjoy one exciting demonstration before joining the digital attic. I have installed plenty that seemed clever for approximately seven minutes.
A recent recommendation update is designed to make that search more useful. Plugin rankings now give greater priority to tools that people continue using after installation, helping relevant options appear more prominently across ChatGPT on the web and mobile.
That sounded like a useful reason to revisit the directory and see which plugins had earned a place in my own routine. Here are five ChatGPT plugins I use that you might find worthwhile integrating into your life too.
1. Spotify for soundtracks of my day
Music recommendations have traditionally fallen into two camps. An algorithm serves more of whatever you played last week, or a friend gives you a playlist that contains six hours of obscure ambient jazz and demands your gratitude. Spotify’s ChatGPT plugin offers a more conversational middle ground.
Once connected, it can use your listening history, favorite artists and habits to suggest music, find podcasts and build playlists. The advantage is the amount of context you can include. Instead of searching for “workout music,” you can request a precise length, mood, genre mixture and energy curve. You can then refine the result without starting again.
I find it particularly good for playlists attached to a specific activity. Give it constraints and a little personality. A useful prompt would be: “Spotify, make a 75-minute Saturday kitchen-cleaning playlist. Start with indie rock, increase the energy after 20 minutes, avoid songs I played heavily last month and finish with three ridiculous singalongs.”
That produces something more purposeful than a generic cleaning playlist assembled by somebody who apparently dusts to anonymous dance remixes. You can ask Spotify to replace individual tracks, make the selection calmer or rename the finished playlist before opening it in the Spotify app.
The plugin is also handy for rediscovery. Asking for artists you listened to frequently five or ten years ago can produce a surprisingly effective musical excavation, complete with the occasional song you had wisely buried.
2. AllTrails for touching grass
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I like hiking and finding new places to go. The AllTrails plugin can turn my fuzzy desire to spend time outside into a shortlist that reflects how much time, energy,, and enthusiasm I actually have.
The trick is to describe the practical limits that generic searches tend to ignore. Include your location, maximum driving time, preferred distance, acceptable elevation gain, and any requirements involving children, dogs, shade, accessibility, or parking. ChatGPT can handle those details conversationally and use AllTrails to narrow the possibilities.
For example: “AllTrails, find three loop hikes within 45 minutes of me. Keep them between two and four miles with less than 700 feet of elevation gain. Prioritize recent positive reviews and parking that does not require arriving at dawn.”
That is far more useful than being told about the “10 best hikes in New York.” Follow-up prompts can compare the routes, suggest the best choice for a hot day, or identify the option with the gentlest opening mile. Trail conditions can change, so I still check recent reviews, closures, weather, and the official route before leaving, but it's been a great trip planner, especially for group hikes.
3. Todoist for due dates
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My relationship with to-do lists has always been hopeful but unstable. I enjoy creating them, feel briefly organized, and then discover the list several days later beneath newer lists. Todoist already offered better structure, but its ChatGPT plugin removed much of the fiddly work involved in turning a collection of thoughts into an actual plan.
After connecting my Todoist account, I might describe a typical overloaded Saturday and ask it to put the errands in a sensible driving order and with a realistic time schedule for getting it all done. I also ask for a preview first lest ChatGPT overload me out of misplaced confidence in my abilities.
The plugin is especially useful for recurring household tasks. I can ask it to create reminders for changing filters, checking smoke alarms, renewing documents or ordering supplies.
4. FitAI Pro for fitness
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FitAI Pro is designed for planning gym workouts and logging sets, It handles the organizational work that often stands between me and an actual workout.
After installing the plugin, I gave it my experience level, available equipment, preferred number of training days, and the maximum time I wanted to spend in the gym, and I get back a set of workouts to match. It helps to mention any movements you dislike or need to avoid
The large exercise library also makes substitutions easy for when I just don't like a particular exercise or want to mix things up. The plugin cannot perform the workout for me, which remains disappointing, but otherwise it streamlines workout plans in ways that make it harder for me to procrastinate or skip them entirely.
5. Podcast App to learn and laugh
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Podcast discovery is even tougher than for plugins because it's such a vast sea of OK-to-bad options, with unfortunately rare gems hidden within. Even more so if you only want to find a particular episode and not just a whole show.
The Podcast App plugin lets me search by topic, idea, or program and receive relevant podcast recommendations. I use it for individual episodes, since that is where it saves the most time. You can mention a maximum length if you want to avoid the four-hour monologues, and specify just how much expertise you have if you want general knowledge versus granular detail beyond your interest. Those distinctions matter when the same subject can produce either an entertaining commute or a three-hour academic panel.
I also usually ask the plugin to explain in one sentence why each episode matches my request. I can find one episode about a specific book, scientific question, or historical incident and move on. My queue remains imperfect, but I don't spend more time looking than listening.
The updated plugin recommendation system makes good plugins easier to discover, but discovery is only the opening act. The real value comes from giving a plugin a well-defined job, useful constraints, and permission to ask for clarification. Specific prompts produce specific help. Vague prompts produce the digital equivalent of a sympathetic nod.
Still, I keep these five because they help in ways standard ChatGPT can't, or that would take much longer to set up in the general chatbox. As OpenAI acknowledges with the new system, returning voluntarily to them is the most convincing recommendation for any AI tool.
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Plug-in solar panels became legal in the UK today...
Plug-in solar panels became legal in the UK today (September 27). These panels plug directly into an ordinary mains power socket, and could cut your electricity bill considerably; in fact, experts have told us that a plug-in solar system could effectively pay for itself in three to five years.
However, although plug-in solar panels are now legal, plug-in batteries (which store electricity then discharge it back into the circuit later) are not.
"Without a battery, solar energy generated during the day is either used immediately or exported to the grid, and consumers have to buy electricity at a higher price in the evening to meet their need," explains Anker Solix, which produces portable power stations and solar generators, and today launched the Solarbank 4 Pro solar battery.
The Solarbank 4 Pro is described as "plug-in ready", but can currently only be installed in your home via a hardwired connection, and must be fitted by a Part P registered electrician — for now.
Anker Solix is among many companies banking on plug-in batteries becoming legal in the UK soon, but we don't yet know when that might happen.
What's the problem with plug-in batteries?
The problem (as described by Regen, a not-for-profit organisation promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency), is that wiring in UK homes wasn't designed for energy to be discharged back into it.
Your home has circuit breakers, which protect against overloading and fires. They turn off the power to a circuit if the load gets too high, or there's a major system fault. Each circuit breaker has a lower rating than the physical limit of the circuit, which provides a buffer for safety.
"The problem with a discharging battery is known as load masking," explains Regen. "Circuit breakers only detect the current flowing past them from the consumer unit, and they cannot ‘see’ that a battery is plugged in. So when a battery discharges into a wall socket, the appliances on that circuit can draw power from the battery instead of the consumer unit — and the breaker continues to allow current up to its rating on top of what the battery is supplying.
"The wiring closest to the appliances can therefore carry more current than the circuit breaker is set to protect against. Exceeding the rated current could lead to the wire getting hot, increasing the risk of a fire."
Should you buy a 'future-ready' plug-in battery?
Choosing to buy a plug-in solar battery now is a calculated risk. Companies like Anker Solix can make well-informed predictions about the future requirements for plug-in batteries, and are keeping a close eye on developments. For example, capping the contribution from plug-in batteries at a low level could help avoid pushing wiring beyond its physical limits, even accounting for load masking.
However, although plug-in batteries seem like the logical next step in home solar, and big manufacturers are optimistic, there's no guarantee if, or when, they'll be given the green light.
If you're thinking about installing a plug-in solar system, take a look at our guide to three places you can't install plug-in solar panels first — the planning rules are very specific, and you'll need to think about where you're going to fit them carefully.
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Watch England vs Pakistan on Tapmad (FREE) (PAK)...
2nd Test: August 27-31 from 11am BST / 6am ET daily
Watch England vs Pakistan live streams as the 2nd Test of the three-match Test series gets underway at Lord's, London. The first match was hardly a competition as the English bowlers, especially Ollie Robinson and Josh Tongue, who both took 8-fers, ran riot against an inexperienced Pakistani batting lineup. The visitors put up a sorry show with the bat as England won by an innings and 103 runs.
Pakistan are 7th in the ICC’s Test rankings, and they've only won one away Test – in the West Indies – in the last three years. But, if there’s anywhere the Pakistani team would like to be after such a disappointing start, it is Lord's. They’ve won 5 matches here, including both of the last two games played between the two sides.
Mohammad Abbas was the hero of the 2018 win, picking up 8 scalps, and he’ll look to do something similar to turn his side’s fortune around. Another piece of good news for the visitors is the return of their captain, Babar Azam, after he missed the first game due to a finger injury. Azan Awais should make way for him.
The Poms, though brilliant in the first match, have found themselves surrounded by yet another off-field club-related controversy, this time as Brydon Carse was handcuffed following an incident outside a nightclub in Derby. Pending an investigation by the ECB, Carse has been sidelined for the second game, with Sonny Baker named as his replacement.
But captain Root won’t likely make any changes to the playing XI, with their fast-bowling quartet of Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Josh Tongue, and Ollie Robinson all in-form and delivering wickets.
You can catch all the England vs Pakistan 2nd Test action live and free. Read on to find out how.
Can I stream England vs Pakistan 2nd Test for free?
Yes, in Pakistan Tapmad will be showing the second test between England and Pakistan for free.
Those still tied to the cord can also watch the match free in Pakistan, thanks to the PTV Sports TV channel.
Outside of Pakistan? No worries, you can still stream the action by using a VPN. More details below...
Use a VPN to watch England vs Pakistan 2nd Test from anywhere
If you're keen to watch cricket but you're away from home and your preferred coverage is geo-blocked, you could always use a VPN to access it (assuming you're not breaching any broadcaster T&Cs, of course). You may be surprised by how simple it is to do.
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Quick start: Using a VPN to watch the 2nd Test between England and Pakistan from anywhere
Using a VPN is incredibly simple, just follow these steps.
1. Install the VPN of your choice. As we've said, NordVPN is our favorite.
2. Choose the location you wish to connect to in the VPN app. For instance if you're visiting the U.S. and want to view a Pakistani streaming service, you'd select a location from Pakistan (like Karachi) from the server list.
3. Sit back and enjoy the action. Head to Tampad and watch England vs Pakistan 2nd Test just like you would at home.
How to watch England vs Pakistan 2nd Test live streams in the US
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Cricket streaming service Willow TV is the place to watch the England vs Pakistan 2nd Test in the US.
If you don't have it as part of your cable package, you can watch Willow coverage through your choice of Sling TV's Desi Binge Plus or Dakshin Flex plans – starting from $10 per month.
Alternatively, you can add Willow TV to your Prime Video subscription and watch cricket live streams from there.
Outside the US right now? You can make use of NordVPN to catch the action.
How to watch England vs Pakistan 2nd Test live streams in the UK
The England vs Pakistan 2nd Test is being shown on Sky Sports on the Cricket and Main Event channels.
Sky Sports plans start from £35/month or £22 if you're an existing Sky subscriber. Alternatively, grab a NOW Sports subscription from £14.99/day or £34.99/month.
If you're on holiday outside the UK, you can use NordVPN to access Eng vs Pak coverage.
How to watch England vs Pakistan 2nd Test live streams in India
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In India, England vs Pakistan 2nd Test is being shown on the Sony Sports Network, with live streaming available via Sony LIV.
Sony LIV subscription plans in India start at ₹599 for the Mobile-Only yearly plan, or you can get the ₹999 Premium yearly plan.
If you're currently out of India but want to watch the matches live, you'll need to get yourself a VPN to access streaming services back home.
How to watch England vs Pakistan 2nd Test live streams in Australia
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The second test between England and Pakistan is being shown on Fox Cricket via Foxtel in Australia, with live streaming available via Kayo Sports.
Kayo Sports starts at AU$30 per month after a 7-day free trial. Or you can get your first month for AU$1.
Remember if you're out of Australia at all during the match, get NordVPN to stream Eng vs Pak from anywhere in the world.
How to watch England vs Pakistan 2nd Test live streams in Pakistan
In Pakistan, the second Test is free-to-air on PTV Sports (TV) and on Tapmad for cord-cutters.
That said, the free tier on Tapmad will have a lower-quality stream with ads playing during over breaks and fall of wickets. There's a premium tier, too, at PKR 499 per month, which unlocks an ad-free, high-definition (HD) stream.
If you're currently out of Pakistan but want to watch an England vs Pakistan 2nd Test live stream, you'll need to get yourself a VPN, as per the instructions above.
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England: Joe Root (c), Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Shoaib Bashir, Sonny Baker, Harry Brook, Sam Cook, Jordan Cox, Ben Duckett, Matthew Fisher, Emilio Gay, Dan Lawrence, Ollie Pope, Ollie Robinson, Jamie Smith, Josh Tongue
Pakistan: Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Ghazi Ghori (wk), Awais Zafar, Azan Awais, Imam-ul-Haq, Shan Masood, Abdullah Fazal, Aamer Jamel, Salman Ali Agha, Khurram Shahzad, Mohammad Abbas, Mohammad Ali, Sajid Khan, Ubaid Shah, Ali Usman
England vs Pakistan Test series schedule
1st Test: 19-23 August, Headingley (11am BST) - England won by an innings and 103 runs
2nd Test: 27-31 August, Lord's (11am BST)
3rd Test: 9-13 September, Edgbaston (11am BST)
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Plug-in solar kits become legal in the UK from Au...
That's because these kits are, in theory, a much more affordable and user-friendly way to bring the bill-cutting benefits of solar power to your home. The UK government estimates that plug-in panels could save households up to £70-£110 a year on their energy bills.
For renters and flat owners with little roof space, they represent a long-awaited new alternative to pricey rooftop installations. Instead, as their name suggests, you can theoretically plug them directly into your mains electricity, and place them outdoors in places like balcony railings, fences, garden sheds or patios.
However, despite their promised savings, early plug-in solar kits aren't exactly cheap. Early options that have gained regulatory approval, such as the UKSOL Plug-In Solar Pro Compact 460W Ground Mount Kit, will start at £699 from retailers, and it isn't yet clear when we'll be able to buy them directly from the likes of Lidl, Amazon and Currys.
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Other potential drawbacks include limitations on where you can actually install plug-in solar (in some cases, you may need planning permission) and the fact that you can't currently connect your panels to a battery, without professional help. For many, plug-in batteries are the real game-changer, and some will be waiting for those to become legal before diving into plug-in solar.
But now we want to hear from you — are you planning to buy a plug-in solar kit when they become legal on August 27? Vote in our poll below and let us know your thoughts in the comments too.
A security engineer at Amazon hacked a bunch of peripherals using AI
Claude Opus did most of the legwork in applying modified firmware to a webcam, microphone and more
The relative ease with which AI allows this kind of modification points to a worrying future of peripherals being compromised on a grander scale
In another example of how AI could prove to be a threat to our devices, an Amazon security engineer has demonstrated how powerful Claude Opus is when it comes to reverse engineering PC peripherals.
Chaz Schlarp, who's a Senior Security Engineer at Amazon, wrote a blog post about experiments he conducted with a bunch of peripherals such as a webcam and a microphone.
He wanted to find out how easy it was to modify the firmware and pull off some useful tricks with these devices using AI, but clearly there's a darker side here — namely that the same access could be leveraged by a malicious actor to compromise your system via these gadgets.
Schlarp used Claude Opus 5 to mess around with the firmware for an Insta360 webcam, a Shure microphone, an Asus monitor, an Elgato video capture stick, and an Elgato mini-light (a compact device for lighting your streaming videos).
Schlarp explains: "My process was pretty much the same for each of these devices: grab a copy of the device's firmware and associated update tool from the manufacturer, throw it into my reverse engineering environment, tell Claude Opus 5 what my goals are, and let it churn."
One thing that became quite clear to the security engineer was that these devices lacked any decent firmware integrity protection to prevent modifying and applying a new firmware. Only the Elgato light had any defenses in this respect, and they were easy enough to circumvent.
Schlarp explains a trick with his Asus ROG Swift PG42UQ monitor to demonstrate the kind of useful utility that can be on offer with this kind of firmware modding. He found it was possible to remove an annoying pop-up warning that periodically tells the owner to run the 'pixel cleaning' process (although the engineer hasn't implemented the fix in the firmware yet). He also discovered a way to get DisplayWidget (a Windows utility) features running on his Linux system, with a shell script that can flick through certain bits of functionality like the hardware crosshair or FPS counter (which could be set up on hotkeys).
Most of what he did, though, was about proving how relatively easy it was to subvert the firmware using AI to do the heavy lifting, and, for example, disable the webcam's recording light (in the style of surveillance malware, so the user wouldn't know if the camera was secretly recording). He pulled off a similar feat with the microphone, so the mute LED could be on while the mic wasn't actually muted (this was leveraged via a 'full plaintext command shell').
Schlarp observed: "Peripherals have proven to be an ideal target for agentic RE [reverse engineering] — they're tiny computers attached to my computer, with a data connection to the host and usually a firmware update mechanism, so an agent has something to iterate against. The net outcome is better control and understanding of my machine."
Analysis: fast-tracked exploits?
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The key point here is how easy Claude Opus made this task. 'Owning' all five of these peripherals boiled down to 13 hours of the AI beavering away under its own steam with just shy of 100 prompts from its human overseer.
Schlarp notes that: "Hardware is almost universally 'open' for tinkering at this point with just a couple hours of mostly hands-off machine-driven labor each, and I look forward to a near future where I can add features to my webcam firmware as easily as I can to software that runs on my Linux machine itself."
However, as mentioned, there's the dark side to all this, as Schlarp makes clear: "On the other hand, as a security professional, this scares me for several reasons. I would work from the operating assumption that any device attached to a computer could have had a malicious firmware implant performed, where previously that required significant per-model investment and was stereotyped as a 'state actor' kind of activity."
In other words, the main difficulty in executing these kinds of exploits is the labor and time required, which currently limits this to individually targeted attacks on more high value targets. However, now an AI agent is capable of doing the grunt work, it makes sense that these kinds of attacks could be far more prevalent as time rolls on.
That means all those peripherals attached to your PC could be used as ways to compromise you, or your system, in the future. Schlarp informs us that he's also managed to get a root shell on a commercial Dell display, adding that: "Obviously it was never best practice to let untrusted clients touch these things, but the speed and scale at which this can be executed makes the risk so much higher now."
There's a potentially bigger threat here, too: an AI-powered worm that automatically actions this kind of reverse engineering. Schlarp explains: "It's only a tiny leap to imagine that someone could make a self-replicating piece of malware that probes its environment, relaying reconnaissance back to a smart command-and-control that actively works to push itself into accessories and IoT devices and industrial equipment found adjacent to an infected target."
There are a lot of worries about where AI could be leading us, and far more dangerous security threats looming in the future (or indeed the present) is another unfortunate prospect to say the least.
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Garmin has scheduled a YouTube live event Titled ...
Titled 'Play Harder', it's scheduled for 25 August at 12:00pm BST (4am PT / 7am ET / 9pm AEST)
It's likely to be the launch of the Garmin Fenix 9
Garmin has scheduled a live event on YouTube, without much fanfare. Titled 'Play Harder', the event — we're not sure if this is a live event, or merely a trailer or series of trailers for another of the best Garmin watches — is scheduled to go live at 12:00pm BST.
For America, that translates to 4:00am Pacific Time (sorry) or 7:00am Eastern Time. For Australian watchers, it's a slightly more reasonable 9:00pm AEST.
Garmin doesn't normally schedule live events to announce new products — as far as I know, this is a first. So to schedule a live event to generate some build-up, presumably culminating in a public product reveal, means whatever's coming has to be pretty special indeed.
Fenix rising
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It may well be a slate of new products Garmin are announcing, but the star of the show is sure to be the Fenix 9. The Garmin Fenix 9 has been rumored to launch in the second half of 2026 for months, and recent retailer leaks suggest a launch is now imminent.
We're expecting to get three new kinds of Fenix: a standard AMOLED Fenix 9, like the Garmin Fenix 8 before it, and two different kinds of Pro watch: one with InReach satellite messaging connectivity, and one without, plus solar charging options.
The Garmin Fenix 8 Pro launched around a year after the original, but Garmin seems to be dropping the whole range at once this time around.
We've not heard much around the Garmin Enduro 4, the latest version of Garmin's massive watch line that promises near-infinite battery on sunny days. It could launch with the Fenix 9, as the Enduro 3 did with the Fenix 8, or Garmin could be saving it for a rainy day (well, we hope not, or the solar charging won't work!).
You can check out the approaching live stream on the embedded video below, but there isn't much to see right now: just an image of a surfer and a date. But check back with us tomorrow, as we'll be covering the announcements live.
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Watch Rowing World Championships 2026 free on CBC...
Rowing World Championships 2026: Mon, Aug 24 – Sun, Aug 30
Watch Rowing World Championships 2026 live streams as reigning Olympic champions Oliver Zeidler, Karolien Florijn and the Sinkovic brothers battle for global supremacy at the Bosbaan on the outskirts of Amsterdam.
More than 1,200 athletes from over 60 countries are set to face off across 23 boat classes, including both Olympic and non-Olympic races – the men's single sculls and women's single sculls being the twin highlights.
The former will serve as a mouthwatering reunion of sorts, with Zeidler lining up alongside Stefanos Ntouskos and Yauheni Zalaty. All three rowers made the podium in Shanghai, after Ntouskos beat Zeidler by 0.42s. A year previously, the German left everyone in his wake at Paris 2024, his closests challanger Zalaty having trailed him by 5.39s.
The latter will see Florijn aim to dethrone reigning world champion Fiona Murtagh in a hotly anticipated showdown. Murtagh, a former coxless four specialist, has made waves in the single sculls over the past year, but she's yet to face off directly with Florijn in a major event. Murtagh's word title-winning time was 5.01s quicker than Florijn's Olympic gold-winning time, albeit in completely different settings.
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How to watch Rowing World Championships 2026 live streams in Canada
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Free-to-air CBC is showing Rowing World Championships 2026 in Canada, with live streaming available via CBC Gem.
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When does Rowing World Championships 2026 start?
Rowing World Championships 2026 starts on Monday, August 24, with the first session beginning at 7.05am PT / 10.05am ET / 3.05pm BST / 12.35am AEST (Tuesday).
The championships end on Sunday, August 30, with the Mixed 8 last up at 6.08am PT / 9.08am ET / 2.08pm BST / 11.08pm AEST.
Rowing World Championships 2026: Schedule
Below is the daily schedule for Rowing World Championships 2026. All times BST.
Monday, August 24: Day 1
3.05pm – Lightweight women's single sculls heats
3.21pm – Lightweight men's single sculls heats
3.37pm – Women's pair heats
3.58pm – Men's pair heats
4.19pm – Women's double sculls heats
4.50pm – Men’s double sculls heats
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Tuesday, August 25: Day 2
12.05pm – PR2 mixed double sculls heats
12.36pm – PR3 mixed coxed four heats
12.47pm – Women’s four heats
1.03pm – Men's four heats
3.05pm – Women's quadruple sculls heats
3.21pm – Men’s quadruple sculls heats
3.42pm – Lightweight women's double sculls heats
3.47pm – Lightweight men's double sculls heats
3.59pm – Men’s double sculls quarter-finals
Wednesday, August 26: Day 3
12.05pm – PR3 mixed double sculls heats
12.16pm – Women's single sculls heats
12.42pm – Men's single sculls heats
1.27pm – Women's pair Final C
1.32pm – Men’s pair Final C
1.37pm – Women's double sculls Final C
1.42pm – Men's double sculls Final C
1.47pm – Women's pair Final D
1.53pm – Men’s pair Final D
1.58pm – Women's double sculls Final D
2.03pm – Men's double sculls Final D
2.08pm – Men's double sculls Final E
2.14pm – PR2 mixed double sculls semi-finals
3.05pm – Lightweight women's single sculls semi-finals
3.27pm – Lightweight men's single sculls semi-finals
3.37pm – Women’s pair semi-finals
3.49pm – Men's pair semi-finals
3.59pm – Women's double sculls semi-finals
4.11pm – Men’s double sculls semi-finals
Thursday, August 27: Day 4
12.05pm – PR1 women's single sculls heats
12.26pm – PR1 men's single sculls heats
12.56pm – PR2 mixed double sculls Final B
1.06pm – PR3 mixed coxed four Final B
1.11pm – Lightweight men's double sculls Final B
1.16pm – Lightweight women's single sculls Final B
1.21pm – Lightweight men's single sculls Final B
1.28pm – Men's quadruple sculls Final C
1.33pm – Women's four Final C
1.38pm – Men's four Final C
2.25pm – Women's four semi-finals
2.35pm – Men's four semi-finals
2.47pm – Women's quadruple sculls semi-finals
2.57pm – Men's quadruple sculls semi-finals
3.10pm – Lightweight women's double sculls Final A
3.26pm – Lightweight men's double sculls Final A
3.41pm – Lightweight men's single sculls Final A
4pm – Lightweight women's single sculls Final A
4.20pm – Men's quadruple sculls Final C
4.40pm – PR2 mixed double sculls Final A
4.59pm – PR3 mixed coxed four Final A
Friday, August 28: Day 5
12.05pm – Women's single sculls quarter-finals
12.27pm – Men's single sculls quarter-finals
12.47pm – PR3 mixed double sculls Final B
12.52pm – Women's pair Final B
12.57pm – Men's pair Final B
1.02pm – Women's double sculls Final B
1.07pm – Men's double sculls Final B
1.14pm – PR1 men's single sculls Final C
1.19pm – Women's single sculls Final E
1.24pm – Men's single sculls Final E
1.29pm – Men's single sculls Final F
1.34pm – Men's single sculls Final G
3.05pm – PR1 men's single sculls semi-finals
3.28pm – Women's pair Final A
3.43pm – Men's pair Final A
3.58pm – PR3 mixed double sculls Final A
4.17pm – Men's double sculls Final A
4.35pm – Women's double sculls Final A
Saturday, August 29: Day 6
9.05am – Women's single sculls Final D
9.10am – Men's single sculls Final D
9.15am – Women's single sculls Final C
9.20am – Men's single sculls Final C
9.25am – PR1 women's single sculls Final B
9.35am – PR1 men's single sculls Final B
9.45am – Women's four Final B
9.50am – Men's four Final B
9.55am – Women's quadruple sculls Final B
10am – Men's quadruple sculls Final B
10.05am – PR1 men's single sculls Final A
1.34pm – PR1 women's single sculls Final A
10.22am – Men's four Final A
10.41am – Women's four Final A
10.58am – Men's quadruple sculls Final A
11.16am – Women's quadruple sculls Final A
11.34am – Women's single sculls semi-finals
2.05pm – Men's single sculls semi-finals
2.19pm – Women's eight heats
2.33pm – Men's eight heats
2.46pm – Mixed double sculls heats
Sunday, August 30: Day 7
9.05am – Mixed eight semi-finals
9.20am – Mixed double sculls semi-finals
9.34am – Mixed double sculls Final C
12.05pm – Men's eight Final B
12.10pm – Women's single sculls Final B
12.15pm – Women's eight Final B
12.20pm – Men's single sculls Final B
12.35pm – Mixed double sculls Final B
12.38pm – Men’s eight Final A
12.52pm – Women's single sculls Final A
1.07pm – Women's eight Final A
1.28pm – Men’s single sculls Final A
1.46pm – Mixed double sculls Final A
2.08pm – Mixed eight Final A
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With the 2026-27 season kicking off this weekend,...
With the 2026-27 season kicking off this weekend, Premier League football teams are facing a new set of rules. But these ones aren’t enforced on the pitch, they’re being enforced by the Premier League board.
As the Premier League has adapted to a new era of fan engagement and interaction, teams are holding huge amounts of personal data, including names, email addresses, credentials, and even financial information. These place them at greater risk of data leaks and make them a primary target for cyber attacks.
In order to ensure teams take the necessary steps to protect both their data and the data of their fans, the board can impose fines of up to £100,000 for teams that don’t meet the requirements across backups, incident response, risk management, security assurance and much more.
What do the new rules mean for Premier League teams?
The teams previously had to align with a non-prescriptive security baseline issued in 2024, but the new rules place requirements on teams with deadlines for their implementation.
If these deadlines are not met, the teams can be subject to the aforementioned fine, or referred to an independent commission.
The teams will be required to meet the first set of requirements by April 30, 2027, with further requirements to be met in April 2028 and April 2029. The teams will also have to assess their own compliance by January 10 each year, with a final assessment and evidence submitted to the Premier League board by April 30.
The board can also request additional detail and evidence where needed to track a team’s progress in adhering to the new rules. If a team does not meet requirements during the interim stage it must submit a plan on how it aims to become compliant within 28 days.
Expert perspectives on Premier League cybersecurity rules
Muhammad Yahya Patel, vCISO and cybersecurity advisor for EMEA, Huntress:
The Premier League introducing mandatory cybersecurity standards is the right move, but the detail is where the questions start. £100,000 sounds significant until you remember that top Premier League clubs generate revenues north of £600 million annually.
The phased timeline, April 2027, 2028, 2029, is pragmatic but slow given the threat environment. Waiting until 2029 for full compliance gives attackers three more seasons to find the weakest link.
£100,000 sounds significant until you remember that top Premier League clubs generate revenues north of £600 million annually.
That said, the direction is unambiguously right. Moving from a non-prescriptive roadmap to formal requirements with deadlines and evidence submissions is a meaningful structural shift.
Backups, incident response, risk management, and recovery testing are exactly the right foundations. The Premier League doing this proactively rather than reactively before a major breach forces the issue deserves genuine credit.
Most governing bodies wait for the headline incident. This one didn’t. The real test is enforcement appetite. Rules without credible consequences change nothing.
Jamie Akhtar, CEO and Co-founder, CyberSmart:
This is an important shift for the Premier League. Cyber security is moving from being viewed primarily as an IT responsibility to becoming an enforceable element of club governance.
Football clubs hold significant volumes of sensitive supporter, employee and player data, while also relying on systems for ticketing, payments, stadium access and match-day operations. Making areas such as backups, incident response, risk management and security assurance mandatory reflects the reality that a serious cyber incident can quickly become an operational, financial and reputational crisis.
For clubs, compliance should not become an annual box-ticking exercise.
For clubs, compliance should not become an annual box-ticking exercise. They need clear board-level ownership of cyber risk, an accurate inventory of critical systems and data, tested and segregated backups, rehearsed incident-response and recovery plans, strong identity and access controls, and effective oversight of third-party suppliers.
Just as importantly, clubs should continuously collect evidence that these controls are operating effectively. The organisations that treat the new requirements as a minimum baseline for resilience, rather than simply a regulatory hurdle, will be in the strongest position when an attack inevitably tests those controls.
Anna Collard, SVP of Content Strategy and CISO Advisor, KnowBe4:
Good to see the Premier League treating cybersecurity as a governance issue rather than an IT afterthought. Mandatory rules with real financial consequences (fines of up to £100,000) send the right signal: boards are expected to own this risk, not just delegate it.
As I've said before, sport is uniquely exposed because it runs on the very emotions social engineers exploit: passion, urgency, loyalty and trust.
But fines only address one side of the equation. As I've said before, sport is uniquely exposed because it runs on the very emotions social engineers exploit: passion, urgency, loyalty and trust.
A rushed transfer payment, a fan chasing tickets, an official acting on a "verified" WhatsApp message from someone posing as a coach or chairperson, these are moments of heightened emotion and time pressure, exactly when human judgment degrades. That's not a firewall problem.
It's worth remembering that one of the most costly incidents in this sector involved a Premier League club being spear-phished during a £1 million transfer negotiation. That wasn't a technical breach, but a person deceived at a moment of pressure.
Rules with teeth are a welcome start. But real resilience means pairing compliance with genuine behavioural readiness, for example helping people recognise urgency as a red flag, not a reason to skip verification.
Cian Heasley, Principal Consultant, Acumen Cyber:
I think it’s a positive step forward. Football clubs are attractive targets because they hold large volumes of sensitive data, process significant financial transactions and rely on operational systems where disruption can have very real consequences. Moving from advisory guidance to enforceable standards creates much-needed accountability, and the financial incentive will inevitably help drive action.
Requiring clubs to have a clear plan, aligned to defined standards and delivered within a set timeframe, also gives them something measurable to work towards. The key will be making sure those standards provide clear structure rather than leaving too much open to interpretation.
The key will be making sure those standards provide clear structure rather than leaving too much open to interpretation.
The focus on backups, incident response and recovery is particularly important. Preventing every incident simply isn’t realistic, so clubs need to prove they can recover quickly when something does happen. If clubs are working towards common standards, there is also a real opportunity to share lessons around what works, where implementation falls short and how security can continue to improve across the league.
In November ‘24, Italian club Bologna FC confirmed a ransomware attack claimed by the RansomHub group, which exfiltrated sensitive data. After the club declined to meet the ransom demand, the ransomware gang published the full dataset on the dark web. The leaked material reportedly included player and sponsor information, and the attackers went as far as invoking GDPR exposure to pressure the club into paying, a tactic that turns a club's own regulatory obligations into leverage.
More recently, Dutch club Ajax was named among the organisations affected by the CEVA Logistics breach, where customer data was exposed through a shared shipping vendor rather than a direct compromise, underlining that supply-chain exposure is also as material a risk as any attack on a club's own estate.
Taken together, these incidents show why these rules were needed then, though they are pitched as proactive, they must also be driven by these football-related breaches.
The £100,000 ceiling is modest against the true cost of a serious incident and the amounts of money tied up in football clubs, so the value lies less in the sanction and more in compelling clubs to build tested backups, incident response and recovery capability before they are needed. The Bologna case in particular demonstrates that ransomware leaks can be damaging, which makes resilience and data minimisation far more important than any assumption that a club can negotiate its way out of trouble.
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