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For years, checking your internet speed has meant opening a browser and visiting a third-party website like Ookla’s Speedtest.net or Netflix’s Fast.com. That ritual may soon become obsolete for Windows users. Microsoft is quietly testing a native network speed test tool built directly into the Windows 11 Settings app, a move that signals the company’s broader ambition to absorb common utility functions into its operating system.

Google has once again staked its claim at the top of the artificial intelligence leaderboard. The company’s latest Gemini Pro model, unveiled this week, posted record-breaking scores across a range of widely watched AI benchmarks, reinforcing the search giant’s position in the intensifying race among tech titans to build the most capable large language models. But as the industry matures and benchmark fatigue sets in among researchers and enterprise buyers alike, the question looms: do these scores still matter as much as Google wants them to?

Mark Zuckerberg has staked tens of billions of dollars on the belief that virtual and mixed reality will define the next era of computing. But the centerpiece of that vision — Meta’s social platform Horizon Worlds — has struggled mightily to attract and retain users since its public launch.

CarGurus Inc., the publicly traded online automotive marketplace headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is facing a significant cybersecurity incident after a threat actor claimed to have exfiltrated approximately 1.7 million corporate records from the company’s internal systems. The breach, which surfaced on a well-known hacking forum in June 2025, raises serious questions about data protection practices at one of the largest digital car-buying platforms in the United States.