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Synology Issues Security Patches for Legacy Servers, Urges Users to Apply Updates Immediately: Here’s How to Keep Your NAS Safe

Oct 30, 2026

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Synology issues security patches for legacy NAS server as old as those released in 2011, such as this DS411slim

There’s been a huge wave of attacks on certain Synology NAS servers during this month of October. These attacks exploit known PHP-related vulnerabilities and target servers that run dated versions of Synology’s DiskStation Manager (DSM) or software packages (applications). PHP (short for Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely used open-source, server-side … Continue Reading

Federal Communications Commission (FCC): TP-Link Wi-Fi 7 Routers Fail to Comply with Broadcast Power Limits

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Oct 28, 2026

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The TP-Link Archer GE800 has higher broadcast power limit than allowed

By now, you might have learned that TP-Link’s latest Wi-Fi 8 router, the Archer BN800, isn’t available in the US (leaving ASUS’s GT-BN98 Pro as the first router of the latest Wi-Fi standard you can buy in this market) because of the FCC’s foreign-made router ban. As it turns out, that might … Continue Reading

ASUS ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro Review (vs. GT-BE98 Pro): A Powerful and Well-Performing Wi-Fi 8 Router

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Oct 27, 2026

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The ASUS ROG Rapture GT-BN98 Pro, first announced in August together with the non-Pro version, is the first Wi-Fi 8 router to be available in the US. It was a bit of a pleasant surprise, considering Wi-Fi 8 is still in draft and especially the FCC’s router ban instituted earlier … Continue Reading

SANDISK NAS 600 Review: An Excellent All-Purpose SATA SSD

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Oct 23, 2026

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The SANDISK NAS 600, unveiled in August as part of Sandisk’s new storage portfolio that also includes the SANDISK NAS 800, is the first SATA solid-state drive (SSD) I’ve reviewed in half a decade. Before this, I thought that the Samsung 870 EVO would be the last SSD of this … Continue Reading

DiskStation DS1525neo+ Review (vs. DS1525+): An Excellent Representative of Synology’s New and More Affordable NAS Series

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Oct 20, 2026

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The the model name is the only thing that tell the new DS1525neo+ apart from the previous DS1525+ model

Synology today announced the official availability of its neo+ series in the North American market—the NAS maker first unveiled the new lineup in Asia Pacific back in mid-April. The new series consists of five comparatively more affordable servers (than the existing 2025 Plus series), ranging from two bays to eight … Continue Reading

Samsung P9 Review (vs. SanDisk Extreme PRO with USB4): A Rugged, Fast, and Expensive Portable SSD

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Oct 19, 2026

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The Samsung P9 Portable SSD, announced on Aug 26, 2026, together with the lower-tier P7, is the second USB4 SSD-based external drive I’ve tested, after the SanDisk Extreme PRO with USB4. The two portable SSDs are similar in more ways than one, but the Samsung P9, as a newcomer, has an … Continue Reading

Multi-Link Operation (MLO), Explained: Understanding Modern Wi-Fi’s Bonded Link

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Oct 11, 2026

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Here's an AiMesh sytsem with two units of the latest Wi-Fi 8 GT-BN98 Pro and a Wi-Fi 7 GT-BE98 Pro. Note how Multi-Link Operation backhaul is available only betweent the first two

First available with Wi-Fi 7, Multi-Link Operation, or MLO, is an exciting and promising feature on paper. In real life, it has proven to be complicated: great in some, subdued in others, and often not available at all. This post will explain all that in detail, using simple terms. It’ll … Continue Reading

UniFi Protect 7.3: Powerful Surveillance System Gets Mad Storage Conservation via Super Encoding, Video Wall Time Machine, Teleport-Based Remote Adoption, and More

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Oct 2, 2026

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UniFi Protect 7.3 has new features for users to optimize and conserve the UNVR storage

Here’s some exciting news for those using a UniFi Network Video Recorder (UNVR) from Ubiquiti: The company today announced the release candidate of UniFi Protect 7.3 with major improvements that, among other things, ease the pain of storage costs. The official 7.3 version is set to come out as soon … Continue Reading