The Sleep app for Apple Watch may have accidentally gone live on the App Store this week. According to screenshots of the App Store’s Alarms app for the Apple Watch, a version will launch with a “Sleep” section, as reported by MacRumors Monday. “Set your bedtime and wake up in the sleep app,” the screenshot …

The US government is formally negotiating an agreement to share electronic evidence with Australia. If they reach a deal, the two nations will gain access to info stored by each other’s online service providers, US Attorney General William Barr and Australian Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton announced Monday. It comes after the US last week signed a similar pact …

Pinterest is the latest app to jump on the dark mode craze, with the photo-sharing company launching the setting Monday. It’s available globally on both iOS and Android, Pinterest said, and will darken the interface on the phone app. Dark mode inverts the colors of apps by putting white text on a black background, which is said to reduce smartphone …

Facebook began hiding likes on Friday, Sept. 27, making the number of reactions, views and likes visible only to a post’s author. The test kicked off in Australia, the social media giant confirmed last week, and includes ads. How the like “count” will appear during the test. Facebook “We are running a limited test where like, reaction and video view counts …

Microsoft will reportedly unveil a low-end Surface 7 tablet this week, along with a Surface Pro 7 and a Surface Laptop 3. And instead of Intel on the inside, the Surface 7 — codenamed Campus — could instead run on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx SoC, Wccftech reported Saturday, citing French tech blog Frandroid. Microsoft is set to host a Surface …

Apple’s latest iPad “mostly inherits hand-me-down features” from previous iPhones and iPads, according to a teardown report by iFixit. Despite many “repurposed” features, though, including an iPhone 7 A10 Fusion processor, iFixit called the update to Apple’s tablet a “solid incremental improvement.”  The 10.2-inch iPad, unveiled during Apple’s iPhone 11 event earlier in September, starts at $329 (£349, AU$529) and …

HP has unveiled its refreshed Chromebook x360 laptops, with the 12- and 14-inch models getting thinner and lighter. They also now offer USI (Universal Stylus Initiative) pen compatibility. They’ll be available later in September for $359 and $379, respectively, with HP’s rechargeable USI Pen launching in November at a cost of $70. Dubbed by HP as “the best of Chrome …

This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the voting in November and its aftermath. Microsoft’s open-source software aimed at protecting election is now available. The company released ElectionGuard on Tuesday on GitHub, saying election tech companies can begin integrating the software into their voting systems. In July, Microsoft demonstrated its ElectionGuard software aimed at protecting electronic voting systems from hack attacks. …

Google has reportedly built a quantum computer more powerful than the world’s top supercomputers. A Google research paper was temporarily posted online this week, the Financial Times reported Friday, and said the quantum computer’s processor allowed a calculation to be performed in just over 3 minutes. That calculation would take 10,000 years on IBM’s Summit, the world’s most powerful commercial …

A website pretending to help find jobs for US military veterans was found to be infecting their computers with malware, Cisco‘s Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group said Tuesday. The website was called hiremilitaryheroes.com, a Talos blog post said, and asked users to download a fake installer app that deployed malware and malicious spying tools. The system info retrieved by …