Microsoft Defender is detecting legitimate DigiCert root certificates as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha, resulting in widespread false-positive alerts, and in some cases, removing certificates from Windows.
According to cybersecurity expert Florian Roth, the issue first appeared after Microsoft added the detections to a Defender signature update on April 30th.
Today, administrators worldwide began reporting that DigiCert root certificate entries were flagged as malware and, on affected systems, removed from the Windows trust store.
According to a Reddit post about the false positives, the detected certificates are:
On impacted systems, these certificates were removed from the AuthRoot store under this Registry key:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\AuthRoot\Certificates\
These false positives have led to concern among Windows users, with some thinking their devices were infected and reinstalling the operating system to be safe.
Microsoft has reportedly fixed the detections in Security Intelligence update version 1.449.430.0, and the most recent update is now 1.449.431.0.
Other reports on Reddit indicate that the fix also restores previously removed certificates on affected systems.
The new Microsoft Defender updates will automatically install, and Windows users can manually force an update by going into Windows Security > Virus and threat protection > Protection updates and clicking on Check for Updates.
The false positives occur shortly after a disclosed DigiCert security incident that enabled threat actors to obtain valid code-signing certificates used to sign malware.
“A malware incident targeted a customer support team member. Upon detection, the threat vector was contained,” explains the DigiCert incident report.
“Our subsequent investigation found that the threat actor was able to procure initialization codes for a limited number of code signing certificates, few of which were then used to sign malware.”
“The identified certificates were revoked within 24 hours of discovery and the revocation date set to their date of issuance. As a precautionary measure, pending orders within the window of interest were cancelled. Additional details will be provided in our full incident report.”
According to DigiCert’s incident report, attackers targeted the company’s support staff in early April by creating support messages containing a malicious ZIP file disguised as a screenshot.
After multiple blocked attempts, one support analyst’s device was eventually compromised, followed by a second system that went undetected for a time due to an endpoint protection “sensor gap.”
Using access to the breached support environment, the hacker used a feature in DigiCert’s internal support portal that allowed support staff to view customer accounts from the customer’s perspective.
While limited in scope, this access exposed “initialization codes” to previously approved, but undelivered, EV code-signing certificate orders.
“Possession of an initialization code, combined with an approved order, is sufficient to obtain the resulting certificate (see Contributing Factors discussion below),” explained DigiCert.
“Since the threat actor was able to obtain these two pieces of information for a finite set of approved orders, they were able to obtain EV Code Signing certificates across a set of customer accounts and CAs.”
DigiCert says it revoked 60 code-signing certificates, including 27 linked to a “Zhong Stealer” malware campaign.
“11 were identified in certificate problem reports provided to DigiCert by community members linking the certificates to malware, and 16 were identified during our own investigation,” explained DigiCert.
This aligns with earlier reports from security researchers who had observed newly issued DigiCert EV certificates used in malware campaigns and reported them to DigiCert.
Researchers, including Squiblydoo, MalwareHunterTeam, and g0njxa, reported that certificates issued to well-known companies such as Lenovo, Kingston, Shuttle Inc, and Palit Microsystems were being used to sign malware.
“What do Lenovo, Kingston, Shuttle Inc, and Palit Microsystems have in common?,” posted Squiblydoo on X.
“EV Certificates from these companies were issued and used by a Chinese crime group, #GoldenEyeDog (#APT-Q-27)!”
The malware in this campaign is named “Zhong Stealer,” though analysis indicates it may be more like a remote access trojan (RAT) than an infostealer.
The researcher says the malware was distributed through the following attacks:
After DigiCert disclosed the incident, the researchers said the incident report explains how the certificates used in these malware campaigns were obtained.
While Microsoft has not confirmed that the Defender detections are a result of the DigiCert incident, the timing and focus on DigiCert-related certificates suggest a possible connection.
However, it should be noted that the certificates flagged by Microsoft Defender are root certificates in the Windows trust store and do not match the revoked DigiCert code-signing certificates used to sign malware.
BleepingComputer contacted Microsoft with questions about the campaign, including whether it was tied to DigiCert’s breach.
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A 1999 press release bragged “Jeeves” answered 92.3 million questions in just three months. “In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions,” remembers the New York Times — whether it was Britney Spears or tamagotchis:
We asked, and he answered: Jeeves, the digital butler of information, the online valet who led us into the depths of cyberspace. Now, like so many other relics of yesterday’s internet, Jeeves — and his home, Ask.com — are no more. After almost 30 years, the question-and-answer service and former search engine shuttered on Friday. “To you — the millions of users who turned to us for answers in a rapidly changing world — thank you for your endless curiosity, your loyalty, and your trust,” the company said in a notice posted on its now-defunct website…
Created in Berkeley, Calif., in the days of the dot-com gold rush, Ask Jeeves first appeared on computer screens in 1996…. Their mascot, Jeeves, was modeled on the clever English butler character from the famed P.G. Wodehouse book series. Its search function was simple — type in a question, get an answer. But the quality of its responses was uneven, and the website was quickly eclipsed by Google and Yahoo as the world’s go-to search engines.
The site was bought by InterActive Corp. for more than $1 billion in 2005, and was given an injection of cash to help it compete as a search engine. It rebranded as Ask.com and as part of the reimagining, the site also ditched the character of Jeeves in 2006. Scrappy but inventive, the site was one of the first to introduce hyperlocal map overlays to its searches and incorporate thumbnails of webpages. “They are doing a lot of clever and interesting things,” a Google executive noted of Ask.com at the time. Still, Ask.com struggled to compete and returned in 2010 to its bread and butter: question-and-answer style prompts.
Even then, it faltered against newer, crowdsourced iterations like Quora and Google’s unyielding march to the internet fore — the platform now dominates search traffic, and the world’s general experience of the internet.
A statement at Ask.com ends “by thanking its millions of users, and saying, ‘Jeeves’ spirit endures’,” notes this article from Engadget:
As sad as it is to see a relic of the early Internet days fade into obscurity, we still have Ask Jeeves to thank for why some users still punch in full questions when querying Google. On top of that, Jeeves was built to provide detailed answers in natural language, which could have arguably acted as a precursor to today’s AI chatbots like ChatGPT.
“Now, Ask.com joins the Internet graveyard that includes competitors like AltaVista, which shut down in 2013,” the article points out. “With Ask.com gone, alongside AIM and AOL dial-up services also sunsetting, we’re truly coming to an end of a specific era of the Internet.”
And the New York Times argues the memory of Jeeves now rests somewhere between Limewire and Beanie Babies…
Lithium buried beneath parts of the Appalachian region could supply the United States with hundreds of years of material essential for batteries, electronics, and large-scale energy storage systems.
New estimates from the United States Geological Survey point to roughly 2.3 million metric tons of lithium oxide located in pegmatite formations spread across areas of the eastern United States.
Much of the material is believed to sit beneath sections of the Carolinas, while additional deposits are estimated to lie under parts of western Maine and New Hampshire.
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Reporting on the news, Fortune says the scale is large enough to replace about 328 years of US lithium imports based on recent demand levels, a number that shows just how dependent the country has become on foreign sources for key battery materials.
The deposits could support production of about 500 billion cellphones, along with billions of laptops and tablets, or enough batteries to power roughly 130 million electric vehicles if the material can be recovered at commercial scale.
Much of the discussion around lithium now centers on supply chains, especially since China dominates the production of finished lithium-ion batteries used in devices ranging from smartphones to electric vehicles and backup systems in data centers.
Demand continues rising as manufacturers move away from older battery types, while lithium-ion technology remains widely used in systems that require fast charging and long operating life.
USGS says lithium resources in Appalachia are concentrated inside pegmatites, large-grained granite-like rock formations that can trap valuable elements during cooling and crystallization deep underground.
Accessing the material remains the biggest hurdle, since the United States currently produces only a small share of global lithium output despite rising domestic demand.
The country produced about 610 metric tons of lithium recently, accounting for roughly 0.3% of worldwide production, while most refining and large-scale battery manufacturing continues to take place overseas.
In December 2025 we reported how researchers identified lithium-rich clay deposits inside the McDermitt Caldera along the Nevada–Oregon border, where geological surveys suggested between 20 million and 40 million metric tons of lithium-bearing material could exist.
Geological analysis showed that layers of volcanic ash and long-running hydrothermal activity enriched soft sediments with lithium, creating clay bands that in some cases sit close enough to the surface to allow open-pit extraction.
Industry planners continue to point out that discovery alone does not guarantee production, since refining capacity, environmental permits, and infrastructure determine how quickly resources reach the market.
Government-backed funding and private investment projects are already underway in places such as Arkansas, where chemical extraction methods are being tested to increase domestic production capacity.
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If you bought a digital game on the PlayStation Store between April 2019 and December 2023, you may soon receive some store credit in your account. A federal judge in San Francisco granted preliminary approval of a proposed $7.85 million settlement for a class action lawsuit that accused Sony of eliminating competition and monopolizing the market for its digital games through the PlayStation Store.
The lawsuit was first filed in May 2021 and claims that Sony’s alleged anticompetitive conduct caused gamers to “pay more than they otherwise would have paid for certain digital games.” The legal action comes after Sony eliminated “game-specific vouchers” sold by third-party companies in April 2019, which the lawsuit argued could have resulted in lower prices on the PlayStation Store if customers had alternative options through other retailers like Best Buy, GameStop and others.
The law firm representing affected users posted a list of eligible games, which includes The Last of Us, NBA 2K18 and Need for Speed Rivals, and said there are more than 4.4 million eligible PlayStation Network accounts. For anyone who qualifies as part of the class action settlement, you’ll see your PSN account credited once the final approvals are in. The court will have a Fairness Hearing on October 15, which will see the final judgement and the plan for allocating the millions of dollars to eligible accounts.
Notably, this lawsuit is separate from another similar legal action that was filed in the UK. Also a class action lawsuit, the case accuses Sony of “unfairly charging its UK customers too much for digital games and in-game content purchased through the PlayStation Store.” Unlike this recent settlement, Sony could pay up to $2.7 billion to UK residents as a result of alleged antitrust actions.
Apple has big plans for its F1 streaming service. Image source: Apple
Apple is keen for there to be a sequel to “F1: The Movie,” SVP Eddy Cue said, as the company hopes to increase its involvement with the motorsport in the future.
Apple has multiple connections to Formula 1, with it being the official broadcaster of the sport in the United States. It’s also behind the Brad Pitt vehicle “F1: The Movie,” which is also Apple TV’s most-watched movie.
With those successes in hand, Apple is planning for there to be more to both sides of the story.
Speaking to the press at the Miami Grand Prix on May 1, Apple SVP of Services Eddy Cue talked about both the real-life and fictional versions of Formula One.
On the movie, Cue said “I hope and expect there will be one,” reports Reuters.
Cue’s hope is well-founded, since it earned over $600 million at the box office, based on an estimated production cost of around $200 million. In February, producer Jerry Bruckheimer said that work is being carried out on a sequel.
The CEO of Formula 1, Stefano Domenicali, told reporters in February that a sequel wouldn’t happen in 2026, but strongly hinted at it being on the horizon.
Even so, there has yet to be any official confirmation that one will actually be produced.
Apple’s existing coverage of F1 in the United States has been well received, with Cue very happy at how it’s gone so far. However, he says Apple wants to do more to grow its presence.
He acknowledges that F1 doesn’t get licensed on a global basis, but that isn’t hurting Apple’s intentions. Cue says he hopes Apple can grow into other areas and markets with its streaming coverage.
Starting in the United States is a “huge market” for Apple, and building within it is “definitely the right way” to progress, says Cue. “And then of course, it would be great to expand it.”
Earlier in April, Cue said that 30% of people watching F1 are using the multiview function.
When it comes to the transition of CEO from Tim Cook to John Ternus, Cue believes it will only make Apple’s relationship with F1 even stronger.
Ternus drives a Porsche and is an amateur racer, Cue explained, adding “He would actually be here this weekend but he’s at Laguna Seca.” Cue believes that Ternus would end up being at more races than Cook, and that he’s a “huge, huge fan of F1.”
Amazon once tried to pressure Nintendo to break the law, says former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé. At a recent NYU lecture, he describes a conversation with an Amazon executive, Kotaku reports:
“Amazon was looking to get bigger into the video game space,” said Fils-Aimé. “Amazon’s mentality back then is they wanted to have the lowest price out in the marketplace, even lower than Walmart… Essentially what Amazon wanted (was an) obscene amount of support, financial support, so they could have the lowest price and beat Walmart. I literally said to the executive, ‘You know that’s illegal, right? I can’t do that’….”
At the time, the Wii and DS were Nintendo’s best selling hardware in history. Amazon originally sold books, but in the 2000s rapidly expanded with cheaper discounts to became a one-stop shop for almost everything. Everything except Nintendo, that is…. “Literally we stopped selling to Amazon,” Fils-Aimé continued, “and it’s because I wasn’t going to do something illegal. I wasn’t going to do something that would put at risk the relationship we have with other retailers.”
“The two sides have since made amends,” notes the Verge, “and you can buy a Switch 2 through Amazon. But for a long time, Nintendo consoles had been largely unavailable on the site.”
Flip-phones are not only a fun way to get a hit of nostalgia, but they’re quickly becoming seriously useful everyday smartphones too.
Motorola has reinvented its iconic Razr flip-phone and recently introduced the Razr 70 series, which is headlined by the premium Razr 70 Ultra. But how does it measure up to Samsung’s own Galaxy Z Flip 7?
While we haven’t reviewed the Razr 70 Ultra just yet, we’ve compared its specs to the Z Flip 7 and highlighted the key differences between the clamshell flip phones below. Keep reading to decide which handset is likely to suit you best. Alternatively, we’ve also compared the Motorola Razr 70 Ultra vs 70 Plus vs 70, so you can see the entire collection side-by-side.
Otherwise, our list of the best foldables and best smartphones reveal our current favourites on the market.
| Motorola Razr 70 Ultra | Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 | |
| Battery | 5000mAh | 4300mAh |
| Chip | Snapdragon 8 Elite | Exynos 2500 |
| Internal Camera | 50MP | 10MP |
| External Display | 4-inches | 4.1-inches |
| Inner Display | 6.96-inches | 6.9-inches |
| Operating System | Android 16 | Android 16 |
| Rear Cameras | 50 + 50MP | 50 + 12MP |
| UK RRP | £1199.99 | $1499.99 |
| US RRP | $1099.99 | $1099.99 |
The Motorola Razr 70 Ultra is the priciest of its series, with a starting RRP of £1199.99 / €1399.99. At the time of writing, the handset will be available for pre-order in the US from May 14 ahead of its official launch on May 21, with an RRP of $1499.99.
The Galaxy Z Flip 7 is readily available to buy now, and has an official RRP of £1049/$1099.99, However, as the phone is nearly a year old, it is possible to find the handset with a decent price cut.
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Motorola has opted to fit the Razr 70 Ultra with Qualcomm’s 2025 Snapdragon 8 Elite, rather than the newer Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5. This is somewhat understandable, as the Razr 70 Ultra isn’t necessarily a productivity handset, so doesn’t necessarily need the oomph of the newer processor.
It’s a similar situation with the Galaxy Z Flip 7, with Samsung kitting the foldable with its own Exynos 2500 chip, rather than Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy which is found in the Z Fold 7. Even so, we don’t think you’re likely to notice that much of a difference in real-world use, as the Z Flip 7 feels fast and responsive for most uses-cases, without any noticeable slowdown or overheating.
Sure, Exynos 2500 doesn’t achieve the same high benchmark scores as phones running on Snapdragon 8 Elite, but it’s still a solid processor that performs well.
Otherwise, although we haven’t reviewed the phone just yet, Motorola promises that the Razr 70 Ultra is the “most powerful Razr” ever. It actually uses the same chip as its predecessor, the Razr 60 Ultra, which we concluded offered a solid performance across everything from casual uses to even casual gaming too.
We’ll have to wait until we review the Razr 70 Ultra to see how it really performs in everyday use.
One of the most appealing features of the Galaxy Z Flip 7 is that Samsung promises it will see Android and security updates right up to July 2032 – taking the handset to Android 23. Considering the Z Flip 7 is upwards of £/$1000, this makes the cost seem like more of an investment, as you won’t necessarily need to buy a new phone in the next six years.
Unfortunately, the Razr 70 Ultra doesn’t quite boast the same promise. While the Razr 70 Ultra will see five years of security updates, it’s only promised three years of Android OS updates. That will take the phone up to Android 19.
With a 5000mAh cell, the Razr 70 Ultra boasts a considerably larger battery capacity than the Z Flip 7. In fact, Motorola states that this is the largest battery found among flip phones. With this in mind, we expect the handset to offer a pretty generous all-day battery life, but we’ll have to wait until we review the 70 Ultra to confirm this.
Although at 4300mAh, the Z Flip 7’s battery is considerably smaller, we should disclaim that we never struggled with its efficiency. During our testing, we found the phone comfortably saw us through a day’s worth of use before needing to be topped up.
Speaking of topping up, the Razr 70 Ultra does benefit from faster charging speeds than the Z Flip, with support for 68W wired and 30W wireless speeds. In comparison, the Z Flip 7 supports a pretty measly 25W wired and 15W wireless.
At 4.1-inches, the Z Flip 7 has a slightly larger cover display than the Razr 70 Ultra’s four-inch alternative. However, there are a few caveats to keep in mind.
Firstly, we found the Z Flip 7’s cover display to be more cumbersome to use and much less optimised than Motorola’s efforts. There are only a few pre-selected apps that you can launch on the outer screen and to enable others, you’ll need to download Multistar or other workarounds, which isn’t particularly ideal. Plus, its keyboard isn’t as easy to use as Gboard either.
Instead, more apps are optimised by default on the Razr 70 Ultra’s cover display, and the keyboard is much easier to type on when you don’t want to open up the handset. It’s also worth pointing out that the 70 Ultra’s cover screen sports many of the same specs as the 60 Ultra, and you can learn more about the differences between the two in our dedicated Razr 70 Ultra vs 60 Ultra guide.
Although both handsets have a total of three cameras, including two rear and one internal lens, they differ with their exact resolutions. Like its predecessor, the Galaxy Z Flip 7 is fitted with a 50MP main and a 12MP ultrawide at its rear, while its internal camera is 10MP. Generally, we found the hardware is able to take great shots in most lighting conditions, though our best camera phones have options better suited to keen photographers.
In comparison, the Razr 70 Ultra is equipped with three 50MP lenses, including a main and ultrawide/macro combination at the rear and one internal. Motorola has also introduced new shooting modes to the entire Razr 70 series, including Camcorder Rotate to Zoom which uses AI to automatically identify and zoom in on a subject. This mode leans into Motorola’s nostalgia, as you have to hold the phone like a camcorder.
If you’re keen to try out a flip-phone, then the Motorola Razr 70 Ultra and Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 are two great options. If you’re looking for a more usable cover display, plenty of nostalgic features and a mighty batter, then the Razr 70 Ultra seems like a brilliant option. However, if you want a phone that’ll see Android updates for many years, the Galaxy Z Flip 7 is hard to beat.
We’ll be sure to update this versus once we review the Motorola Razr 70 Ultra.
A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical contexts, including real emergency room cases — where at least one model seemed to be more accurate than human doctors.
The study was published this week in Science and comes from a research team led by physicians and computer scientists at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The researchers said they conducted a variety of experiments to measure how OpenAI’s models compared to human physicians.
In one experiment, researchers focused on 76 patients who came into the Beth Israel emergency room, comparing the diagnoses offered by two attending physicians to those generated by OpenAI’s o1 and 4o models. These diagnoses were assessed by two other attending physicians, who did not know which ones came from humans and which came from AI.
“At each diagnostic touchpoint, o1 either performed nominally better than or on par with the two attending physicians and 4o,” the study said, adding that the differences “were especially pronounced at the first diagnostic touchpoint (initial ER triage), where there is the least information available about the patient and the most urgency to make the correct decision.”
In Harvard Medical School’s press release about the study, the researchers emphasized that they did not “pre-process the data at all” — the AI models were presented with the same information that was available in the electronic medical records at the time of each diagnosis.
With that information, the o1 model managed to offer “the exact or very close diagnosis” in 67% of triage cases, compared to one physician who had the exact or close diagnosis 55% of the time, and to the other who hit the mark 50% of the time.
“We tested the AI model against virtually every benchmark, and it eclipsed both prior models and our physician baselines,” said Arjun Manrai, who heads an AI lab at Harvard Medical School and is one of the study’s lead authors, in the press release.
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To be clear, the study didn’t claim that AI is ready to make real life-or-death decisions in the emergency room. Instead, it said the findings show an “urgent need for prospective trials to evaluate these technologies in real-world patient care settings.”
The researchers also noted that they only studied how models performed when provided with text-based information, and that “existing studies suggest that current foundation models are more limited in reasoning over nontext inputs.”
Adam Rodman, a Beth Israel doctor who’s also one of the study’s lead authors, warned the Guardian that there’s “no formal framework right now for accountability” around AI diagnoses, and that patients still “want humans to guide them through life or death decisions [and] to guide them through challenging treatment decisions”.
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There are plenty of photos of the International Space Station out there on the Internet, but taking your own from ground level is a special challenge. [saveitforparts] recently decided to attempt this feat using a $15 thrift store lens.
The cool thing about the digital photography revolution is that there is a lot of old film gear that can be had for cheap. In this case, [saveitforparts] found a 400mm Sigma XQ lens with a 2x teleconverter for just $14.99. Paired with an adapter, it sat nicely on a Sony NEX-3 digital camera, ready to try and capture the ISS as it passed overhead. As you might imagine, aiming at the space station is not a point-and-shoot job. N2YO.com was used to figure out the best time to try and capture it. [saveitforparts] was able to capture the ISS as a white dot as it passed over, but couldn’t quite get enough zoom to really see the ISS in detail. [saveitforparts] was also able to repeat the feat with a Canon camcorder, too, but the image was still pretty blobby and didn’t show much. Later attempts involved capturing transits as the ISS passed by the Sun, though the ISS mostly appeared as a small speck.
[saveitforparts] did technically capture the ISS, just not closely enough to see much beyond a dot. It’s not the first time we’ve seen this attempted, though! If you try and capture the ISS with something truly ridiculous, like a Game Boy Camera or Kodak Charmera, you are honour-bound to tell us on the tipsline. Video after the break.
The underlying concept is not new. Acoustic fire suppression has been studied for years as a means of disrupting combustion by pushing oxygen away from the fuel surface.
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Suppose your giftee loves growing mushrooms but has graduated to more challenging varieties. In that case, North Spore makes an automated monotub ($165) that can be paired with either substrate or the brand’s fruiting blocks. It keeps the growing environment with the proper airflow and humidity, and I’ve grown so many mushrooms in mine that I’ve turned into a Crazy Mushroom Lady, leaving bags on neighbors’ porches and chasing down acquaintances in the grocery store.
(Note that the photo above shows golden oyster mushrooms, which mycologists are investigating as a potential invasive species. North Spore says it is currently phasing out its yellow oyster mushroom kits while it works on developing a sporeless strain.)
If your friend or loved one is supporting their vines or floppy potted plants with bendable moss poles or, worse, a jerry-rigged ladder made out of duct taped pencils (it was an emergency, OK?), treat them to one of these hand-finished, laser-cut plant supports. There are staked and modular versions (my favorite is the wonderful-smelling, extendable redwood Zella) as well as coasters, wall mounts, and saucers that water your plants from the bottom. I have tested many of them—including the classic versions—and all have added a dash of style while lending critical structure to floppy and vining plants. Can’t pick just one? Check out Treleaf’s collection of gift bundles.
Lula’s Garden
Lula’s Garden’s heart-shaped box is featured in our guide to the Best Flower Delivery Services, and since then, I have had multiple people recommend the brand to me. I have now tried it, and I have to agree—this is an excellent gift. It’s fun, stylish, and priced the same as or even less than transient flowers. Not everyone is inclined to take care of a houseplant, but succulents are super easy to care for, and the box they arrive in doubles as a planter. All you have to do is unbox and use the included pipette to add a few squirts of water. The gardens are contemporary yet neutral enough to fit in with just about any decor. Just a heads up that unboxing the gardens that come with rocks (like the Bliss) may be a little messy, but the more premium gardens (like the Urban) don’t have any loose parts and come out of the box looking exactly as they do online.
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As seen in our guide to the Best Kitchen Composters, the Reencle Prime doesn’t fully make ready-to-use compost, but it comes the closest out of any of the major brands. It functions a lot like a heated trash can—just throw your kitchen scraps in, and microbes will break them down over time into a sort of loamy mixture. When the volume of the Prime reaches the fill line, the mixture can be scooped out and added at a 1:4 ratio with potting soil, then left to cure for three weeks. After this, it can be used for both outdoor and indoor plants. Not only will it free up space in your giftee’s trash can and cut down on dangerous greenhouse gas production, it will make their plants happy.
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It’s frustrating to spend untold time and money on your garden vision, only to find that landscaping elements like real rock walls and edging can cost thousands of dollars. If your giftee loves making their garden pop, these PolyRock blocks come in modular, six-block sections about 4 feet long. They slot neatly together like Legos, look exactly like real rock, and are flexible, so you can use them straight or curve them into a circle. No digging or leveling is required, and they’re easy to detach and move around if you change your mind or design plans. You can choose from gray, brown, black, or white tones. I have a strip of gray blocks installed along the front of my house, and more than one neighbor has thought it was real rock. The adjacent grass has even been cut with a string trimmer every week for months, and there’s still nary a scratch on the blocks.
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Don’t torture yourself with an inefficient wheelbarrow! A garden cart might seem like an odd gift at first, but this is the all-category MVP of my yard and household. It not only carries mulch, plants, and yard tools, but it can also tote up to 600 pounds for the small version and 1,200 pounds for the large, which has allowed me to transport everything from giant pizza ovens to bags of smoker pellets. The cart’s got a quick-release dump latch on the front and pneumatic tires that handle mud and sand with no problem. I’ve tested other carts in the past, but this is the only one that has earned a permanent spot in my garage. If your giftee lives on a large plot of land or needs to transport a lot of pots or other supplies around their house, this will be an invaluable companion. Note that it will require some assembly, but it didn’t take more than an hour.
You might be thinking: Why on earth would someone want a candle that smells like a tomato? I certainly did, when WIRED reviewer Louryn Strampe crowned a tomato-scented candle as the overall best pick in her Guide to the Best Scented Candles. However, now that I’ve smelled it myself, along with a handful of other versions (LAFCO’s is my second favorite), I completely get it. I was immediately transported back to being amid sun-warmed tomato leaves in my grandfather’s garden, but my teen son, who doesn’t have the same association, also immediately recognized it as a distinctly summer smell. It’s warm and vegetal, but still sweet and fresh. It’s sure to remind your favorite gardener of the good times ahead.
I’ve used a lot of gardening gloves over the years, but these two are my all-time favorites. Digz’s long-cuff garden gloves keep dirt, leaves, and other detritus out when you’re reaching down deep into something, and they’re invaluable for pulling out blackberry vines, goosegrass, and other long and/or sticky weeds. (Digz also makes some excellent tools with soft, ergonomic handles, but those aren’t as widely available.) If you’re looking for something sturdier, longer-lasting, and more versatile, Vermont Glove has been hand-sewing goat-leather gloves since 1920, and the Flatlander design dates from that time. These gloves are both ridiculously soft and insanely sturdy—my husband and I have both used them for all manner of yard work, including pulling thorny weeds, and they have stood up beautifully despite their lightweight feel.
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