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Microsoft updates Intel-based Surface PCs, if you can pay for them

Businesses often use hardware and software that still needs x86 to run properly. Microsoft's new Surfaces are all business. Credit: Microsoft Microsoft switched the Surface Pro tablet and both sizes of Surface Laptop from...

Apple chips can be hacked to leak secrets from Gmail, iCloud, and more

Side channel gives unauthenticated remote attackers access they should never have. Apple is introducing three...

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 costs as much as a whole gaming PC—but it sure is fast

Even setting aside Frame Generation, this is a fast, power-hungry $2,000 GPU. Credit: Andrew Cunningham Nvidia's...

Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download

DeepSeek R1 is free to run locally and modify, and it matches OpenAI's o1...

Trump issues flurry of orders on TikTok, DOGE, social media, AI, and energy

A roundup of executive orders issued by Trump after his second inauguration. US President Donald...

What to expect at WWDC24: Big iOS changes, more Vision Pro, and so much AI

There might not be new hardware, but Apple could make up for it with software. Apple's annual developer conference, WWDC, kicks off in Cupertino, California,...

DuckDuckGo offers “anonymous” access to AI chatbots through new service

DDG offers LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Mistral for factually-iffy conversations. On Thursday, DuckDuckGo unveiled a new "AI Chat" service that allows users to...

T-Mobile hopes you’ll buy $30 “Home Internet Backup” for when cable goes out

Backup plan is $30 every month for service that's meant to be used infrequently. T-Mobile is hoping that home Internet customers who suffer from frequent...

The Motorola Edge 2024 comes to the US for $550

Motorola's Pixel 8a fighter is headed to a carrier store near you. Motorola's newest phone is the Motorola Edge 2024. This is a mid-range phone with...

Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers

Canada says $200M in annual fees will support local news and other content. Canada has ordered large online streaming services to pay 5 percent of...

Elon Musk’s X defeats Australia’s global takedown order of stabbing video

Australia drops censorship fight threatening Musk’s X with $500K daily fine. Australia's safety regulator has ended a legal battle with X (formerly Twitter) after threatening approximately $500,000...

Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned

Op-ed: The risks to Recall are way too high for security to be secondary. Microsoft’s Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs come with quite a few new...

Google changes repair policy after criticism of third-party parts ban

Google previously said it would not return mailed-in devices using "unauthorized" parts. Google has changed its repair policy in response to criticism from repair advocate Louis...

Zoom CEO envisions AI deepfakes attending meetings in your place

Eric Yuan told The Verge that "digital twins" are the future of work. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan has a vision for the future of work:...

Nvidia emails: Elon Musk diverting Tesla GPUs to his other companies

The Tesla CEO is accused of diverting resources from the company again. Elon Musk is yet again being accused of diverting Tesla resources to his...

Intel details new Lunar Lake CPUs that will go up against AMD, Qualcomm, and Apple

Lunar Lake returns to a more conventional-looking design for Intel. Given its recent manufacturing troubles, a resurgent AMD, an incursion from Qualcomm, and Apple’s shift from customer to...

Google accidentally published internal Search documentation to GitHub

Commit snafu slapped an irrevocable Apache 2.0 license on confidential API Docs. Google apparently accidentally posted a big stash of internal technical documents to GitHub,...

Nvidia jumps ahead of itself and reveals next-gen “Rubin” AI chips in keynote tease

"I'm not sure yet whether I'm going to regret this," says CEO Jensen Huang at Computex 2024. On Sunday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reached beyond Blackwell and revealed the...

AMD’s next-gen Ryzen 9000 desktop chips and the Zen 5 architecture arrive in July

But AMD says AM4 will hang around for budget PCs well into 2025. It’s been almost two years since AMD introduced its Ryzen 7000 series desktop...
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