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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Windows 11 is finally getting mouse settings that let you avoid the Control Panel

You will soon be able to disable ‘enhance pointer precision’ and flip your mouse scrolling direction easily. I’ve been waiting years for this. The first...

Alexa will soon lose a popular shopping list feature

Shopping and to-do list apps like AnyList and Todoist will stop working with Alexa voice commands on July 1st unless their developers build a...

TikTok vaguely disputes report that it’s making a US-only app

TikTok has spent months separating code for US-only algorithm, insiders claim. TikTok is now disputing a Reuters report that claims the short-video app is cloning its algorithm...

Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

Chrome's Manifest V3 transition is here. First up are warnings for any V2 extensions. Google Chrome will be shutting down its older, more capable extension...

Musk can’t avoid testifying in SEC probe of Twitter buyout by playing victim

Class action alleges secret Twitter stock scheme ahead of Musk's SEC testimony. After months of loudly protesting a subpoena, Elon Musk has once again agreed...

Framework boosts its 13-inch laptop with new CPUs, lower prices, and better screens

Framework Laptop 13 gets its fourth major round of upgraded, modular parts. Framework will release a fourth round of iterative updates and upgrade options for...

Google Cloud explains how it accidentally deleted a customer account

UniSuper's 647,000 users faced two weeks of downtime because of a Google Cloud bug. Earlier this month, Google Cloud experienced one of its biggest blunders ever when...

Nvidia denies pirate e-book sites are “shadow libraries” to shut down lawsuit

Will quibbling over the meaning of "shadow libraries" help Nvidia's case? Some of the most infamous so-called shadow libraries have increasingly faced legal pressure to...

SpaceX sets date for next Starship flight, explains what went wrong the last time

Clearing blocked filters and clogged valves is the order of the day. SpaceX is targeting June 5 for the next flight of its massive Starship...

Biggest Windows 11 update in 2 years nearly finalized, enters Release Preview

24H2 update includes big changes, will be released "later this calendar year." The Windows 11 24H2 update isn’t scheduled to be released until sometime this...

Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has

Opinion: Actively searching without Google or Bing is harder than it looks. Bing, Microsoft's search engine platform, went down in the very early morning today. That...

A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why.

For 4 days, the c-root server maintained by Cogent lost touch with its 12 peers. For more than four days, a server at the very...

New warp drive concept does twist space, doesn’t move us very fast

While it won't make a useful spaceship engine, it may tell us more about relativity. A team of physicists has discovered that it’s possible to...

One difference with this wave of Arm PCs? All the big PC makers are actually on board

Windows RT and Windows 10-on-Arm each launched with just a handful of devices. Here at Ars, we’ve been around long enough to chronicle every single...

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