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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 from Apple’s May 7 “Let loose” event

New iPads, sure. But what else? On May 7, Apple will host a product announcement event at 9 am ET. Labeled "Let loose," we expect...

Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys

Fixing newly discovered side channel will likely take a major toll on performance. A newly discovered vulnerability baked into Apple’s M-series of chips allows attackers...

SpaceX’s workhorse launch pad now has the accoutrements for astronauts

"This system will help us scale to bigger towers and spaceships." Upgrades at SpaceX's most-used launch pad in Florida got a trial run Thursday with...

Apple’s green message bubbles draw wrath of US attorney general

RCS and green bubbles in iPhone-to-Android texts play role in Apple/DOJ battle. The US Department of Justice is angry about green message bubbles. Announcing today's antitrust...

SpaceX’s workhorse launch pad now has the accoutrements for astronauts

"This system will help us scale to bigger towers and spaceships." Upgrades at SpaceX's most-used launch pad in Florida will get a trial run Thursday...

Google balks at $270M fine after training AI on French news sites’ content

Google agrees to end sketchy negotiations based on flat rates and limited data. Google has agreed to pay 250 million euros (about $273 million) to...

Nvidia announces “moonshot” to create embodied human-level AI in robot form

As companies race to pair AI with general-purpose humanoid robots, Nvidia's GR00T emerges. In sci-fi films, the rise of humanlike artificial intelligence often comes hand...

Finally, engineers have a clue that could help them save Voyager 1

A new signal from humanity's most distant spacecraft could be the key to restoring it. It's been four months since NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft sent...

After 114 days of change, Broadcom CEO acknowledges VMware-related “unease”

"There's more to come." Broadcom CEO and President Hock Tan has acknowledged the discomfort VMware customers and partners have experienced after the sweeping changes that...

Google says Chrome’s new real-time URL scanner won’t invade your privacy

Google says URL hashes and a third-party relay server will keep it out of your history. Google Chrome's "Safe Browsing" feature—the thing that pops up...

ByteDance unlikely to sell TikTok, as former Trump official plots purchase

TikTok CEO urges users to protest bill, warns it "will lead to a ban." Former US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is reportedly assembling an investor...

SpaceX has a license to launch Starship—this time it might fly at dawn

The launch window opens before sunrise Thursday at SpaceX's launch site in Texas. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday it has approved a commercial launch...

Bitcoin Fog operator convicted of laundering $400M in bitcoins on darknet

Roman Sterlingov will appeal, denouncing DOJ's crypto-tracing techniques. A US federal jury has convicted a dual Russian-Swedish national, Roman Sterlingov, for operating Bitcoin Fog, "the...

Unreleased preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 is a glimpse down a road not taken

Microsoft's involvement in IBM's OS/2 project ended before v2.0 was released. In the annals of PC history, IBM’s OS/2 represents a road not taken. Developed in...
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