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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...

eview: AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE GPU doesn’t quite earn its “7900” label

New $549 graphics card is the more logical successor to the RX 6800 XT. In July 2023, AMD released a new GPU called the "Radeon...

Wear OS “Hybrid” design has two OSes, two CPUs, “100 hour” battery life

Wear OS + Snapdragon uses too much power, so what if we just turned it off? Smartwatches are capable little devices, but a big downside...

Apple Vision Pro’s components cost $1,542—but that’s not the full story

The OLED displays account for more than a third of the component costs. Research firm Omdia has published the first publicly available educated estimates of how much...

Windows security updates could come with fewer reboots beginning later this year

"Hotpatching" originated in Windows Server, cuts way down on update reboots. Microsoft is already testing Windows 11 24H2, this fall's big new Windows release. The...

The world’s largest battery in a smartphone—a 28,000 mAh, 27-mm-thick brick

The only downside: It's the size of three iPhones stacked on top of each other. Four years ago, Avenir Telecom made headlines with an "Energizer"-branded...

X rolling out audio, video calls for non-paying users

The opening page of X is displayed on a computer and phone in Sydney, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Australia’s online safety watchdog has fined...

MWC 2024: all the phones, wearables, and gadgets announced in Barcelona

It’s that time of year again. Mobile World Congress is returning to Barcelona, where it’ll fill the halls of the Fira de Barcelona Gran...

Yelp: It’s gotten worse since Google made changes to comply with EU rules

Users are even more likely to stick with Google due to one change, says Yelp. To comply with looming rules that ban tech giants from...

Avast ordered to stop selling browsing data from its browsing privacy apps

Identifiable data included job searches, map directions, "cosplay erotica." Avast, a name known for its security research and antivirus apps, has long offered Chrome extensions, mobile apps,...

India’s plan to let 1998 digital trade deal expire may worsen chip shortage

Taxing exports of digital movies and games may not be worth sowing discord. India's plan to let a moratorium on imposing customs duties on cross-border...

Reddit admits more moderator protests could hurt its business

Losing third-party tools "could harm our moderators’ ability to review content..." Reddit filed to go public on Thursday (PDF), revealing various details of the social...

Windows-as-a-nuisance: How I clean up a “clean install” of Windows 11 and Edge

Tips and tricks for making Microsoft leave you alone while you use your PC. I've written before about my nostalgia for the Windows XP- or Windows 7-era...

AT&T’s botched network update caused yesterday’s major wireless outage

AT&T blamed itself for "incorrect process used as we were expanding our network." AT&T said a botched update related to a network expansion caused the...

Twitter security staff kept firm in compliance by disobeying Musk, FTC says

Lina Khan: Musk demanded "actions that would have violated the FTC's Order." Twitter employees prevented Elon Musk from violating the company's privacy settlement with the...
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