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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...

Female ex-exec told she lacked “docility and meekness” sues TikTok

TikTok accused of age, sex discrimination in suit blaming Chinese leadership. One of TikTok's senior-most female executives, Katie Ellen Puris, is suing TikTok and its...

Android’s infamous January 2024 update is fixed and rolling out again

The Google Play System update was pulled for breaking device storage, crashing apps. We're a third of the way through February, but Android's January 2024...

Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses

Firms wanted seven years' worth of IP address logs on users who discussed piracy. Movie companies have lost a third attempt to unmask Reddit users...

Plex, where people typically avoid Hollywood fees, now offers movie rentals

Users have one more place to turn when their usual options don't pan out. Plex, the media center largely known as a hub for TV...

MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis

Analysis heavily weighs how hard it is to take apart brands' laptops. Chromebooks and MacBooks are among the least repairable laptops around, according to an...

Using the Gemini app automatically disables Google Assistant on Android

Are you ready to completely replace Google Assistant with Google Gemini? That’s the question many Android users are now pondering. Google made the semi-surprising...

Starship delivery robots raise $90M in funding

Starship says robots can ensure more ethical and sustainable deliveries than “humans on low wages riding through traffic.” The world’s leading autonomous delivery service, the...

Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought

Rejected chips, hidden microSD cards plague the USB stick market. When a German data recovery firm recently made a study of the failed flash storage...

Don’t wear Apple Vision Pro while piloting a self-driving Tesla, officials warn

Social media stunts with Teslas inspire real warnings that seem straight out of sci-fi. The recent launch of the Apple Vision Pro mixed-reality headset has inspired a...

Judge rules against users suing Google and Apple over “annoying” search results

Users struggled to prove harms from Google's default search deal with Apple. While the world awaits closing arguments later this year in the US government's antitrust...

Apple Vision Pro users: AR pioneers or glassholes 2.0

Are Apple Vision Pro users "Glassholes 2.0," or are they pioneers, forging ahead into a future that challenges conventional boundaries? The launch of Apple’s Vision...

Microsoft in deal with Semafor to create news stories with aid of AI chatbot

Collaboration comes as tech giant faces multibillion-dollar lawsuit from The New York Times. Microsoft is working with media startup Semafor to use its artificial intelligence...

Windows version of the venerable Linux “sudo” command shows up in preview build

Feature is experimental and, at least currently, not actually functional. Microsoft opened its arms to Linux during the Windows 10 era, inventing an entire virtualized...

Facebook rules allowing fake Biden “pedophile” video deemed “incoherent”

Meta may revise AI policies that experts say overlook “more misleading” content. A fake video manipulated to falsely depict President Joe Biden inappropriately touching his...
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