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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...

I abandoned OpenLiteSpeed and went back to good ol’ Nginx

One weather site’s sudden struggles, and musings on why change isn’t always good. Since 2017, in what spare time I have (ha!), I help my...

Apple announces sweeping EU App Store policy changes—including sideloading

Most of these changes only apply to Europe. To comply with European Union regulations, Apple has introduced sweeping changes that make iOS and Apple's other...

Pixel phones are broken again with critical storage permission bug

Users say they can't access their device storage after January 2024 update. It's almost hard to believe this is happening again, but Pixel users are...

Tesla bot’s rival Figure partners with BMW

Robotics startup Figure has signed an agreement with BMW to deploy humanoid robots at the automaker’s manufacturing facility in South Carolina. The Californian startup said...

Wild Apples: The 12 weirdest and rarest Macs ever made

Since 1984, Apple has made some strange Macintosh computers. How many have you used? Forty years ago today, Apple released the first Macintosh. Since that fateful...

Google’s Pixel 9 gets its first render, looks a lot like an iPhone

Plus the base model Pixel 9 might be a "mini-Pro" model, with all the same features. If Google sticks to the usual cadence of device...

Prepare for more upscaled classic PC game mods with new RTX Remaster beta toolkit

Release includes proprietary AI texture upscaling, "physically accurate dynamic lights" In the waning days of 2022, when Nvidia was preparing to release the impressive, ray tracing-enabled Portal...

iOS 17.3 adds multiple features originally planned for iOS 17

macOS 14.3, watchOS 10.3, and tvOS 17.3 were also released. Apple yesterday released iOS and iPadOS 17.3 as well as watchOS 10.3, tvOS 17.3, and...

OnePlus 12 gets $800 US release along with the interesting $500 OnePlus 12R

$800 and $500 are some pretty sweet price points. OnePlus previously announced the OnePlus 12 flagship smartphone in December, but now it's getting a US release...

OpenWrt, now 20 years old, is crafting its own future-proof reference hardware

There are, as you might expect, a few disagreements about what's most important. OpenWrt, the open source firmware that sprang from Linksys' use of open source...

Chrome can now organize your tab bar for you

A click in Chrome can turn your messy tab layout into carefully organized groups. You there! Reader! Be honest: How many tabs do you have...

Apple fixes first zero-day bug exploited in attacks this year

Apple released security updates to address this year's first zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks that could impact iPhones, Macs, and Apple TVs. The zero-day fixed...

Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service

AST SpaceMobile gets $206.5 million and is partnering with Google and AT&T. Google, AT&T, and Vodafone are investing $206.5 million in AST SpaceMobile, a Starlink...

Meta relents to EU, allows unlinking of Facebook and Instagram accounts

New standalone Messenger, Marketplace, and Gaming apps coming to the EU, too. Meta will allow some Facebook and Instagram users to unlink their accounts as...
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