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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...

HP CEO evokes James Bond-style hack via ink cartridges

"Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription." Last Thursday, HP CEO Enrique Lores addressed the company's controversial practice of bricking printers when users...

[Video] Watch all Galaxy AI features in action on Galaxy S24 Ultra

Samsung unveiled the first Galaxy AI-powered smartphones—Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+, and Galaxy S24 Ultra—a few days ago. But what is Galaxy AI? It's Samsung's branding for its suite...

WordPad out; 80Gbps USB support and other Win 11 features in testing this month

Microsoft’s next batch of Windows 11 feature updates is taking shape. Windows 11's big feature update in September included a long list of minor changes, plus the...

Convicted murderer, filesystem creator writes of regrets to Linux list

"The man I am now would do things very differently," Reiser says in long letter. With the ReiserFS recently considered obsolete and slated for removal from...

Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985. On Thursday, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf announced that Dr. David L. Mills, the...

What to expect from the Apple Vision Pro in February

Hardware, apps, prescription lenses—we go over the essentials. After years of delays, preorders for the Apple Vision Pro are just a few days away. It’s been a...

Apple lets devs use alternate in-app payment options, still takes commissions

Devs must ask permission to use 3rd-party payments, and Apple still wants a cut. A chapter in the ongoing Epic v. Apple court case closed yesterday when the US...

Taking stock: Private investment in space companies rebounded in 2023

Money flows into commercial space stations, logistics, and lunar exploration are lagging. Private investors pumped $12.5 billion into space companies last year, around 30 percent...

Google lays off “hundreds” more as ad division switches to AI-powered sales

Googlers are now building AI tools so other Googlers can be laid off. In December, we heard that job cuts might be coming for Google's ad sales...

Hertz is selling 20,000 used EVs due to high repair costs

The rental car company will replace them with gasoline-powered vehicles. If you're looking for an electric car bargain and you're braver than the average bear,...

Apple Vision Pro M2 Chip Said to Have 10 GPU, 8 CPU Cores

The Apple Vision Pro runs on an M2 chip equipped with ten GPU cores and eight CPU cores – the same version used in...

YouTube appears to be reducing video and site performance for ad-block users

Latest consensus is that YouTube performance issues seem to be Adblock Plus' fault. YouTube appeared to be continuing its war on ad blockers, with users complaining...

When will Apple release iOS 17.3?

Apple’s upcoming software release for iPhone is in testing and comes with an important new security feature called Stolen Device Protection. So when will...

Starlink Mini Dish Coming Later This Year, Elon Musk Says

The dish will be small enough to fit into a backpack, SpaceX's CEO said. Musk also talked about the upcoming cellular Starlink service, which...
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