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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...

The race between Intel, Samsung, and TSMC to ship the first 2 nm chip

Samsung and Intel believe this is their best chance to close the game with TSMC. 88 The world’s leading semiconductor companies are racing to make so-called...

Apple cuts off Beeper Mini’s access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android

Image Credits: Beeper Was it too good to be true? Beeper, the startup that reverse-engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users, is experiencing an outage, the...

Amazon is piloting a new $9.99 monthly grocery subscription for Prime members in three cities

Image Credits: David Ryder / Getty Images Amazon is piloting a new grocery subscription offering for Prime members in three cities, the company revealed on Thursday. The new...

Google calls Drive data loss “fixed,” locks forum threads saying otherwise

The fix will sift through app data for cached files, but users say it doesn't work. 130 Google is dealing with its second "lost data" fiasco in the...

Twitch exit from S. Korea is latest fallout from “sending-party-pays” model

Twitch: Network fees in Korea 10 times more expensive than in most countries. 130 Amazon-owned Twitch plans to stop providing its streaming platform in South Korea,...

Intel, of all companies, knocks AMD’s CPU numbering in now-deleted presentation

When it comes to recycling and rebranding old chips, no one's hands are clean. 50 AMD changed the way it numbers its Ryzen laptop processors last year, switching...

iMessage will reportedly dodge EU regulations, won’t have to open up

iMessage isn't popular enough with businesses to force interoperability. 71 Android users' hopes that Apple's iMessage would be forced to open up in the European Union...

AMD’s new Ryzen 8040 laptop chips look a lot like the Ryzen 7040 CPUs

Improved AI performance is this familiar-looking chip's main innovation. 26 Both Intel and AMD usually have processor updates to announce at CES in January, but AMD...

Streaming apps are trying to bundle their way out of customer disenchantment

Reliably good prices, libraries, and features would impress customers more. 162 Streaming services are on thin ice with many customers. With price hikes becoming a norm for streaming...

Gmail’s AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in years

Gmail's spam filters can now understand "adversarial text manipulations." 93 The latest post on the Google Security blog details a new upgrade to Gmail's spam filters that Google...

Broadcom cuts at least 2,800 VMware jobs following $69 billion acquisition

Broadcom hasn't said how many people will be affected, or much of anything else. 129 Broadcom announced back in May of 2022 that it would buy VMware...

I’m watching ‘AI upscaled’ Star Trek and it isn’t terrible

Deep Space 960p Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch For years, dedicated Star Trek fans have been using AI in an attempt to make a version of the...

23andMe says hackers accessed ‘significant number’ of files about users’ ancestry

Genetic testing company 23andMe announced on Friday that hackers accessed around 14,000 customer accounts in the company’s recent data breach. In a new filing with...

Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates

When ad blocking is a cat-and-mouse game, make the mouse slower. 92 Google's war on ad blockers is just gearing up, with YouTube doing its best...
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