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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...

Steam drops macOS Mojave support, effectively ending life for many 32-bit games

After February 15, all bets are off for Steam on High Sierra and Mojave Macs. 135 Valve Software's Steam gaming marketplace and app will drop support...

Reddit updates look after rough 6 months and ahead of reported IPO

"Edit: Obligatory 'F--- Spez' for karma." 140 Writing a long comment providing detail about Reddit's refreshed logo, mascot, and typeface this week, a Reddit employee seemingly rethought the...

The Great Google Account Purge starts tomorrow for inactive users

Any accounts lined up for deletion should have gotten warning emails by now 62 Hello fellow procrastinators. This is your last-minute warning that you have until...

Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says

16.5% of new car sales are compact crossovers, but only 6% of those are EVs. 214 Earlier this week, we learned of an effort by some...

Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself”

Musk says X advertiser backlash is "going to kill the company." 277WITH Elon Musk addressed an antisemitism controversy in characteristically unwise fashion during a public interview...

Google to pay Canada’s “link tax,” drops threat of removing news from search

Google previously threatened to remove Canadian news links from search and News. 85WITH Google has agreed to pay Canadian news businesses $100 million a year to...

Amazon packages reportedly overwhelm small post offices, delaying other mail

USPS "agreement with Amazon is interfering with timely deliveries," senator says. 86WITH Amazon packages are overwhelming mail carriers in Minnesota, causing delays of other mail, according...

Google Drive users say Google lost their files; Google is investigating

Google tells users to not delete local Drive profile data while it investigates 103WITH Did Google Drive lose some people's data? That's the question swirling around...

Google Play keeps banning the same web browser due to vague DMCA notices

Downloader app suspended by DMCA notice that didn't list any copyrighted works. 54WITH App developer Elias Saba has had some bad luck with Digital Millennium Copyright...

Big brands keep dropping X over antisemitism; $75M loss, report estimates

Creators worried advertisers dropping X could hurt revenue-sharing payouts. 266WITH The latest advertiser fallout on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, could end up costing Elon...

Google says bumpy Pixel 8 screens are nothing to worry about

Display "bumps" are components pushing into the OLED panel. Pixel phones always seem to ship with some bizarre hardware malady, and this year it's that not all the...

“Mystery” pneumonia in China is mix of common respiratory germs, WHO says

Reports caused alarm, but experts say it looks like a post-COVID germ comeback. 21WITH Last week, news stories and a posting on an infectious disease surveillance...

Quantum communication expert promises unhackable data transmissions

Data travels so quickly that you can download 15 hours of high-quality video in a mere second. For some businesses, this literally translates into...

Nvidia’s GeForce GPUs are selling well, but its AI GPU sales are ridiculous

Data center revenue is up 279% from the same quarter last year. 89WITH Most Ars readers still probably know Nvidia best for its decades-old GeForce graphics...
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