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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 best Black Friday deals on Apple devices

Black Friday hasn’t officially arrived yet, but you can already save on AirPods, Apple Watches, iPads, and other Apple gadgets. With more than two billion people using...

YouTube says it’s not slowing down Firefox — just ad blockers

Addressing complaints that YouTube videos are taking extra long to load on Firefox, YouTube says it’s down to its efforts to keep the ads...

Ultrawide monitors remind us there’s still much to learn about OLED burn-in

Can playing 16:9 content on a 21:9 screen impact burn-in risk? Apparently. 27WITH Burn-in is always possible with OLED displays, but for computer monitors, which tend...

Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024

The "Manifest V3" rollout is back after letting tensions cool for a year. 201WITH Chrome's new adblock-limiting extension plan is still on. The company paused the rollout of...

Amazon lays off Alexa employees as 2010s voice-assistant boom gives way to AI

Amazon has had a notoriously hard time making money from Alexa. 50WITH Amazon is going through yet another round of layoffs, reports Computerworld, and once again the...

Binance slapped with $4B fine, accepts plea deal forcing CEO to resign

Binance CEO popularly known as CZ names successor in emotional X post. 34WITH Binance founder Changpeng Zhao has resigned as CEO of the world's largest cryptocurrency...

The world may be on track for tripling renewables – and that’s what we need

Governments plan to double renewable capacity by 2030, and tripling is within sight, according to a newly released report. Many countries are already on track...

After robotaxi dragged pedestrian 20 feet, Cruise founder and CEO resigns

GM-owned Cruise "failed to disclose" full video and key crash details, DMV said. 143WITH The CEO of self-driving car firm Cruise resigned yesterday following an accident...

Largest companies pausing ads on X over antisemitic storm, Musk vows revenge

After Elon Musk, the owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, amplified an antisemitic trope on the platform, major firms have suspended advertising on...

SpaceX’s Starshield means Starlink has become a juggernaut

The meteoric rise of Elon Musk’s space venture, SpaceX, has seen it join forces with the US military. The launch of Starshield, Starlink’s military-only...

Spotify to employ Google’s AI to enhance content discovery

Spotify, the popular music streaming service, said it will employ Google’s large language models (LLMs) to analyze its content library for sharper content recommendations. Spotify,...

New chips introduced by Microsoft to compete for AI dominance

Microsoft has unveiled two new chips tailored for AI workloads, enabling the tech giant to complete the puzzle of complete infrastructure systems delivery. The first...

Apple to improve green bubbles on iPhone to RCS standard

In a move that some media outlets compared to hell freezing over, Apple finally announced its plans to support Rich Communication Services (RCS) on...

The world’s largest single-site solar farm just came online

The United Arab Emirates has launched the Al Dhafra solar farm – now the world’s largest single-site solar farm – ahead of COP28. The 2-gigawatt (GW)...
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