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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...

Apple fights EU gatekeeper status to avoid opening up services to rivals

Labeling newcomer TikTok as a gatekeeper defeats the purpose of DMA, TikTok says. 36WITH Apple has officially joined Meta and TikTok in appealing the European Union's...

OnePlus ships Android 14 to the OnePlus 11

The rollout is first happening in India, but it should be out in the US soon. 7WITH The release of Android 14 to the rest of the Android...

Sonos has finally fixed the Dolby Atmos “pop of death” in its Arc soundbars

The fix involves filtering out digital audio errors that were notably "audible." 45WITH A bang, a gunshot, a "pop of death": Some owners of Sonos' Arc...

Apple announces RCS support for iMessage

Texts to your green bubble friends will come with status indicators, better media. 345WITH Apple is shocking the world today by adopting the RCS messaging standard for iMessage....

Google’s 36% search revenue share with Apple is 3x what Android OEMs get

Cooperative Android manufacturers only get 12 percent of search revenue. 56WITH The biggest slip-up of the Department of Justice's Google search monopoly trial was the reveal...

Qi2 wireless charging spec is here, offering speed boosts and magnets

Many devices will get their first taste of MagSafe-like sticky alignment soon. 55WITH Qi2 is either a big step forward or a "Wait, that's it?" moment,...

Bing Chat is now “Microsoft Copilot” in potentially confusing rebranding move

Microsoft: "Soon there will be a Copilot for everyone and for everything you do." 79WITH On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that Bing Chat—its famously once-unhinged AI chatbot—has been officially renamed "Microsoft...

Intel fixes high-severity CPU bug that causes “very strange behavior”

Among other things, bug allows code running inside a VM to crash hypervisors. 21WITH Intel on Tuesday pushed microcode updates to fix a high-severity CPU bug...

Google loses battle to redact confidential info leaked by final witness

Verdict remains uncertain as Google rests defense in landmark monopoly trial. 24WITH On Tuesday, Google ended two and a half weeks of defending its search business...

Nothing Phone says it will hack into iMessage, bring blue bubbles to Android

Upstart Android OEM hopes Apple won't immediately shut the project down. 131WITH Can an Android OEM really just hack its way into Apple's iMessage? That is...

Gigabyte BIOS update outs next-gen AMD Ryzen APUs with upgraded Radeon GPUs

Desktop APUs with good iGPUs are useful for tiny PCs and low-budget builds. 36WITH The Ryzen 7000 desktop CPU series was AMD’s first to include a...

SpaceX worker injuries rise as Elon Musk accelerates Mars mission, report says

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives for a U.S. Senate bipartisan forum on artificial intelligence at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on...

Omegle shuts down: it’s been misused to commit “unspeakably heinous crimes”

“Operating Omegle is no longer sustainable, financially nor psychologically,” its founder, Leif K-Brooks, said. “Frankly, I don’t want to have a heart attack in my...

Microsoft pulls OneDrive update that would quiz you before letting you quit

Change affected a "small subset" of users and has (thankfully) been reverted. 132WITH Modern versions of Windows have become more annoying as time has gone on, pushing additional...
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