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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...

Starlink tells Brazil it won’t block X until government unfreezes its assets

More than one Musk company involved in battle with powerful Brazilian judge. Elon Musk's Starlink broadband service said it would defy an order to block...

Bugs, performance issues hinder Huawei’s AI chips

Export controls bar import of Nvidia chips, but homegrown alternative is struggling. China’s efforts to match US computing power in artificial intelligence are being hampered...

Harmful “nudify” websites used Google, Apple, and Discord sign-on systems

Sign-on systems from Big Tech companies have been incorporated into deepfake generators. Major technology companies, including Google, Apple, and Discord, have been enabling people to...

Texas judge decides Texas is a perfectly good venue for X to sue Media Matters

Judge says Musk critic "targeted" advertisers in Texas, denies motion to dismiss. A federal judge in Texas yesterday ruled that Elon Musk's X Corp. can...

Tumblr migrates more than 500 million blogs to WordPress

Parent company Automattic insists the user experience won't change a bit. Once-great social media and blogging platform Tumblr has gone through a number of big...

EU investigating if Telegram played down user numbers to avoid regulation

The new probe is separate from the French investigation into the platform. Brussels is investigating whether Telegram breached EU digital rules by failing to provide...

Apple lays off employees working on Books and News

All the layoffs were in the company's fast-moving services division. Apple will cut 100 jobs, all in its digital services teams. Laid off employees will...

Next-gen iPhones and other Apple announcements are coming on September 9

Expect iterative iPhone updates with a dash of Apple Intelligence. Apple's next product announcement event is happening on September 9 at 1 pm ET, the...

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov awaits charges in France as firm denies law-breaking

Telegram accused of not cooperating on drug trafficking and child sexual content. After the arrest of Telegram CEO and co-founder Pavel Durov in France over the weekend,...

US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024

By year's end, 96 percent of the US's grid additions won't add carbon to the atmosphere. While solar power is growing at an extremely rapid...

Labor board confirms Amazon drivers are employees, in finding hailed by union

“We are Amazon workers”: Delivery drivers celebrate labor board finding. Amazon may be forced to meet some unionized delivery drivers at the bargaining table after...

Google avoids “link tax” bill with deal to fund California journalism and AI

Critics say Google got off easy as it agrees to pay $55 million into news fund. Google has agreed to fund local journalism and an...

AMD explains, promises partial fixes for Ryzen 9000 performance problems

Improved branch prediction in Windows 24H2 should help all recent Ryzen CPUs. AMD recently released its Ryzen 9000-series processors, which brought the company's new Zen...

AT&T and Verizon ask FCC to throw a wrench into Starlink’s mobile plan

Carriers allege Starlink/T-Mobile will interfere with existing mobile networks. AT&T and Verizon are urging telecom regulators to reject a key part of SpaceX's plan to...
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