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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...

Intel is offering extended warranties for crashing 13th- and 14th-gen desktop CPUs

Intel's microcode fix won't help CPUs that are already damaged. Intel will be releasing a microcode update to prevent further damage to crashing 13th- and...

AI’s future in grave danger from Nvidia’s chokehold on chips, groups warn

Anti-monopoly groups want DOJ to probe Nvidia’s AI chip bundling, alleged price-fixing. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has joined progressive groups—including Demand Progress, Open Markets Institute,...

San Francisco to ban software that “enables price collusion” by landlords

Software helps landlords "indirectly coordinate" by sharing nonpublic information. San Francisco's Board of Supervisors this week approved a ban on software that is allegedly used...

Meta addresses AI hallucination as chatbot says Trump shooting didn’t happen

Meta "programmed it to simply not answer questions," but it did anyway. Meta says it configured its AI chatbot to avoid answering questions about the...

Low-income homes drop Internet service after Congress kills discount program

Charter CEO says "customers' ability to pay" a concern after $30 discounts end. The death of the US government's Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) is starting...

Apple Intelligence features reportedly won’t be ready for iOS 18’s launch this fall

Betas of iOS 18.1 et al with Apple Intelligence could land as soon as this week. Apple spent a lot of time at its Worldwide...

iOS 18.1 developer beta brings Apple Intelligence into the wild for the first time

Some features will be included, and others won't. As was just rumored, the iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1 developer betas are rolling out...

Google’s Play Store wants to pivot from grab-and-go to an active destination

If multi-app shopping doesn't keep you there, maybe free Pixel gear will. Google Play is a lot of things—perhaps too many things for those who...

Alexa had “no profit timeline,” cost Amazon $25 billion in 4 years

WSJ report highlights vague metrics, internal struggles of Amazon Devices. The Amazon business unit that focuses on Alexa-powered gadgets lost $25 billion between 2017 and...

Non-Google search engines blocked from showing recent Reddit results

Updated robots.txt file hits Bing and others without a Reddit deal. Recent discussions on Reddit are no longer showing up in non-Google search engine results....

AMD delays Ryzen 9000 launch to August “out of an abundance of caution”

More rigorous testing and screening have reportedly corrected the problem. AMD had planned to launch its first round of Ryzen 9000-series desktop processors by the end...

Samsung delays Galaxy Buds3 Pro release over quality concerns

"It tore from the inside instantly." Samsung is delaying the release of the $250 Galaxy Buds3 Pro in the US from July 24 to August...

The next Nvidia driver makes even more GPUs “open,” in a specific, quirky way

You can't see inside the firmware, but more open code can translate it for you. You have to read the headline on Nvidia's latest GPU announcement slowly,...

TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany

Alternative for Germany-related content returned when searching for other parties. TikTok helped promote Germany’s far-right extremist political party to young voters ahead of last month’s EU elections, even...
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