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Intel Nova Lake-S midrange CPUs could be bringing AMD's X3D cache trick to more affordable chips
Posted on Sunday July 05, 2026
According to the post, each processor combines 6 "Coyote Cove" P-cores, 12 "Arctic Wolf" E-cores, and 4 LP-E cores. That mix suggests a design that balances compute throughput with background and low-power tasks, rather than just piling on more performance cores.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Bending Spoons bought Vimeo, Evernote, and AOL instead of chasing AI, it just had a $25.7 billion IPO
Posted on Sunday July 05, 2026
The Milan-based firm raised $1.68 billion in its Nasdaq debut this week, with shares climbing 40% above the IPO price. The stock closed at $40.50, up from $29, giving the company a market value of about $25.7 billion. That's a significant jump from roughly $14.5 billion in 2025, following a...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Google is testing a webcam CAPTCHA that scans your hand, but it's already been bypassed using a photo
Posted on Sunday July 05, 2026
Google is working on a new kind of challenge to improve its reCAPTCHA system, using biometric identification to confirm that the user is indeed human. The new method is officially named "hand gesture verification" (HGV), and, according to early testing, is mostly useless. Even worse, HGV might pose a significant...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft's new EU disclosure shows exactly how tech giants separate profits from where the work happens
Posted on Sunday July 05, 2026
Microsoft said nearly 40% of its pretax income was booked in Ireland, even though only about 3% of its global workforce is based in the country. In Germany, by contrast, the company reported less than half of 1% of its global profits. Across Europe as a whole, excluding Ireland, Microsoft...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Lenovo laptops are now shipping with YMTC SSDs, a sign of Chinese NAND entering the mainstream
Posted on Sunday July 05, 2026
Notebookcheck says this is the first YMTC laptop SSD it has tested and reports that the ThinkBook uses a 512GB M.2 2242 PCIe 4.0 drive, according to its teardown and performance testing. The ThinkBook 14 G9 IPL is a 14-inch office notebook built around Intel Core Ultra 200-series processors. It...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
The US now has three microreactors running – and data centers are watching closely
Posted on Saturday July 04, 2026
Unity, a microreactor from Houston-based Deployable Energy, is the latest of the three to reach criticality as part of a Department of Energy effort to accelerate advanced nuclear demonstrations. A reactor from Torrance-based Antares and another from El Segundo-based Valar Atomics cleared the same hurdle in June.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
SpaceX is reportedly showing investors a phone prototype, months after Musk said "we are not developing a phone"
Posted on Saturday July 04, 2026
The device is still in the early stages of development. SpaceX has told some investors that the design could change and that it is not yet clear whether the product will ultimately come to market. Representatives for SpaceX and Qualcomm did not respond to requests for comment.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Meta's Pocket app lets you vibe-code games with zero coding knowledge
Posted on Saturday July 04, 2026
The Play Store listing page for Pocket describes the app as a creative platform for making and sharing "gizmos," which Meta defines as "small interactive thing(s)" that users can "tap and play with." The company added that gizmos are essentially mini-games that can be controlled using touch and tilt gestures....Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Amazon's satellite internet service is finally ready for real users – sort of
Posted on Saturday July 04, 2026
Starlink's public beta offers a useful comparison. When SpaceX rolled out to the public in 2020, it had nearly 900 satellites in orbit, but the service was uneven. Early users in northern parts of the United States and Canada reported frequent interruptions and high sensitivity to obstructions. Speeds generally ranged...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft reverses stance and adds Google account sign-in to Edge browser
Posted on Saturday July 04, 2026
Microsoft latest release of the Edge browser adds a much-requested feature for users working within Google's web ecosystem. Edge 150 finally provides a way to sign in with a Google account, usable alongside a Microsoft account. The feature is rolling out to all Edge users on both Windows and macOS....Read Entire Article Continue Reading »