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Windows Insider meetups are back. I went to one and so should you

There were quiet cheers when Tali Roth, responsible for core Windows experiences, showed how Windows’ widgets button wouldn’t automatically trigger when the user hovered over them. They grew louder when she showed how Windows Search could produce just the files on a user’s PC and nothing more. And where did all that applause come from? Not developers. Not customers. Not execs. Just regular…
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Firefox’s free email mask service got a massive update

If you don’t know what Firefox Relay is, you should. This free service provided by Mozilla (the developers of the Firefox browser) lets you create free email masks—that is, disposable email addresses that point back to your real email address. The idea is to share these…
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Corsair’s Warthog is the PC case for Halo fans

There are a lot of different ways you can go with a desktop PC build, from disco light show to mini-fridge. One of the less common themes I’ve seen repeated is “military surplus equipment.” That’s the vibe that Corsair is trying to hit with the new Warthog mid-tower…
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Microsoft’s powerful RTX Spark mini PC will be sold to consumers

Ignore the name — you’ll be able to buy Microsoft’s Surface RTX Spark Dev Box as a consumer, Microsoft executives confirmed this week at its Build conference. In an interview with my colleague Alaina Yee, Andrew Hill, corporate vice president of Surface for Microsoft, confirmed that consumers will be able to buy the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, the mini PC with Nvidia’s latest RTX Spark chip…
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The newest Surface is a mini PC, but it’s not for you

Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Microsoft’s Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is a specialized mini PC targeting AI developers, featuring an Arm-based RTX Spark chip with 20 cores and 6,144 CUDA cores. PCWorld highlights this device offers 1 petaflop of AI compute…
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An AI agent in a security badge? That’s Microsoft’s Project Solara pitch

AI agents will soon be everywhere, we’re told, but where exactly? Clearly they’re in the cloud, on our desktop PCs, and even on our phones, but they could also live on other devices, like smart speakers, glasses, and perhaps, even a smart security badge. That’s the idea behind Project Solara, Microsoft’s new platform for putting AI agents in a wide range of devices beyond the standard form…
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Intel and Phison want to solve local AI’s biggest limitation

Not everyone wants to run local AI on their own PCs. But if you do, there’s a major problem. Most sophisticated models can’t fit inside the limitations of your PC’s memory and storage. Phison and Intel are working on a solution. Using Phison’s aiDAPTIV solution, a 26 billion parameter AI model can be run on a laptop with 16GB of RAM, versus the 32GB of RAM it would normally require. That…
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