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Intel reveals it will lose 33,000 employees this year and retreat in Germany, Poland, and Costa Rica

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. In April, Intel attempted to announce layoffs without announcing layoffs. “We have not set any headcount reduction target,” Intel spokesperson Sophie Metzger told The Verge. But the company has laid off thousands of employees since — and today, in the company’s Q2 2025 earnings, it has revealed that Intel will dramatically shrink as a resul

Installing the public betas? Here’s everything new with Apple Intelligence

This year at WWDC25, Apple acknowledged that its AI-powered Siri overhaul could have been smoother. But they also showed the work they have been putting into developing better models and features across their ecosystem. Here’s every new Apple Intelligence feature announced this year. Supported languages This year, Apple Intelligence is expanding its availability to almost 20 languages, beyond the very limited initial rollout. Here is the full list: Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional)

Laptop CPUs in 2025 Explained: What to Know Before Buying Your Next Laptop

Shopping for a new laptop can be a confusing experience. I find the best place to start is with size. Do you want a featherlight ultraportable or a larger model that has a bigger screen but is more of a chore to lug around? Or something in between that offers a balance between portability and productivity? Deciding on factors as straightforward as size actually goes a long way in helping choose more complex parts, including the processor. You'll still be faced with a variety of CPU options, but

Microsoft’s new Intel-powered Surface Laptop 5G arrives in August

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft announced a new 5G version of its Surface Laptop today, which will start shipping on August 26th starting at $1,799.99. The Surface Laptop 5G is powered by Intel’s Core Ultra Series 2 processors, complete with an NPU capable of providing access to Microsoft’s latest Copilot Plus AI features. The Surface Laptop 5G is very similar to the existing 13.8-inch Surface Lapt

National security meets next-gen tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025’s AI Defense panel

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is where breakthrough ideas meet the real-world challenges that define the future — and with over 10,000 startup and VC leaders converging, there’s no better place to have the hard conversations. One of the most urgent? How artificial intelligence is reshaping national defense, security, and critical infrastructure in real time. Enter AI Defense, a can’t-miss panel discussion taking place on one of the two AI Stages, where leaders from government, venture, and the armed

Intel announces end of Clear Linux OS project, archives GitHub repos

The Clear Linux OS team has announced the shutdown of the project, marking the end of its 10-year existence in the open-source ecosystem. Clear Linux is a Linux distribution developed and maintained by Intel, featuring aggressive optimizations for Intel hardware. Binaries are compiled using tuning flags designed explicitly for Intel CPUs. It was a minimalist, modular OS that utilized software bundles for faster app installation and automatic performance tuning for optimal speed and power effic

How to Limit Galaxy AI to On-Device Processing—or Turn It Off Altogether

Artificial intelligence is now more pervasive than ever in the apps and gadgets we use day to day, and that of course extends to smartphones: Google Gemini on Pixels and other Android handsets, Apple Intelligence (currently still rolling out) on iPhones, and Galaxy AI on Samsung smartphones. These tools can help you refine text, generate images, and summarize documents, among other tricks, and you don't have to go far through your apps to find an AI feature ready and willing to help you with so

Intel to boost gross margins – new products must deliver 50% gross profit

Intel will not be entertaining any projects that do not promise to double its money going forward. Michelle Johnston Holthaus, CEO of Intel Products, announced at Bank of America's global technology conference that Intel is no longer approving new projects that cannot be proven to earn at least 50% gross margin "based on a set of industry expectations." Holthaus explained Intel's new risk-averse policy as "something that we probably should have had before, but we have it now so that product doe

Shutting Down Clear Linux OS

After years of innovation and community collaboration, we’re ending support for Clear Linux OS. Effective immediately, Intel will no longer provide security patches, updates, or maintenance for Clear Linux OS, and the Clear Linux OS GitHub repository will be archived in read-only mode. So, if you’re currently using Clear Linux OS, we strongly recommend planning your migration to another actively maintained Linux distribution as soon as possible to ensure ongoing security and stability. Rest ass

Meta Poaches Two More Apple AI Executives

After poaching one of Apple's top artificial intelligence executives with a $200 million pay package to lure him away from the company, Meta has now hired two of his subordinates, Bloomberg reports. Apple's Mark Lee and Tom Gunter are set to join Meta's Superintelligence Labs team, a newly established division tasked with building advanced AI systems capable of performing at or beyond human-level intelligence. Earlier this month, Ruoming Pang joined Meta. Until recently, he led Apple's found

Xbox Hacks: The A20 (2021)

In November of this year (2021) we will hit 20 years since the release of the original Xbox. This console was full of vulnerabilities (or misconfiguration) from the software to the hardware and with such a low price point two decades ago for a computer - it was highly popular. For this post we are going to go into a lot of details regarding one mistake Microsoft made which was the A20. All the discoveries and research belongs to The Xbox Linux Project and Michael Steil. Research was obtained be

Original Xbox Hacks: The A20 CPU Gate (2021)

In November of this year (2021) we will hit 20 years since the release of the original Xbox. This console was full of vulnerabilities (or misconfiguration) from the software to the hardware and with such a low price point two decades ago for a computer - it was highly popular. For this post we are going to go into a lot of details regarding one mistake Microsoft made which was the A20. All the discoveries and research belongs to The Xbox Linux Project and Michael Steil. Research was obtained be

7 AI features coming to iOS 26 that I can't wait to use (and how you can try them)

iOS 26 camera Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Apple Worldwide Developers' Conference (WWDC) was a little over a month ago -- meaning the iOS 26 public beta should be released any day now. Even though Apple has not yet launched the highly anticipated Siri upgrade -- the company said we will hear more about it in the coming year -- at WWDC, Apple unveiled a slew of AI features across its devices and operating systems, including iOS, MacOS, WatchOS, and iPadOS. Also: Apple's iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 public beta

Intel's retreat is unlike anything it's done before in Oregon

Intel's campus in Aloha was the company's first Oregon site -- and its first manufacturing facility outside California -- when it opened in the 1970s. Mike Rogoway/The Oregonian Over the five decades Intel has operated in Oregon, its local footprint had moved in just one direction: Upward. From a single factory in Aloha that opened in 1976, the chipmaker grew into the state’s largest corporate employer and one of Oregon’s primary economic engines. Intel spent billions of dollars every year to

Ukrainian hackers destroyed the IT infrastructure of Russian drone manufacturer

Ukrainian cyber activists, in cooperation with military intelligence, successfully paralyzed the activities of one of the largest Russian drone manufacturers, Gaskar Integration. The attack destroyed over 47 TB of critical data, blocked internal systems, and effectively halted the plant’s operations. This is reported by “Pryamiy” with reference to sources in military intelligence. Hackers from the BO Team and Ukrainian Cyber Alliance groups, supported by the intelligence capabilities of milita

I replaced my MacBook Pro with the M3 iPad Air - and I might never go back

ZDNET's key takeaways The 2025 iPad Air is available in an 11-inch model starting at $600 and a 13-inch model starting at $800. The latest iPad Air features Apple Intelligence, an M3 processor, and some of the best performance I've seen on an iPad to date. But the iPad Air gets expensive quickly, with the 13-inch model selling for as much as $1,300. View now at Amazon View now at Best Buy more buying choices I've grown rather attached to my work MacBook Pro. I use it every day, take it with m

As Zuck Races to Build Godlike AI, Women and People of Color Aren’t Invited

Mark Zuckerberg has a new mission: build artificial general intelligence (AGI), a form of AI that can reason and learn like a human.To do that, he’s assembled an elite team of researchers, engineers, and AI veterans from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Apple, and more. This new unit, called Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL), is tasked with building the most powerful artificial intelligence the world has ever seen. The tech world is calling it a “dream team.” But it’s hard not to notice what’s missin

Now That Intel Is Cooked, Apple Doesn’t Need to Release New MacBooks Every Year

Covering tech news, you sometimes feel like the million-mile-per-hour footrace of Silicon Valley will inevitably result in a Wile E. Coyote-style calamity. There’s a part of me that craves a little more sincerity and willingness for self-reflection. When we actually receive it, the result is a little more cringe-worthy. Intel’s new boss, Lip-Bu Tan, reportedly told staff the company was—effectively—cooked. That doesn’t sound great, but for one of Intel’s once-biggest partners, Apple, it may be a

Now That Intel’s Cooked, Apple Doesn’t Need to Release New MacBooks Every Year

Covering tech news, you sometimes feel like the million-mile-per-hour footrace of Silicon Valley will inevitably result in a Wile E. Coyote-style calamity. There’s a part of me that craves a little more sincerity and willingness for self-reflection. When we actually receive it, the result is a little more cringe-worthy. Intel’s new boss, Lip-Bu Tan, reportedly told staff the company was—effectively—cooked. That doesn’t sound great, but for one of Intel’s once-biggest partners, Apple, it may be a

Intel spins out AI robotics company RealSense with $50 million raise

Brian Krzanich, chief executive officer of Intel Corp., right, shows the collision avoidance feature of an AscTec Firefly drone with Intel RealSense cameras during the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Intel is spinning out its artificial intelligence robotics and biometric venture as more companies bet big on automation tools. The new company, known as RealSense, was announced Friday and comes alongside a $50-million Series A funding round that includes MediaTek Innov

RealSense spins out of Intel to scale its stereoscopic imaging technology

After 14 years of developing inside of semiconductor giant Intel, RealSense is striking out on its own. RealSense sells cameras that use stereoscopic imaging, a process that combines two images of the same object from different angles to create depth, enhanced with infrared light. This technology helps machines like robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles have a better perception of the physical world around them. The tech is also used for facial authentication. “The common denominator of all

Pinecone founder Edo Liberty explores the real missing link in enterprise AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, the AI conversation goes deeper than just the latest models. On one of the AI Stages, Edo Liberty, founder and CEO of Pinecone, will deliver a session that challenges one of the most persistent assumptions in the field — that raw intelligence alone is enough. With 10,000+ startup and VC leaders expected in San Francisco from October 27–29, this fireside chat and presentation is one of the must-attend moments for anyone building AI systems that actually work in the rea

Microsoft’s Copilot Plus features might arrive on desktop PCs later this year

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft’s latest Windows AI features arrived first on new Copilot Plus PCs last year, but they were limited to a special range of laptops. That looks set to change thanks to Intel refreshing its existing Arrow Lake desktop CPUs later this year, that might just deliver Copilot Plus PC features in desktop PC form factors for the first time. Intel’s latest Core Ultra desktop CP

This Lenovo laptop has a photo-sharing superpower - and it's $300 off

ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is available now for $1,099 for the 32GB of RAM configuration. It pairs a myriad of customizable features with a nice display, surprisingly beefy speakers, and a marathon battery. A few physical design choices might be of concern for some, and I wish it had an OLED. $1,299 at Walmart $1,429.99 at Lenovo $1,299.99 at Best Buy more buying choices At Best Buy, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is on sale for $1,099, a $300 discount.

This HP Laptop with Windows 11 Pro Is Nearly 80% Off, Amazon Is Clearing Out Stock for Prime Day

Prime Day is your sole opportunity of the year to score record-breaking offers on electronics – and laptops are no exception. Whether you must gear up for the new school year or simply wish to upgrade home technology, this is the moment you don’t want to skip: Amazon is currently selling a 14-inch HP laptop for nearly 80% off, bringing the price down to just $349 from its typical $1,499. See at Amazon Intel Processor, 16GB RAM, 384GB Storage It is powered by an Intel N150 quad-core processor

Joe Rogan’s Latest Episode Will Make You Question Everything About AI

Joe Rogan loves talking about artificial intelligence. Whether it’s with Elon Musk, academics, or UFC fighters, the podcast king often returns to the same question: What happens to us when machines start thinking for themselves? In the July 3 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan welcomed Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, a computer scientist and AI safety researcher at the University of Louisville, for a conversation that quickly turned into a chilling meditation on AI’s potential to manipulate, domi

The Person in Charge of Testing Tech for US Spies Has Resigned

The head of the US government’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is leaving the unit this month to take a job with a quantum computing company, WIRED has learned. Rick Muller’s pending departure from IARPA comes amid broader efforts to downsize the United States intelligence community, including the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which oversees IARPA. A person familiar with Muller’s plans confirmed to WIRED his departure from IARPA. Born during

Ilya Sutskever will lead Safe Superintelligence following his CEO’s exit

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever says he is stepping into the CEO role at Safe Superintelligence, the AI startup he launched in 2024. In a post on X, Sutskever confirmed Thursday that Daniel Gross, the startup’s co-founder and CEO, departed the company as of June 29. Safe Superintelligence co-founder Daniel Levy is becoming president of the startup, according to Sutskever. The announcement follows weeks of reporting that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in advanced talks to hire Gross, as well as h

IntyBASIC: A Basic Compiler for Intellivision

IntyBASIC: a BASIC compiler for Intellivision I was working in Space Raid for Intellivision when I wondered about possibilities to make easier the development of games for Intellivision. There is a full set of tools for emulation ( jzintv ) and programming in assembler (as1600) created by Joseph Zbiciak (intvnut). But in every program you need to start almost from zero and there are few libraries. The Intellivision console The Intellivision console The Intellivision being created in 1979

The best gaming PCs of 2025: Expert tested

High-end gaming PCs feature the latest processors and graphics cards for top-tier performance, perfect for tackling intensive triple-A titles. However, if you're more of a casual gamer or buying for a younger player, you don't need to break the bank to get a solid gaming experience. Budget options with older or lower-end components still offer plenty of power for popular games -- just be prepared to adjust your settings. For those looking to maximize value, building your own PC is a great way t

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