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PCMag (PC Magazine) is a long-running consumer technology publication covering product reviews, software, cybersecurity, and industry news.
Over 100 people lined up at a San Francisco Best Buy for Nvidia's RTX Spark launch, but PCMag says it looked like only a handful bought one. Many came for free swag or out of curiosity, so the line says little about demand at $2,599.
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ShinyHunters says it will never publish the 2-3TB of FBI data it took, allegedly through the agency's online jobs board. The agents whose records were taken still have to plan as if the files are loose, because the pledge covers only publication.
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Microsoft is widening the private preview of Autopilot, an OpenClaw-based agent with its own identity that it pictures businesses running by the hundreds. Each one acts on standing instructions, so whoever grants its permissions answers for its work.
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Dario Amodei wants governments to help labs slow self-improving models in step. Jensen Huang told CNBC the rules on product reliability already cover it, and Mark Zuckerberg says Meta held its Muse model back on its own.
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Meta's spring launch price of $1,299 puts 100 grams on the face and a 300-gram compute puck on a cable, and the published evidence for wearing it through a working day is one 30-minute hands-on by PCMag.
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The glasses reach 100 grams because the computer rides in a pocket. On paper the panels beat Apple's. PCMag's reviewer still saw graininess in video and in passthrough during a 30-minute session.
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The 12-inch Surface Pro and the 13-inch Surface Laptop both get Snapdragon X2 Plus on October 13, completing a Surface catalogue that PCMag says is now down to two families plus an expected Surface Ultra.
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Meta's $799 glasses have what PCMag calls the best display of its class, a full-color 600-by-600 window 20 degrees wide, and the review's buying advice still goes to Even Realities' $599 G2 or to waiting for Android XR.
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PCMag's $2,899 test unit took its Editors' Choice award, and the review credits the result to memory speed over raw capacity while memory is in short supply. The upgrade ladder tops out at 64GB.
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PCMag's review gives both iPhone 18 Pro models the same A20 Pro chip, vapor chamber and camera hardware, and separates them only on battery life and pocketability, with the Max keeping the Editors' Choice.
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PCMag's week with the $1,299 phone found no outward change beyond new colours and an unchanged 6.43 by 3.07 by 0.34 inch body. The weight went up by half an ounce, and US models take eSIM only.
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The update installs free on any iPhone 11 or later. The Siri that finds a PDF and drafts it into an email starts at the iPhone 15 Pro. That is one version number with two capability sets to support.
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Every performance figure Apple has published for the A20 Pro is a peak number, and none of them tells a product team how long a local model takes on its fourth run, or how large a model fits in memory.
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Apple says the M5 Ultra reaches 512GB of unified memory at 1.2TB/s, which settles how big a local agent can get, though the September launch arrives without prices and every AI speed figure is measured against an M1.
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A court order killed two Chinese contractor hacking platforms because their command domains were hard-coded into the malware. The pivot hardware they infected is still nobody's asset.
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A third of Americans have asked a chatbot for medical guidance and 95% of them found it at least somewhat helpful. Asked about loneliness and depression, the same public turns two to one against.
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