Microsoft Is Laying Off 3% of Its Workforce Despite Strong Financials

From PC Mag: More layoffs are happening at Microsoft. The company confirms it's in the process of cutting nearly 3% of its workforce, resulting in around 6,000 fewer jobs across the business.

The layoffs are confirmed across the business at various seniority levels and locations, but the main focus...

Roku is doing what most of its rivals won’t

From PC World: Roku is spending $185 million to get into a business that most other streaming platforms have avoided.

In early May, the company announced that it will acquire Frndly TV, the cheapest of all the live TV streaming services. For $9 per month, Frndly TV offers a bundle of channels you’d...

Imminent Limits on AI Chip Exports Rescinded by Trump Administration

From CNET: A limitation on exports of AI processors made in the US set to go into effect on May 15 is now rescinded after an order from the Department of Commerce.

The AI Diffusion Rule was set in motion at the end of the Joe Biden presidential administration and would have limited the the number...

Samsung’s S25 Edge is a thin phone with two big tradeoffs

From The Verge: Samsung’s thin phone is here. The Galaxy S25 Edge — first teased back in January — is essentially a slimmed-down S25 Plus, with the same 6.7-inch OLED display, Snapdragon 8 Elite for Galaxy chipset, and AI features. The compact design comes at a price though, and you’ll have to do...

US seeks to thwart smuggling of Nvidia GPUs with location tracking

From PC World: The United States has reportedly been investigating reports that Nvidia GPUs have landed illegally in China to be used by Chinese LLMs like DeepSeek, and one US lawmaker will be introducing a new bill that aims to track the locations of AI chips—like the ones made by Nvidia—after they...

US and China Agree on Tariff Pause: Will Gadget Prices Stabilize?

From PC Mag: Tariffs between the United States and China are set to be paused following the first significant negotiations between the two countries since President Trump imposed higher fees in April.

Representatives from the two countries met in Switzerland over the weekend and agreed to lower...

Intel’s latest Core Ultra CPUs slow down high-end SSDs, tests find

From PC World: In another blow for Intel’s “Arrow Lake” or Core Ultra 200S platform, testing has confirmed that SSDs inserted into an M.2 slot on a Intel X890 motherboard won’t achieve their full performance.

The SSD Review (via Tom’s Hardware) found that SSDs inserted into an X890 motherboard...

Tariffs or No, Apple May Raise iPhone Prices This Year

From CNET: Even as a new deal between China and the US rolls back high tariffs for the next 90 days, the Wall Street Journal reports that Apple has plans to raise iPhone prices later this year, whether tariffs rise again or not.

The price hike would cover the iPhone 17 line, expected to be released...

XPG Lancer CUDIMM RGB DDR5-8400 2x24GB Review (Page 1 of 10)

In the 4th year engineering class on computer networks at the University of Calgary, one of the rules I have is students are allowed to take a "cheat sheet" into the exam. Now, despite being called a "cheat sheet", the cheat sheet is not free-for-all. It is a reasonably regulated document where students are only allowed to have formulas and definitions of variables in the formulas. The reason why I have this rule is because it helps students...

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