For the first time in many years, you have a choice when buying a new Intel-based laptop: Intel’s 14th-gen Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) or its latest 14th-gen Core HX chip. Which should you buy, and why?

Welcome to the week’s Pulse: This week’s updates touch rankings, the Search interface, AI Mode behavior, and Google’s guidance around AI agents. Google launched a core update, announced what it called ...

Microsoft released an emergency patch for its ASP.NET Core to fix a high-severity vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges on devices that use the Web development ...

A new AI startup called Core Automation, founded by an ex-OpenAI researcher, is snatching top talent from Anthropic and Google DeepMind. On Tuesday, Core Automation wrote in its first X post that it ...

Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) security updates to patch a critical ASP.NET Core privilege escalation vulnerability. The security flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-40372) was found in the ASP.NET ...

Microsoft has released out-of-band updates to address a security vulnerability in ASP.NET Core that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-40372, ...

Intel’s Core Ultra laptop CPUs have been its flagships ever since it retired the older generational branding scheme and the i3/i5/i7/i9 branding a few years back. The Core Ultra Series 1, Series 2, ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. A new report via VideoCardz, citing Intel's internal Nova Lake-S roadmaps as the source, has lifted the lid on specs and details for the company's upcoming ...

Google's first broad core update of 2026 has finished rolling out. The March 2026 core update started March 27 and completed April 8. Google described it as "a regular update" and didn't publish a ...

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The new flagship Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus is accompanied by a Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus. The new flagship Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus is accompanied by a Core Ultra 7 270HX Plus. is a reviewer covering ...

Intel just tipped Core Ultra 200S Plus, a promising, price-aggressive bunch of refreshed "Arrow Lake" desktop processors coming in late March. Here's everything I've learned so far about these new ...