Introducing Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for world makers

kept by eddie jun 02

Microsoft announces Surface Laptop Ultra with NVIDIA Blackwell GPU, up to 128GB unified memory, and 1 petaflop AI compute for creators and developers.

Googlebook has a premium focus, coming to some Chromebooks
Google's Googlebook project will replace Chromebooks with a premium Android-based platform; existing Chromebooks will continue support and some will be eligible to transition.
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Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability
Lenovo's new ThinkPad T-series laptops receive a perfect 10/10 repairability score from iFixit for features like tool-less access and replaceable USB-C ports.
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Silicon Frontier
Control over semiconductor supply chains, from ASML's lithography to TSMC's manufacturing and NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem, determines which entities dominate the AI era.
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Agentic AI and The Mythical Agent-Month
A critique argues that AI agents don't bypass Brooks' Law, as coordination overhead and integration complexity still limit parallel agent scaling.
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Microsoft’s new AI system finds 16 Windows flaws, including four critical RCEs
Microsoft's MDASH system, orchestrating over 100 AI agents, found 16 Windows flaws including 4 critical RCEs, and enters private preview in June.
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