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Here's our review of Intel's Core Ultra 7 270K Plus desktop processor: It improves on "Arrow Lake's" gaming speeds and delivers robust performance across any task, but its best feature is its hyper-competitive price: It can spar with CPUs costing more than twice as much. https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/intel-core-ultra-7-270k-plus

Elon Musk offered a first look at his plans for orbiting data centers this weekend, and they will be longer than the International Space Station (ISS). https://www.pcmag.com/news/musk-offers-sneak-peek-at-orbiting-data-centers-theyre-bigger-than-iss

Reddit could soon require Face ID to prove you're not a bot: https://www.pcmag.com/news/reddit-could-soon-require-face-id-to-prove-youre-not-a-bot

Intel's Core Ultra 5 250K Plus boosts gaming performance over its "Arrow Lake" predecessor at a price that's hard to pass up. It's not the fastest gaming CPU around, but no other chip goes as hard for so little money. Here's our review: https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/intel-core-ultra-5-250k-plus

Google has been spotted using AI to rewrite some news headlines in Search, and early results indicate the system isn’t fully ready yet. https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-is-using-ai-to-modify-search-headlines-and-its-not-going-well

Samsung has introduced an update to Android's Quick Share function that brings Apple AirDrop support to the Galaxy S26 series, enabling easier wireless file sharing between Samsung and Apple devices in close proximity. https://www.pcmag.com/news/samsung-brings-airdrop-interoperability-to-galaxy-s26-series

Following a class-action lawsuit, a California court found that Musk had misled investors with a series of tweets claiming that 20% of Twitter consisted of bots and spam accounts, impacting the platform’s share price. https://www.pcmag.com/news/court-finds-musk-misled-investors-when-he-bought-twitter

Apple hikes external SSD prices, some SanDisk products increase by 200%: https://www.pcmag.com/news/apple-hikes-external-ssd-prices-some-sandisk-products-jump-up-200

Microsoft is vowing to focus on quality with future Windows 11 releases, which includes better performance and reeling in the company’s Copilot footprint over the OS. https://www.pcmag.com/news/less-copilot-more-reliability-microsoft-eyes-quality-in-new-windows-11

Apple's M4-powered iPad Air delivers powerful performance and future-proof connectivity in a sleek design, making it the best tablet for students and creators without breaking the bank. Here's our review: https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/apple-ipad-air-m4-2026

A 35-year-old suspect in China raked in an estimated $400,000 by creating a huge network of sites on the Dark Web that dangled illegal material, but never delivered, investigators say. https://www.pcmag.com/news/man-used-373000-sites-on-dark-web-to-swindle-predators-hackers

The US says it disrupted the Aisuru botnet, notorious for launching record-breaking DDoS attacks throughout last year in an effort to shut down internet services and websites. https://www.pcmag.com/news/us-disrupts-aisuru-botnet-behind-record-breaking-30tbps-ddos-attacks

According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, the Neo is a record-breaking Mac release. https://www.pcmag.com/news/macbook-neo-just-broke-an-apple-sales-record-shipping-delays-continue

The future of AI is local computing on your device, but are Galaxy AI and Microsoft Copilot powerful enough to replace the apps I use every day? https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/can-ai-replace-your-favorite-apps-i-found-out-the-hard-way

OpenAI plans to combine its most popular features into a new desktop “superapp” to give users a simpler experience: https://www.pcmag.com/news/openai-plans-desktop-superapp-to-combine-chatgpt-codex-atlas-browser

Remember Amazon's Fire phone? An Alexa phone might be next: https://www.pcmag.com/news/remember-amazons-fire-phone-an-alexa-phone-may-be-next

We've seen Nvidia GPU smuggling cases before, but now a co-founder at US server maker SuperMicro has been indicted in a $2.5 billion case involving export-controlled Nvidia chips being secretly sent to China: https://www.pcmag.com/news/co-founder-of-us-server-maker-indicted-for-smuggling-nvidia-gpus-to-china

Google Messages can finally do live location sharing: https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-messages-finally-lets-you-share-your-live-location

Meta employees had access to sensitive company and user data for about two hours last week after an engineer followed instructions from an AI agent that went rogue: https://www.pcmag.com/news/are-ai-agents-safe-instructions-from-rogue-ai-triggered-data-leak-at-meta

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has filed its own plans to launch orbiting data centers using a constellation of 51,600 satellites. Sorry @sundogplanets@mastodon.social https://www.pcmag.com/news/blue-origin-joins-the-race-for-orbital-data-centers-with-51k-satellite