With IFA almost here, some companies are treating us to some quick peeks into what they're up to. Asus is no exception, as it's showing off its new Snapdragon X-powered devices a little ahead of time. If you're interested in taking a look at the company's newest offerings in the Copilot+ space, here is something for both the office worker and the creative.

Qualcomm is once again expanding its Snapdragon X series of chipsets for Windows laptops, introducing the Snapdragon X Plus 8-core. This is the Snapdragon X SoC that I've been reporting on since January, but branded differently than was planned back then. The idea is to hit lower price points for high-performing Windows on Arm PCs.

Image: Qualcomm Qualcomm launched its first big wave of Windows laptops this summer at $999 and up — but a new, somewhat weaker chip could soon shave off at least $100. Today, the company’s announcing its first 8-core Snapdragon X Plus chips, which will feature in a new Asus Zenbook S 15 and Dell Inspiron 14 that’ll retail for $899 each.While the new Qualcomm chips have all the same features as the 10-core and 12-core models, they’re decidedly weaker in some ways — especially graphics. On average, they’ve got less than half the GPU power for games and other graphical apps. And while they all feature the same 45 TOPS of AI performance from their NPU, they’ve also got 12MB less CPU cache. Image: Qualcomm 1.7 teraflops is a lot... Continue reading…

For the most part, a majority of homes and offices are now equipped with wireless routers so that devices can easily connect to the internet wirelessly. This has been the norm for quite some time and really shouldn't come with much thought, even when you're connecting to the internet on the go. Of course, connecting at home or to your office network is going to be quite different from connecting to a wireless network at your local caf or airport. You really don't know the ins and outs of the network in public spaces, which means you don't know how secure the network is to ensure your privacy.

The flaw doesn’t impact newer YubiKey hardware that doesn’t use the Infineon cryptolibrary. | Image: Yubico Security researchers have detected a vulnerability in YubiKey two-factor authentication tokens that enables attackers to clone the device according to a new security advisory. The vulnerability was discovered within the Infineon cryptographic library used by most YubiKey products, including the YubiKey 5, Yubikey Bio, Security Key, and YubiHSM 2 series devices.YubiKey manufacturer Yubico says the severity of the side-channel vulnerability is “moderate” but is difficult to exploit, partly because two-factor systems rely upon something the user has and something only they should know. “The attacker would need physical possession of the YubiKey, Security Key, or YubiHSM, knowledge of the accounts they want to target, and specialized... Continue reading…

Microsoft’s latest Surface lineup for businesses. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft is ready to start selling its Qualcomm-powered Surface devices to businesses. Starting on September 10th, both the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 will be available for business customers for the first time, after launching in June to consumers as part of Microsoft’s Copilot Plus PC wave of devices and its Windows on Arm push.The hardware inside the Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 for businesses will be identical to the consumer options. Businesses will be able to pick between two main options for the Surface Pro 11. There’s the 10-core Snapdragon X Plus Surface Pro 11 with 16GB of RAM, up to 512GB of storage, and the regular LCD display, or the OLED model with the 12-core Snapdragon X Elite, up to 32GB of RAM, and up... Continue reading…

Most iPhone users are familiar with the green message bubbles that appear when texting Android phones, but occasionally these pop up when messaging other iPhones, too. When a message can't be sent via iMessage, it will fall back to a text messaging standard, and this results in green bubbles appearing even on the best iPhones. Aside from being an annoyance, green bubbles can lack iMessage-exclusive features. So, if you're seeing green bubbles and want to know why, we've got the answer.

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Snapchat will soon start “experimenting” with placing sponsored messages next to chat threads from friends, according to CEO Evan Spiegel.These “Sponsored Snaps” from brands will appear as unread messages in Snapchat’s main Chat tab, implying that they’ll sit above messages from a person’s contacts until they’re acted on. This is the first time Snap will show ads in the most used part of its app.In an employee memo also posted on the company’s website, Spiegel says that Sponsored Snaps will appear “without a push notification, and opening the message is optional.” It’s unclear how easy it will be to get rid of a Sponsored Snap without opening it, or if doing so will even be possible. (Snap declined to comment beyond Spiegel’s memo.)“... Continue reading…

Computers nowadays are quite similar to each other, with the lines even between productivity machines and gaming machines beginning to blur significantly. While there are obviously productivity workhorses built for very specific uses, most of the time, a gaming PC is close to what anyone needs no matter what type of task they're actually doing.

If you've been building PCs for a while, you already know it's easy to overlook seemingly unimportant details during the assembly process. For a first-time builder, these mistakes can be the difference between a no-hiccup build and a hunk of junk. If you're unaware of what you could have done wrong, you'll likely assume that your brand-new PC is somehow faulty.

A little while ago, we saw the release of the new Snapdragon-powered Copilot+ devices from Microsoft. Now, the Redmond giant is ready to bring its newest range to the business side of computing. Microsoft has announced that the Surface Pro 11 and the Surface Laptop 7 will become available to businesses, alongside a 5G-enabled version of the Surface Pro 10.

The Verge Microsoft is holding a special Copilot event later this month that will be focused on “the next phase of Copilot innovation.” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and vice president of AI at work Jared Spataro will host the “wave 2” Copilot event on September 16th.The event will be hosted on LinkedIn and focus on the business side of Microsoft’s Copilot offerings. I revealed in my Notepad newsletter last month that Microsoft is about to rebrand Copilot in the most Microsoft way possible. This means that instead of “Copilot in Word” it will become “Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word,” alongside a rebranding of “Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365” to “Microsoft 365 Copilot.” Image: Microsoft Microsoft’s event won’t be all about... Continue reading…