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• Nvidia's Huang: Surface Laptop Ultra Took Four Years to Build

  Nvidia's Jensen Huang says the Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra took four years and thousands of engineering years to build, calling it a work of love for local AI agents.

• FC 27 Review: The Grounds Falls Flat, Career Mode Shines

  EA Sports FC 27 swings big with The Grounds and a new Career transfer system. One lands, one doesn't, and the result is a confusing but fun football sim.

• Voicemod's $130 Key Pocket Changes Your Voice on the Go

  Voicemod's new Key Pocket is a $130 magnetic gadget that clips to your phone and changes your voice on the fly, with local processing for privacy and accessibility.

• Air Force Could Spend $49M on WindBorne Balloon Weather Data

  The US Air Force has a $49 million agreement to buy data from WindBorne's 700 autonomous weather balloons — but has only ordered about $1.7 million so far.

• Norwegian Rental Cars Recorded Troops Typing Gate Codes

  Soldiers in Norway discovered their rental cars had been recording them, including gate codes, during an exercise. No evidence suggests the footage left the vehicles.

• Zotac's 11.46L PC Packs an RTX 5080 for $2,647, No RAM or OS

  Zotac's Magnus One Ultra squeezes a desktop RTX 5080 and 20-core Intel CPU into an 11.46-liter case. The $2,647 starting price is barebones—no RAM, storage, or OS.

• Microsoft's Maia 300 Bets on Memory, Not Muscle, to Cut AI Costs

  Microsoft will make its own Maia 300 chip the primary engine for AI inference at multi-gigawatt scale in 2027. The bet is on memory bandwidth, not raw compute.

• Texas Fixes Glitch That Delayed 600,000 Voter Registrations

  Texas says a software update broke its driver's license voter registration system, delaying nearly 600,000 applications. Counties just found another 15,000-record error.

• Sony Bravia 9 II Review: RGB Mini-LED Nearly Beats OLED

  Sony's RGB mini-LED flagship delivers OLED-level contrast and serious brightness, but the $3,599 price tag for 65 inches is the real story.

• Ads Alone Infected 45 Al Jazeera Devices With Spyware, Citizen Lab Finds

  Citizen Lab has documented the first known case of mercenary spyware delivered through ad impressions alone — no click required. At least 45 Al Jazeera devices were hit.

• RTX 5090 Vanishes From Nvidia's Store as AI Eats the GPU

  Nvidia's RTX 5090 is disappearing from its own store and retailer shelves, and a leaker says GB202 chips are going to AI cards. The RTX 5080 is now the flagship — and prices are…

• Lenovo Yoga Pro 7i: Same Power, $250 Less, One Inch Shy

  The Yoga Pro 7i Gen 11 Aura Edition keeps the Pro 9i's Core Ultra 9 and RTX 5060 but shrinks the screen to 15 inches and the price by about $250. Here's the trade-off.