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Microsoft Surface Pro 10 for Business

First Ring Daily: Stoic Surface

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott look back at yesterday's Surface and AI event yesterday from Microsoft and discuss why the company needs to do a better job at convincing organizations that its Copilot assistant is about to change how we work forever.

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New Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 Get Intel AI NPU and 53% Performance Boost

Microsoft unveiled two new Surface devices during its business-focused digital event today: The Surface Pro 10 for Business and the Surface Laptop 6 for Business. The company has also announced a new Surface IT Toolkit, which offers a unified hub for configuration and technician tools. It has been two years since Microsoft released the Surface…

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First Ring Daily: Surface Peaks

As Microsoft is expected to refresh its Surface lineup with new AI features later this year, this episode of First Ring Daily has Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discussing Microsoft’s “peak Surface” moment.

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Microsoft Collaborates with OEMs to Update Windows Secure Boot Keys

Microsoft has announced its plans to update Secure Boot on Windows Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) PCs. The company is collaborating with its equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners to issue new Secure Boot keys starting this year. Secure Boot is a security feature that was first implemented in Windows 8 machines, particularly those running on the…

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Intel Core Ultra CPU

First Ring Daily: Intel’s New Core Ultra CPUs and AI PCs

On this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Intel showing off its new “Meteor Lake” Core Ultra mobile CPUs, neural processing units (NPUs) arriving on laptops, and changes to the desktop.

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Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon X Elite: A Powerhouse for Windows on Arm PCs, Outperforming Apple’s M2 Max with 30% Less Power

Qualcomm has just kicked off its Snapdragon 2023 Summit in Hawaii, and the company announced the new Snapdragon X Elite chip designed from the ground up for high-end Windows on Arm PCs. Snapdragon X Elite multi-threaded performance The Snapdragon X Elite features the custom integrated Oryon CPU and Qualcomm claims that it offers 2x better…

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Intel CPU

First Ring Daily: Selling the Chips

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss the new ‘Downfall’ vulnerability affecting older Intel CPUs, Microsoft’s modernized File Explorer on Windows 11, and the company’s potential trick for selling more new PCs.

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Nvidia AI

Nvidia Announces New Hardware and Services for Enterprise AI at Computex

Last Update: Jun 30, 2023

Nvidia announced several new AI products at the Computex annual trade show in Taipei, Taiwan. The biggest announcements made by the chip maker include the Nvidia DGX GH200, a new supercomputer designed for enterprise AI, an accelerated networking platform for hyperscale generative AI, as well as a new modular server architecture optimized for AI workloads….

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Security

ASUS Routers Get New Firmware Updates to Patch Critical Vulnerabilities

ASUS has rolled out a new set of firmware updates to address critical vulnerabilities in its several router models. The company published a security advisory yesterday recommending customers to apply the security patches or restrict WAS access. Specifically, the latest firmware updates aim to fix two critical vulnerabilities with a 9.8 severity rating out of…

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Intel Reveals New Core Branding For its Upcoming Meteor Lake CPUs

Intel announced this week a new branding structure that the company will start to use with its upcoming 14th gen Meteor Lake CPUs. The company will simplify the branding of its Core processors by dropping the “i” letter for processor tiering, and it’s also creating a new Ultra label for its most advanced processors.  Intel…

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