Finding a good laptop under $500 was hard enough before RAMageddon. They nearly always had cheap hardware and underpowered, often outdated chips. That's what made the MacBook Neo so disruptive: It offered great build quality and good-enough performance starting at $599. Windows laptops couldn't touch it. Even though it's gone up to $699, it's still the laptop to beat.

So when little-known Chinese brand Chuwi announced a $450 Windows laptop with an aluminum build and a brand-new Intel Wildcat Lake processor, it sounded too good to be true.

It is.

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It seems the highly affordable Apple portable computer is sending shockwaves through the PC industry. The entry-level MacBook Neo is proving that a computer with just 8GB of RAM can handle incredibly heavy workloads without breaking a sweat. This strong performance has put immense pressure on Microsoft. Now, the software maker is working hard to […]

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Microsoft has opened its largest India cloud region in Hyderabad as it expands AI infrastructure and competes with Google and Amazon for enterprise demand.

This year is the 30th anniversary of the launch of the original Quake by id Software, if you could believe it. To commemorate that, publisher Bethesda has released a new campaign chapter for the game, titled "Dawn of the Machine."

This is part of a series of new campaign chapters, all developed by MachineGames "in collaboration with id Software." MachineGames is best known for making the games in the relatively recent Wolfenstein reboot series, as well as Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. The Quake maps are made by a team dubbed "Quake Club," which includes several MachineGames employees who work on Quake maps in their spare time.

The ambition and scope of some of these maps is beyond what was typical for Quake maps back in the late '90s, thanks in part to the team's use of TrenchBroom, a newer map editor that works well on modern systems and is easier to work with and more capable than what folks were using in those days.

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Apple is working on a new feature that will support cross-device copy and paste between iOS devices and Windows PCs.

Microsoft asked for the feature using Apple’s EU interoperability request system for developers, which Apple implemented to comply with the Digital Markets Act. Apple began evaluating the request in March, and on June 26, proposed a project plan.

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Apple proposed a solution that would let an iPhone share and import items from the pasteboard to a paired accessory, like a Windows PC. Apple plans to use a solution similar to the Accessory Notifications option it added for third-party wearables in the EU in iOS 26.5. Users would need to give a paired device one-time permission to paste content from an iPhone.

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Apple says introducing cross-device copy and paste is a significant engineering effort, with work expected to be complete by fall 2027.

I wonder whether Apple will restrict this to the EU.

Previously:

• iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5
• Apple Appeals EU Digital Markets Act Interoperability Rules
• DMA Compliance: Default Maps App in EU
• Meta’s iOS Interoperability Requests
• DMA Compliance: Interoperability Requests

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Apple works to bring seamless copy-and-paste between iPhones and Windows PCs, though the feature likely won't arrive until at least 2027.

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