The best deals on MacBooks right now

Apple’s latest 14-inch MacBook Pro is on sale in various colors and configurations. | Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto Apple currently sells MacBooks equipped with its own M-series chips in a wide range of sizes and price points. It discontinued the M1 MacBook Air to make room for newer models, but some retailers are…

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Life with the Nintendo Switch 2

The Nintendo Switch 2 is great. In many ways, it’s exactly what we hoped for: a Switch, only better. And yet there’s something… underwhelming about it. Maybe it’s unfair, but we’ve come to expect Nintendo to consistently amaze us with either how its consoles work or the games you can play with them. In this…

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Microsoft 365 launches an on-premise edition that wants to solve productivity issues for good

Microsoft 365 Local is an entirely on-prem solution for data sovereignty requirements It’s built on Azure Local and Microsoft’s private sovereign cloud Redmond wants to provide “digital stability” for all regions Microsoft has launched a new version of Microsoft 365 that runs entirely on-premises, designed for low-latency and high-security needs, running on Azure Local. The…

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Microsoft should change its Copilot advertising, says watchdog

Microsoft’s Copilot advertising has been criticized by an industry watchdog for its productivity claims and confusing use of Copilot branding. The Better Business Bureau’s National Advertising Division (NAD) has reviewed Microsoft’s Copilot advertising, and recommended that the software giant discontinues or modifies productivity claims about Microsoft 365 Copilot and more clearly disclose the limitations of…

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Windows 11’s new update is reportedly proving a nightmare to install for some, but I’m hardly surprised given its messy rollout

Windows 11’s June update is failing to install for some people It’s complicated because Microsoft released an initial update this month – which was paused – and then a revised patch that replaced it This revised patch is also causing unfortunate bugs according to some reports Windows 11’s latest update is proving problematic for some…

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Surprisingly enough, it seems some AI agents aren’t quite up to scratch on some basic business tests

Salesforce research finds single-turn tasks see only 58% success, while multi-turn effectiveness drops to 35% Reasoning models like gemini-2.5-pro tend to outperform lighter models CRMArena-Pro has proven to be a challenging benchmark Researchers from Salesforce AI Research have introduced a new benchmark – CRMArena-Pro – which uses synthetic enterprise data to access LLM agent performance…

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