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Microsoft’s Surface Laptop X2 Plus takes on Apple’s M5 MacBook Air in price, storage, compatibility, ports, battery life, and work features.

Some AT&T iPhone 18 Pro Max phones that lose cellular service need replacement, while Apple says updates can help prevent new failures.

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra offers a larger display, included S Pen, and expandable storage, while the iPad Pro with M5 leads in performance and battery life.

Tencent reportedly plans to lease about 100,000 AI chips from Oracle in Southeast Asia under a five-year deal worth roughly $7 billion.

Vietnam AI adoption hit 26%, but most adopters are still experimenting as skills, ROI measurement, and regulation slow production deployments.

Windows 11 26H2 brings a fast enablement-package upgrade to 24H2 and 25H2 PCs, while 26H1 devices remain on a separate path.

Reddit is retiring RSS and its remaining public Data API access, giving moderators, app developers, and organizations several migration deadlines.

Amazon’s 2026 Kindle refresh brings new Kindle, Paperwhite, and Colorsoft models with different prices, displays, battery life, and features.

The RTX 5070 Ti and Radeon RX 9070 XT are closely matched in 2026, but pricing, ray tracing, AI features, and efficiency separate them.

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ChatGPT Pro 500 adds Astra Ultrafast and more included usage, but whether it’s worth $300 more depends on how heavily you use Work and Codex.

Codex and Claude Code split the latest coding-agent benchmarks on performance, cost, speed, and deployment controls.