Astera Labs IPO will reveal how much investors want in on AI

Image Credits: sl-f / Getty Images While the technology world breathlessly awaits Reddit’s public debut, another company you might never have heard of is about to go public: Astera Labs. And it may be a more important test of investors’ returning appetite for tech IPOs. Astera this week announced in a public filing that itsRead More

With China saturated, Lenovo focuses on foreign markets for smartphone growth

China may be the biggest smartphone market in the world, but according to Lenovo, the boom days are over. “But now the China market is not hyper-growing any longer,” said Lenovo’s CEO Yang Yuanqing on Thursday. “It has been saturated. If you want to win you have to find new growth areas.” Lenovo’s CEO madeRead More

Alienware Alpha Review: A shockingly good tiny PC and console complement

Image: Gordon Mah Ung At a Glance Expert’s Rating Pros Surprisingly quiet under gaming loadsIt’s amazingly well price for the size and gaming performance you get. Cons Still not the perfect PC game console experienceCould use a slightly higher performance GPU. Our Verdict Alienware’s Alpha isn’t the console killer people hoped it would be butRead More

Complaints mount about Apple's OS X Yosemite crippling Wi-Fi

Complaints that Mac OS X Yosemite disrupts or entirely disables Wi-Fi have been flowing into social media sites and discussion forums since the release of the OS last Thursday, but Apple has yet to acknowledge there’s a problem. There are multiple active threads on the topic in the official Apple Support forum, as well asRead More

12 sites that can replace your desktop software: Read about that and more in PCWorld's October Digital Edition

The onslaught of tech information is relentless. Stay on top of the latest with PCWorld’s Digital Edition. Available as single copies or as a yearlong subscription, it highlights the best content from PCWorld.com—the most important news, the key product reviews, and the most useful features and how-to stories—in a curated Enhanced Edition for Android, iOS,Read More

Gather similar files from multiple folders and copy them in one simple step

Image: Microsoft Ka3ebe asked the Utilities forum for a way to copy all of the .txt or .jpg files on a computer to a particular folder. I’ve got two ways to do this. One uses familiar, Windows-based drag and drop methods. The other harkens back to the dark days of DOS, but it still works inRead More

Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI hallucinations are solvable, artificial general intelligence is 5 years away

Image Credits: Haje Jan Kamps (opens in a new window) Artificial general intelligence (AGI) — often referred to as “strong AI,” “full AI,” “human-level AI” or “general intelligent action” — represents a significant future leap in the field of artificial intelligence. Unlike narrow AI, which is tailored for specific tasks, such as detecting product flaws,Read More

Pokémon resets some users' passwords after hacking attempts

Image Credits: The Pokémon Company The Pokémon Company said it detected hacking attempts against some of its users and reset those user account passwords. Last week, an alert was visible on Pokémon’s official support website that said, “Following an attempt to compromise our account system, Pokémon proactively locked the accounts of fans who might haveRead More

Russian man pleads guilty in SpyEye malware case

Russian Aleksandr Andreevich Panin has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud for his role as primary developer and distributor of the SpyEye bank fraud Trojan, the U.S. Department of Justice said last week. Panin, known as Gribodemon and Harderman, was primary developer of SpyEye, a sophisticated, malicious computer Trojan designed toRead More