AMD Ryzen Z2 Series specs leak, alongside the Steam Deck 2? ASUS ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, and apparently Valve itself are on board. (UPDATE)
The AMD Ryzen Z2 series has leaked early, after months of speculation. How does it stack up in practice? We likely won't know until ASUS, Lenovo, and ... Valve (?) release their new devices.
2025-01-06 12:27
Microsoft Rewards on Xbox gets an overhaul, adds Quests to PC Game Pass
Microsoft is changing up its Rewards program on Xbox platforms this week to offer more ways to earn points. Only players who are 18 years or older can participate now though. Read more...
2025-01-06 12:12
Here are three changes we can expect in the iPhone 17 casing
A pair of reports suggest we can expect to see three changes to the materials Apple uses in the casing of at least some iPhone 17 models. The latest of these concerns the way that the sides of the phone blend in with the rear casing, with a smoother tr...
2025-01-06 12:11
Intel Battlemage and Arc B-series GPUs: Specifications, release dates, pricing, and everything we know
Intel officially announced its first two budget-mainstream Battlemage GPUs, the Arc B580 and Arc B570, but they're only the first salvo. The new architecture offers performance and efficiency improvements that should give Nvidia some much-needed compet...
2025-01-06 12:00
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Qualcomm Bringing Snapdragon X Series To Mini PCs For As Little As ~$600 USD
Following last year's launch of Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops, Qualcomm is using CES 2025 this week in Las Vegas for promoting the Snapdragon X Series for mini desktop form factor PCs. But the Linux support and performance out of these forthco...
2025-01-06 11:33
Samsung and LG TVs are set to get Microsoft Copilot AI, but it's going to just be a link to the website again
Microsoft Copilot is coming to your TV. Or at least, the web app is. Dual press releases from LG and Samsung detail how the firms are leaning into the AI hype.
2025-01-06 11:32
Vitalik Buterin proposes a "global soft pause button" to cut AI computing power by 90-99% for 1-2 years — giving ample time to prepare for potential existential doom
Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum co-founder proposes a "global soft pause button" on global hardware to prevent AI from causing existential doom.
2025-01-06 11:04
Firefox 134 Available With Experimental HTML "autocorrect" Attribute
Mozilla has published the Firefox 134.0 release binaries today ahead of their official release tomorrow. This first Firefox update of 2025 brings a few new features to Linux users and those on other platforms...
2025-01-06 11:04
Linux-powered handheld computer connects to Raspberry Pi HATs, snap-on modules
The Mecha Comet is made for hackers and makers, running Debian with a custom touch UI and lots of upgradeability.
2025-01-06 11:00
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Microsoft doubles down on its AI efforts with a massive $80 billion investment in data centers — amid insider concerns most Copilot AI tools are seemingly "gimmicky"
Microsoft is set to double down on its generative artificial intelligence efforts in 2025 following the company's Vice Chair and President, Brad Smith's recent announcement of the tech giant's plans to invest up to $80 billion in building data centers.
2025-01-06 10:56
Sam Altman and OpenAI are now looking toward artificial superintelligence
Sam Altman has stated that OpenAI is now looking to the future and aiming beyond AI to superintelligence or ASI. He also said the firm knows how to reach AGI. Read more...
2025-01-06 10:40
Get this Acer Nitro 24.5" 1080p 280 Hz gaming monitor with AMD FreeSync Premium, HDR10
The Acer Nitro 24.5" gaming monitor with 280 Hz refresh rate is now at its lowest price of $139.99, down from $199.99. Read more...
2025-01-06 10:24
NVIDIA Working On "-flto-partition=locality" GCC Option To Boost Performance For Some CPU Workloads
NVIDIA compiler engineers have spent the past several months working on a proposed GCC option -flto-partition=locality for having the compiler optimize the code layout for locality between callees and callers as part of the link-time optimization (LTO)...
2025-01-06 10:05
Intel Announces Core Ultra 200H / Core Ultra 200HX Series
Intel used the start of CES 2025 for announcing the newest Arrow Lake processors for the Core Ultra 200H and Core Utra 200HX mobile processors...
2025-01-06 09:10
Device Mapper Atomic Write Support Patches Posted
Along with other recent Linux kernel patches around atomic write support, a set of Device Mapper (DM) patches were posted today for implementing said functionality...
2025-01-06 09:01
My robot teacher: The challenge of AI in computer science education
Over the past two years, generative AI has been a force for transformation—and disruption—everywhere it’s landed. Education was no exception; if anything, schools were among the first institutions to grapple with AI’s implications. As students...
2025-01-06 09:00
3 forecasts about time-series forecasting
Over the last year, we’ve seen an explosion in innovation in time-series forecasting. Along with new statistical models, transformer-based approaches have allowed for the creation of zero-shot foundation models from well-known organizations such as ...
2025-01-06 09:00
Someone needs to make AI easy
2024 was a year filled with AI possibilities; 2025 needs to turn those possibilities into realities. For that, we need the cloud companies to stop churning out “primitives” such as large language models (LLMs) and instead give developers solutions...
2025-01-06 09:00
Open-source app brings Apple Intelligence to Windows 11
Apple Intelligence is now available with the latest OS update on supported devices. It brings new AI features such as Writing Tools, Image Playground, and Genmoji while improving existing apps like Mail and Siri on Apple silicon-powered devices. Out of...
2025-01-06 07:56
Open-source app brings Apple Intelligence Writing Tools to Windows 11
Apple Intelligence is available on macOS. It brings new AI features such as Writing Tools, Image Playground, and Genmoji. While Apple Intelligence isn’t that great, one of the good features is “Writing Tools”. Now, a new open-source tool has recr...
2025-01-06 07:56