You are no longer buying games on Steam, you are buying licenses
Steam made a small change to its shopping experience to warn that users buy licenses, not actual games. Read more...
2024-10-11 09:54
Intel Xe2 Ultra Joiner, GPU Temperature Reporting & Another Arrow Lake ID For Linux 6.13
The drm-xe-next pull request earlier this week began preparing open-source driver support for Intel Xe3 graphics to premiere with Panther Lake processors. That code is beginning to queue for the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle. Today a drm-intel-next pull re...
2024-10-11 09:28
Microsoft confirms black screens and hangs on Windows 11 preview PCs with older Nvidia GPUs
If you have an older Nvidia graphics card, you better stay away from the latest Windows 11 Canary build. Read more...
2024-10-11 09:10
AI is killing cloud sustainability
Sustainability was once a highly touted advantage in public cloud computing. Enterprises and cloud providers flaunted their green initiatives, promoting data centers powered by renewable energy that would reduce carbon footprints. This topic has quiet...
2024-10-11 09:00
Microsoft Edge 131 Dev gets fixes for crashes when playing media and other improvements
If you use Microsoft Edge from the Dev Channel and the browser is crashing when playing media, the latest update will help. Read more...
2024-10-11 08:36
DRM_Log Continues To Be Worked On As New Boot Logger For Kernel Messages
DRM_Log is an effort that continues to be worked on by Jocelyn Falempe at Red Hat as a new boot logger for printing the kernel messages on the screen...
2024-10-11 08:30
TikTok is laying off hundreds of people and replacing their jobs with AI
TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, is laying off hundreds of people and automating their work using AI to increase efficiency. Read more...
2024-10-11 07:48
Ticketmaster to be the first to support upgraded Apple Wallet experience with iOS 18
Ticketmaster is the first company to offer tickets with an upgraded experience introduced to Apple Wallet with iOS 18. Read more...
2024-10-11 06:58
AMD AOCC 5.0 Compiler Released With Zen 5 Support, New Optimizations
With 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" processors now launched, AMD provided a same-day release of their updated AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler "AOCC". This is AMD's downstream version of LLVM/Clang/Flang where they provide optimized AMD processor support with c...
2024-10-11 06:57
Rufus adds Windows 11 24H2 unsupported PC bypass for in-place upgrades, local account fix
The latest release of Rufus brings Windows 11 24H2 bypass for unsupported PCs, a local account-related fix, and more. Read more...
2024-10-11 06:44
AMD Hardware Feedback Interface "HFI" Driver Updated For Heterogeneous CPUs
Back in August I wrote about AMD beginning work on a new Linux driver to help with heterogeneous core CPUs. On Thursday a second iteration of the AMD HFI Linux driver patches were posted with this driver continuing to work its way toward the mainline k...
2024-10-11 06:40
Nouveau With NVK Vulkan Driver Running More Games, Increasing Feature Set
Collabora's Faith Ekstrand provided a status update yesterday at XDC 2024 Montreal around the state of the Nouveau kernel driver with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver as a means of open-source Vulkan API support on NVIDIA GPUs...
2024-10-11 06:30
Google Contacts may make saving contacts to another account a bit tedious
Google Contacts could remove a feature that lets you easily choose the account where you want to save newly added contacts. Read more...
2024-10-11 06:28
AMD Announces Commitment To "Open Security Technologies"
After the AMD Advancing AI Event yesterday where they launched AMD 5th Gen EPYC processors, Instinct product updates, and new high-end networking gear, they also put out a blog post to affirm their "commitment to open security technologies in the data ...
2024-10-11 06:15
YouTube rolls out a new channel side menu for Android TV
YouTube for Android TV has tweaked the channel side menu, which now obscures less of the video you are watching. Read more...
2024-10-11 06:12
Apple once again cuts interest rate for Apple Card Savings Account
After cutting interest rates for the Apple Card Savings Account last month, Apple and Goldman Sachs are cutting interest rates again. Customers were notified of the change on Thursday night, and it will take effect on Friday, October 11. moreā€¦
2024-10-11 01:49
Ticketmaster announces support for richer event tickets in Apple Wallet with iOS 18
With iOS 18, the Apple Wallet app has gained support for richer event tickets, which provide more details with useful information about the event. As iOS 18 is now available to the public, Ticketmaster announced on Thursday that it will soon be rolling...
2024-10-11 00:51
A year later, Meta is yet to launch the promised WhatsApp for iPad
Meta last year confirmed its plans to finally release an iPad-specific version of WhatsApp right after launching a macOS app rebuilt from scratch. A beta version of the iPad app was released in late September, but a year later, WhatsApp for is still a ...
2024-10-11 00:28
Microsoft says the Xbox Android app will add direct game purchases and playtime in November
Microsoft has announced that beginning in November, the official Xbox Android app will start supporting both direct game purchases as well as playing those games. Read more...
2024-10-11 00:00