It’s time for Apple to rethink its iCloud storage tiers
Apple introduced iCloud back in June 2011, and since then, the free tier of iCloud has remained at 5GB. However, I’m not here to talk about that today. While 5GB of free iCloud is definitely too little for our needs nearly a decade and a half later, ...
2025-01-26 14:49
A version of Snake only playable with a microscope has been made — Meet Subpixel Snake
A developer created a version of Snake that relies on animations at the sub-pixel level.
2025-01-26 14:15
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White House negotiating for Oracle to take control of TikTok, allowing the app to be unbanned
As of now, the Chinese-based TikTok app remains unavailable in the United States App Store on iPhone, as the company failed to sell itself to a US owner, before last week’s ban came into effect. However, there is apparently ongoing negotiations to ge...
2025-01-26 14:13
SiFive HiFive Premier P550 Review: High RISC
Touted as ‘The Highest Performance RISC-V CPU Development Board in the World’, the HiFive Premier P550 aims to be the development board of choice for RISC developers.
2025-01-26 14:00
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HiFive Premier P550 Review: High RISC
Touted as ‘The Highest Performance RISC-V CPU Development Board in the World’, the HiFive Premier P550 aims to be the development board of choice for RISC developers.
2025-01-26 14:00
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MSI MAG B860 Tomahawk Wifi Motherboard Review: A more affordable Z890 alternative
Sub $230 board offers big value compared to Z890, but not against its peers.
2025-01-26 14:00
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4TB WD_BLACK SN850P NVMe SSD for PS5 is selling at a great price
The 4TB WD_BLACK SN850P NVMe SSD with heatsink, designed specifically for the PlayStation 5, is now available at a competitive price, making it a smart choice for expanding your console's storage. Read more...
2025-01-26 13:30
MSI Afterburner 4.6.6 Beta 5 adds Nvidia RTX 50 plus initial Arrow Lake and Zen 5 support
MSI Afterburner now supports Nvidia's latest RTX 50 GPUs and adds quad-fan control functionality.
2025-01-26 13:30
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Microsoft experiments with ‘Drag Tray’ — share menu appears when dragging a file in Windows 11
Microsoft added a 'Drag Tray' to a Windows 11 Insider Preview to make it easier to share files from the File Explorer.
2025-01-26 13:00
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MSI optimizes affordable Intel 800 mobos for China's first homegrown DDR5 memory chips
MSI recently launch several B860 motherboards with BIOS optimized for CXMT DDR5 memory.
2025-01-26 12:21
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Varia Download Manager Adds yt-dlp Support
A new version of the Varia download manager was released at the weekend – an update described by its developers as probably the “biggest since the first release”. I’ve written about Varia before and, as I said then, I appreciate that the idea o...
2025-01-26 12:21
AMD FSR 3.1 game titles 'should just work' with FSR 4 drop-in DLL file replacement hints leaker
AMD FSR 4 retroactive support for FSR 3.1 titles is confirmed and explained.
2025-01-26 11:44
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Microsoft Weekly: new features for Windows 10, improvements for Windows 11, and more
Interesting new features for Windows 10, much-needed improvements for Windows 11, and more in this week's Microsoft Weekly news recap. Read more...
2025-01-26 11:10
Hashtag Jakarta EE #265
Hashtag Jakarta EE #265 Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-five of Hashtag Jakarta EE! Here’s some good news! The Jakarta NoSQL project is ready to release version 1.0 of the specification. At the moment, they are putting together the las...
2025-01-26 10:59
AMD Squeezes In More RDNA4 Changes For Linux 6.14 - Enables Cleaner Shader On GFX12
While the main feature pull of new and updated kernel graphics/accelerator drivers were merged already for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window, an additional set of AMDGPU changes were sent out this week for squeezing into this next kernel release...
2025-01-26 10:25
Microsoft is once again reportedly involved in talks to buy TikTok, with Oracle leading
Social media titan TikTok is under pressure to sell its operations, owing to laws passed by U.S. Congress. Could Microsoft swoop in?
2025-01-26 08:11
Linux Patches Allow Sharing PTEs Between Processes - Can Mean Significant RAM Savings
A set of patches being worked on by Oracle engineers allow for optionally sharing page table entries (PTEs) between processes. For some workloads this can equate to very significant memory savings...
2025-01-26 07:10
Mesa 25.0 Gets A New Vulkan Layer For Limiting The Amount Of Reported vRAM
A half-year-old merge request from Igalia's Karmjit Mahil has been merged for Mesa 25.0 that is a Vulkan layer allowing for optionally limiting the amount of video memory reported to games/applications...
2025-01-26 06:49
New Sound Hardware Supported By The Linux 6.14 Kernel
Merged this week for the Linux 6.14 kernel were the various sound/audio driver updates. In addition to core API enhancements for better supporting the MIDI 2.0 specification, there is also support for some new audio hardware...
2025-01-26 06:40
Linux 6.14 Adds ROCEv2 Support For The Alibaba Cloud
The RDMA subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel with a light set of changes overall and the most significant being support for the ROCEv2 protocol within the ERDMA driver...
2025-01-26 06:21