9to5Mac Daily: January 15, 2025 – Face ID technology, more
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2025-01-15 16:38
Here are the 5 best Apple-related announcements I saw at CES 2025
CES 2025 was a whirlwind of a time. It is the only convention in the world where you can see the future of the toothbrush industry right next to a booth all about robot vacuums with robotic arms coming out of them. Everyone brand now has some sort of A...
2025-01-15 16:37
US bans sales of 14nm and 16nm chips with over 30 billion transistors to China
U.S. government wants to prohibit shipments of all advanced chips with over 30 billion transistors to China to everyone except approved companies .
2025-01-15 16:28
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Nvidia Blackwell for creators and professionals — upgrades for editing video, images, audio, and more
The Nvidia Blackwell RTX 50-series has a lot to offer gamers, but it's also great for creators and professionals. Here's a look at some of the new features and technologies that are coming to RTX GPUs.
2025-01-15 16:08
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Ubisoft's assets may be broken up as founders seek deal with major Chinese publisher
Ubisoft's founding family is seeking a deal with Tencent that could see the company's assets split across a new venture.
2025-01-15 16:04
Suited ‘Silo’ character attends NBA game ahead of season 2 finale on Apple TV+
Yesterday, Apple TV+ had a fun marketing pop-up at Grand Central Terminal to celebrate Severance’s return. It turns out, Silo had its own unique marketing appearance too as a way to mark the coming season 2 finale. more…
2025-01-15 16:01
How we built the GitHub Skyline CLI extension using GitHub
GitHub uses GitHub to build GitHub, and our CLI extensions are no exception. Read on to find out how we built the GitHub Skyline CLI extension using GitHub! The post How we built the GitHub Skyline CLI extension using GitHub appeared first on The GitHu...
2025-01-15 16:00
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Microsoft will also stop supporting Office applications on Windows 10 after October 14
It seems we’re getting a glimpse at the next stick Microsoft will be using to push people to buy new PCs (we’re all rich, according to Microsoft) or upgrade to Windows 11. In a blog post extolling the virtues of a free upgrade from Windows 10 to 11...
2025-01-15 15:30
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Raspberry Pi powers this Meshtastic network BBS
VeggieVampire has put together some games you can play on a Raspberry Pi Meshtastic network bulletin board system (BBS).
2025-01-15 15:18
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Nvidia admits RTX 5070 nowhere near 4090 performance without DLSS "fake" frames
Nvidia has admitted that the RTX 5070 is nowhere close to the RTX 4090's performance when not using "fake" AI generated frames. Read more...
2025-01-15 15:18
Nvidia RTX AI PCs and generative AI for games — how the Blackwell GPUs and RTX 50-series aim to change the way we work and play
AI and related technologies are powering a host of new games and applications. During its Editors' Day, Nvidia showed demos of various upcoming titles, many of which will have enhancements for Blackwell RTX 50-series GPUs.
2025-01-15 15:18
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Tim Cook talks his nontraditional retirement plan, daily routine, more in new interview
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently visited the UK just before Christmas, where he met King Charles III. While there, Cook also sat down for a podcast interview that was just published—here’s what he shared about his daily and weekly routines, nontradition...
2025-01-15 15:17
Microsoft confirms January 2025 Windows updates fail to install on PCs with certain software
The recently released Patch Tuesday updates for Windows 10 and 11 should land without issues on your system unless you have this specific software installed. In that case, beware. Read more...
2025-01-15 15:16
AMD silently introduces the Ryzen 5 7400F based on Raphael — Six Zen 4 cores, a boost clock of 4.7 GHz, and global availability
AMD has quitely launched the six-core Ryzen 5 7400F, that should stand as the most affordable Ryzen 7000 Raphael CPU.
2025-01-15 15:15
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Nepenthes: a dangerous tarpit to trap LLM crawlers
If you don’t want OpenAI’s, Apple’s, Google’s, or other companies’ crawlers sucking up the content on your website, there isn’t much you can do. They generally don’t care about the venerable robots.txt, and while people like Aaron Schwart...
2025-01-15 15:13
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WhatsApp adds new camera effects, stickers, and faster reactions
WhatsApp has announced four improvements to the app, including making it faster and easier for you to react to messages with your most-used emoji. Parent company Meta says it wanted to start the new year by making the app more fun and easier to use, wi...
2025-01-15 15:01
Intel THC Drivers To Be Submitted For Linux 6.14
The upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is poised to introduce support for Intel THC... The Touch Host Controller IP block found in the PCH of modern Intel laptops for dealing with touchscreen, touchpads, and similar functionality...
2025-01-15 14:49
Microsoft releases 161 Windows security updates
Speaking of Microsoft shipping bad code, how about an absolutely humongous ‘patch Tuesday’? Microsoft today unleashed updates to plug a whopping 161 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, including three “zero-day” weaknesses...
2025-01-15 14:38
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Tim Cook invites you to donate to the Red Cross to assist LA wildfire recovery
Apple recently made a donation to assist with LA wildfire recovery efforts, and is now inviting customers to do the same. Those based in the US can make a donation to the American Red Cross’s Southern California Wildfires Relief fund though the App S...
2025-01-15 14:31
Meta outage reports spike as Instagram, Facebook, Threads affected
Several Meta properties including Facebook are reportedly down for users within the last few minutes. Downdetector shows a spike of more than 10,000 reports and climbing for Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. more…
2025-01-15 14:30