OBSCURE#BAT Malware Uses Fake CAPTCHA Pages to Deploy Rootkit r77 and Evade Detection
A new malware campaign has been observed leveraging social engineering tactics to deliver an open-source rootkit called r77. The activity, condemned OBSCURE#BAT by Securonix, enables threat actors to establish persistence and evade detection on comprom...
2025-03-14 11:07
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AMD's Radeon VP calls RX 9070 XT demand 'unprecedented' — RDNA 4 launch 'milestone event'
AMD VP and GM David McAfee called the demand for RX 9070 and 9070 XT GPUs "unprecedented" on a podcast appearance with Hot Hardware this week.
2025-03-14 10:43
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Windows package manager UniGetUI gets even more snappy thanks to new Settings UI
The popular WingetUI Windows package managing utility, now called, UniGetUI, has received its latest update, and it is now even snappier. Read more...
2025-03-14 10:34
NVIDIA's RTX Remix update is a dream for classic video game enthusiasts and it could be the best reason to invest in 50-Series hardware
Some of my favorite old games look awful in 2025, but RTX Remix can change that. If you're a lifelong PC gamer, this might be the reason to buy an RTX 5000 GPU.
2025-03-14 10:18
GCC 15 Deprecates Support For The ESA/390 Architecture
In addition to the COBOL language front-end being merged this week for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler release, another notable change also landed this week... Deprecating ESA/390 architecture support in preparation for its eventual removal...
2025-03-14 10:15
Obsidian drafts its post-launch plans for Avowed alongside patch notes: "Our team is committed to ongoing support, and we’re always looking for ways to improve"
The Avowed team from Obsidian Entertainment have confirmed the game will continue to receive post-launch support, with a detailed roadmap coming soon.
2025-03-14 10:04
Arm Shows Off Great Performance Results For PGO & BOLT With LLVM/Clang
Arm software engineer Peter Waller has shared some insightful benchmarks of the impact of PGO, Context Sensitive PGO (CSPGO), and BOLT optimizations across various classes of Neoverse processor designs...
2025-03-14 10:03
Apple Intelligence could be "vaporware" tangled in WWDC's 2024 deceitful concept videos — never to see the light of day
Apple delayed its AI strategy to 2026 with no explanation, and blogger John Gruber shared an interesting account on Apple's AI strategy — and it's rotten.
2025-03-14 09:40
Microsoft dismisses quantum computing skepticism: "There is a century-old scientific process established by the American Physical Society for resolving disputes"
Scientists have expressed concerns about Microsoft's recent quantum computing breakthrough, citing that it lacks important details.
2025-03-14 09:29
End-to-end encrypted RCS messaging on iPhone coming in future software update
In collaboration with the GSM Association, Apple today announced it will add support for the new RCS Universal Profile specification which includes end-to-end encryption for messages sent over the protocol. This brings RCS much closer to iMessage in te...
2025-03-14 09:16
Glibc's Hyperbolic Functions Score Nice Speed-Ups With FMA Optimizations
The GNU C Library's tanh and other hyperbolic functions are now as much as 14~17% faster on modern Intel and AMD CPUs with the FMA instruction support for fused multiply-add operations...
2025-03-14 09:00
What is Llama? Meta AI’s family of large language models explained
Llama, a family of sort-of open-source large language models (LLMs), was introduced in February 2023, and has been updated periodically ever since. Llama shook up the world of LLMs, which had previously been dominated by ever-larger closed-source mode...
2025-03-14 09:00
Microsoft releases Edge 135 Beta with new tab page and address bar improvements
Edge 135 has arrived in the Beta Channel with improvements for the new tab page, address bar, and other parts of the browser. Read more...
2025-03-14 08:48
Google rolls out Android 16 Beta 3, here's what's new
Google recently released Android 16 Beta 3, marking Platform Stability as we move closer to the major release later this year. Read more...
2025-03-14 08:00
Mesa RADV/RadeonSI Now Support RDNA4 GPUs With Radeon GPU Profiler
Landing in Mesa 25.1 today for the RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI OpenGL drivers is Radeon GPU Profiler "RGP" integration for RDNA4/GFX12 GPUs with the newly-launched Radeon RX 9070 series...
2025-03-14 07:05
Apple could bring live translation to AirPods later this year
Apple is reportedly gearing up to add the in-person live translation feature to AirPods later this year. Read more...
2025-03-14 07:00
Free95 0.2 Alpha Released As Open-Source Windows Compatible OS
While ReactOS is widely known as the open-source operating system working on maintaining software and driver compatibility with Microsoft Windows, there's another new one in the field and it's Free95. The Free95 project is working to become an open-sou...
2025-03-14 06:40
IGT GPU Tools 2.0 Released For Helping To Develop DRM Drivers
IGT GPU Tools began as a set of tools by Intel for working on their Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver but with time has been broadened by the open-source community to support non-Intel drivers/hardware. IGT GPU Tools 2.0 was released o...
2025-03-14 06:22
Google expands Gemini with improved AI, Deep Research, and personalization
Google has enhanced Gemini with a faster, more efficient 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental model, improving Deep Research capabilities and adding personalization features. Read more...
2025-03-14 06:08
Java hiring plans slip, survey says
Slightly more than half of Java shops surveyed (51%) have plans to add more Java developers in the coming year, down from 60% in 2024, according to a report by Perforce, a provider of Java development and devops tools. And while 34% plan to increase t...
2025-03-14 02:51