Bisecting The Linux 6.14 Performance Regression With System76 Thelio + AMD Threadripper
Yesterday I showcased Linux 6.14 Git performance worse than Linux 6.13 and 6.12 in a number of multi-threaded workloads. Due to that initial discover being on the lone AMD EPYC Turin 2P server that is always busy running through new benchmarks for futu...
2025-02-05 16:30
Navigating the Future: Key IT Vulnerability Management Trends 
As the cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve, proactive vulnerability management has become a critical priority for managed service providers (MSPs) and IT teams. Recent trends indicate that organizations increasingly prioritize more frequent IT ...
2025-02-05 16:30
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Here are five Apple Invites features you might have missed
Apple Invites is a brand new iPhone app that just launched yesterday. After a day of testing it out, here are five features in the Invites app that you might have missed. more…
2025-02-05 16:20
Hardware leaker claims RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti GPUs will use 8-pin power connectors
A leaker claims Nvidia's RTX 5060-class GPUs will use the same power connectors as the 4060-class GPUs, despite requiring 100 watts more in the PSU department. Grains of salt sprinkled liberally, as the 4060 Ti Founders Edition used a 16-pin connector.
2025-02-05 15:35
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Is 2025 the year of quantum computing?
The year was 1900 and Max Planck was a young physicist working on the problem of blackbody radiation. This was an intense area of research because the experimental data—the radiation emitted by different types of matter as they were heated—disagr...
2025-02-05 15:35
Raspberry Pi Pico Spacewar controller brings vintage space combat to the 21st century
Tominator2000 has created Raspberry Pi Pico-powered controllers that can be used to emulate the Spacewar! combat game originally designed back in 1962.
2025-02-05 15:29
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Hugging Face makes big progress on open-source Deep Research rival
Hugging Face has shared progress on Open Deep Research, which aims to replicate the functionality of ChatGPT's new Deep Research feature. It's also going to make an open-source Operator rival. Read more...
2025-02-05 15:22
AsyncRAT Campaign Uses Python Payloads and TryCloudflare Tunnels for Stealth Attacks
A malware campaign has been observed delivering a remote access trojan (RAT) named AsyncRAT by making use of Python payloads and TryCloudflare tunnels. "AsyncRAT is a remote access trojan (RAT) that exploits the async/await pattern for efficient, async...
2025-02-05 15:10
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Microsoft just confirmed the dates for Build 2025 — expect a heavy dose of AI
Microsoft will hold its developer-focused Build conference from May 19 to May 2022 in Seattle, Washington.
2025-02-05 15:09
UnixWare in 2025: still actively developed and maintained
It kind of goes by under the radar, but aside from HP-UX, Solaris, and AIX, there’s another traditional classic UNIX still in active development today: UnixWare (and its sibling, OpenServer). Owned and developed by Xinuos, UnixWare and other related ...
2025-02-05 15:06
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Moore Threads GPUs allegedly show 'excellent' inference performance with DeepSeek models
VMoore Threads deploys DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B distilled model on its MTT S80 and MTT S4000 graphics cards, confirms that the GPUs can run CUDA code.
2025-02-05 15:03
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I’m typing this on the world’s largest keyboard, a 178-key best designed to make you more productive
The Hyper7 R4 is a macro lover’s dream, but its unique layout poses challenges.
2025-02-05 14:58
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I’m typing this on the world’s largest keyboard, a 178-key beast designed to make you more productive
The Hyper7 R4 is a macro lover’s dream, but its unique layout poses challenges.
2025-02-05 14:58
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Disney teases ESPN streaming service with new details, ‘early fall’ launch
Disney has long been planning to launch a new flagship ESPN streaming service—separate from the existing ESPN+ streamer—and its fall launch is fast approaching. Today during Disney’s quarterly earnings report, CEO Bob Iger teased what to expect f...
2025-02-05 14:48
MaXX Interactive Desktop 2.2.0 released
Late last year, the MaXX Interactive Desktop, the Linux (and BSD) version of the IRIX desktop, sprung back to life with a new release and a detailed roadmap. Thanks to a unique licensing agreement with SGI, MaXX’ developer, Eric Masson, has been able...
2025-02-05 14:43
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AMD's "early March" RDNA 4 GPU launch is confirmed, and it could make or break the company's struggling PC gaming division
Revealed in an earnings call, AMD's gaming branch is losing money fast. That should change when it launches new RDNA 4 GPUs, now confirmed for "early March."
2025-02-05 14:40
macOS 15.3 fixes backup bugs affecting multiple apps
Update: SuperDuper developer Dave Nanian reports that Apple has fixed the issue in macOS 15.3. One or more backup bugs in macOS 15.2 Sequoia is affecting Apple’s own Time Machine utility, as well as third-party apps SuperDuper and CarbonCopyCloner. I...
2025-02-05 14:05
NVIDIA Engineer Talks Up sched_ext Linux Scheduler Possibilities At FOSDEM
Merged last year for the Linux 6.12 kernel was sched_ext for allowing extensible scheduler possibilities by allowing schedulers to be implemented as eBPF code and dynamically loaded into the kernel. This allows for rapidly developing new schedulers as ...
2025-02-05 14:00
Mac malware after your passwords and credit cards will get much worse this year
So-called macOS Stealers – malware that seeks to extract personal data like passwords and credit card numbers from your machine – is expected to be significantly more prevalent this year. A new annual report on the state of malware says that Mac ow...
2025-02-05 13:58