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I like Instagram as much as the next guy. I check in daily on my carefully curated feed of folks I follow and then work hard not to doomscroll the day away. One of my favorite follows is an adorable Corgi (aren’t they all adorable?) named Parsnip. ...

A report by cloud security company Tenable discovered that 74% of companies surveyed had exposed storage or other misconfigurations. This is a dangerous open door to cybercriminals. Overall, cloud security is getting worse. The availability and qualit...

LLVM's modern Fortran compiler "flang-new" has now been renamed to "flang" for next year's LLVM 20 update...

You’re not alone. Windows 11 24H2 is causing some PCs to crash with BSOD (critical process has died). I’m told Microsoft is aware of this and is planning to pause this year’s biggest upgrade on certain configurations. Reliable sources have inform...

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Technical Alpha is a massive internet bandwidth hog, with users claiming it gobbles up to 300Mbps or almost 132 GB per hour. Some unofficial workarounds are available. Read more...

Call of Duty has partnered with Corsair-owned brands to create the ultimate Black Ops 6 gaming setup, complete with a custom BO6 Stream Deck, Wave 3 microphone, SCUF controller, and more.

Sebastien Bubeck, VP of GenAI research at Microsoft, departs for OpenAI to further his work on AGI, highlighting the fierce competition for AI talent in the industry. Read more...

Solus 4.6 is out as the newest version of this popular desktop Linux distribution that is known for its default Budgie desktop while also shipping with other desktop options...

Intel engineers have released the oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library "oneDNN" version 3.6 release that serves as the building blocks for deep learning software like ONNX Runtime, OpenVINO, Apache MXNet, Apache SIGNA, and optionally by PyTorch and Tenso...

It's been a while since we have seen anything new to report on Unvanquished as one of the few remaining and promising open-source game projects. The Unvanquished FPS/RTS game has been in development for 12 years now and built atop the Daemon engine tha...

While ARM-based SoCs with Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) aren't too common, there do exist some such as select models of the Huawei Kunpeng server SoC with SMT or there HiSilicon Kirin 9000S. As such Huawei/HiSilicon engineers have been working to ...

Microsoft has acknowledged the undeletable 8.63 GB Windows 11 24H2 upgrade data bug. It has explained what is actually going on. Read more...

The OpenBSD project has released LibreSSL 4.0 as the newest version of this open-source TLS implementation that was forked from OpenSSL a decade ago...

It appears that YouTube Music is gradually rolling out the option to let users upload a custom image for playlists. Read more...

The second Next.js 15 Release Candidate (RC) is now available. This version allows you to test the latest features before the upcoming stable release.

WordPress 6.7 Beta 3 is now ready for testing! This beta version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it is recommended you ev...

The mighty Falcon Heavy flew for an 11th time, carrying NASA's flagship Europa Clipper mission towards Jupiter's moon. This is only the second mission on which the rocket was fully expended. Read more...

Microsoft is adding another offline feature to the New Outlook for Windows with an email sync feature, thus further improving the offline mode. Read more...

Passkeys were introduced two years ago, and they replace traditional passwords with more secure authentication using a security key or biometrics. To make the technology even better, the FIDO Alliance published on Monday new specifications for passkeys...