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Is the Camera Control button one of the biggest iPhone flops? [Poll]
A random report from an account with zero track-record for anything claims that the iPhone 18 will drop the Camera Control button as too few people are using it. The claim is entirely meaningless, but I strongly suspect that it’s right in one respect...
2025-08-19 12:17
AI arrives in SharePoint Pages with a new tool that creates content for you
Microsoft has announced the upcoming launch of Sections with AI for SharePoint. It can generate sections for users based on meeting transcripts and documents. Here is when it'll be available. Read more...
2025-08-19 12:14
iPhone 17 Pro case line may have new leather alternative after flawed FineWoven
It’s been a while since Apple dropped leather and replaced it with FineWoven — only to mostly drop FineWoven over customer feedback. Now leaker Majin Bu says Apple has yet another leather alternative ready to go for the iPhone 17 case lineup. more…
2025-08-19 12:12
Pinned Device Memory Patches For Intel's Multi-GPU "Project Battlematrix" Linux Efforts
As part of Intel's ongoing Project Battlematrix efforts that include SR-IOV support for Arc Pro cards as well as multi-device (multi-GPU) support for allowing up to eight Intel Arc Pro graphics cards in a single system, today Intel engineers posted the...
2025-08-19 12:12
PyPI Blocks 1,800 Expired-Domain Emails to Prevent Account Takeovers and Supply Chain Attacks
The maintainers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository have announced that the package manager now checks for expired domains to prevent supply chain attacks. "These changes improve PyPI's overall account security posture, making it harder for a...
2025-08-19 12:06
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Arm hires Amazon's AI chip developer, ostensibly to help create its own processors — Rami Sinno returns to the company, boasts Trainium and Inferentia on resume
Arm has hired Amazon's director of engineering for Amazon Web Services, who helped develop its homegrown AI hardware. This is part of ARM's drive towards developing its own complete processors, rather than just designing them for third parties.
2025-08-19 11:31
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You NEED to ditch Ollama and use LM Studio for local AI if you have a laptop or mini PC — here's why
I've been playing with Ollama a lot recently, but it lacks in one key area that has sent me back over to trying LM Studio, with great success, and no need for dedicated GPU.
2025-08-19 11:12
Microsoft squashes bug that broke upgrade paths in Windows 10 and Windows Server
Microsoft has patched a problem in various versions of client and server editions of Windows, as it was affecting numerous upgrade paths. Read more...
2025-08-19 11:06
Is Gears of War: Reloaded bringing its 4K visuals and 120 FPS multiplayer to Xbox Game Pass? — Here's what we know
The Coalition's new Gears of War: Reloaded remaster is one of Xbox's biggest games of the summer, but is it on Game Pass? Here's what we know.
2025-08-19 11:02
Apple is finally hitting a long-held goal to reduce its dependence on China
A new report says that Apple will finally hit a long-held goal to reduce its dependence on China with the launch of the iPhone 17. Indian iPhone production has always lagged behind that of China, but all this is now changing – with import tariffs act...
2025-08-19 10:57
Apple @ Work Podcast: Streamlining patch management for macOS
Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & pro...
2025-08-19 10:00
Rusticl vs. AMD ROCm Performance On Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo"
One of the set of tests I have been meaning to carry out for a number of months has been comparing the Mesa Rusticl performance to different dedicated hardware drivers. Rusticl is the Rust-based OpenCL 3.0 driver within Mesa that works across Gallium3D...
2025-08-19 10:00
The successes and challenges of AI agents
AI has changed a lot in just two years. In 2023, most companies were experimenting with large language models. These tools helped with writing, research, and support tasks. They were smart, but they waited for instructions and could not take action on...
2025-08-19 09:00
Hands-on with Nvidia NeMo Retriever
Nvidia was founded by three chip designers (including Jensen Huang, who became CEO) in 1993. By 1997 they had brought a successful high-performance 3D graphics processor to market; two years later the company invented the GPU (graphics processing unit...
2025-08-19 09:00
IBM can’t afford an unreliable cloud
On August 12, 2025, IBM Cloud experienced its fourth major outage since May, resulting in a two-hour service disruption that affected 27 services globally across 10 regions. This “Severity 1” event left enterprise customers locked out of critic...
2025-08-19 09:00
Retrieval-augmented generation with Nvidia NeMo Retriever
Nvidia was founded by three chip designers (including Jensen Huang, who became CEO) in 1993. By 1997 they had brought a successful high-performance 3D graphics processor to market; two years later the company invented the GPU (graphics processing unit...
2025-08-19 09:00
Firefox advances privacy for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean users
Mozilla has begun rolling out Chinese, Japanese, and Korean translation support in Firefox. It's privacy-friendly and even works offline. Read more...
2025-08-19 08:28
Mozilla releases Thunderbird 142 with several bug fixes and improvements
Thunderbird 142 is now available for download, introducing minor UI tweaks, improvements, and bug fixes. Read more...
2025-08-19 07:54
Linux Adding Detection For BSD's Bhyve Hypervisor To Support 255+ vCPUs
Bhyve is the BSD hypervisor / virtual machine manager (VMM) developed by FreeBSD that supports a range of operating systems and across CPU vendors. With time Bhyve has also been ported to other BSDs and even Illumos and macOS. The Linux kernel is now i...
2025-08-19 07:52
Microsoft could be working on a cheaper Xbox Cloud Gaming plan
Microsoft is reportedly considering an Xbox Cloud Gaming-only subscription tier that facilitates gamers who don't own an Xbox console at all. Read more...
2025-08-19 07:38