Windows 9x QuickInstall simplifies installing Windows 98
If you’re elbow-deep in ’90s retrocomputing and maintain a fleet of your own personal seemingly identical but definitely completely different Windows 98 machines, Windows 9x QuickInstall is tailor-made just for you. It takes the root file system of...
Amazon’s new ‘Buy for me’ feature is a wild AI innovation
Back in February, Amazon announced an interesting new test that would show you products from other retailers’ sites. Now, the company is taking things even further: Amazon’s new “Buy for me” feature can use agentic AI to actually make purchases...
Rust language adds trait upcasting
The Rust team has announced Rust 1.86, an update of the language that now features trait upcasting, or the ability to upcast trait objects. Rust 1.86 was announced April 3. For users with a previous version of Rust, the update can be accessed via the ...
iOS 18.4 features, AI Health service rumors, Apple Card drama
Benjamin and Chance start with a catch-up on changes to Friday Night Baseball, before diving into the software updates of the week, with the launch of iOS 18.4 and the first iOS 18.5 beta launching. Also, thoughts on Apple’s rumored AI Health service...
Hyperlight Wasm points to the future of serverless
Back when I first wrote about Hyperlight, Microsoft’s minimal hypervisor, I speculated that it had a possible role as a WebAssembly-based alternative to serverless computing tools like Azure Functions, using Kubernetes as a host. So it wasn’t too ...
These new Apple Arcade games will fill you with nostalgia
As someone who grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s, I played a ton of simulation games on my computer. Games like The Sims, Age of Mythology, and Roller Coaster Tycoon are synonymous with my childhood. So when I saw that Apple was bringing the orig...
