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Scheduled Threads posts now available to all; highlight and markup for some
Scheduled Threads posts are now available to all, after the company first began rolling it out to a small number of users last month. Additionally, users in a few countries can now highlight and annotate parts of other people’s posts when sharing the...
2025-01-24 13:14
Vulkan 1.4.306 Published With Two More Extensions
Vulkan 1.4.306 was published this morning as the newest routine specification update to this graphics/compute API...
2025-01-24 13:10
First look: Acer's new ginormous 11-inch gaming handheld PC dwarfs Steam Deck, ASUS and more
The Acer Nitro Blaze 11 has a 10.9-inch display and looks massive beside the next largest PC gaming handheld on the market.
2025-01-24 13:00
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei claims AI could surpass "almost all humans at almost everything," even robotics, within 3 years — dismisses AGI as a "marketing term"
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei claims that generative AI could surpass human cognitive capabilities "in almost everything," even robotics, within 2-3 years.
2025-01-24 13:00
Acer Nitro Blaze 11 is Godzilla-sized — Here's how massive it is next to other gaming handhelds
The Acer Nitro Blaze 11 has a 10.9-inch display and looks massive beside the next largest PC gaming handheld on the market.
2025-01-24 13:00
How to change default save location for screenshots on Windows 11
On Windows 11, you can change the location to save screenshots to another folder or drive, and in this guide, I will explain how.
2025-01-24 13:00
Android's New Identity Check Feature Locks Device Settings Outside Trusted Locations
Google has launched a new feature called Identity Check for supported Android devices that locks sensitive settings behind biometric authentication when outside of trusted locations. "When you turn on Identity Check, your device will require explicit b...
2025-01-24 12:50
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Samsung Galaxy S25 copied more than a dozen iPhone features, says Macworld
The newly-launched Samsung Galaxy S25 copied more than a dozen iPhone features, argues Macworld, pointing to everything from the slab-sided design to Siri’s glowing border. The piece acknowledges that both companies copy from each other, but suggests...
2025-01-24 12:49
Siri failed super-easy Super Bowl test, getting 38 out of 58 wrong
Apple commentator John Gruber yesterday described Siri’s current performance as “an unfunny joke,” giving its inability to correctly name the winner of Super Bowl 13 an example, noting that this is a basic query that any US chatbot ought to be ab...
2025-01-24 12:20
Get Xbox Game Pass for the best price and play everything from the Xbox Developer Direct
Xbox's 2025 lineup is stacked—here’s how to stack Xbox Game Pass codes and save big.
2025-01-24 11:48
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Linux GPU Compute Performance Benchmarks
While there have been a lot of GeForce RTX 5090 Windows gaming benchmarks since the review embargo lift yesterday, for those more fascinated by this high-end Blackwell desktop graphics card for its GPU compute potential on Linux, this article is for yo...
2025-01-24 11:36
Chinese semiconductor production equipment makers set sales records
Sales of China-based makers of chipmaking tools AMEC, Naura, and ACM Research expect record sales in 2024 amid curbs for Western companies to supply to China.
2025-01-24 11:32
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GNOME 48 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing, Here’s What’s New
GNOME 48 Alpha is now available for public testing with support for accent colors, Wayland improvements, and many other changes. Here’s what to expect! The post GNOME 48 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing, Here’s What’s New appeared first ...
2025-01-24 11:26
The JSAUX transparent backplate and heatsink will make your ROG Ally look incredible and stay cooler, but don't expect miracles
JSAUX's backplate and heatsink for the ROG Ally looks amazing, and to some degree does help cool the handheld.
2025-01-24 11:22
Windows 10 is getting new features before it bites the dust and gets replaced by Windows 11
Windows 10 is throwing a farewell party—because why not go out with a bang before retirement? The post Windows 10 is getting new features before it bites the dust and gets replaced by Windows 11 appeared first on Windows Latest
2025-01-24 11:18
CISA Adds Five-Year-Old jQuery XSS Flaw to Exploited Vulnerabilities List
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday placed a now-patched security flaw impacting the popular jQuery JavaScript library to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitati...
2025-01-24 11:09
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Several Linux DRM Drivers Orphaned Due To Developer Health
Several of the upstream Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers have become orphaned due to the unfortunately declining health of their lone driver maintainer...
2025-01-24 10:06
Ready or not, here it comes: GenAI in 2025
If you’re a software developer right now, it is nearly impossible to avoid chatter about generative AI. You’re probably already using AI tools in your work, whether you like it or not. Some of your normie friends are using ChatGPT as a search engi...
2025-01-24 09:00
Is cloud-based AI becoming a monopoly?
The landscape of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is rapidly evolving. A recent report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) highlights concerns about monopolistic practices and has sent ripples through the tech industry. This report, whi...
2025-01-24 09:00