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AMD Radeon On Linux 6.13 + Mesa 25.0-devel vs. NVIDIA R565 Linux Graphics/Gaming Performance
Ahead of the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 series graphics "Blackwell" and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 series "RDNA4" later in the quarter, I figured it would be worthwhile having a dedicated article looking at the latest upstream Linux graphics/gaming per...
2025-01-22 12:00
China's second largest foundry hires former Intel executive to lead advanced node development
Hua Hong, China's second-largest contract chipmaker, hires Intel veteran as it focuses on advanced logic production.
2025-01-22 11:56
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China's second-largest foundry hires former Intel executive to lead advanced node development
Hua Hong, China's second-largest contract chipmaker, hires Intel veteran as it focuses on advanced logic production.
2025-01-22 11:56
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Mirai Botnet Launches Record 5.6 Tbps DDoS Attack with 13,000+ IoT Device
Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare on Tuesday said it detected and blocked a 5.6 Terabit per second (Tbps) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the largest ever attack to be reported to date. The UDP protocol-based attack took p...
2025-01-22 11:49
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Mirai Botnet Launches Record 5.6 Tbps DDoS Attack with 13,000+ IoT Devices
Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare on Tuesday said it detected and blocked a 5.6 Terabit per second (Tbps) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the largest ever attack to be reported to date. The UDP protocol-based attack took p...
2025-01-22 11:49
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iPhone 16 ban could end in 1-2 weeks, says Indonesia, with strange statement
The Indonesian government has said that it expects its iPhone 16 ban to be lifted “within one or two weeks,” but has not explained the basis for this. The country’s investment minister issued only a rather strangely-worded and somewhat contradict...
2025-01-22 11:48
Truecaller's biggest iPhone update brings real-time caller ID
Truecaller has shipped one of the biggest features of its iPhone app in years. The app now supports real-time caller ID on iOS, which has been available on Android for a long time. Read more...
2025-01-22 11:36
How to watch Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2025
Samsung is expected to announce its Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25 Plus, and Galaxy S25 Ultra at Galaxy Unpacked 2025. Here's how to tune in to see if Samsung also unveils some Galaxy laptops.
2025-01-22 11:35
AMD Announces The AMDGPU Composition Stack "ACS" For Advanced Linux Desktop Features
An unexpected surprise today are AMD Linux software engineers announcing a new project a bit further outside the scope of their open-source graphics drivers... The AMDGPU Composition Stack "ACS" is for delivering new advanced features atop Wayland for ...
2025-01-22 10:12
Nvidia 5090 apparently shows huge performance boost vs 4090 in 3DMark benchmarks but hold on
The RTX 5090 scores in the popular 3DMark benchmarks have apparently leaked and it shows an impressive lead over RTX 4090. However, there is a catch. Read more...
2025-01-22 10:12
"We made a mistake in not being more transparent": OpenAI secretly accessed benchmark data, raising questions about the AI model's supposedly "high scores" — after Sam Altman touted it as "very good"
A new report suggests OpenAI secretly funded and accessed the FrontierMath benchmarking data, raising concerns about whether the company used the data to train o3.
2025-01-22 10:07
Call of Duty teases Season 2 for Black Ops 6 and Warzone with what could be AI-generated images
Two teaser images for Call of Duty Season 2, launching January 28, have been released by Activision.
2025-01-22 10:03
Call of Duty teases Season 2 for Black Ops 6 and Warzone with what could be AI-generated images [Updated with new trailer]
Two teaser images for Call of Duty Season 2, launching January 28, have been released by Activision.
2025-01-22 10:03
Microsoft flags macOS bug — remotely bypassing Apple's sophisticated System Integrity Protection (SIP) security solution and allowing unauthorized third-party rootkit installs
Microsoft uncovered a vulnerability allowing attackers to circumvent macOS's System Integrity Protection (SIP), granting them access to the kernel by loading third-party code.
2025-01-22 10:01
Very Promising Linux Patch Optimizes TLB Flushes During Page Reclamation
Google engineer Vinay Banakar sent out a patch this week for the Linux kernel's memory management code to optimize TLB flushes during page reclaim and are showing very promising results...
2025-01-22 10:01
Bringing multiple windows to Flutter desktop apps
Over the past 5 years, Canonical has been contributing to Flutter, including building out Linux support for Flutter applications, publishing libraries to help integrate into the Linux desktop and building modern applications for Ubuntu, including our s...
2025-01-22 10:00
Call of Duty introduces a new Operator bundle to raise funds for fire relief in LA
Pick up a new operator bundle in Call of Duty and support the fight against the LA wildfires
2025-01-22 09:53