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7 new Windows 11 features and more big changes coming in 2025 that you'll actually care about
Microsoft is working on several new features for Windows 11 in 2025. Let's take an early look at them.
2025-02-04 13:30
Spotify had its first ever profitable year; may have been assisted by Apple U-turn
Spotify achieved its first full year of profitability since launching in 2008. The company has previously had occasional profitable quarters, but consistently lost money each year. Apple may have played a role in the company’s turnaround, thanks to a...
2025-02-04 13:21
Your fonts are now preserved when changing theme
Do you find yourself adjusting your font settings every time you change themes in Visual Studio, We’ve made some changes that we think will help. The latest update in Visual Studio 2022 allows theme switching without affecting font settings. This fea...
2025-02-04 13:00
"Deep Research has been a personal AGI moment for me": OpenAI's new AI agentic tool simulates a personal research analyst
OpenAI unveiled a new tool dubbed Deep Research, which "conducts multi-step research on the internet for complex tasks."
2025-02-04 13:00
Inmotion Hosting VPS and Shared Hosting Review
Inmotion Hosting provides a variety of VPS and shared hosting plans, suitable for various requirements and budgets. Unfortunately, our experience testing the VPS was particularly poor.
2025-02-04 13:00
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FFmpeg Adds AMD AMF Decoder, FSR-Based Upscaling
Landing this week in the FFmpeg open-source library that is widely-used by multimedia applications was NVIDIA video acceleration improvements for Blackwell GPUs. Over on the AMD side, there are also some interesting changes to have been merged this wee...
2025-02-04 12:55
Meta says its future AI models could have ‘catastrophic outcomes’
A Meta policy document describes the company’s fears that it could accidentally develop an AI model which would lead to “catastrophic outcomes.” It describes its plans to prevent the release of such models, but admits that it may not be able to d...
2025-02-04 12:47
Optimizing The Linux Kernel With PGO Can Yield ~3% Benefit For HPC Workloads
While the Linux kernel itself may not be often viewed as a bottleneck to typical high performance computing (HPC) workloads, optimizing the Linux kernel with Profile Guided Optimizations (PGO) can prove worthwhile for those seeking maximum performance ...
2025-02-04 12:37
The dumb reason why flag emojis aren’t working on your site in Chrome on Windows
After doing more digging than I feel like I should have needed to, I found my answer: it appears that due to concerns about the fact that acknowledging the existence of certain countries can be perceived as a nominally political stance, Microsoft has o...
2025-02-04 12:36
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Opera launches a new browser that can help you remain calm and focused while browsing
Opera has launched a new web browser that aims to offer an “stress-free” browsing experience, with features such as breathing exercises, relaxing sounds, and more. Read more...
2025-02-04 12:14
How China saved Apple from bankruptcy but now holds the company hostage
An upcoming book Apple in China promises to tell the story of how a seemingly smart idea back in 1996 now leaves the company hostage to the whims of an authoritarian regime. Subtitled “the capture of the world’s greatest company,” the book featur...
2025-02-04 12:07
Game distribution on the App Store in Vietnam
The Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) requires games to be licensed to remain available on the App Store in Vietnam. To learn more and apply for a game license, review the regulations.Once you have obtained your license: Si...
South of Midnight PC requirements and specs — Is your computer ready for this Southern folktale adventure?
South of Midnight is an upcoming adventure game from Compulsion Games and Xbox, so check to make sure your PC has the specs to meet the requirements.
2025-02-04 12:00
Redox OS Makes Progress On Dynamic Linking, New Ports
The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system is out with a new status report to highlight the progress their developers made over the course of January...
2025-02-04 11:49
Nvidia releases new hotfix driver with patches for Valorant crashes and FFXVI freezes
Nvidia has released a new hotfix driver to address Valorant crashes on new RTX 5000 graphics cards and Final Fantasy XVI freezes. Read more...
2025-02-04 10:56
TuxTape: a kernel livepatching solution
Geico, an American insurance company, is building a live-patching solution for the Linux kernel, called TuxTape. TuxTape is an in-development kernel livepatching ecosystem that aims to aid in the production and distribution of kpatch patches to vendor-...
2025-02-04 10:39
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Microsoft Patches Critical Azure AI Face Service Vulnerability with CVSS 9.9 Score
Microsoft has released patches to address two Critical-rated security flaws impacting Azure AI Face Service and Microsoft Account that could allow a malicious actor to escalate their privileges under certain conditions. The flaws are listed below - CVE...
2025-02-04 10:38
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Anthropic unveils new framework to block harmful content from AI models
Anthropic has showcased a new security framework, designed to reduce the risk of harmful content generated by its large language models (LLM), a move that could have far-reaching implications for enterprise tech companies. Large language models underg...
2025-02-04 10:31