Operating Systems

AMD makes it hard to ignore 8-core Ryzen 5800XT & 5700 if you want an AM4 CPU upgrade
AMD's Ryzen 7 5800XT and 5700 are currently on sale for a fine price, making it difficult not to recommend. Read more...
2025-02-07 11:46
AMD makes it impossible to ignore 8-core Ryzen 5800XT if you want an AM4 CPU upgrade
AMD's Ryzen 7 5800XT and 5700 are currently on sale for a fine price, making it difficult not to recommend. Read more...
2025-02-07 11:46
This is GameSir's best-looking controller—and this discount gets you the charging stand for free
The GameSir Cyclone 2 Pro isn't just another technically ambitious controller from the brand, it's upped the style stakes too. With a discount on Amazon right now you can get the charging stand for free.
2025-02-07 11:33
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman leaves Anthropic to join OpenAI ex-CTO Mira Murati's startup
Recent reports suggest that OpenAI's former CTO has been recruiting employees from rival AI firms for her new startup, and now OpenAI co-founder John Schulman is among the latest to join. Read more...
2025-02-07 11:30
Vulkan Cooperative Matrix Merged For RDNA4 GPUs With RADV, DCC Support Inches Closer
Last week when RADV lead developer Samuel Pitoiset with Valve was commenting on the AMD RDNA4 state with the Mesa RADV driver it was noted that Vulkan cooperative matrix support, Vulkan Video encode/decode, and DCC support were still missing. But in th...
2025-02-07 11:28
GCC 15 Compiler Showing Off Nice Performance Improvements On AMD Zen 5
With the GCC 15 compiler having progressed to its final stage of development prior to the GCC 15.1 stable release in the likely March~April time frame, I've begun testing the updated GNU Compiler Collection on some test systems. Overall GCC 15 is looki...
2025-02-07 10:13
Apple iPhone SE 4 might arrive as soon as next week
Contrary to previous reports, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says the new iPhone SE could be announced next week instead of April. Read more...
2025-02-07 10:02
Monster Hunter Wilds open beta test is live with over 225,000 concurrent Steam players in less than 24 hours
Capcom has just dropped Monster Hunter Wilds' 2nd Open Beta Test on consoles and PC, and fans are flocking to it in droves.
2025-02-07 09:47
Windows 11 update breaks Adobe Premiere Pro’s ability to move or drag clips on the timeline
Here we go again: Windows 11 update is now trashing Adobe Premiere Pro. After the recent January 2025 Update (labelled KB5050094), users have noticed that it is no longer possible to move or drag clips on the timeline in Adobe Premiere Pro. This makes ...
2025-02-07 09:44
RTX 5070 Ti with an OLED display? Acer’s new gaming laptops might be a solution to NVIDIA’s GPU scarcity.
Acer has joined ASUS in revealing RTX 5070/Ti gaming laptop prices. The new Predator Helios Neo 16/18 AI gaming laptops are headed our way soon, and they might be the best way to get one of the new Blackwell GPUs.
2025-02-07 09:00
Microsoft says Windows 11 KB5044284/KB5046617 still can't install new updates via USB/CD
Microsoft has confirmed that the KB5044284 and KB5046617 Windows 11 24H2 updates still can't install new updates. Read more...
2025-02-07 08:54
Asahi Linux Lead Developer Hector Martin Steps Down As Upstream Apple Silicon Maintainer
Following arguments on the Linux kernel mailing list the past few days over some Linux kernel maintainers being against the notion of Rust code in the mainline Linux kernel and trying to avoid it and very passionate views over the Linux kernel developm...
2025-02-07 08:32
Microsoft fixes the Windows bug preventing users from changing date and time settings
Microsoft has confirmed that the bug preventing users from changing certain date and time settings in Windows 11 has finally been fixed. Read more...
2025-02-07 08:08
Introduction to Pipewire
Pipewire is a multimedia server and framework available as the default sound server in the latest Fedora versions. It is, by design, for low-latency audio and video routing and processing. It is capable of multiplexing multimedia streams to multiple cl...
2025-02-07 08:00
Microsoft shares new details about Windows updates during initial OOBE setup for work PCs
Microsoft has released new details about the upcoming change that will push Windows updates during OOBE, including info about a new policy. Read more...
2025-02-07 07:40
Serpent OS Working Toward Second Alpha, More Immutable OS Features
Despite Serpent OS development said to be slowing down to a lack of funding, they are hoping for the best and aiming to push forward with this original, from-scratch Linux distribution...
2025-02-07 06:42
Bcachefs Preps More Fixes For Linux 6.14, Continues Tracking Down Other Bugs
With the Linux 6.14 kernel Bcachefs has its last big planned on-disk format upgrade before removing the "experimental" tag on this copy-on-write file-system. Well, that's the hope at least. In addition to some early fixes last week, some additional Bca...
2025-02-07 06:33
Edge 133.0.3065.51 is out, bringing an updated Downloads UI, bug fixes, and more
Microsoft has released Edge 133.0.3065.51 in the stable channel, introducing an updated Downloads UI, new policy updates, and various bug fixes. Read more...
2025-02-07 06:32
NVIDIA Publishes RTX Neural Texture Compression "RTXNTC" Beta
NVIDIA on Thursday published their first public beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression "RTX NTC" software development kit...
2025-02-07 06:22
AMDVLK 2025.Q1.1 Brings New Performance Tuning & Fixes
AMDVLK 2025.Q1.1 is out this morning as the first update of the year to this official AMD open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems...
2025-02-07 05:54