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Apple takes Apple Cinemas to the courtroom box office
Apple has taken aim at Apple Cinemas in a new trademark lawsuit, and the dispute is starting to feel like it belongs on the big screen. more…
2025-08-13 11:30
8 Registry Tweaks that will Make File Explorer Faster and Easier to Use on Windows 11
On Windows 11, you can customize File Explorer with many different Registry tweaks to declutter menus, speed up browsing, and restore classic features.
2025-08-13 11:22
Charon Ransomware Hits Middle East Sectors Using APT-Level Evasion Tactics
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign that employs a previously undocumented ransomware family called Charon to target the Middle East's public sector and aviation industry. The threat actor behind the activity, according to Trend Mi...
2025-08-13 11:15
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I swapped my LED display for a $1,300 OLED monitor. Here’s what happened
After years sitting in front of an LED screen, I've ditched it for OLED, and I couldn't be happier.
2025-08-13 11:12
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Claude Sonnet 4 upgrade enables full codebase processing in a single request
Anthropic has expanded the capabilities of its Claude Sonnet 4 AI model to handle up to one million tokens of context, five times its previous limit, enabling developers to process entire codebases or large document collections in a single request. Th...
2025-08-13 11:09
You Think You Need a Monster PC to Run Local AI, Don’t You? — My Seven-Year-Old Mid-range Laptop Says Otherwise
While most of my local AI work takes place on a fairly well-equipped desktop PC, I was curious to see what mileage I could get from an old laptop I have lying around, and it surprised me.
2025-08-13 11:09
OpenAI’s Sam Altman: GPT-5 fails to meet AGI standards amid Microsoft’s fading partnership — “it’s still missing something”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently revealed that GPT-5 didn't meet the coveted AGI threshold because of its inability to continuously learn "as it's deployed from the new things it finds."
2025-08-13 11:03
OpenAI's Sam Altman: GPT-5 Fails to Meet AGI Standards Amid Microsoft's Fading Partnership — "It's Still Missing Something"
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently revealed that GPT-5 didn't meet the coveted AGI threshold because of its inability to continuously learn "as it's deployed from the new things it finds."
2025-08-13 11:03
iPhone 17 Pro to get higher price and fewer storage options
Expectations are now firmly set: iPhone 17 Pro will come with a higher starting price and one less storage option. more…
2025-08-13 10:28
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has become a lightning rod of controversy in the semiconductor space amid US and China geopolitical tensions — here's why
The CEO of Intel, Lip-Bu Tan, is under serious pressure from government administrators and watchdogs over alleged ties to Chinese technology firms, and his recent leadership of a US company that was fined for selling chip design software to firms linke...
2025-08-13 10:10
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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has become a lightning rod of controversy amid US and China geopolitical tensions — here's why
The CEO of Intel, Lip-Bu Tan, is under serious pressure from government administrators and watchdogs over alleged ties to Chinese technology firms, and his recent leadership of a US company that was fined for selling chip design software to firms linke...
2025-08-13 10:10
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German tech firm sues Nvidia for patent infringement, seeks to block Nvidia across 18 European countries — ParTec lawsuit alleges DGX AI supercomputer design theft
ParTec AG has filed its third patent infringement lawsuit against Nvidia at the Unified Patent Court, targeting the company's DGX AI supercomputers. The case centers on ParTec’s patented dynamic Modular System Architecture (dMSA), crucial for CPU-GPU...
2025-08-13 09:30
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Crew of Russian 'shadow fleet' tanker charged with intentionally sabotaging undersea cables — Finnish authorities claim ship dragged its anchor 56 miles along the sea floor, causing $70 million in damage to five cables
Crew members of the Eagle S oil tanker have been charged with 'aggravated sabotage and aggravated interference with telecommunications' by Finnish authorities.
2025-08-13 09:23
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Intel's fabled Itanium refuses to die, but the end is probably near — deprecation of IA-64 support is back on the chopping block in GCC version 16
Maintainers are discussing whether or not to remove IA-64 support from the GCC compiler once again. If their plans go through, IA-64 support could be dropped for GCC 16.
2025-08-13 09:00
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Hands-on with Svelte: Build-time compilation in a reactive framework
Svelte introduced the idea of using a compiler to optimize and transform specialized syntax into front-end components. The idea has caught on with a variety of frameworks, including React. In this style of reactive development, using a compiler lets t...
2025-08-13 09:00
Five kinds of static code coupling
Last week I talked about connascence, a measure of the coupling of code. We all agree that loosely coupled code is good, but what that means isn’t always clear. Connascence helps us reason about how code is coupled. You can’t decouple your code i...
2025-08-13 09:00
Intel IDXD Accelerator Driver Cleaned Up For Some "Not So Happy Code Paths"
The IDXD Linux kernel driver used for the Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) support on recent Xeon processors is being cleaned up for some "not so happy code paths" after an Intel engineer uncovered memory leaks and other troubles with the open-source d...
2025-08-13 08:31