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Microsoft invests in South Africa to boost infrastructure footprint and boost education 
Microsoft has announced a big investment in South Africa to boost the country's AI infrastructure and skill up the country's workforce. Read more...
2025-03-07 07:58
Google Meet improves AI backgrounds with new preset styles
Google Meet's AI-powered background image generator is being upgraded to improve quality and visual appeal. Read more...
2025-03-07 06:56
Intel Xe Driver Introducing SVM, EU Stall Sampling & Other New Features For Linux 6.15
Intel engineers today sent out their final drm-xe-next feature pull request to DRM-Next of the remaining features they are ready to land for the modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.15 cycle. It's a big one...
2025-03-07 06:55
1Password now lets you add location to your passwords
1Passwords has rolled out a new feature that makes it faster to get your stored passwords when you need them. Read more...
2025-03-07 06:40
New Round Of Driver Optimizations For AMD RadeonSI In Mesa 25.1
Well known AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olšák has been at it again working on some further performance optimizations to the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code...
2025-03-07 06:30
Microsoft updates support page with alternatives to the soon-to-be-retired Publisher
Microsoft has updated its support article to reiterate that Publisher is going away next year and has provided alternatives for common Publisher tasks. Read more...
2025-03-07 06:26
Mesa Lands A Shader Statistics Framework For More Unification Across Drivers
The latest bit of increased driver code unification and decreasing code duplication among Mesa's OpenGL and Vulkan drivers is finally introducing a common shader statistic framework...
2025-03-07 06:19
Intel VSEC Driver Preps For Diamond Rapids In Linux 6.14
Sent out today was a batch of platform-drivers-x86 fixes for the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel cycle. Notable among these fixes is introducing Intel Xeon "Diamond Rapids" support to the Intel VSEC driver...
2025-03-07 06:14
M3 Ultra on par with M4 Max in CPU performance based on benchmark test
Apple this week announced a new generation of Mac Studio, and surprisingly it is available with two different chip families: M3 Ultra and M4 Max. While the company claims that the M3 Ultra is up to twice as fast as the M4 Max in some workloads, benchma...
2025-03-07 05:23
Microsoft Copilot users get free, unlimited access to o3-mini-high model
Microsoft has upgraded its Copilot "Think Deeper" feature to use OpenAI's o3-mini-high model, providing all users with access to advanced reasoning capabilities. Read more...
2025-03-07 03:26
Alibaba says its new AI model rivals DeepSeeks’s R-1, OpenAI’s o1
Alibaba Cloud on Thursday launched QwQ-32B, a compact reasoning model built on its latest large language model (LLM), Qwen2.5-32b, one it says delivers performance comparable to other large cutting edge models, including Chinese rival DeepSeek and Ope...
2025-03-07 01:38
Visual Studio Code 1.98 shines on GitHub Copilot
Visual Studio Code 1.98 has arrived, featuring enhancements to the GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant, including previews of Copilot Next Edit Suggestions, Copilot agent mode improvements, and Copilot Edits support for notebook files. Otherwise known ...
2025-03-07 00:47
Bethesda says it's planning "exciting things" for Starfield in 2025
Starfield is yet to receive an update in 2025, but an inquiring fan has gotten a vague but hopeful answer from Bethesda about what's planned for the game's second year of content. Read more...
2025-03-07 00:12
Does Split Fiction have Denuvo DRM?
Denuvo DRM is unpopular with many gamers, leading many to wonder if it's been added to Hazelight Studios' new co-op game Split Fiction.
2025-03-07 00:04
Developers behind Tweetbot and Ivory now working on a Bluesky app
If you’re a heavy Mastodon user (or were a Twitter user back in the good old days), you’re probably familiar with Tapbots – the company behind the popular Ivory and Tweetbot apps. The developers now have some good news to share with Bluesky users...
2025-03-06 23:52
Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS
After the EU forced Apple to implement major changes to how iOS and the App Store work for European users, other countries have also conducted their own antitrust investigations against the company. Now the Brazilian court has ruled that Apple has 90 d...
2025-03-06 23:17
Gemini 2.0 Deep Dive: Code Execution
This blog post introduces Gemini's code execution feature, which allows the AI model to generate and run Python code for tasks like solving equations, data analysis, and creating visualizations.
2025-03-06 23:00
Microsoft Edge Game Assist gets big update with more games support and new features
The recently launched browser for the Game Bar on Windows 10 and 11 is getting a big update with support for more games and plenty of new features. Read more...
2025-03-06 22:36
Microsoft Edge’s Settings is becoming more like Google Chrome on Windows 11
Microsoft has been testing a new, refined, and more compact settings page in the Edge Canary version. The post Microsoft Edge’s Settings is becoming more like Google Chrome on Windows 11 appeared first on Windows Latest
2025-03-06 22:33