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Five ways AMD can bungle its RDNA 4 launch — Will NVIDIA GPUs get the competition they need?
After weeks of delay, AMD is ready to reveal its RDNA 4 graphics cards on February 28. Will it be a success? Here are 5 reasons why it might fall flat.
2025-02-19 12:00
Building a chipmaking fab in the US costs twice as much, takes twice as long as in Taiwan
It takes 19 months to build a fab in Taiwan, 34 months to construct a fab in Europe, and 38 months to establish a fab in the U.S.
2025-02-19 11:50
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Mesa 25.0 Released With Vulkan 1.4 Driver Support, AMD RDNA4 Ready
Mesa 25.0 was officially released today as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan, and video acceleration drivers used on Linux systems by multiple hardware vendors...
2025-02-19 11:39
Nvidia to consume 77% of wafers used for AI processors in 2025: Report
Nvidia is set to increase its dominance in the AI market with the Blackwell GPU generation.
2025-02-19 11:20
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NetEase confirms Marvel Rivals' Seattle-based studio laid off for 'organizational reasons'
NetEase has confirmed that it has laid off the US-based development team that had been working on Marvel Rivals. Read more...
2025-02-19 10:42
CISA Adds Palo Alto Networks and SonicWall Flaws to Exploited Vulnerabilities List
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added two security flaws impacting Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS and SonicWall SonicOS SSLVPN to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active expl...
2025-02-19 10:18
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Perplexity releases open-source R1 1776 reasoning model without China censorship
Perplexity has released R1 1776, a reasoning model based on DeepSeek's R1 model. R1 1776 has the benefit of not censoring answers China doesn't like. Read more...
2025-02-19 10:16
Avowed: All Godlike powers and abilities
As the Envoy, your Avowed character has access to Godlike abilities, so I've pulled together the full list of Godlike powers you can find.
2025-02-19 10:14
Linux Driver Posted For Enabling Apple Web Camera Support For M-Series Macs
A set of patches were posted today for review by the upstream Linux kernel developers in providing driver support for the Apple web camera and image signal processing (ISP) for Apple M-Series devices. This is enough to get the web camera support workin...
2025-02-19 10:13
Valve makes major changes to DOTA 2 map and mechanics again in new update
DOTA 2 just received another major update that reworks many of its map mechanics, heroes, items, and much more. Check out the details here. Read more...
2025-02-19 10:00
Obsidian is trolling all of us by disabling one of Avowed's most useful settings by default, and we're mad about it
Why they decided to disable the ability to see such important objects on the compass is beyond me!
2025-02-19 09:57
Mozilla once again extends Firefox support on Windows 7
Mozilla is still not ready to drop Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 support in Firefox. The browser will continue receiving security updates throughout 2025. Read more...
2025-02-19 09:32
How to use asyncio: Python’s built-in async library
Python’s asynchronous programming functionality, or async for short, allows you to write programs that get more work done by not waiting for independent tasks to finish. The asyncio library is a set of tools included with Python for asynchronously p...
2025-02-19 09:00
Intro to Elixir: A fresh take on functional programming
Elixir is one of the most interesting stories in the world of programming languages right now. Built on the Erlang ecosystem, Elixir offers a fresh take on functional programming and new ways of thinking about concurrency and fault tolerance. We’ll ...
2025-02-19 09:00
Generative AI vs. the software developer
If you aren’t aware of the tectonic shift that is generative artificial intelligence, then I can only assume your phone has been on Airplane mode for the last year. You can’t swing a laptop bag these days without knocking over four startups doing...
2025-02-19 09:00
Buying Books in Google Play Books for iOS is easier than ever
Google is making purchases easier to buy e-books and audiobooks in the Play Books iOS app by introducing the ‘Get book' button. Read more...
2025-02-19 08:58
VKD3D 1.15 Released With Better Tessellation Shader Support
VKD3D 1.15 is out today as the newest version of this upstream Wine project for implementing the Microsoft Direct3D 12 APIs atop the Vulkan API for better Windows gaming on Linux and other D3D12 workloads on Linux or macOS when paired with MoltenVK...
2025-02-19 08:45
Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust
The debate over the Linux kernel's Rust programming language policy continues... While some kernel maintainers are against it, Linus Torvalds has reportedly said he would override maintainers that may be against honoring Rust code. Linux's second-in-co...
2025-02-19 08:40
Microsoft 365 price hike email rolls out, but Microsoft won’t admit it’s because of Copilot
Windows Latest spotted that Microsoft has begun sending emails to existing subscribers about the Microsoft 365 price hike due to Copilot. The post Microsoft 365 price hike email rolls out, but Microsoft won’t admit it’s because of Copilot appeared ...
2025-02-19 08:21
RISC-V and Fedora: All Aboard!
2025 is the year of Linux on RISC-V. No, seriously. Sit back down–you can’t get off until the next stop anyways. Fedora is jumping on the RISC-V train as a fifth architecture. While there’s still some work to be done, we’ve hit some major miles...
2025-02-19 08:00