AMD Ryzen 5600X3D a Micro Center-exclusive is one last hurrah for socket AM4
Enlarge / AMD's Ryzen 5 5600X3D. (credit: AMD) A surprise twist for owners of older AMD PCs using socket AM4: AMD is announcing one last (?) processor for the…
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Showing posts from June, 2023
Red Hats new source code policy and the intense pushback explained
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / A be-hatted person, tipping his brim to the endless amount of text generated by the conflict of corporate versus enthusiast understandings of the GPL. (cre…
Read more30 years later Myst demake for Atari 2600 reminds us how far weve come
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / Blocks ahoy! (credit: Vince Weaver) Nearly 30 years after its release on the Mac in 1993, Cyan's Myst is still as unstoppable as ever. As one of th…
Read moreWindows 11s AI-powered Copilot (and its Bing-powered ads) enters public preview
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / Windows Copilot is an AI-assisted feature coming to Windows 11 preview builds. (credit: Microsoft) Last month, Microsoft announced that it would continu…
Read moreSpeed matters: How Ethernet went from 3Mbps to 100Gbps and beyond
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge (credit: Adrienne Bresnahan | Getty Images ) With Ethernet turning 50 this year, Ars is resurfacing this feature on the development and evolution of Etherne…
Read moreSharpie scanning goof reveals major PlayStation budgets and revenues
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / Sharpies are great for many things—labeling leftovers, writing "bedroom" on packing boxes, ruining dry erase boards. They're not the best too…
Read moreDevs find that Vision Pro cant do true room-scale VR but thats no surprise
Harsh Dhankhar
This is Apple’s Vision Pro headset. It looks a bit like a particularly bulky pair of ski goggles, with the materials and design language of Apple’s AirPods Max hea…
Read moreLenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11 review: Two steps forward one step back
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / Lenovo's ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 11, which not-confusingly-at-all feature 13th-generation Intel Core processors. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Specs…
Read moreGeForce RTX 4060 review: Not thrilling but a super-efficient $299 workhorse
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / PNY's take on the basic $299 version of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Nvidia's GeForce 1060, 2060, and 3060 graphics …
Read moreYouTube Playables could bring Facebook-style casual games to YouTube
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The Wall Street Journal has an interesting report on a new "YouTube Playables" feature that it says is currently in testi…
Read moreProtests broke Reddit hack for useful Google search resultsand Google knows it
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge (credit: Getty ) Ongoing protests regarding Reddit's upcoming API price change on July 1 are rattling the Reddit community, but they're not the on…
Read moreThe Linux coders turning the ROG Ally and other handhelds into Steam Deck clones
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / SteamOS on the Asus ROG Ally, the hard (but kinda fun) way. (credit: Kevin Purdy) As soon as I was done with my review of the Asus ROG Ally , I grabbed …
Read morePerson who made the Windows 3.1 port of Wordle is back with a ChatGPT client
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / WinGPT answering many pressing and cutting-edge questions. (credit: Dialup.net ) Microsoft is working to integrate ChatGPT-based technology into more an…
Read moreRIP to my Pixel Fold: Dead after four days
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / My dead Pixel Fold display. That huge white gradient should not be there. (credit: Ron Amadeo) A flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long. Th…
Read moreMeta debuts PlayStation Plus-like Quest subscription
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / The Meta Quest Pro. (credit: Meta) Today, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to social media to announce that his company has launched a subscription service…
Read moreEmployee finds SSD stolen last year from corporate data center for sale on eBay
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge (credit: Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images ) Sketchy deals on eBay and other online marketplaces happen all the time. Encountering c…
Read moreStunningMidjourney update wows AI artists with camera-like feature
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / Midjourney 5.2 allows "zooming out" on synthesized images. The original synthetic image is shown in the red dotted box here. (credit: Midjourney)…
Read moreWindows 11 preview adds better passkey support rolls back File Explorer changes
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / A PC running Windows 11. (credit: Microsoft ) This week's Dev Channel Windows Insider Preview build for Windows 11 adds another handful of useful a…
Read moreA threat to portable monitors everywhere: Lenovo Yoga Book 9i review
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / The hinge awkwardly breaking up content on Lenovo's Yoga Book 9i. (credit: Scharon Harding) Specs at a glance: Lenovo Yoga Book 9i Worst Bes…
Read moreApple fixes 0-day kernel and WebKit security flaws in iOS macOS watchOS and more
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge (credit: Apple) Apple has released new minor updates for iOS 16, macOS 13 Ventura, and most of its other actively supported operating systems that fix a pa…
Read moreDuckDuckGo browser beta for Windows bakes in a lot of privacy tools
Harsh Dhankhar
Enlarge / By using DuckDuckGo's built-in Duck Player, you should be able to avoid both advertisements and having your YouTube recommendations be affected by meme…
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