Rescuing the Data on a 1960s LGP-21 Computer’s Disk Memory
One of the nice things about magnetic storage is that as long as the magnetic layer remains intact, the data it contains should stay readable pretty...
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Intel VP claims up to 30% of CPU performance is untapped by modern games — software optimization is critical to unlocking full potential of hybrid CPUs
Intel is claiming that better software optimization for hybrid architecture CPUs can unlock up to 30% more performance without hardware upgrades. The silicon itself is very...
Read moreThe US gets the worst phones
Apple and Samsung dominate the US phone market, and they’ve done so for years. Together with Google, they’ve shaped our sense of what a smartphone is...
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LoongArch Improvements Land In Linux 7.1
Merged for the nearly-over Linux 7.1 merge window are a number of enhancements to the LoongArch architecture support for that Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS...
Read moreDisco Elysium dev’s highly-anticipated follow-up, Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, has things to say about our nostalgia
The Bootleg Bazaar in Portofiro is a chimera of ex-Soviet bloc organisms that have nestled together in a robust show of scrappy, second-hand capitalism at its...
Read morePalantir employees are talking about company’s “descent into fascism”
It took just a few months of President Donald Trump’s second term for Palantir employees to question their company’s commitments to civil liberties. Last fall, Palantir...
Read moreGodot 4.7 Reaches Beta With HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements & Editor Enhancements
Godot 4.7 reached its beta milestone on Friday for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine…
Read moreAMD’s memory-boosting EXPO 1.2 is here, adds support for three Chinese memory vendors — performance gains could be muted until Zen 6
Third-party AMD developer and hardware leakers share details of the new AMD EXPO 1.2 technology arriving on AMD AM5 motherboards.
Read more‘Saros’ Shows Off the PS5’s DualSense Tricks
The new game from the creators of Returnal goes all-in on the PlayStation’s haptics and 3D audio. Maybe it will catch on with other game developers.
Read moreDiscord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos
Plus: Spy firms tap into a global telecom weakness to track targets, 500,000 UK health records go up for sale on Alibaba, Apple patches a revealing...
Read moreKDE Plasma 6.7 Enables Overlay Planes For Intel Graphics, More Performance/Efficiency
KDE developers continued to land more feature changes for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. It’s a busy spring of fixes, optimizations, and shiny new features...
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