Category: General

Intel Texture Set Neural Compression Shrinks Textures by Up to 18x with Minimal Quality Loss

Intel has recently released a new video showcasing its latest Texture Set Neural Compression (TSNC) technology, which delivers textures up to 18 times smaller while maintaining...

Pocket-Sized e-Ink Gets a Firmware Upgrade

Not so long ago, e-ink devices were rare and fairly pricey. As they have become more common and cheaper, some cool form-factor devices have emerged that...

Intel Pulls the Plug on XeSS Support in Unity Game Engine

Intel has unexpectedly discontinued the official XeSS plugin for the Unity game engine, leaving the Unity ecosystem without XeSS frame generation, temporal super sampling, and antialiasing...

Dynamic Languages Faster and Cheaper in 13-Language Claude Code Benchmark

A 600-run benchmark by Ruby committer Yusuke Endoh tested Claude Code across 13 languages, implementing a simplified Git. Ruby, Python, and JavaScript were the fastest and...

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Advantech MIO-5356 – An industrial 3.5-inch SBC based on Intel Core Series 3 “Wildcat Lake” SoC

Advantech MIO-5356 is the very first hardware platform based on the upcoming Intel Core Series 3 (Core 300) “Wildcat Lake” SoC we’ve seen. It’s a 3.5-inch...

Java News Roundup: TornadoVM 4.0, Google ADK for Java 1.0, Grails, Tomcat, Log4j, Gradle

This week’s Java roundup for March 30th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of TornadoVM 4.0 and Google ADK for Java 1.0; first release candidates...

Germany Doxes “UNKN,” Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab

An elusive hacker who went by the handle “UNKN” and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face....

Making the Case Against Markdown

For some reason, Markdown has not just become the format of choice for giving READMEs in GitHub repositories some flair, but also for writing entire websites...