Intel Nova Lake doubles down on Xe3 graphics instead of jumping to Xe4

According to longtime Intel watcher Jaykihn, Nova Lake's integrated graphics will be built around Xe3, the same generation used in Pant...

Netflix launches Playground, a kid-friendly gaming app with no ads or extra fees

The newly announced Netflix Playground is an all-in-one app designed to give children a curated gaming experience built around familiar car...

Windows is finally killing off the Control Panel

Speaking to Windows users on X this week, Microsoft's Director of Design, March Rogers, said the company is working to address several ...

Microsoft now has 80 different "Copilot" products, and counting

That figure comes from Tey Bannerman, an AI strategy and design consultant, who undertook the challenging – but rewarding – task of countin...

Microsoft is going to force-update Windows 11 to version 25H2 using machine learning

According to Microsoft's latest timeline, Windows 11 25H2 will soon be rolled out to all devices running the Home and Pro editions of W...

Netflix's Void AI can remove objects from video and show how scenes evolve without them

Short for Video Object and Interaction Deletion, the model can effectively delete an object from a scene and adjust for its absence. Read...

Iran threatens OpenAI-backed Stargate AI data center in Abu Dhabi

The IRGC released a video vowing retaliatory measures should the US attack its power facilities. Spokesperson Brigadier General Ebrahim Zol...

Banks chasing SpaceX's IPO were told by Elon Musk to buy Grok subscriptions

Four people familiar with the matter told The New York Times that Musk is requiring banks, law firms, auditors, and other advisers on the I...

This Android phone can run Windows games locally, no PC required

In a recent video, creator ETA Prime showcases Red Magic's phone running multiple Windows games directly on Android. The device is powe...

Nvidia shows neural compression can cut VRAM usage from 6.5GB to 970MB

Consider Nvidia's work on Neural Texture Compression (NTC). In its "Tuscan Wheels" demo, the company showed VRAM usage droppi...

Italian court says Netflix must refund customers up to $576 over price hikes

An injunction action brought by consumer group Movimento Consumatori against Netflix Italia's price increases has been upheld by the Co...

This Wi-Fi receiver can work inside a nuclear reactor, keeping robots connected

The research, presented at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco earlier this year, shows the receiver ca...

Steam could soon show estimated FPS based on crowd-sourced player data

The feature would represent a significant step toward bridging the gap between official system requirements and actual in-game performance....

New Rowhammer attack can grant kernel-level control on Nvidia workstation GPUs

A study from researchers at UNC Chapel Hill and Georgia Tech shows that GDDR6-based Rowhammer attacks can grant kernel-level access to Linu...

Google's Gemma 4 AI can run on smartphones, no Internet required

The two largest Gemma 4 models – 26B Mixture of Experts and 31B Dense – require an 80GB Nvidia H100 GPU to run unquantized in bfloat16 form...

Toshiba starts shipping SMR MAMR enterprise hard drives offering up to 34TB of storage

Toshiba's M12 Series of 3.5-inch drives uses Shingled Magnetic Recording to achieve storage capacities ranging from 30 to 34TB. The Jap...

Take-Two lays off AI team members weeks after "embracing" generative AI

The revelation came from Luke Dicken, who was made Take-Two's Head of AI in early 2025. He wrote in a LinkedIn post that "It's...

Dell's new XPS 14 dominates MacBook Air with 43 hours of battery life in web browsing test

Tests conducted by Hardware Canucks show that the XPS 14 delivers exceptional battery life, lasting more than 43 hours on a single charge w...

Developer rebuilds Doom using only CSS and HTML, turning divs into a full 3D game engine

Leenheer is best known for creating HTML5test.com, the WhichBrowser user-agent parser. He began exploring a CSS-based Doom renderer after c...

Hitachi and MOL plan to turn retired ships into floating data centers

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Hitachi have signed a memorandum of understanding to build and operate floating data centers hosted on repurp...