Was it TikTok, WhatsApp, Facebook, or WeChat?

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According to longtime Intel watcher Jaykihn, Nova Lake's integrated graphics will be built around Xe3, the same generation used in Panther Lake integrated GPUs. Jaykihn had previously suggested that Nova Lake would include an Xe4 media component but has since walked that back, stating that "there is nothing Xe4 on...

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PeaZip 11.0 refines one of the most capable free archivers with faster browsing, smoother drag-and-drop across tabs, and a cleaner, more responsive UI. The update also improves scaling, adds flexible icon rendering, and introduces batch archive testing, alongside the usual fixes and cleanup.

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The newly announced Netflix Playground is an all-in-one app designed to give children a curated gaming experience built around familiar cartoon characters. The streaming giant describes it as an ever-growing library of instantly playable games for kids aged 8 and under.

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Speaking to Windows users on X this week, Microsoft's Director of Design, March Rogers, said the company is working to address several UI issues across Windows 11. To that end, all settings options are being consolidated in a single location, ensuring users will no longer need to switch between the...

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The feature is now rolling out as part of the latest Play Store update, version 50.7.24-31. Google recently confirmed the release through its official support documentation, following months of limited testing.

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For the Postal Service, which reported a $9 billion net loss last year, the deal averts what could have been a serious revenue shock. Amazon accounts for nearly 15% of USPS package deliveries nationwide, translating to about $6 billion annually. Any major pullback by the tech company – which already...

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Java 26 is here with fresh language features, faster performance, stronger security, and a wave of library and tooling upgrades. Early developer reaction has been upbeat, with many praising Java's steady pace of meaningful improvements.

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Nikkei Asia reported that Apple has encountered unexpected setbacks during the engineering test phase of its first foldable iPhone, raising the possibility of production delays. Sources familiar with the matter told the publication that the early test production phase has thrown up more problems than anticipated and will require extra...

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H.264 has so far carried a flat annual cap of $100,000 for large subscription platforms. That may sound like a lot, but for these companies, the numbers are so small that most of them probably forgot it even existed on their balance sheet. Well, that comfortable arrangement just got a...

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Indianapolis City-County Council member Ron Gibson, a Democrat who has held his position since 2023, recently expressed support for rezoning related to a proposed $500 million data center project. Two large buildings, from Los Angeles-based startup Metrobloks, will be built on a 14-acre site located in the Martindale-Brightwood neighborhood of...

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TSNC is being positioned as a practical path for developers who already ship BC-compressed assets and want to squeeze more data into the same storage, bandwidth, or VRAM budgets without rethinking their pipelines.

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Errol Segal has been a LA Dodgers season ticket holder for over 50 years, but that run has come to an end as the team transitions to all-digital for season tickets.

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Robert Hallock, Intel's vice president and general manager of client segment technical marketing, confirmed in an interview with Club386 that the Raptor Lake lineup remains "a big part" of Intel's client segment strategy and will stay in production alongside newer chips.

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Stormgate, a free-to-play, StarCraft-style RTS developed by Frost Giant Studios, relies on a third-party "game server orchestration partner" to run its online modes. Frost Giant told players on Discord that the provider had been acquired by an AI company, forcing a planned outage that will take Stormgate's multiplayer modes offline...

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According to Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, the Kremlin's increasing efforts to control and censor the global internet are causing widespread problems for Russian users. The Russian-born entrepreneur confirmed that Telegram is now banned in the country, yet more than 50 million Russians continue to use it daily via VPNs.

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An enthusiast has discovered that there are now a staggering 80 distinct Microsoft products carrying the name "Copilot" and perhaps even more. That figure comes from Tey Bannerman, an AI strategy and design consultant, who undertook the challenging – but rewarding – task of counting all the Copilot products now...

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According to Microsoft's latest timeline, Windows 11 25H2 will soon be rolled out to all devices running the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11 24H2. The latter is set to reach the end of official support on October 13, 2026, and Redmond is clearly aiming to move as many...

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

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The company, which commands 37% of the global electric vehicle battery market and 22% of the energy storage segment, has already equipped roughly 900 ships with its batteries. Most of these are small, nearshore vessels that operate along China's coastlines, at ports, or on inland waterways.

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Citing unnamed industry sources, South Korean outlet ETNews reports that the Pro model would slot between the Plus and the Ultra in the upcoming S27 series, effectively becoming the second-most premium option. It is expected to inherit much of the Ultra's feature set, including Samsung's new Privacy Display technology, which...

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Target is one of many retailers jumping on the AI bandwagon by introducing an assistant that can suggest products and complete purchases for customers. The pitch is convenience: less browsing, fewer clicks, and an easier way to fill a cart. The risk is that shoppers may end up handing over...

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In a recently published study, the Dutch team describes an unexpected behavior observed in a 3D-printed microstructure. The "robot" consists of a flexible chain of self-propelling elements, each smaller than the width of a human hair. When exposed to an electric field, the structure begins to move on its own,...

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The deployment marks a new test of drone-based security technology in US schools. Backed by more than $500,000 in state funding, Florida and Georgia are rolling out Mithril's technology as part of broader school safety initiatives. The goal, company executives say, is speed. Pilots operating from Mithril's Austin headquarters could...

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The confirmation comes from an End-of-Service notice on Samsung's US website, which says the app will be discontinued in July 2026. It advises users to move to Google Messages to maintain a consistent Android messaging experience.

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Rapidus' first plant, IIM-1 in Chitose, Hokkaido, has shifted from a construction site to a pilot line. In mid-2025, the company had activated the cleanroom, installed extreme ultraviolet tools, and began running test wafers through a two-nanometer gate-all-around process developed with IBM.

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The IRGC released a video vowing retaliatory measures should the US attack its power facilities. Spokesperson Brigadier General Ebrahim Zolfaghari said the actions would entail "complete and utter annihilation" of power plants, energy infrastructure, and IT and communications facilities belonging to Israel and to companies with American shareholders.

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Four people familiar with the matter told The New York Times that Musk is requiring banks, law firms, auditors, and other advisers on the IPO to buy subscriptions to Grok. Some of the banks have agreed to spend tens of millions of dollars on the AI and have begun integrating...

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In a recent video, creator ETA Prime showcases Red Magic's phone running multiple Windows games directly on Android. The device is powered by a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 SoC, paired with 24GB of LPDDR5T memory and 1TB of UFS 4.1 Pro storage.

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Consider Nvidia's work on Neural Texture Compression (NTC). In its "Tuscan Wheels" demo, the company showed VRAM usage dropping from roughly 6.5GB with traditional BCN-compressed textures to 970MB using NTC, while keeping image quality close to the original.

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Developed by a consortium including Nextcloud, Ionos, and Proton, Euro-Office builds directly on the open-source OnlyOffice codebase. It offers a word processor, spreadsheet editor, presentation tool, and PDF editor, all supporting Microsoft formats (docx, pptx, xlsx) and open standards such as ODF. Its preview version is already available on GitHub,...

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On PlayStation Studios' official site, Sony has updated the main banner to prominently feature Ghost of Yotei and Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, while Demon's Souls Remake no longer appears in the lineup.

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

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The research, presented at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco earlier this year, shows the receiver can continue operating after exposure to 500 kilograys of radiation. That level of endurance far exceeds what even space-grade electronics are designed to handle.

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The feature would represent a significant step toward bridging the gap between official system requirements and actual in-game performance. Even as studios release recommended hardware specs, the experience on diverse PC setups often differs sharply from expectations.

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A study from researchers at UNC Chapel Hill and Georgia Tech shows that GDDR6-based Rowhammer attacks can grant kernel-level access to Linux systems equipped with GPUs based on Nvidia's Ampere and Ada Lovelace architectures. The vulnerability appears significantly more severe than what was outlined in a paper last year.

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The Copilot terms of use, updated last October, draw clear limits around what the software is meant to do. The document states Copilot is for entertainment purposes only, adding that "it can make mistakes, and it may not work as intended." More notably, Microsoft explicitly advises against relying on it...

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Despite being the default for global e-commerce, digital payments still require a degree of "human touch" when disputes and complaints arise. That friction is becoming a growing cost center as online transactions scale, and Visa argues that shifting to AI-managed dispute handling could streamline the process, cut losses, and turn...

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Senior defense officials told The Wall Street Journal that the autonomous attack drones have been used in strikes against Iranian military and IRGC targets, including weapons facilities, manufacturing sites, and air-defense nodes. They said this contributed to an 83% decline in Iranian drone attacks during the early days of the conflict.

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Analysts at Sightline Climate estimate that between 30% and 50% of AI data centers planned for deployment in the US this year will be delayed or canceled. The main constraints are difficulty sourcing key electrical equipment and securing enough power to operate new facilities.

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The technology is designed to reduce strike zone disputes, long the source of baseball's most heated arguments. Under the new system, each team receives two challenges per game and only loses a challenge if it is incorrect. In practice, this incentive has quickly reshaped game-day strategy – and last Saturday's...

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The two largest Gemma 4 models – 26B Mixture of Experts and 31B Dense – require an 80GB Nvidia H100 GPU to run unquantized in bfloat16 format. Google claims these models deliver "frontier intelligence on personal computers" for students, researchers, and developers, providing advanced reasoning capabilities for IDEs, coding assistants, and agentic workflows.

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Toshiba's M12 Series of 3.5-inch drives uses Shingled Magnetic Recording to achieve storage capacities ranging from 30 to 34TB. The Japanese corporation – one of the world's largest HDD manufacturers alongside Seagate and Western Digital – said the new line of drives is specifically designed for hyperscale customers, cloud service...

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The time places the Mk IV just behind two record-holding hybrid and electric machines – the Porsche 919 Hybrid EVO and Volkswagen's ID.R – highlighting the car's singular achievement in an increasingly electrified field. It is also the fastest lap ever recorded by an American manufacturer at the famed German...

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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 truly disappointing that I have to share with you that my time with T2 – and that of my team – has come to an end."

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The new system, known as the Orion Artemis II Optical Communications system, or O2O, will allow astronauts aboard Orion to send 4K footage from their mission to Earth at speeds up to 260 megabits per second, according to NASA. The capability marks a shift from radio-based transmissions that defined the...

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Nvidia has published its full GDC 2026 presentation on its upcoming path tracing and micropolygon tools. The video offers a new glimpse at assets and engine functionality that will feature in the PC version of The Witcher 4.

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X argued that the Supreme Court's ruling wiped out the contributory infringement claim, the only major theory left standing in limited form after last year's motion to dismiss.

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TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo recently argued that Apple could widen its market share amid the current memory-market upheaval by absorbing higher memory costs instead of raising device prices. That approach, Kuo suggested, would allow Apple to expand its share even in a volatile supply environment.

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A new report by Counterpoint Research highlights the business results of the extremely successful players in the foundry business. The research company coined the "Foundry 2.0" term because today's landscape is apparently much more complex and multifaceted than the traditional chip-making business. Either way, most silicon manufacturers have become massively...

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Colorado has earned a reputation as the national leader in right-to-repair legislation. Since 2022, the state has approved measures covering powered wheelchairs, agricultural equipment, and consumer electronics, forcing manufacturers to provide the parts, tools, software, and documentation needed for repairs.

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The chips sit above the mainstream Nova Lake-H line and retain a wider I/O complex with PCIe 5.0 connectivity for discrete GPUs. Leaker Jaykihn describes Nova Lake-HX as a higher-end branch of Nova Lake-H that uses a broader I/O subsystem designed to work with discrete GPUs.

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We tested nine RTX 5070 Ti cards and found consistent performance throughout. The problem isn't which model to buy - it's whether any of them make sense at today's prices.

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A clip from NASA's livestream quickly circulated on social media, capturing the moment astronauts flagged the problem. The glitch added an unexpectedly relatable note to an otherwise historic launch.

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Tests conducted by Hardware Canucks show that the XPS 14 delivers exceptional battery life, lasting more than 43 hours on a single charge while browsing the web with variable refresh rate enabled. During the test, the screen refresh rate was reduced to 1Hz. The laptop tested features an Intel Core...

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Leenheer is best known for creating HTML5test.com, the WhichBrowser user-agent parser. He began exploring a CSS-based Doom renderer after completing an earlier experiment that ran the game on an oscilloscope, reusing code to extract map data from the original WAD file.

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Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Hitachi have signed a memorandum of understanding to build and operate floating data centers hosted on repurposed ships. The two Japanese corporations aim to develop and commercialize a novel approach to the data center business, believing that a seafaring solution could significantly improve convenience and...

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Researchers at USC's Viterbi School of Engineering have demonstrated an electronic memory device that functions far beyond previously known thermal limits. In experiments, the device remained stable at 700 degrees Celsius – hotter than molten lava – without showing signs of degradation.

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