Napster to become a music-marketing metaverse firm after $207M acquisition
Infinite Reality, a media, ecommerce, and marketing company focused on 3D and AI-powered experiences, has entered an agreement to acquired Napster. That means that the brand originally launched in...
View ArticleWe’ve outsourced our confirmation biases to search engines
People are often quite selective about the information they’ll accept, seeking out sources that will confirm their biases, while discounting those that will challenge their beliefs. In theory, search...
View ArticleNo cloud needed: Nvidia creates gaming-centric AI chatbot that runs on your GPU
Nvidia has seen its fortunes soar in recent years as its AI-accelerating GPUs have become worth their weight in gold. Most people use their Nvidia GPUs for games, but why not both? Nvidia has a new AI...
View ArticleDevs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when aggressive AI crawler traffic from Amazon overwhelmed their Git repository service, repeatedly causing instability and...
View ArticleWindows 11 KB5053657 23H2 big update, direct download .msu
Windows 11 KB5053657 is now rolling out on Windows 11 23H2. If you’re on Windows 11 24H2, there’s nothing for your PC today, but I expect an update on 27th March. You can install today’s optional...
View ArticleSamsung SSD Magician utility gets a makeover, improves ease of use
Samsung’s SSD Magician software keeps SSDs, memory cards, and USB drives performing at their best, while offering features for data migration, security, compatibility, and optimization. Get firmware...
View ArticleSignal defends itself after U.S. military officials leak classified plans by...
Signal president Meredith Whittaker reiterated the messaging service’s commitment to secure encryption and privacy after top government officials reportedly discussed a classified military operation...
View ArticleNVIDIA DGX Station GB300 Edition Launched Without a GPU
The NVIDIA DGX Station GB300 edition packs a 72 core Arm CPU, 800Gbps ConnectX-8 networking, a 288GB B300 GPU, and more The post NVIDIA DGX Station GB300 Edition Launched Without a GPU appeared first...
View ArticleESA finally has a commercial launch strategy, but will member states pay?
The European Space Agency is inviting proposals to inject competition into the European launch market, an important step toward fostering a dynamic multiplayer industry officials hope, one day, will...
View ArticleQualcomm escalates legal fight with Arm in global antitrust campaign
Qualcomm recently had private meetings with three antitrust organizations about Arm’s alleged anticompetitive behavior. Anonymous sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that this new global...
View ArticleThe Atlantic publishes texts showing Trump admin sent bombing plan to reporter
President Trump and administration officials claimed this week that no classified information about war plans was shared with a journalist, despite The Atlantic report that specific plans to bomb...
View ArticleGoogle makes Android development private, will continue open source releases
Google is planning a major change to the way it develops new versions of the Android operating system. Since the beginning, large swaths of the software have been developed in public-facing channels,...
View ArticleApple WWDC kicks off June 9 with big software updates
WWDC 2025 will be mainly an online event, free for all developers to attend through the Apple Developer app, Apple’s website, and YouTube. The event will include virtual sessions and labs designed to...
View ArticleMapping Licensing for Virtualization is Cool Now
For a long time, we have been focusing a lot on the hardware costs of new processors but missing the virtualization license costs. Part of that is simply due to the number of virtualization licenses...
View ArticlePeople are turning iconic photos into art in the style of Studio Ghibli after...
OpenAI just updated ChatGPT’s image generator, and users have begun flooding social media with famous pictures reproduced in the anime style of Studio Ghibli. The results are impressive, but it is not...
View ArticleNewer Kindles get a work-around for touchscreen page-turning in new software...
Amazon discontinued 2016’s Kindle Oasis in early 2024, and since then, the company hasn’t offered a new e-reader with physical page turn buttons or any other alternative to touchscreen input. There...
View ArticleWindows 11 Setup will let you choose between NTFS and ReFS when clean installing
Windows 11 is testing a pretty significant change for Windows Setup. We’re not talking about dark mode but full-fledged support for ReFS. Based on changes seen in newer builds, it looks like Windows...
View ArticleSurprisingly, 87% of people back up their data, but data loss accidents persist
Despite these efforts, data loss remains widespread: 63 percent of respondents reported losing data due to device failures, accidental deletions, or cyberattacks. Read Entire Article
View ArticleSteamOS benchmarked on Asus ROG Ally as beta general release nears
A recent video from YouTuber The Phawx shows SteamOS running on an Asus ROG Ally. Although the unofficial installation isn’t flawless, early benchmarks suggest that the upcoming general release could...
View ArticleMicrosoft just added Copilot Vision to Edge for free on Windows 11 (hands on)
Last year, Microsoft confirmed it was working on Copilot Vision, and it rolled out the feature to everyone using the Pro subscription in the United States. Today, Windows Latest noticed that Copilot...
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