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ApplicationsCPU-Z gets biggest update since 2001 with V3 — 100+ health checks, built-in stress testing, and XOC effective clock trackingBy Aaron Klotz Published
Cloud StorageJudge clears Nine PBS to retrieve 70 years of archival TV dataBy Mark Tyson Published
ApplicationsRogue iOS developer creates app that simulates messages sent by carrier pigeon; messages only travel at 100mphBy Mark Tyson Published
Cloud StoragePBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunctBy Jowi Morales Published
ApplicationsVibe-coded app adds a 3D video rental storefront to your Jellyfin HTPCBy Jowi Morales Published
Microsoft Officex64 port of Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a arrivesBy Mark Tyson Published
Video Editing and Graphic DesignDev releases ‘unblockable’ ASCII video stream software, stoking fears of unstoppable adsBy Mark Tyson Last updated
Cloud StorageGoogle floats reduced initial 5GB free cloud storage limit, users claimBy Kunal Khullar Published
Cloud StorageBackblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up Dropbox and OneDriveBy Bruno Ferreira Last updated
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ProgrammingPlayable Tomb Raider runs on a humble 1-watt chipBy Mark Tyson Published
ProgrammingGoogle maps entire brain and central nervous system of adult male fruit fly, software engineers immediately make it run DoomBy Mark Tyson Published
ProgrammingWalk through a 3D cyberpunk city built purely from ASCII charactersBy Luke James Published
ProgrammingMind-bending self-replicating GIF code prints an exact copy of itself, is both a program and its own visual outputBy Mark Tyson Published
ProgrammingDaring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frameBy Bruno Ferreira Published
ProgrammingFormer Epic director is building a European rival to the Unreal and Unity game enginesBy Mark Tyson Published
ProgrammingDeveloper creates a basic first person shooter game using Gaussian splats, and you can play it for free in your browserBy Zak Killian Published
ProgrammingEnterprising developer somehow writes an x86 CPU emulator in plain CSS — no Javascript, no WASM, just stylesheet computingBy Bruno Ferreira Published
ProgrammingDeveloper recreates classic scroller Zaxxon as a UEFI firmwareBy Mark Tyson Published
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SoftwareCloudflare saves 100 TB of RAM again, this time by slashing server hashes by 90%By Bruno Ferreira Published
WindowsPutin casts online vote using unlicensed Windows on an American Dell PCBy Mark Tyson Published
WindowsRetired Microsoft Engineer details the story about the famous leaked FCKGW Windows XP keyBy Bruno Ferreira Published
WindowsMicrosoft rolls out emergency update for Windows 11's latest patchBy Bruno Ferreira Published
WindowsWindows 11 can now reinstall itself from the cloudBy Kunal Khullar Published
WindowsDeveloper uses Claude to vibe code a Windows 3.1 shell in an hourBy Mark Tyson Published
WindowsStripped-down Windows 11 for AI developers demands 64GB RAM and insane 250 GB/s bandwidthBy Jowi Morales Published
WindowsMicrosoft will expand Windows 11 Memory Integrity feature to more PCs starting in OctoberBy Etiido Uko Published
LinuxLinux kernel nears record 2,000 vulnerabilities per release as AI bug hunters scour 40 million lines of codeBy Etiido Uko Published