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Qualcomm has released an Early Developer Preview, a preliminary Linux build for Snapdragon X2 devices. It is not yet a system for ordinary buyers, but a step toward proper platform…
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Canonical is moving to a single two-week Ubuntu kernel security cycle instead of the previous four-week and two-week ones. Because the cycles overlap, releases now come out every week.
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iFixit tore down Valve's Steam Frame headset: the design is broadly repairable, but the fan is tucked away so deep that even dusting it out requires serious surgery.
Read the newsMeta VR Glasses weighing about 100 grams: sensors and display in the frame, computing and battery in a separate "puck" block. A 5K micro-OLED screen, gaze and gesture control, on…
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Microsoft continues its Xbox restructuring: 268 roles cut, Rare, World's Edge and Obsidian moving to other divisions, and consultations about closing Ninja Theory.
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Two new flagship Qualcomm chips are the company's first built on TSMC's 2nm process: Oryon cores up to 5 GHz and a Hexagon neural unit for on-device AI models with…
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The open-source DuoBar utility combines battery charge, network connection and volume into a single macOS menu bar icon, and on desktop Macs it shows brightness and load.
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Four years of decapsulation, optical dumps and exploit hunting: the enthusiast DiscoStarslayer claims to have cracked one of the PS2's last unsolved mysteries.
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Unicode 18.0 adds 13,007 characters: nine emoji, 11,328 Small Seal script ideographs, the Jurchen script, and three currency signs — the rufiyaa, the UAE dirham, and the Omani rial.
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After updating to version 2608 (build 20326.x), Word may close unexpectedly when third-party applications generate documents from templates; Microsoft is investigating the issue.
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Oracle has launched a new round of layoffs: employees are being told their roles are being eliminated due to "organizational changes." The exact number of those laid off is not…
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MediaTek has unveiled its flagship Dimensity 9600 Pro: a claimed 2nm process node, 61% lower power consumption in multi-core tasks, and two NPUs for on-device models of up to 30…
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