Latest News

CERN is moving more than 2,200 specialized computers from RHEL to Debian
Posted on Saturday September 05, 2026
During a recent conference held in Winterthur, Switzerland, engineers working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) confirmed that the laboratory is going to move from Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Debian. The switch will affect more than 2,200 computers, many of which cannot be upgraded to newer RHEL...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Starlink is offering half-price internet near xAI data centers, but critics want the pollution fixed
Posted on Saturday September 05, 2026
With roughly 2,000 reported subscribers since the offer was announced in July, compared with more than 250,000 households across Memphis, the discount appears unlikely to ease broader concerns about the company's unpermitted power generation and its environmental impact.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Acer's new DualPlay Mini is a handheld gaming PC that flips open into a mini laptop
Posted on Saturday September 05, 2026
While unveiling its latest standard handheld gaming PC at IFA last week, Acer also offered an early look at its DualPlay Mini concept, which aims to offer a gaming handheld and a mini laptop in one product. If the device ever receives a proper launch, Acer might have one of...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft unveils distraction-free Windows for developers, but anyone can replicate it
Posted on Friday September 04, 2026
As part of its push to promote AI-driven development, Microsoft and its hardware partners will begin selling high-end PCs with a clutter-free version of Windows later this year. However, instead of a separate Windows SKU, the machines will ship with pre-configured developer-friendly settings for Windows 11 Pro.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
AMD's next-gen RDNA 5 GPUs could hit 3.4GHz, but they're not coming anytime soon
Posted on Friday September 04, 2026
According to a post on the AnandTech Forums by the generally reliable leaker Kepler_L2, internal AMD documentation points to a 3.1 to 3.4 GHz target frequency range for RDNA 5. The comment came in response to another forum member questioning whether the integrated graphics in AMD's next-generation APUs could clock...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Nvidia's PAIR software turns idle home computers into a local AI cluster
Posted on Friday September 04, 2026
Nvidia has introduced a new software tool for jumpstarting an explosion in local inferencing infrastructure. The Personal AI Router (PAIR) project is open-source software designed to link different computer systems, even different computer operating systems, into a custom AI cluster where chatbots, AI agents, and other compatible LLM applications share...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Audacity 4.0 debuts with a new interface and major editing improvements
Posted on Friday September 04, 2026
Audacity 4.0 is a major overhaul of the popular audio editor, featuring a redesigned interface, improved clip editing, a new project format, and native ASIO support on Windows. Some features haven't made the transition yet, including MIDI tracks, but are expected to return in future releases.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Researchers uncovered AI agents that hijacked a German wiki to discuss how to escape their sandbox
Posted on Friday September 04, 2026
Reuters reports that a swarm of agents commandeered DseWiki, an obscure German-language programming wiki, and turned it into a bulletin board where they shared answers and evasion tactics with other AI agents. Despite some descriptions of the incident, this was not German Wikipedia; DseWiki merely allows collaborative editing in a...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Steve Wozniak-signed Apple-1 motherboard could fetch $800,000 at auction
Posted on Friday September 04, 2026
The motherboard will be auctioned online by Bonhams' New York as part of its History of Science, Technology & Computing sale between October 4 and 14. It carries an estimated price tag of $500,000 to $800,000, but experts believe it could attract much higher bids, given its status as an...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Lexar Muse claims world's thinnest portable SSD at 3.8mm, it can't fit a USB-C port
Posted on Friday September 04, 2026
The new Lexar Muse Ultra-Slim Portable SSD, to give it its full name, has almost credit-card-like dimensions of 80 × 48 × 3.8 mm (3.15 x 1.89 x 0.15 inches).Read Entire Article Continue Reading »