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Microsoft and Adobe team up and make Photoshop 20% faster on Windows
Posted on Thursday June 18, 2026
Thanks to a close collaboration with Adobe, Microsoft engineers have significantly improved performance in certain Photoshop operations. Photoshop is a large, native desktop application written in C++ and compiled with Microsoft's Visual C++ compiler on Windows, which is why Microsoft focused on MSVC in an effort to extract additional performance...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Cybercriminals have been distributing malware via Steam for a year, tens of thousands affected
Posted on Thursday June 18, 2026
The attack reportedly abused Wallpaper Engine's "Application Wallpaper" executable, which runs as a standalone Windows program and can include community-developed games, planners, calendars, system monitors, and other widgets. However, because the app allows unverified third-party code to run on users' systems, it can be abused by threat actors to target...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Sandisk's new PS5 SSDs cost up to $2,960, that's five PlayStation 5 consoles
Posted on Thursday June 18, 2026
The US memory manufacturer has launched the Optimus GX PRO 850P SSD lineup, which includes storage drives specifically designed for the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro. While high-capacity SSDs are already expensive, Sandisk's PS5-branded drives push pricing to an entirely different level.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Apple's iPhone Air 2 is getting a second camera and better battery life, coming next year
Posted on Thursday June 18, 2026
The next Air will reportedly ship with an ultrawide rear camera alongside the primary unit, boosting its appeal to photo bugs that may have skipped the first-gen device due to its single-camera configuration. In an era where multiple cameras are the norm on most mainstream and premium models, the single-camera...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Taiwan is teaching civilians drone skills learned from Ukraine's war
Posted on Thursday June 18, 2026
Taiwan has seen an increase in volunteer-led civil defence groups in recent times as China becomes more aggressive and emboldened by Russia's actions.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Just 16% of Americans think AI will benefit society, despite chatbot use climbing to 49% of US adults
Posted on Thursday June 18, 2026
The Pew Research Center found that 49% of US adults now use chatbots, up from 33% two years ago. This includes roughly one in four who use these tools on daily basis. Fifty-one percent say they don't use chatbots at all, the majority of whom are 50 and older.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
AMD confirms next-gen Threadripper with Zen 6 cores, PCIe 6.0, and new TR6 socket
Posted on Thursday June 18, 2026
Details of the next Threadripper series were discovered in AMD's technical documentation portal by InstLatX64. It lists the AMD Ryzen Threadripper TR6 desktop processors under document ID UG1866, with screenshots revealing some key details: Family 1Ah Model A8h, DDR5 memory, PCIe Gen 6, Zen 6 cores, and the Mustang Peak codename.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Tim Cook confirms Apple price hikes are coming, iPhones could jump $200 or more
Posted on Thursday June 18, 2026
Apple CEO Tim Cook recently told The Wall Street Journal that raising prices across its product lineup will become unavoidable this year due to continually inflating memory costs. The company has not yet determined which devices will see hikes or how severe they will be, but WSJ estimates that base-model...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Replace These 11 Default Apps in Windows 11
Posted on Thursday June 18, 2026
Windows comes with a set of default apps that cover the basics – but for most of them, that's exactly their ceiling. Here are 11 better alternatives worth switching to.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Trump says Apple will work with Intel to build chips in the US
Posted on Thursday June 18, 2026
"When I won my Second Term (Third, actually!), it was clear America needed its Semiconductor Industry to come back to the U.S.A. We design everything, but we need to BUILD it here, NOW!" Trump wrote. "So I decided to help Intel because we need to design and build our Chips...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »