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Ambitious hacker reduces worst-case memory latency by up to 93%, but with severe downsides
The clever software trick works on both x86 and Arm to radically reduce worst-case memory latency, but it has severe limitations, too.
macOS has a 49.7-day networking time bomb built in that only a reboot fixes
The macOS networking stack has a bug that creates a 49.7-day-long countdown to disaster that currently requires a reboot to fix, as discovered by AI service provider Photon.
At least 80 different Microsoft Copilot products have been mapped out by expert, but there may be more than 100
An AI aficionado has put together a chart of all the Copilot products they could find. At the latest count there are 80.
Linux devs start removing support for 37-year-old Intel 486 CPU
Linux kernel developers appear to have started to dismantle support for the legendary Intel 486 CPU.
Enthusiast installs Win 3.1X on bare metal Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti system
A retro computing connoisseur has bare-metal installed and booted Microsoft Windows 3.1X on a Ryzen 9 9900X and RTX 5060 Ti PC system.
Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions
Windows 11 24H2 systems are being upgraded to 25H2 automatically, as Microsoft aims to streamline updates before support ends.
'Every Microsoft engineer got a stopwatch,' says Windows veteran reminiscing about company's past focus on speed
A former president of Microsoft’s Windows Division has been reminiscing about the lean and efficient coding regime at Microsoft in the 1980s.
Artemis II astronaut finds two Outlook instances running on computers, calls on Houston to fix Microsoft anomaly — puzzled caller describes ‘two Outlooks, and neither one of those are working’
'Two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working,' complains Artemis II astronaut.
