Software

VAES (vectorized AES) instructions used by apps like like BitLocker should accelerate disk data encryption. But Microsoft has recently had to patch a data damage flaw.

Windows 11 Home and Pro licenses are now available direct from Microsoft at $139 and $199, respectively. Until recently, you would have had to buy Windows 10, then do an upgrade instead.

An iron curtain on tech inexorably inches closer.

The biggest hardware releases of the year loom closer.

Major updates every three year, incremental feature updates in-between

Valve got in touch with GPD about this project in March.

Nvidia today announced QODA, a unified quantum programming platform that enables quantum-accelerated AI, HPC, Health, and Finance applications.

As well as offering the option to skip Microsoft Account sign-in, the latest edition of Rufus has options to swerve secure boot and TPM requirements, minimum RAM and storage requirements, and more.

Perhaps it is more surprising that Microsoft has taken so long to withdraw Windows ISO file availability in the wake of its official statement regarding Russia sanctions in early March.

Users with Kaby Lake and Skylake CPUs have been offered the update.

The Lockbit ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for this attack. Foxconn has three plants in Mexico making LCD TVs, set top boxes, and smartphones.

Nvidia is aiming to bridge the classical and quantum computing realms through its GPU expertise, while developing a unified programming model not unlike CUDA.

At the BUILD developer conference today, Panos Panay said third parties will be able to start building Windows 11 widgets as companion experiences for Win32 and PWA apps later this year.

An international team of researchers have developed a proof-of-concept algorithm that pairs classical and quantum rendering techniques to improve ray tracing performance by leaps and bounds.

Ethereum core developer Preston Van Loon expects Ethereum's The Merge event to occur in August, locking GPU mining out of the ecosystem - and potentially saving next-gen GPU launches.

A new Software Engineer job posting reveals that the firm is serious in its intentions to strengthen its ‘Ubuntu Gaming Experience’ team.

AMD's latest preview driver promises improved performance for a plethora of DX 11 games, and independent testing not only confirms the claims, but raises hope for the DX 11 gaming ecosystem.

Teams of Google and AMD engineers partnered in a veritable hunt for cybersecurity issues on the AMD Security Processor (ASP) implemented on AMD's EPYC Milan CPUs.

Lisa Pearce said we would get a driver update with benchmarking optimization toggle "by the end of April." Intel has seemed sluggish with regard to its hardware release schedule too.