Next-Generation HDMI 2.2 announced
Published in News
Monday, 06 January 2025 22:31

Next-Generation HDMI 2.2 announced


Bandwidth and performance leap

Seven years after the introduction of the HDMI 2.1 specification, the HDMI Forum has unveiled its successor with the imaginative and catchy title HDMI 2.2.

Microsoft declares 2025 to be the year of the Windows 11 refresh
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Probably about the same time as Linux on the desktop

Software King of the World, Microsoft wants 2025 to be "the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh."

Vole seems to have cloned Google
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Monday, 06 January 2025 22:07

Vole seems to have cloned Google


A sneaky move to retain Bing users

Software King of the World, Microsoft appears to have implemented a new and somewhat controversial tactic aimed at keeping users on Bing rather than losing them to Google.

AMD rumoured to develop Fire Range Successor
Published in PC Hardware


X3D Technology

AMD is allegedly working on a successor to its Dragon Range (Ryzen 7045HX) processor lineup, codenamed Fire Range.

TV streamers are managing to kill off their industry
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Greed and too much competition

TV streaming companies are seeing their business die off as users give a thumbs down to their money-grubbing antics.

Software dependant advertisers blacklist the crosswords
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Real censorship

Never mind so-called liberal wokeness, the real censors are software engines used by leading advertisers.

Gaza conflict the first significant use of AI in war
Published in AI


When intelligence ran out the robots took over

The Gaza conflict might go down in history as the first extensive use of AI in warfare.

Pressure mounts on Vole as FSF calls for action on TPM 2.0
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Join the home guard

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has stepped up its campaign against Microsoft’s TPM 2.0 security chip which it claims is just a clever way to lock users into proprietary software.

Linux gaming on the rise
Published in Gaming
Sunday, 05 January 2025 22:28

Linux gaming on the rise


Valve's steam survey December results

Valve's "Steam Survey" results for December 2024 indicate a notable upward trend for Linux gaming statistics.

Siri has been spying on users
Published in Mobiles
Sunday, 05 January 2025 22:25

Siri has been spying on users


Selling their conversations for targeted advertising

Despite claiming that “unlike other companies” it was not spying on users and flogging their data to advertisers the fruity cargo cult, Apple has just paid out in a court case where it was doing just that.