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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.