Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more ( www.tomshardware.com )
HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware ( www.tomshardware.com )
On May 26, a user on HP's support forums reported that a forced, automatic BIOS update had bricked their HP ProBook 455 G7 into an unusable state. Subsequently, other users have joined the thread to sound off about experiencing the same issue....
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT ( www.tomshardware.com )
Windows 11 24H2 will enable BitLocker encryption for everyone — happens on both clean installs and reinstalls ( www.tomshardware.com )
Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300 ( www.tomshardware.com )
Elon Musk's xAI plans to build 'Gigafactory of Compute' by fall 2025 — using 100,000 Nvidia's H100 GPUs ( www.tomshardware.com )
Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week ( www.tomshardware.com )
Microsoft has been pushing hard for its users to sign into Windows with a Microsoft Account. The newest Windows 11 installer removed the easy bypass to the requirement that you make an account or login with your existing account. If you didn't install Windows 11 without a Microsoft Account and now want to stop sending the...
17 cringe-worthy Google AI answers demonstrate the problem with training on the entire web ( www.tomshardware.com )
These are 17 of the worst, most cringeworthy Google AI overview answers:...
DJI drone ban passes in U.S. House — 'Countering CCP Drones Act' would ban all DJI sales in U.S. if passed in Senate ( www.tomshardware.com )
Multi-million dollar Cheyenne supercomputer auction ends with $480,085 bid — buyer walked away with 8,064 Intel Xeon Broadwell CPUs, 313TB DDR4-2400 ECC RAM, and some water leaks ( www.tomshardware.com )
Microsoft has blocked the bypass that allowed you to create a local account during Windows 11 setup by typing in a blocked email address ( www.tomshardware.com )
Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler ( www.tomshardware.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17489781
Microsoft shot real lasers through a window to make Windows 10's wallpaper — surprisingly the iconic art wasn't computer generated ( www.tomshardware.com )
Windows 11 IoT LTSC 2024 arrives making TPM and Secure Boot optional — lower storage requirements, too ( www.tomshardware.com )
OLED monitor momentum expected to continue — analysts expect 1.34 million units shipped by year end ( www.tomshardware.com )
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/12631640...
Microsoft offers to relocate nearly 10% of China-based staffers to the US or allied nations — AI and cloud engineering exodus from China begins ( www.tomshardware.com )
South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware ( www.tomshardware.com )
Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues ( www.tomshardware.com )
World's smallest, cheapest network switch developed by US high school robotics team — Murex Robotics makes the hardware fully open-source ( www.tomshardware.com )
Designed for use in a remotely piloted underwater rover, the mrxSwitch v2.0 supplies five 100 Mbps Ethernet ports at a footprint of only 44.9mm by 42.2mm. Network switches of this form factor are typically reserved for highly embedded systems; the team prioritizes its use in remote-operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) or...
Nvidia tries to kill CUDA translation layers | Tom's Hardware ( www.tomshardware.com )
Wells Fargo fires more than a dozen employees for faking work using mouse jigglers and keyboard activity simulation ( www.tomshardware.com )
Intel's new Thunderbolt Share provides file and screen sharing without hurting network performance ( www.tomshardware.com )
cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/12671116...
Intel continues search for source of Core i9 chip crashes — issues statement about recommended BIOS settings to board partners ( www.tomshardware.com )
Nintendo forces Garry's Mod to delete 20 years of content — Garry confirms Nintendo is behind Steam Workshop purge | Tom's Hardware ( www.tomshardware.com )
Nintendo is literally a depressing company right now....