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...
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...
Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues ( www.tomshardware.com )
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 )
Wells Fargo fires more than a dozen employees for faking work using mouse jigglers and keyboard activity simulation ( www.tomshardware.com )
Japanese researchers mull using particle accelerator for chipmaking — researchers claim EUV-like lithography capabilities ( www.tomshardware.com )
Microsoft's new Paint Cocreator requires an NPU — AI-powered feature requires 40 TOPS of performance and a Microsoft account ( www.tomshardware.com )
Microsoft quietly added a new AI feature, called Cocreator, into its raster graphics editor included in every version of Windows since 1985. You need a Copilot + PC with an NPU that can deliver 40 TOPS or better to use it. So, you need to shell out at least $1,099 to get one of the new Snapdragon X Windows Copilot+ PCs that...
AMD has preemptively dropped support for Windows 10 on its new Ryzen AI 300 Series chips ( www.tomshardware.com )
In another attempt to convince us that "AI PCs" are somehow fundamentally different from the PCs we're already using, AMD has officially dropped support for Windows 10 from its new AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series platform. This can be observed by glancing at the official AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 specs page, which now only lists 64-bit...
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....
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 )
Quake-like game made with JavaScript takes up just 13KB of storage ( www.tomshardware.com )
You can play it in your browser here.
Microsoft developer demos .NET on the NES — delivers .NES ( www.tomshardware.com )
Microsoft shot real lasers through a window to make Windows 10's wallpaper — surprisingly the iconic art wasn't computer generated ( www.tomshardware.com )
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:...
Elon Musk's xAI plans to build 'Gigafactory of Compute' by fall 2025 — using 100,000 Nvidia's H100 GPUs ( www.tomshardware.com )
Windows 11 IoT LTSC 2024 arrives making TPM and Secure Boot optional — lower storage requirements, too ( www.tomshardware.com )
RISC-V adoption predicted to get AI boost — forecast shows 50% growth every year until 2030 for the open-standard ISA ( www.tomshardware.com )
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Idle Windows XP and 2000 machines get infected with viruses within minutes of being exposed online — legacy OSes compromised by just connecting to the Internet ( www.tomshardware.com )
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 )
Intel's new Thunderbolt Share provides file and screen sharing without hurting network performance ( www.tomshardware.com )
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OLED monitor momentum expected to continue — analysts expect 1.34 million units shipped by year end ( www.tomshardware.com )
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