Category: Technology

Microsoft recently announced a brand-new addition to Key Management Service (KMS), a standard feature for mass activation of Windows devices in enterprises and other large-scale organizations. The KMS feature will soon rely on hardware-based security, using TPM's encryption "brain" to verify the legitimacy of the server hosting KMS data. Read...

In her keynote speech, AMD CEO Lisa Su revealed that Zen 7 will debut in 2028 with the 7th-generation Epyc "Florence" processors for enterprise and AI data centers. The new core architecture will be divided into classic (Zen 7) and compute-optimized (Zen 7c) versions, with both expected to be manufactured......

Prominent tipster Golden Pig Upgrade claims that AMD is developing a new Zen 5 laptop CPU equipped with 3D V-cache. The chip's tentative naming suggests it could land in relatively affordable mid-to-high-end gaming laptops. Read Entire Article

Intel reported second-quarter revenue of $16.1 billion, up 25% year over year and well ahead of Wall Street's expectations. Adjusted earnings reached $0.42 per share, almost double analysts' forecasts, while the company expects current-quarter sales of between $15.8 billion and $16.8 billion. Read Entire Article

Vera is built around the Olympus core, the first custom CPU core Nvidia has ever brought to the datacenter and the first custom core the company has designed anywhere since the Denver and Carmel efforts of the Tegra era nearly a decade ago. Read Entire Article

The controversial advertising partnership between LG and McAfee has apparently come to an end after Microsoft got involved in the matter. Read Entire Article

The Light Flip features a 2.8-inch non-touch OLED display, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, a 50MP rear camera, and a replaceable 1,800mAh battery. It sports an old-school T9 keypad, which used to be standard on candybar feature phones from Nokia, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson in the early 2000s. Read...

Geekbench 7 overhauls the benchmarking suite with a redesigned multi-core benchmark built around real-world application behavior, refreshed CPU and GPU workloads (AV1 encoding, ML upscaling, path tracing, etc), CUDA support for Nvidia GPUs, and larger datasets for more demanding performance testing. The new release also establishes AMD's Ryzen 7 7700...

Tails has introduced a safer shutdown process to help prevent data loss. It's also replacing GNOME Videos with the more secure Celluloid media player, updating Tor Browser, and refreshing firmware packages for improved graphics and Wi-Fi hardware support. Read Entire Article

A recent report by Boiling Steam might confirm what most enthusiasts have always suspected: an overpriced Steam Deck is never going to sell well. In fact, Valve's handheld machine might have already suffered a disastrous drop in sales. Despite the price hike, Valve is earning far less money than it......