Category: System Software

April 26, 2023

Windows 11 and Windows 10 are getting a revamped Weather app, but the bad news is that one of the main changes will not go down well – yes, it’s another attack of the adverts. The new take on the […]

April 25, 2023

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has created a 3D simulation tool to test automated vehicles in virtual off-road environments modeled after real-world conditions. The research expands SwRI’s investment into software-in-the-loop solutions to test connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) in scenarios ranging […]

April 24, 2023

Over the weekend, users on Reddit and YouTube began posting about problems with AMD’s newest Ryzen 7000X3D processors. In some cases, the systems simply stopped booting. But in at least one instance, a Ryzen 7800X3D became physically deformed, bulging out […]

April 6, 2023

In 2019, Volkswagen Group had a bold plan. After proving that it made sense to use a few common architectures to design a varied range of vehicles across multiple different brands, it decided to apply that same approach to software. […]

March 28, 2023

Last week, OpenAI revealed in a blog post that ChatGPT was taken offline on March 20 due to a bug that was allowing some users to see the chat history and payment information of other active users. It’s not quite […]

March 27, 2023

Microsoft recently added a new feature to Azure API Management with Workspaces, designed to enable developers to manage multiple API services from a single location, allowing them to easily view and modify all of their API services in one place. […]

March 8, 2023

With the beta cycle of iOS 16.4, we learned that Apple would no longer let anyone try the beta developer build without being enrolled in the company’s developer program. Now, with beta 3 of this upcoming operating system, Apple has […]

March 3, 2023

It looks like Windows is getting an easier way to manage all of those audio sources. In a blog post, the company announced that it is rolling out the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25309 to developers. With the new […]

February 28, 2023

Microsoft announced on Tuesday, Feb. 28 that Bing is about to get a new AI chatbot for Windows 11 users. The upcoming update for the latest OS will provide easier searching of queries on the internet with the help of […]

February 13, 2023

Team Green recently released DLSS SDK version 3.1 on its GitHub page, its first significant update in nearly a year. The new version adds increased customization and automatic updates along with performance improvements. Whenever Nvidia releases a new version of […]

February 6, 2023

Apple today released new tvOS 16.3.1 and HomePod 16.3.1 software updates, with the software coming two weeks after the tvOS 16.3 and HomePod 16.3 updates were released. According to Apple’s release notes for ‌HomePod‌ software 16.3.1, the update includes general […]

January 24, 2023

Intel’s entrance into the arena of dedicated graphics cards reveals some surprising observations regarding the size of GPU drivers. Compared with its competitors, Intel’s software is way overweight. The GeForce Graphics Driver 528.02 from Nvidia, released January 5, is 788MB. […]

January 17, 2023

According to a young security researcher, MSI last year released a firmware update which made many of its motherboards less secure than they should have been. First discovered by Dawid Potocki, a “student interested in FOSS and technology,” the issue […]

December 29, 2022

Hardware and software support for the royalty-free AV1 video codec has been steadily building over the last couple years. Hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding is becoming standard in more GPUs, phone SoCs, and other hardware, while streaming video services like YouTube […]

December 16, 2022

Next generation chatbots are now writing poetry and giving math lessons, but these smart applications have a bigger job to do. Advanced chatbots simulate human interaction via complex artificial intelligence (AI) processes, or conversational AI. As business-ready systems, conversational AI […]

December 15, 2022

Microsoft researchers have discovered a hybrid Windows-Linux botnet that uses a highly efficient technique to take down Minecraft servers and performs distributed denial-of-service attacks on other platforms. Dubbed MCCrash, the botnet infects Windows machines and devices running various distributions of […]

December 7, 2022

Good news, my fellow Chromebook-carrying citizens: Google’s ChromeOS platform is in the midst of getting a great new feature that’s all about productivity — and odds are, you can find and enable it on your own favorite Chromebook this very […]

November 30, 2022

The Windows Subsystem for Linux has reached GA status in the Microsoft Store, adding support for Windows 10 in addition to Windows 11. Among the most notable features in WSL 1.0.0 are opt-in systemd support and the possibility of running […]

November 23, 2022

Four years after the initial release, the compatibility layer known as Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has become an integral part of Windows. As announced by Microsoft Program Manager Craig Loewen, the Microsoft Store version of WSL is dropping its […]

October 28, 2022

Windows 11 now lets users connect to their smartphone’s hotspot without needing to touch the phone’s settings. The new feature comes via the Phone Link (formerly Your Phone) app for connecting Windows 11 PCs with smartphones. It should come in […]