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Valve’s VRAM hack can boost performance on 4GB GPUs, with testing showing FPS gains of up to 3x in some titles, though results vary widely depending on the game and settings.

AMD SDK suggests 4x and 6x frame generation multipliers are in the works

Strong coverage and a long run time make this pool-cleaning robot a compelling alternative to pricier models.

Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, has announced the launch of custom timelines, which lets you curate what you see on your feed based on your topics of interest. He called the update “one of the biggest changes to X” and a ”huge undertaking” that took the team “many months” to develop. The featur...

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

Iranian state media has alleged that equipment from Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, and MikroTik failed during U.S. and Israeli military operations against Iran.

Microsoft says that an ongoing Universal Print sharing issue that prevents users from creating some printer shares is due to a Microsoft Graph API code change. [...]

Artificial intelligence is moving quickly in the enterprise, from experimentation to everyday use. Organizations are deploying copilots, agents, and predictive systems across finance, supply chains, human resources, and customer operations. By the end of 2025, half of companies used AI in at leas...

Text-to-SQL might be useful for analysts and DBAs, but be cautious with general user adoption Over the past few years, database and analytics vendors have hopped on a bandwagon that may take us all to a destination where common data queries are free from the constraints of the specialist query la...

A Linux variant of the GoGra backdoor uses legitimate Microsoft infrastructure, relying on an Outlook inbox for stealthy payload delivery. [...]

Los Angeles deserves its reputation as the quintessential car city—the rhythms of its 2,200 square miles are dictated by wide boulevards and concrete arcs of freeways. But it once had a world-class rail transit system, and for the last three decades, the city has been rebuilding a network of trol...

When people talk about “nature,” they’re generally talking about things that aren’t made by human beings. Rocks. Reefs. Red wolves. But while there is plenty of God’s creation to go around, it is hard to think of anything on Earth that human hands haven’t affected. In the Brazilian rainforest, sc...

“Pull over!” I order my brother one sunny February afternoon. Our target is in sight: a gaggle of Canada geese, pecking at grass near the dog park. As I approach, tiptoeing over their grayish-white poop, I notice that one bird wears a white cuff around its slender black neck. It’s a GPS tracker—p...

Isegye Idol If you thought K-pop was weird, virtual idols—humans who perform as anime-style digital characters via motion capture—will blow your mind. My favorite is a girl group called Isegye Idol, created by Woowakgood, a Korean VTuber (a streamer who likewise performs as a digital persona). Is...

This is the ‘first time ever RAM has been made at home’ boasts a garden shed-based semiconductor maker.

The ebike that doesn’t look like any other ebike is a tremendously fun ride—even for two passengers—if you don’t mind the Cybertruckian design.

On May 8, we’re going live to answer your questions about the Musk v. Altman trial that could determine the fate of OpenAI.

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