Windows 11 Pro’s $13 Upgrade: The AI Performance Paradox

Feb 17, 20263 min readGaming

Xbox Game Pass Gets Two Epic RPGs—But PC Players Miss Out on One Big Title

Microsoft’s subscription service is expanding with Kingdom Come: Deliverance II* and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Compl...

Feb 17, 20263 min readLaptops

KDE Plasma 6.6: The Gaming and Accessibility Upgrade Linux Desktops Needed

A new login manager, HDR fixes for Proton gamers, and accessibility breakthroughs define this release—but there’s a...

Feb 17, 20262 min readAI

Three Critical Fixes for a Corrupt USB Drive Before You Format It

A corrupted USB drive doesn’t always mean permanent data loss. Before hitting 'format,' try these three troubleshoo...

Feb 17, 20263 min readAI

X’s Dim Mode Vanishes—And the Backstory Reveals a Systemic Problem

The removal of X’s third theme option—dim mode—has sparked confusion and frustration. A blunt internal admission su...

S3

Feb 17, 20263 min readAI

SurrealDB 3.0 Unifies AI Agents with a Single Database—Eliminating the Need for Five Separate Systems

The new version consolidates vector search, graph traversal, and relational data into one transactional engine, cut...

Feb 17, 20263 min readGPU

Meta and NVIDIA Forge Decade-Long AI Alliance to Power Next-Gen Infrastructure

Meta and NVIDIA are collaborating on a multiyear, multigenerational partnership to deploy millions of NVIDIA GPUs,...

Feb 17, 20263 min readGPU

Meta and NVIDIA Forge a $5,000 GPU-Era Infrastructure Alliance for AI at Scale

A multiyear collaboration will see Meta deploy millions of Blackwell and Rubin GPUs, Arm-based Grace CPUs, and Spec...

Q2

Feb 17, 20263 min readAI

Qodo 2.1 Introduces AI Governance Framework to End 'Amnesia' in Code Reviews

A new intelligent Rules System from Qodo aims to eliminate the persistent memory gap in AI-powered code review tool...

Feb 17, 20263 min readGaming

Dave Plummer’s AI-Powered Task Manager: A Retro-Futuristic Vision for Windows Monitoring

A legendary Microsoft developer has unveiled a radical, synthwave-infused AI dashboard—designed to look like Task M...

Feb 17, 20262 min readPC

Apple Vision Pro Gets Foveated Streaming—Before Most VR Headsets

Apple’s Vision Pro is adding foveated streaming support, a feature that could improve performance for cloud and loc...