The 31-year evolution of the Blue Screen of Death
Everyone knows that a Blue Screen is bad news — tack on “of Death” to that, and the point is only clearer. It’s a sign that something catastrophic has happened, so much so that the operating system ...
How the Blue Screen of Death became your PC’s grim reaper
There’s nothing more startling than your PC suddenly locking up and crashing to a Blue Screen of Death. Otherwise known as a Blue Screen, BSOD, or within the walls of Microsoft, a bug check screen, ...
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Android versions: A living history from 1.0 to 15
Explore Android's ongoing evolution with this visual timeline of versions, starting B.C. (Before Cupcake) and going all the way to 2024's Android 15 release. What a long, strange trip it’s been ...
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Microsoft Launches Inference Framework to Run 100B 1-Bit LLMs on Local Devices
Unlike traditional LLMs, which often employ 16-bit floating-point values (FP16) or FP4 by NVIDIA for weights, BitNet b1.58 restricts each weight to one of three values: -1, 0, or 1 ... and Clang 18.
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Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks
coding has come a long way since the heyday of the Windows-98-era Winamp player, and Winamp seems to have rushed its code onto a platform it does not really understand. Winamp did get that big ...
Nintendo Life25d
Super Mario Party Jamboree Version 1.1.0 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
One day ahead of its release, Nintendo has released the first patch for Super Mario Party Jamboree for all those who have the game pre-installed and ready to go. The ver. 1.1.0 update isn't all ...
theregister25d
Microsoft teases latest Windows 10 build despite looming end
Microsoft has released a Windows Insider build of Windows 10 despite the impending end of support for many flavors of the operating system. Build 19045.5070 has been pushed to the Beta and Release ...
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Satisfactory 1.0 mods – they are finally here so how do they work?
Paul McNally has been around consoles and computers since his parents bought him a Mattel Intellivision in 1980. He has been a prominent games journalist… Despite being in Early Access since ...
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Asahi Linux’s bespoke GPU driver is running Windows games on Apple Silicon Macs
But even with the current list of caveats, that games written for x86 Windows PCs can run on Arm Linux Macs is a huge technical achievement and a sign of how far Linux and all of these app and API ...
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OpenAI uses its own models to fight election interference
OpenAI, the brains behind the popular ChatGPT generative AI solution, released a report saying it blocked more than 20 operations and dishonest networks worldwide in 2024 so far. The operations ...
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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Has Released Its Update Version 13.0.3
Get ready to start smashing! Nintendo has released the latest update for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, bringing the game to Version 13.0.3 on the Switch. This patch fixes an online problem where ‘ ...