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China, considered the world's largest CO₂ emitter, recorded its first decline in fossil fuel emissions in 2025, despite rising energy consumption. According to official statistics, emissions from the energy and industrial sectors decreased by 0,3%, while overall electricity consumption increased by 3,5%, thanks to the rapid development of renewable energy sources […]
Late last year, OpenAI announced plans to launch an "adult mode" in ChatGPT in the first quarter of 2026, but users will likely have to wait longer. According to online sources, the company is delaying the launch of the feature that allows an AI bot to generate adult content. Computer of the Month, Special Issue: The Age of Rollback, or How the Memory Chip Shortage Affects […]
Chinese company Yangtze Memory Technologies has expanded its line of consumer SSDs with the PC550 model. These are the vendor's first M.2 drives with a PCIe 5.0 interface, positioned for use in AI-powered computers and commercial client systems. They will be available in capacities of 512 GB, 1 TB, and 2 TB. Ryzen and 16 GB of DDR5: […]
PPSSPP is an open-source Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) emulator. It runs on GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows, and mobile devices running Android and iOS. PPSSPP is an HLE (High Level Emulation) emulator and doesn't require the original console's BIOS, as it uses an HLE BIOS. Key changes include: improved UI; improved multiplayer support; fixed graphical issues […]
Andy Nguyen, a security researcher at Google, announced a Linux port for the Sony PlayStation 5 and demonstrated how the console can be converted into a fully-fledged gaming PC running Ubuntu 24.04.4, capable of running Steam and modern 3D games. The Linux environment was powerful enough to run GTA 5 with ray tracing enabled (in "High RT" mode) at a resolution of […]
Budgie 10.10.2, the second update to the Wayland-based branch, has been released. Similar releases have also been made for related components, including the Budgie Desktop View, the Budgie Control Center system configuration interface (a fork of GNOME Control Center), and the Budgie Desktop Services suite (the Budgie Session manager update is delayed). The project code is distributed […]
GamesIndustry.biz, citing research from analytics firm Newzoo, revealed the reason for the decline in sales of PlayStation exclusives on PC, prompting the company to abandon porting its hits. Ryzen and 16GB of DDR5: How to save on memory without losing 15% performance. Ryzen 7 9850X3D Review: Three Percent for Twenty Bucks. HONOR MagicBook Laptop Review […]
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a rather controversial statement during his speech at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Conference. He said, "The fact that everything is in short supply right now is just wonderful for us [Nvidia]." Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold Review: A Triple Folding Smartphone for the Price of an Apartment in Vorkuta Ryzen Review […]
This wasn't planned. It just happened. In September 2022, NASA launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, in which a spacecraft weighing approximately 570 kg (1,270 lb) intentionally collided with the asteroid Dimorphos, a satellite of the larger asteroid Didymos in the binary system they formed. The goal was to demonstrate the feasibility of […]
Wine 11.4 was released today—an open-source software release that provides an alternative, free implementation of the Windows API. It allows you to run Windows games and applications on POSIX-compliant operating systems such as Linux, BSD, and macOS. Wine also powers Valve's Steam Play (Proton). Key changes include a rewrite of the SAX reader to MSXML. DirectSound resampling optimizations. […]
Gabriele Svelto, an engineer at Mozilla, published the results of an analysis of the connection between Firefox crashes and memory corruption caused by hardware issues. Of the 470 Firefox crash reports received in the last week, 25 were attributed to potential bit corruption due to unstable memory chips. It was stated that this […]
Following the Federal Antimonopoly Service's announcement that advertising on Telegram and YouTube is illegal, major advertising groups have begun suspending their advertising campaigns in the messenger, Vedomosti reports. Specifically, Media Direction Group (ranked top 8 by media purchases in 2024 according to Sostav and the Association of Communication Agencies of Russia (ACAR)) has suspended its advertising campaigns. […]