As PC gamers, many of us set out to upgrade one or two parts of our PC while leaving the rest untouched, hoping that everything would fall into place. In most cases, the part we always focus on is the GPU. After all, it is responsible for rendering visuals and increasing frame rates. Yes, a newer, more powerful GPU should significantly improve your frame rates, but that’s not always guaranteed when your other elements are lagging, especially your CPU. Even though your gaming performance depends primarily on your GPU, it doesn’t work alone. Your CPU still needs to feed it…
Author: Alexander Price
The team behind the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on the M5 silicon has shared new details on how Mythos Preview helped circumvent a five-year Apple security effort in five days. A little technical knowledge Last year, Apple introduced Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE), a hardware-assisted memory security system designed to make memory corruption exploits much more difficult to execute. As Apple explained, MIE is essentially built on Arm’s Memory Tagging Extension (MTE), a 2019 specification that functions “as a hardware tool for detecting memory corruption bugs.” Here is Apple: MTE is, at its core, a memory tagging and…
Rumors of a smaller Dynamic Island aren’t new, but there has been plenty of speculation about it when it comes to the iPhone 18 Pro. Claimed CAD images showing a smaller dynamic island add fuel to the fire, but we reiterate our earlier skepticism… Several reports suggest that Dynamic Island could decrease in this year’s iPhone 18 Pro, and potentially in other models as well. For the iPhone 18 series, the black bezels remain unchanged; only the Dynamic Island has been reduced in size, while the bezels themselves are identical to those of the iPhone 17 series. However, two reports…
Semafor reports that Tim Cook is among the CEOs likely to be invited on an upcoming trip to China. His departure could shape his remaining months as Apple CEO. Here are the details. A trip Cook may not want to skip As reported SemaforThe Trump administration plans to invite, among others, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, for a trip to China next week. The list would also include CEOs from Exxon, Boeing, Blackstone, Citigroup and Visa, “and is likely to grow in the coming days as CEOs vie for invitations,” says Semafor.…
World War II The United States and the European Union have expanded details on its trade agreement, promising billions of AI flea sales, a price ceiling of 15% on the key sectors, in particular cars and semiconductors, and a framework for the creation of digital rules which could reshape the transatlantic technology industry. Europe has exchanged autonomy for stability in the new Trump prices order as a permanent army, not a negotiation program. Strategic autonomy slips more out of reach … The pact, announced on Thursday, confirms that Brussels intends to buy at least $ 40 billion in American AI…
If you’re having trouble using Spotify today, you’re not alone. The music streaming company has confirmed an ongoing outage and says it is working on a fix. Downdetector, which aggregates outage information based on user reports, shows an increase in complaints shortly after 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET. On social media, a number of Spotify users are complaining about not being able to stream music, access their libraries, etc. Spotify confirmed the outage in a post on X, saying: “We are currently aware of some issues with the app and are checking them! » There is no timetable for resolution…
The spin-off cooperative action game Horizon Hunters Gather is hosting another playtest from May 22-25. Registrations are already open through the PlayStation beta program, with availability on PC and PS5. This follows a first game test carried out at the end of February. For the uninitiated, Horizon Hunters Gather is a multiplayer game set in the Horizon universe. It is developed by Guerrilla, the same company behind both Horizon Zero Dawn And Horizon Forbidden West. This spinoff has been in the works for at least four years, when we first learned about it. Gathering…
Unknown Worlds/Krafton We are only a few days away from the Early Access release of Subnautic 2 after a long wait, and the team shared a gameplay preview to drum up the hype. This weekend, the Unknown Worlds developers hosted a two-hour livestream featuring the first dive for anyone who wants to dig deeper into the game. The team also released a short gameplay trailer, which you can check out below. Subnautic 2 will be available in Early Access on May 14 on Steam, Xbox and Epic. Subnautic 2 takes…
As a home lab, I have always advocated running services on my local hardware instead of relying on cloud platforms. And my stance on FOSS tools didn’t change even after I started running large language models. If anything, I’ve grown to love the LLM 9B and 12B that I have deployed on my server nodes, because I don’t have to worry about external companies accessing all the documents and log files that I upload to my models. But no matter how much I love my local models, they can’t hold up against the hundreds of billions of parameters that Claude,…
As a self-hosting enthusiast and someone who writes about cool new open source tools, I install and test way too many tools and services every week. Yes, I have a separate environment fully set up for testing, and things break sometimes. For the longest time, I thought that backing up my Docker configuration just meant backing up my containers. As long as my volumes, essential folders, and composition files are safely backed up, everything should be fine. Ideally, this should be enough to redeploy my entire setup within a few hours in the event of an outage. But this is…