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OS PLATFORMS Affected titles crash, freeze, or restart PCs while Redmond works out whether it is to blame Microsoft is investigating reports of games crashing after users installed August's Patch Tuesday update for Windows 11. The company acknowledged the reports on its Release Health page. Affected games may
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Software is being released at a pace traditional testing approaches struggle to match, while AI is moving from assisting with test design to generating, adapting, and maintaining tests across the delivery pipeline. The question facing software testers is no longer only how to scale testing, but how to guarantee the
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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* Xbox Wireless Controller X25 Special Edition will reportedly launch on October 20 * Leaker 'billbil-kun' claims pre-orders will open during Gamescom on August 26 * The controller will cost $79.99 / £74.99 / €79.99 The price and release date for Microsoft's 25th anniversary Xbox Wireless Controller have
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Last week, Clint Curtis, the top election official in Shasta County, California, publicly accused members of his own staff of bypassing security, which he later claimed was an attempt “to sabotage a federal election.” Days later, Curtis announced plans to hire a new deputy: Tina Peters, the election denial superstar
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OpenAI has detailed new containment and continuous monitoring protocols for its AI research, introducing stricter isolation and a token-inspection system to manage models with advanced cybersecurity capabilities. These security measures follow internal evaluations indicating that an upcoming model, Astra, may meet the ‘critical’ cybersecurity capability threshold under the organization’s
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I have some very sad news. Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 is no longer fast enough for the ultimate gaming experience. This is a truly devastating day for PC gaming. What hope do everyday buyers have when Nvidia's $4,700 model is no longer good enough? Maintaining
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* RCS in Google Messages has stopped working for some users * The issue mostly seems to be affecting newly set up Samsung phones * Various fixes have been proposed, but the simplest and weirdest seems the most reliable RCS (Rich Communication Services) is a worthwhile upgrade to SMS — it brings encryption, read
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Did OpenAI really just get the jitters about what it’s tech might get up to unchecked? Or has it just launched a nice piece of performative PR to score pre-IPO points on the ‘responsible vendor’ scale? Whichever interpretation you veer towards, here’s the basic skinny - yesterday OpenAI
