putrakurniawan78/Shutterstock Microsoft has been very clear about its plans to retire Windows 10 this coming October. And while the company has slowly been changing its opinion on how end-of-life support for the operating system will work, a new development has revealed that Microsoft Edge, at least, will still get important updates for another three years.…
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Akmeena777/Shutterstock We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There’s something to love about a goofy product, and fortunately the internet has an endless supply of them. With the power of USB being so ubiquitous and adaptable, virtually anything can be built to plug into your computer — for better or for worse. Though…
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Nvidia has announced that support for GTX 10 series GPUs ends in October 2025After that, these graphics cards, including the GTX 1060, will only get security fixesIt also announced that Windows 10 support will run through to October 2026, mirroring Microsoft’s extended support program for the OSNvidia has released a new graphics driver and announced…
Microsoft has rolled out a series of targeted enhancements across its Defender and Sentinel cyber security ecosystem designed to help its customers guard against the possibility of falling victim to Scattered Spider as the cyber gang continues to evolve its playbook. Scattered Spider – referred to in Microsoft’s threat telemetry as Octo Tempest – ramped…
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aileenchik/Shutterstock It seems Microsoft just can’t get over the stranglehold that Chrome has on the browser market. According to new reports, users who mostly rely on Chrome could soon start getting pop-up notifications urging them to switch to Edge, Microsoft’s Chromium-based browser. This kind of behavior isn’t exactly new. Microsoft has been desperate to get…
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Nvidia’s Neural Texture Compression feature just became more efficientIt got this boost thanks to Microsoft’s new Cooperative Vector in DXR 1.2Testing with a demo showed almost a 90% reduction in video RAM footprint for textures, but that won’t apply in all scenarios (by any means)Worried your Nvidia graphics card may be underpowered in terms of…
The UK government is on a mission to loosen the grip that legacy IT suppliers have on public sector IT budgets, amid concerns about how police forces, NHS trusts and local councils are wedded to suppliers whose offerings are not good value for money. Technology secretary Peter Kyle outlined the government’s ambitions on this front…
A European trade body is facing criticism for striking a deal with Microsoft that allows its members to host and resell the software giant’s cloud offerings with preferential pricing terms. The Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers In Europe (CISPE) trade body has reached an agreement with Microsoft that will see its members offered revised pricing…
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a formal notice attributing a series of hostile cyber attacks using a variety of malware dubbed Authentic Antics to Russian-state operated advanced persistent threat (APT) group Fancy Bear. Authentic Antics is designed to steal login credentials and tokens for its victims email accounts, allowing Russian cyber…
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2024 was a banner year for Qualcomm at Computex, with the massive launch of its Snapdragon X Elite laptop processors putting it at the forefront of the event. In fact, Qualcomm’s keynote presentation last year was so impressive that I declared them the winners of the event, with guest stars from makes of many of…
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