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Buying speakers can sometimes feel like a bit of a lottery, especially if you're trawling the listings looking for something that might suit your needs for less. There are plenty of options in the sub $100/£100 range, but many from brands you've likely never heard of, and that can cause a sceptical eyebrow to raise.
Intel's XeSS upscaler might not quite have the developer support of something like Nvidia's DLSS, but it's proven itself quite a competent performer. Now the most recent Intel XeSS 1.3 SDK has been released, and Intel has been keen to show off some significant performance improvements and improved visual quality to boot.
Windows 10 is, I'm afraid to say, not long for this world. While Microsoft has confirmed that the ageing OS will still receive free security updates until October 14, 2025, after that you'll have to be part of the ESU, or «Extended Security Updates» program, and that costs money. Depending on your use case, that could be much more than you expected.
Advertising seems to be everywhere. A necessary evil, perhaps, as our free time is gradually monetised in an effort to make those delicious bucks, pounds and Australian dollary-doos, and companies expect to, shock horror, make some cash from their users. However, if you thought you were safe from overt advertising while watching an ad-free streaming service or playing a game, Roku has different ideas. The company has filed a patent that would allow its TVs to detect when you're paused while using an HDMI connected device, and show you a lovely targeted advert.
Microsoft Edge is fine. Unfortunately, fine doth butter few parsnips in the world of browser choices, as it's often jokingly referred to as the browser you use on a new Windows install to download something better. Still, if some new features in the latest Canary build of the browser are anything to go by, soon you might be able to control its RAM usage, with a mode specifically for gaming, too.
Occasionally you come across a product that makes you throw your hands up in the air, gaze towards the heavens, and announce «why?» I had just such a moment earlier today, when viewing a mouse kit that wants you to not only buy a perfectly decent Razer Viper V2 Pro to complete it, but to rip the sticky skates off the bottom, disassemble it, and harvest its delicate PCB from within.
Last year, Microsoft disclosed that a Chinese hacking group referred to as «Storm-0558» was responsible for a security breach that led to the access of the email accounts of around 25 organisations, including some US government agencies. The federal Cyber Safety Review Board has just released its report on the incident, identifying a «cascade of Microsoft's avoidable errors that allowed this intrusion to succeed». Ouch.
Underneath my road lies a cable on which, like many, my whole digital world relies. Fibre optic cables have become increasingly standard for modern high-speed internet connections, but even these super-highways of speed are limited in their capacity. Thanks to the work of some British researchers, however, those very same cables may be able to provide connection speeds that are massively faster than those we currently rely on.