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Archivist Al Kossow of Bitsavers, who led the technical recovery, described the process as "easy" as such efforts go. The tape, he explained, had "a pretty ...

TL;DR: Linus Torvalds chose an Intel Arc GPU for his perfect Linux PC, swerving Nvidia (unsurprisingly) and AMD (much more surprisingly). The Arc B580 was used in the build, but that wasn't Torvalds's ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. As someone who's been around the block a few hundred times with technology, planned obsolescence has long bothered me. When Microsoft released ...

OK, brace yourself for this one, peeps. Linus Torvalds, the software developer who created the Linux operating system and one of the most iconic figures in the indy computing scene, says the bad rep ...

Kali Linux has released version 2025.4, its final update of the year, introducing three new hacking tools, desktop environment improvements, the preview of Wifipumpkin3 in NetHunter, and enhanced ...

In a new blog post, Microsoft says its, "commitment is to make Windows the best place to game—no matter where you play." The company lays out a detailed checklist of all the measures it has taken to ...

I’ve been a PC gamer for over 30 years, and during that time, Microsoft’s operating systems (first MS-DOS, then various shades of Windows) have essentially been the default choice when building or ...

2025 has been an interesting year for video games, as the current-gen PlayStation and Xbox systems are well into their lifespans while the Nintendo Switch's successor, the Switch 2, is just beginning ...