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Sharpest-ever images of the sun reveal tiny plasma whirlpools scientists have chased for decades
Posted on Thursday August 06, 2026
The patterns match what physicists expect from Kelvin-Helmholtz instability, a shear-driven effect seen in many fluids and plasmas but not previously resolved at such fine scales on the sun's visible surface. The results are detailed in a new paper in Nature, based on the telescope's 4-meter (13 foot) mirror and...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Gears of War: E-Day open beta kicks off today, and PVP made it in after all
Posted on Thursday August 06, 2026
The beta program includes an early access phase from August 6 to 10 for customers who pre-ordered the game on Xbox or Steam, as well as all Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass subscribers. This will be followed by an open beta from August 13 to 17 for all...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Apple's iCloud Private Relay feature is leaking users' real IP addresses
Posted on Thursday August 06, 2026
The discovery comes from security researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk, who found three WebKit features that bypass application-level proxy settings: DNS prefetching, WebAuthn Related Origin Requests, and WebTransport. WebKit underpins Safari and, in most countries, every other browser available on iOS.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Apple's A20 Pro production is going smoothly, except DRAM supply is bottlenecking iPhone assembly
Posted on Thursday August 06, 2026
Apple's next iPhones are built around a new chip and packaging setup that pairs the A20 Pro processor with high-performance DRAM at the wafer level, and that packaging step is being slowed by a tight memory market, according to sources who spoke with Taipei-based journalist Tim Culpan.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Microsoft removes support page recommending 32GB RAM for gaming PCs
Posted on Wednesday August 05, 2026
Earlier this year, Microsoft told Windows 11 users that a proper gaming rig needed 32GB of RAM. That support document has since vanished, as Redmond and the rest of the PC industry contend with an unprecedented supply crunch across memory, storage, GPUs, and other core components – fallout from Big...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Greece is using thermal satellites to spot wildfires before people do
Posted on Wednesday August 05, 2026
The system is built around four small satellites that fly in low Earth orbit and repeatedly pass over the same areas. Developed by German firm OroraTech in partnership with the Hellenic Space Centre, the constellation is designed specifically to detect fires and hotspots rather than serve as a general Earth...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Visual Studio Code adds on-device AI dictation and sidebar chats
Posted on Wednesday August 05, 2026
Visual Studio Code 1.132 introduces multilingual on-device AI dictation powered by Nemotron 3.5, alongside new sidebar chats that let developers interact with Copilot without interrupting their workflow. VS Code is one of our Essential Apps for both Windows and macOS.Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
SteamOS runs surprisingly well on AMD Strix Halo laptop in AAA gaming tests
Posted on Wednesday August 05, 2026
Popular YouTube channel ETA Prime installed SteamOS 3.9 on an Asus TUF Gaming A14 laptop using the official Steam Deck recovery image. The laptop is powered by an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 392 APU with 12 Zen 5 cores and a Radeon 8060S iGPU. It also features 32GB of LPDDR5X-8000...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
Samsung reveals next-gen memory with stacked HBM and 400-layer NAND
Posted on Wednesday August 05, 2026
At the Future of Memory and Storage 2026 conference in Santa Clara, California, the company laid out a roadmap built around three main technologies: a new Bonding V-NAND architecture with more than 400 layers, a concept for vertically stacked high-bandwidth memory called zHBM, and a next-generation NAND approach called zNAND-O....Read Entire Article Continue Reading »
DuckDuckGo made sunglasses that do absolutely nothing, and they sold out
Posted on Wednesday August 05, 2026
DuckDuckGo's latest product is a pair of ordinary sunglasses, with no added features such as video recording or generative AI integration. Part marketing campaign and part wearable apparel, designed in partnership with Knockaround, the aptly named "Normal F***ing Sunglasses" cater to customers who'd rather not think about privacy while walking...Read Entire Article Continue Reading »