Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. (www.theverge.com)
Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1.::95.57 percent of surveyed Steam users are already on Windows 10 and 11, with nearly 2 percent of the remainder on Linux and 1.5 percent on Mac — so we may be talking about fewer than 1 percent of users on these older Windows builds. Older...
Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 (www.neowin.net)
Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1::Customers sticking to the good-old (and dead) Windows 7 now have one more reason to ditch the operating system: as of January 1, 2024, Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.
The oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploaded (arstechnica.com)
SR-72: US secret hypersonic jet to allegedly break sound barrier in 2025 | Believed to be a top-secret project of the US Air Force, the SR-72 is touted to reach over 4,000 mph (6,437 kph), making i... (interestingengineering.com)
SR-72: US secret hypersonic jet to allegedly break sound barrier in 2025 | Believed to be a top-secret project of the US Air Force, the SR-72 is touted to reach over 4,000 mph (6,437 kph), making i…::undefined
Revealed: almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media, study says (www.theguardian.com)
Revealed: almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media, study says::Exclusive: Millennium Cohort’s finding raises questions about why a large proportion has a difficult relationship with social media
The oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploaded | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal (www.tomsguide.com)
Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal::The new Pika 1.0 tool comes after a $55 million funding round for the generative AI company and is a big step up in AI video production.
Taking Back the Web with Decentralization: 2023 in Review | EFF (www.eff.org)
U.S. intelligence officials determined the Chinese spy balloon used a U.S. internet provider to communicate (www.nbcnews.com)
FDA approves gene-editing treatment for sickle cell disease (wng.org)
FDA approves gene-editing treatment for sickle cell disease::The CRISPR-based treatment edits DNA in adult stem cells without crossing bioethical boundaries
Former Call of Duty and Blizzard Devs Speak Out Against Bobby Kotick; States He Made Games Worse (mp1st.com)
Former Call of Duty and Blizzard Devs Speak Out Against Bobby Kotick; States He Made Games Worse::With Bobby Kotick no longer at Activision, some developers who worked on Call of Duty and more have begun speaking out about his actions.
Super-macro views of color e-ink displays (and how they work) (youtu.be)
This is mesmerizing
Camera Companies Fight AI-Generated Images With 'Verify' Watermark Tech (www.pcmag.com)
Camera Companies Fight AI-Generated Images With ‘Verify’ Watermark Tech::undefined
Software archivist discovers and uploads a primordial version of 86-DOS (arstechnica.com)
Software archivist discovers and uploads a primordial version of 86-DOS::86-DOS would later be bought by Microsoft and take over the computing world.
Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs are slower at single-core work than previous-gen models — new benchmarks show IPC regressions vs Raptor Lake (www.tomshardware.com)
World’s Biggest Solar Thermal Plant To Be Built In Saudi Arabia (www.forbes.com)
Since Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase, firm reportedly lost 72% of its value (arstechnica.com)
Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thought (www.freethink.com)
Here’s how the EPA calculates how far an EV can go on a full charge (arstechnica.com)
Supreme Court chief justice warns of dangers of AI in judicial work, suggests it is “always a bad idea” to cite non-existent court cases (www.independent.co.uk)
Supreme Court chief justice warns of dangers of AI in judicial work, suggests it is “always a bad idea” to cite non-existent court cases::Mr Roberts suggested there may come a time when conducting legal research without the help of AI is ‘unthinkable’
A tale of 2 casino ransomware attacks: One paid out, one did not - What can be learned from MGM's and Caesars' infosec moves (www.theregister.com)
A tale of 2 casino ransomware attacks: One paid out, one did not - What can be learned from MGM’s and Caesars’ infosec moves::What can be learned from MGM’s and Caesars’ infosec moves
Elon Musk's X gets another valuation cut from Fidelity (www.axios.com)
China’s BYD is selling more electric cars than Tesla (www.cnn.com)
China’s BYD is selling more electric cars than Tesla::BYD overtook Tesla to become the world’s biggest electric car company in the final quarter of 2023.
Nvidia Blackwell RTX 5000 GPUs may debut earlier than expected (www.techspot.com)
Nvidia Blackwell RTX 5000 GPUs may debut earlier than expected::undefined