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    12 states sue to block Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery

    Streaming fatigue is certainly real, at least in terms of the fragmented market. I know that sports in particular is becoming a huge pain point. In many cases sports are the only reason why some people even signed up for certain services at all, and they did so with the expectation that one...
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    Seagate IronWolf Pro 28TB performance issues

    I got a 26TB Seagate Drive (ST26000DM000) for ~$250 late last year, one of the last true deals before prices went crazy. It's not a high-end drive but it has worked well for me so far. I get 230-250MB pretty reliably when copying large files. So your speeds do seem slow. Even though it's...
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    LG and Alienware monitors caught auto-installing Windows adware

    You are preaching to the choir. I keep all of my RGB disabled 99.9% of the time, and wish that tech never went that direction in general. But that was a battle that was lost a long time ago, and if something is going to have RGB, I do appreciate at least being able to control it (aka turn it...
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    2nd Video Games Industry Crash Coming? Interesting Take From The Critical Drinker

    Not sure if it will really be a "crash" or just more of a radical transformation. Skyrocketing hardware prices are going have a clear and obvious impact on gaming as fewer people are willing to buy increasingly expensive gaming computers and increasingly expensive gaming consoles. On the...
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    LG and Alienware monitors caught auto-installing Windows adware

    Interesting. I've never had that problem on mine, using both the app and the built-in USB hub, although my monitor is a "Fast IPS" panel rather than OLED. I definitely don't support bloatware but I don't think that a minimalist app for things like controlling RGB lighting is necessarily a bad...
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    LG and Alienware monitors caught auto-installing Windows adware

    It doesn't get installed via the Microsoft Store in the traditional sense. It's the software component of a monitor driver, that is installed via Windows Update. Drivers have had app components for... literally decades. The Nvidia driver installs the Nvidia App, etc. On my Alienware AW3821DW...
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    Bored with games on my PC, time for a console?

    If you really want the console-game experience with a controller, then just buy an XBox controller and plug it into your PC. Many/most XBox games can be bought on the XBox store and played right on the PC. These days a console is just a shitty computer, leaving little reason to get one if you...
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    Arctic P14 Pro fans really do get LOUD

    I ended up pulling the P14 Pro fans out of my main case. I put some modest Thermalright TL-C14CW-S fans in their place. Seems that the P14 Pro is just really noisy especially in a horizontal orientation with an obstructed intake. I'm still using other P14 Pro fans in my file server, vertical...
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    Chinese A.I. Models Close the Gap With Anthropic and OpenAI

    I definitely see the part where it says that only "subscribers" get access to advanced AI models.
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    Microsoft quietly extends free Windows 10 ESU support to October 2027

    Was this really the only thing preventing you from using those laptops already? Even though there have already been ways to get all 3 years of ESU updates for free, or alternatively upgrade to Windows 11 for free (even on unsupported hardware)?
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    Topaz Labs Introduces Topaz NeuroStream | Breakthrough Tech for Running Large AI Models Locally

    A handful of years ago I had great results using Topaz AI Video to upscale old NTSC TV shows. Now I usually just use Nvidia RTX Video Super Resolution to do it in real-time with similar results. Topaz seems to have broadened their focus quite a bit since then. While what they say sounds good...
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    Chinese A.I. Models Close the Gap With Anthropic and OpenAI

    I wonder what "Z.ai" has to say about Tiananmen Square or Taiwan?
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    ...the 10-25GbE rabbit hole... moving fast storage off the main system.

    10Gb has become pretty cheap, and I would be extremely surprised if you were actually doing anything that would be limited by 10Gb. You can "benchmark" some very fast NVMe/PCIe SSDs and get speeds faster than 10Gb, but in those situations the "benchmark" is almost certainly reflective of the...
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    AMD’s new pitch: our old tech is so good you should just keep using it

    Yeah, launch day was yesterday, with CPUs being sold now for the expected MSRP. If you're under the impression that you got an amazing deal or something, well, you didn't. It's also on Amazon for MSRP: https://www.amazon.com/AMD-5800X3D-16-Thread-Processor-Technology/dp/B0H41D4KFT Used...
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    Microsoft quietly extends free Windows 10 ESU support to October 2027

    The Windows 10 ESU program has always been a 3-year program, running through 2028. The only real variable has been the "price". They were giving out the first year of ESU updates for free under certain conditions, and it seems like now they are doing the same for year two. But there have...
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