Microsoft reacts to President Trump’s shocking $100K H-1B visa fee — “creating anxiety and uncertainty”
President Trump signed an executive order on Friday, September 19th, and it took effect two days later, on Sunday, September 21st.
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New VLC update adds official support for Windows 11 on Arm and fixes support for Windows XP
This update includes a fix for Windows XP Service Pack 3, which will be welcome news for the small number of users still running that older operating system. Linuxiax.com first noticed this new release candidate, marking the first of its kind for VLC in a year.
Programmed obsolescence? Microsoft is offering trade-in and recycling services for old PCs as Windows 10 nears its end of life
The Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) is challenging Microsoft’s plan to end support for Windows 10, arguing it will cause a massive surge in electronic waste as people replace their computers.
Why are fewer and fewer Xbox games releasing with physical discs? “We wouldn’t be able to make our investment back.”
For years, we’ve played video games on different physical formats – from cassettes and cartridges to CDs and then Blu-Ray discs. But around the time Blu-Ray came out, things started to shift.
Microsoft’s official Windows 11 version 25H2 RTM ISO media is now available — Download all 38 languages here for x64 or Arm64
RTM is a legacy Windows term-short for Released To Manufacturing-that refers to the final version of the software Microsoft sends to computer manufacturers. They’ll install this version, specifically 25H2, on new PCs before they’re shipped to customers. While Microsoft doesn’t officially use the term ‘RTM’ anymore, it’s still used internally.
Mark Zuckerberg prefers “misspending a couple of hundred billion” to Meta falling behind in the AI superintelligence race
In June, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, said that Meta was aggressively hiring away his employees by offering signing bonuses as high as $100 million. Meta’s new AI team is largely made up of people who used to work at OpenAI and Anthropic.
All of my favorite Xbox games this year came from indie devs — am I old or have AAA publishers completely lost the plot?
I’ve been testing this new feature for a few weeks now, and I’ve found something noteworthy: almost all of the games it’s logged are from smaller, independent developers.
New Xbox games launching this week — Silent Hill f, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds, EA Sports FC 26, and more
Xbox Series X|S has a lot of new games on the way, including both updated classics like Pac-Man World 2 Re-Pac and brand new indie games such as Sworn, a cooperative action game for up to four players.
Hades 2 has been early access done right — I hope others can learn from Supergiant’s roguelike success
Supergiant Games wasn’t new to the early access model when they released Hades 2 in May 2024. They’d used a similar approach with the first Hades, gradually adding story content, improving the art, and fine-tuning gameplay elements like weapons and boons over time.
It’s insane to me that this mini PC can outperform an NVIDIA RTX 5090 with LLMs and AI workloads
Even powerful graphics cards can run out of video memory when handling demanding tasks. That’s where AMD’s Ryzen AI MAX comes in – it’s a complete system designed to address this issue. Remarkably, it fits into a space only slightly larger than a typical graphics card, and HP chose this platform for its high-end Z2 Mini (G1a) computer.