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Ventoy lets you copy ISO files to a USB drive and boot up without reformatting

With Ventoy, you don't need to format your USB drive – simply copy the image files and boot directly. You can add multiple ISOs at once, and Ventoy provides a boot menu for easy selection. The latest update enhances support for all Linux distributions as well.

By Ivan Franco, February 10, 2025, 12:27 PM

Security Software

Hidden backdoor in Go package remained undetected for years

A caching proxy server owned by Google turned into a significant security risk

By Alfonso Maruccia, February 7, 2025, 12:48 PM

Software Gaming

Bouncing Beholder is a fully fledged platformer game packed into just 1,024 bytes

Great physics, colorful environments, and randomized levels

By Zo Ahmed, February 7, 2025, 12:06 PM

Microsoft Software

Windows 10's extended support starts at $61 per device, Microsoft reveals new details

Sticking with Windows 10 after October 2025 will come at a steep price

By Skye Jacobs, February 7, 2025, 9:59 AM 29 comments

Gaming Software

Doom running on an Apple HDMI dongle from 2013, because of course it does

Lightning-to-AV adapter contains a surprisingly robust SoC

By Daniel Sims, February 7, 2025, 6:24 AM

Software Microsoft

Latest Windows 11 build adds full MIDI 2.0 support and improved performance

What could possibly go wrong?

By Alfonso Maruccia, February 6, 2025, 6:39 PM

AI Software

Researchers create reasoning model for under $50, performs similar to OpenAI's o1

The model comes with a "wait" trick that helps it double-check and refine answers

By Zo Ahmed, February 6, 2025, 4:04 PM

Gaming Software

RTX Mega Geometry improves ray tracing performance and visuals in Alan Wake 2

Ryzen 3000, RTX 2000, and 3000 see frame rate boosts of up to 30 percent with no drawbacks

By Daniel Sims, February 5, 2025, 2:56 PM

Gaming Software

Unreal Engine devs suggest a potential solution to shader compilation stuttering in games

Utterly Unplayable: Unreal Engine is one of the most popular middleware solutions for developing games and other interactive experiences, particularly on PC and Mac. Created by Epic Games, it is also notorious for stuttering and graphics performance issues. However, the developers are actively working to address these problems once and for all.

Full story By Alfonso Maruccia, February 5, 2025, 11:31 AM 19 comments

AI Software

ByteDance's OmniHuman-1 may be the most realistic deepfake algorithm yet

Check out these examples

WTF?! Machines' ability to generate fake videos of people has become alarmingly impressive. ByteDance, the Chinese tech giant behind TikTok, just showed off a new AI system called OmniHuman-1 that can create deepfake videos almost indistinguishable from reality to the average person.

Full story By Zo Ahmed, February 5, 2025, 6:58 AM

Software AI

Adobe Acrobat can help users understand contract jargon with new PDF AI tools

Many consumers don't fully understand the contracts they are signing

By Skye Jacobs, February 5, 2025, 6:15 AM

Software Apple

Apple Invites social event planner takes on Partiful, Evite, and Paperless Post

Apple's event app is free, but there's a catch

By Shawn Knight, February 4, 2025, 2:14 PM

Software AI

OpenAI debuts "Deep Research" model to tackle multi-step research AI tasks

Tool synthesizes vast data in minutes to prepare detailed research reports

By Kishalaya Kundu, February 4, 2025, 9:45 AM

Download of the Week Software

Opera Air is a new browser designed for mindfulness

There's a browser for that, too, it seems. Opera Air focuses on mindfulness and digital well-being, offering guided meditation and exercises to encourage regular breaks and enhance focus. Opera Air is available for Windows and Mac.

By Ivan Franco, February 4, 2025, 7:50 AM

Gaming Software

Nvidia's answer to AMD Fluid Motion Frames works on all DX11 and DX12 games

Driver-level DLSS frame generation available with RTX 50, soon RTX 40 GPUs - but is it any good?

By Daniel Sims, February 3, 2025, 9:06 PM 14 comments

Software Tech Culture

Discord now runs on Windows 98 (and even Windows 95) with this unofficial client

A retro-friendly version of Discord for machines with slower hardware

By Shawn Knight, February 3, 2025, 2:04 PM

Microsoft Software

Microsoft hides "official" workaround for installing Windows 11 on older PCs

Despite Redmond's policy shifts, the Registry trick may still work anyway

By Alfonso Maruccia, February 3, 2025, 1:17 PM 34 comments

Software Microsoft

Windows 11 reaches highest market share as Windows 10 nears end of support

Windows 10 still has a massive lead over Windows 11

By Kishalaya Kundu, February 3, 2025, 7:49 AM

Software Tech Deals

Get a Microsoft Office lifetime license for $35, no subscription required

Discounted over 80% off, available for Windows or Mac

By TechSpot Deals, February 2, 2025, 3:20 PM

Download of the Week Software

Use OBS Studio to livestream your gaming sessions

OBS Studio lets you broadcast to YouTube, Twitch, Instagram, and other platforms, as well as record videos from multiple sources including browser windows, webcams, and more. It's free and runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

By Ivan Franco, February 2, 2025, 1:01 PM

The Web Software

Google Sheets now offers AI-powered charts and data analysis

It can also generate Python code for complex spreadsheet analysis

By Skye Jacobs, February 1, 2025, 12:37 PM

Download of the Week Software

Nvidia Broadcast 2.0 revamps UI, adds new AI effects

Nvidia Broadcast enhances webcams and microphones with AI, leveraging tensor cores for real-time processing. It improves livestream quality through noise removal, virtual backgrounds, auto framing, and more. Version 2.0 introduces a redesigned UI, GPU utilization meter, AI effect previews, and more.

By Erik Orejuela, January 31, 2025, 10:13 AM

The Web Software

Microsoft boasts of Edge's growth, but is it really at 30% market share?

Statcounter tells a different story

By Rob Thubron, January 31, 2025, 9:42 AM 26 comments

Security The Web

Selling fear: How cybersecurity marketing uses consumer anxiety for profit

Cybercrime is evolving, but so can your approach to online security

By Doug Jacobson, January 31, 2025, 6:12 AM 7 comments

Download of the Week Hardware

Nvidia App adds DLSS 4 overrides, Broadcast and Video Super Resolution enhancements

The latest Nvidia App update enhances over 75 games with DLSS 4 MFG and improves AI models for DLSS. Also a new Broadcast update introduces AI streaming features.

By Ivan Franco, January 30, 2025, 2:51 PM