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1501.

Louis Gerstner, the man who saved IBM, dies at 83 — industry mourns the passing of transformative CEO (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-28 | by Anton Shilov | get IBM → | tags: gerstner, hardware, leadership

1502.

Software engineers should be a little bit cynical (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-28 | get Open Source → | tags: cynical, engineers, software

1503.

Save over $500 on the cheapest RTX 5070 gaming laptop we've seen with an OLED screen — Grab Lenovo's Legion 5 with a Ryzen 7 350 CPU for as low as $1,137 with discount code (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-28 | by Hassam Nasir | get OLED screen → | tags: deals, hardware, image

1504.

Security Bite: A note on the growing problem of Apple-notarized malware on macOS (9to5mac.com)

2025-12-28 | by Arin Waichulis | get Notarization → | tags: apple, malicious, malware

1505.

Ditch the Subscription: Get Lifetime Access to Windows 11 Pro for Just $10 (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-28 | get Windows 11 → | tags: access, just, security

1506.

Supersonic Jet Engines Will Soon Power AI Data Centers (cnet.com)

2025-12-28 | by See Full Bio | get Jet Engines → | tags: apps, apps software, need services

1507.

Intel Core i7-14700K vs Intel Core Ultra 7 265K Faceoff (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-28 | by Hassam Nasir | get Intel Core i7 → | tags: core, core ultra, hardware

1508.

Modders are slapping 32GB of VRAM on Nvidia's RTX 5080 GPUs, but that isn't good for gamers — modded variants designed for AI workstations and servers (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-28 | by Aaron Klotz | get Nvidia RTX 5080 → | tags: gpus, hardware, likely

1509.

Build Software. Build Users (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-28 | get Eclipse → | tags: code, quality, software

1510.

Meet the team that investigates when journalists and activists get hacked with government spyware (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-27 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | get Spyware → | tags: cases, device, helpline

1511.

Nvidia's $20 billion Groq deal looks a lot like an acquisition in disguise (techspot.com)

2025-12-27 | get Graphics Processing Unit → | tags: acquisition, acquisition company, agreement

1512.

Amiga motherboard project to add NVMe SSD boot support and a driver for the onboard Ethernet — Mirari project hopes to ‘breathe new life into the next-gen Amiga platform’ (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-27 | by Mark Tyson | get Amiga → | tags: amiga, hardware, mirari

1513.

After Outcry, Firefox Promises “Kill Switch” That Turns Off All AI Features (futurism.com)

2025-12-27 | by Victor Tangermann | get Kill Switch → | tags: browser, firefox, open

1514.

Naware’s chemical-free weed killer tech could change how we treat lawns (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-26 | by Sean O'Kane | tags: boysen, boysen said, disrupt

1515.

Nvidia reportedly backs away from its effort to make its own public cloud, team reorg eases friction with customers — chipmaker shifts unit's focus to internal R&D (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-26 | by Luke James | get GPU → | tags: cloud, dgx cloud, engineering

1516.

AI created 50 new billionaires in 2025, startup investment pulled in more than $200 billion (techspot.com)

2025-12-26 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: according forbes, ai billionaires, ai software

1517.

Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Glucose Monitors (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-26 | by Bradley M. Kühn | get Glucose Monitor → | tags: abbott, device, glucose

1518.

How to Stay Ahead of AI as an Early-Career Engineer (spectrum.ieee.org)

2025-12-25 | by Gwendolyn Rak | get Machine Learning → | tags: employers, jobs, software

1519.

This AMD-powered iBuyPower prebuilt has 32GB of DDR5 memory, Ryzen 7 CPU, and an RX 9060 XT GPU for just $1000 — $250 off provides pricing relief during RAM pricing crisis (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Kunal Khullar | get iGPU → | tags: best, deals, gaming

1520.

The Top 8 Computing Stories of 2025 (spectrum.ieee.org)

2025-12-25 | by Dina Genkina | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: computing, energy, research

1521.

Russian enthusiasts planning do-it-yourself DDR5 memory amidst the worldwide shortage — building your own RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing your own memory modules and soldering them on empty PCBs (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Hassam Nasir | get DDR5 → | tags: chips, hardware, memory

1522.

Russian enthusiasts are planning to build their own DDR5 RAM amidst the worldwide shortage — do-it-yourself RAM is as 'easy' as sourcing your own memory modules and soldering them on empty PCBs (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Hassam Nasir | get DDR5 Memory → | tags: chips, hardware, memory

1523.

Corsair RM850x SHIFT 850W power supply review: Platinum performance at Gold pricing (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by E. Fylladitakis | get Power Supply → | tags: cell, credit tom, hardware

1524.

Microsoft promises to nearly double Windows storage performance after forcing slow software-accelerated BitLocker on Windows — new CPU hardware-accelerated crypto will also improve battery life, but requires new CPUs (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-24 | by Kunal Khullar | get Windows Storage → | tags: accelerated, accelerated bitlocker, bitlocker

1525.

After forcing slow software-accelerated BitLocker on Windows, Microsoft will nearly double storage performance with new CPU hardware-accelerated crypto — will improve battery life also, but feature requires new CPUs that aren't available on the market yet (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-24 | by Kunal Khullar | get BitLocker → | tags: accelerated, accelerated bitlocker, bitlocker

1526.

Spice: A 40-year old open-source success story (2011) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-24 | by Michael Demler | get Open-source database → | tags: engineers, hspice, meta

1527.

Waymo explains why its robotaxis got stuck during the SF blackout (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-24 | by Sean O'Kane | get Autonomous taxi → | tags: driving, robotaxis, self

1528.

Your TV's USB port has a forgotten feature that can revitalize an old system for free (zdnet.com)

2025-12-24 | by Chris Bayer | get Smart TV → | tags: drive, file, firmware

1529.

Fake MAS Windows activation domain used to spread PowerShell malware (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-12-24 | get Windows → | tags: cosmali, cosmali loader, loader

1530.

52 years later, only known copy of Unix v4 recovered from randomly found tape, now up and running on a system — first OS version with kernel and core utilities written in C (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-24 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Unix → | tags: actual, operating, recovery