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A new open-source photo editor called Rembrandt has been released for macOS, Windows and Linux, offering local editing without subscriptions or accounts. It includes natural-language editing commands, AI-assisted masking and subject selection, GPU-based super resolution, and a self-hosting option that saves edits as XMP files alongside original photos.
Microsoft has expanded Automatic Super Resolution, its NPU-driven upscaling feature built into Windows, to Copilot+ PCs powered by Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 chips, a capability previously exclusive to Qualcomm Snapdragon X devices. The feature aims to boost frame rates in games rendered at up to 1080p, with Microsoft citing gains of up to 15% in titles like Assassin's Creed Valhalla, targeting a 60 FPS threshold.
Researchers analyzed human brain tissue samples from people with and without Alzheimer's disease and identified more than 1,000 microproteins that had previously gone undetected. Dozens of these small proteins showed different expression levels in Alzheimer's-affected brains compared with healthy ones. Separately, a mouse study found that immune cells activated by gut infections can travel to the brain's protective membrane and remain there as a lasting defensive memory.
Independent testers have built two unofficial fixes for DLSS 5's steep performance cost, which Nvidia's own benchmarks showed can nearly halve frame rates on RTX 50-series cards. One method, a ReShade add-on called Neural Upstream, reorders the pipeline so the neural pass runs on the smaller pre-upscaled image rather than the full output frame, cutting its processing load by roughly two-thirds of the pixel count. Early tests on an RTX 4080 in Assassin's Creed Shadows show the neural rendering overhead dropping from about 32 FPS to 13 FPS lost, a 61% improvement, with similar gains reported in other titles.
Qualcomm has shared new details on the GPU inside its upcoming flagship Snapdragon chip, revealing three new Adreno Matrix Cores designed to run AI workloads with lower latency and better power efficiency. These cores power a new feature called Adreno Neural Fusion, which handles frame generation and AI-based upscaling, promising fewer visual artifacts, more stable performance, and up to 40% lower power use than Qualcomm's earlier solution.