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  1. Trump campaign website briefly defaced by hackers

    this whole presidency is a scam lol
    20 points
  2. Microsoft reportedly overhauling the Windows 10 UI in 21H2

    Uh..oh! UI overhaul ! When have they done that right? Windows 95 was the last time. After that they got refinements right, not overhauls. "Improvements to File Explorer, Taskbar and Start built with modern code are expected". Uh..oh. I am scared.
    13 points
  3. Microsoft reportedly overhauling the Windows 10 UI in 21H2

    Windows 10X itself looks like a mistake to me.
    8 points
  4. Trump campaign website briefly defaced by hackers

    Who in their right mind wants to go to that site anyway? Horrid person, a disgrace of a human being, and I am getting fed up with hearing his voice on the radio, and I am in the U.K., so god know what people in the u.S thinks. you be crazy to have him in power for another 4 years, it is bad enough that we have Boris in power for a few more years. but then the U.K. and U.s do not have democracy, both of our voting systems is rubbish and about as much use as a bucket with a hole in it.
    7 points
  5. Microsoft announces the Xbox Series X fridge with next-gen cooling

    I would totally buy a mini fridge version of it.
    6 points
  6. Microsoft reportedly overhauling the Windows 10 UI in 21H2

    Sweet. They couldn’t finish the last overhaul. Can’t wait to see this one. Also, I doubt this info since the last two H2 updates were enablement packages.
    6 points
  7. Microsoft reportedly overhauling the Windows 10 UI in 21H2

    Don't knock it until you see it.......... Then it's open season :-)
    5 points
  8. Trump campaign website briefly defaced by hackers

    Get used to it! Trump 2020! No thanks.
    5 points
  9. " PlayStation 5 also features a custom RDNA 2 architecture-based GPU" You might want to source this fully, as the last engineering level details show that PS5 is RDNA 1, with some RDNA 2 features, and some Sony features where they went a different direction than AMD and Microsoft. (Which could help or hurt.) I haven't been able to find any public information confirming what is there and what isn't, only dev information, and it isn't the best source, as they often don't have the perspective the architecture and framework. It is possible Sony has some good stuff in their differences, if they exist. However to obtain feature parity even with identical hardware features, the Sony framework would have to support them, which so far, we haven't seen much at all. Just like DirectStorage, Sony uses a different technology, with reduced compression and more CPU utilization, unless they have improved this recently.
    4 points
  10. Sony seeing significant demand for its next-gen console

    Design comparison VS the first unboxing of a PS5 on the internet. Yes, Totally comparable videos.
    4 points
  11. huh? IOS never supported flash officially, so how would they even drop something that wasn't there?
    4 points
  12. Anything that can be used as a selling point for any product can be considered a gimmick. Why go to the gym when you can go out to wilderness and lift rocks? Is it because the gym is more convenient? That sounds like a gimmick. It doesn't invalidate its existence, though.
    4 points
  13. Microsoft reportedly overhauling the Windows 10 UI in 21H2

    Someone did a re-imagining of the UI and it looks pretty good, https://youtu.be/8kmyWVnmjwQ Hope Microsoft has something similar in mind.
    3 points
  14. Microsoft reportedly overhauling the Windows 10 UI in 21H2

    So, native integration of theming, skinning, without uxtheme patches? One can dream.
    3 points
  15. Microsoft reportedly overhauling the Windows 10 UI in 21H2

    This has me scared for sure
    3 points
  16. I gave it a try for a bit but it felt too weird to me. Nice option though.
    3 points
  17. Microsoft reportedly overhauling the Windows 10 UI in 21H2

    Hopefully all the UI elements will be from the 21st century this time.
    2 points
  18. Halo Infinite studio head Chris Lee steps down

    Makes sense since they brought back a few of the old Halo devs, I don't know what happened exactly but oh well. Probably as simple as over-promising and underdelivering, which never works out. Or we're reading too much into it and he's got nothing else to do on the game and is moving on to something new. We need some more context/details.
    2 points
  19. Halo Infinite studio head Chris Lee steps down

    Sucks for him, but not really unexpected... You can't botch things as badly as they did the first time and expect Microsoft to go "oh it's ok, just give it another go".
    2 points
  20. Microsoft announces the Xbox Series X fridge with next-gen cooling

    If it were 1:1 scale it would be the same size as the console.
    2 points
  21. AMD introduces the Radeon RX 6000 series of GPUs

    Impressive. Funny Side Note: Several of the 'key' technologies AMD is using and has tech reviewers salivating are from Microsoft. AMD is loving the work Microsoft has been doing and handing back to them. I hope they are generous with the cost to Microsoft. The Ryzen Mobile 4xxx series got a massive boost from Microsoft changes and instruction optimizations, which is why we see the 4000 mobile CPUs technically beating their desktop counterparts. The upcoming 5000 also employs key hardware design and instruction optimizations from Microsoft, which if the numbers hold, seem to be an Intel stomper. (Which makes me wonder if Intel yet regrets being such dicks to Microsoft for the past 30 years.) The one GPU feature that makes this a bit funny, is the Infinity Cache. This is exactly what the Xbox One did to improve memory bandwidth, making most operations (when used) faster than the PS4, even with the slower GDDR5 general RAM pool. AMD's silicon and features look really strong, and having accelerated ray tracing enabled in every CU could be a massive screw you to NVidia. I am anxious to see this in operation, especially with 3D design and rendering software where NVidia has been kicking butt. This is a good time for competition and new technologies and performance, something the CPU/GPU industry has not seen for over a decade now. For all the crap of 2020, maybe this is a silver lining for tech enthusiasts. Or at least something to focus on, while eating old food bank cheese and burying our loved ones. (Which I wish was more a joke, and less of a reality for many of us.)
    2 points
  22. Microsoft reportedly overhauling the Windows 10 UI in 21H2

    I don't know if you'd call the changes in Vista and later in 7 as just refinements. Windows 7 was actually a overhaul IMO. Whole new taskbar was a big thing back then. XP had a whole new start menu which was a big deal at the time as well. It's come in chunks every now and then.
    2 points
  23. Microsoft reportedly overhauling the Windows 10 UI in 21H2

    They spent five years fixing Windows 10's UI (from the disastrous Windows 8 tablet Metro UI era). I just hope this new UI will be a bit refined from the development stage. I mean we still have to use the classic Control Panel for some things.
    2 points
  24. Microsoft reportedly overhauling the Windows 10 UI in 21H2

    It's not quite as bad of a mistake as it was when it first came out, but as MS Bob says above, I'm scared! Sure hope they don't go with something as stupid as Windows 8/8.1 stuff though. I only know 1 person who ever had that mess on their computer and every time I look at it, I wonder what do I click to get any where! I think I have them talked into letting me upgrade their computer to Windows 10 now though. I got a tablet with windows 8(Dell Venue 8 Pro) and it was absolutely fantastic for me. Well thought out from a tablet perspective. 5 years of windows 10 and we're still not even remotely back to how friendly and smooth windows 8 was with touch interaction. Why Windows 10 didn't simply return the 7 start menu with the 8 interface as an optional switch I'll never know. Honestly, 8.1 went backwards a bit from 8.
    2 points
  25. Oh, Microsoft.
    2 points
  26. Trump campaign website briefly defaced by hackers

    You know he can't take it. That's why he walks out of interviews when pressed, calls people names that don't agree with him, fires others that don't agree with him etc., etc.
    2 points
  27. Unboxing the beast: The Xbox Series X is here

    Yeah, I could be the biggest Play Station fan boy ever but that huge, monstrous PS5 could not go in my living room. luckily for Sony, this does not seem to really affect the real world demand one bit, so clearly people who care how it looks are minority True, heck even shipping a console with less graphics features running around 70% the speed of the Xbox hasn't given customers pause.
    2 points
  28. delayed? technically they delayed nothing but most people were expecting a SP8 this year for which there will not be one.
    2 points
  29. Sony seeing significant demand for its next-gen console

    it sure is... "In the United States, PS5 consoles sold as well in the first 12 hours as the PlayStation 4 did in the first 12 weeks." Press X to doubt
    2 points
  30. Trump campaign website briefly defaced by hackers

    Given the number of grammatical mistakes in this defacement message, is anyone taking their claims with a grain of salt, it's obvious that the "political" nature of the message has nothing to do with the president. It's a scam, to get gullible people, to send criminals cryptocurrency.
    2 points
  31. Yes there is, this version works right here... You need to go to page 2 of the catalog and to the bottom of the list :) Update for Removal of Adobe Flash Player for Windows Server, version 2004 for x64-based systems (KB4577586) https://www.catalog.update.mic...t.com/search.aspx?q=4577586
    2 points
  32. Pakistan should fix the homophobia in the country before throwing rocks at Facebook. They banned Grindr and other dating apps due to homosexual content and yet they expect Facebook to do something about islamophobia. I call this bigotry.
    2 points
  33. I cant wait to try this update, trust me an update is desperately needed. The current app is really frustrating to use for me.
    1 point
  34. AMD introduces the Radeon RX 6000 series of GPUs

    Price?
    1 point
  35. AMD introduces the Radeon RX 6000 series of GPUs

    Yup. I'm not a fan of either brand, but I have several programs that have excellent CUDA accelleration "that just works". Also, Nvidia's NVenc video encoder is excellent in quality and speed for anyone that does video encoding or streaming. These features are more important to me than pure rasterization (gaming) performance. And sadly AMD didn't say anything about these types of features.
    1 point
  36. AMD introduces the Radeon RX 6000 series of GPUs

    This is lining up very nicely. With the next RDNA3 GPU and PCIe5.0/DDR5 (AM5/Zen4) coming next year we will see another huge jump in performance from AMD, both on CPU and GPU side. Intel will have a hard time catching up now.
    1 point
  37. Microsoft reportedly overhauling the Windows 10 UI in 21H2

    I agree with your points, but the big problem is that Microsoft abandoned all Win32 UI after Vista (or Win7 if you want to include the scenic ribbon) and has never recovered. The first stage was WPF (which I admit is lovely, but defaults to inconsistency), then WinRT, and then UWP. Meanwhile, no one could be bothered with all the problems of these new frameworks, and did their own thing to make their software appear modern... including Microsoft themselves. That's why Windows 10 is so inconsistent, there's no platform changes so they end up writing their own UI, like everyone else. Over at Microsoft, they'll cite WinUI 3 as fixing all this, meanwhile they ignore key issues with what they're demonstrating (just like the prior frameworks), or they'll cite compatibility as the problem, despite manifests and Windows having one of the most sophisticated compatibility layers ever devised. Personally, I think I'll start believing any of this when MDI windows get some theming beyond Aero Lite :-P
    1 point
  38. AMD introduces the Radeon RX 6000 series of GPUs

    From the disastrous launch of the RTX 30-series to this news, I think Jensen is shivering in his leather jacket right about now.
    1 point
  39. Microsoft reportedly overhauling the Windows 10 UI in 21H2

    That's an awesome design - here's some more: https://www.behance.net/galler...ning-the-Windows-Experience
    1 point
  40. This is pretty cool, other companies should add this feature to their phones.
    1 point
  41. Trump campaign website briefly defaced by hackers

    Could possibly be a script injection attack. The banner seems to load after the page has been loaded... Although they could've achieved it by having access rights to the server as well...
    1 point
  42. T-Mobile introduces TVision, its subscription-based TV service

    Well it's obvious you need an Internet connection if you are going to use the T vision hub Android TV device or obviously any T vision app for any streaming device but if you have a phone or a tablet you already have an Internet connection
    1 point
  43. Cyberpunk 2077 hit with another delay, now releasing on December 10

    I don't mind, not like I don't have anything else to play till then. Just means it'll be more stable and with less bugs.
    1 point
  44. AMD announces record Q3 2020 earnings, revenue up 45% to $2.8 billion

    There are figures for net income as well, in the article. And we also link to their financial report for more clarity on the earnings per share, profits, operating losses, and more. We use "earnings" to refer to the overall financial report, a language that many people not familiar with the different financial terms understand. For people who get the financial terms, there are GAAP and non-GAAP tables and much more in AMD's release that we link to. The aim is not to differentiate between Intel and AMD's numbers, or even imply that Intel is doomed. Intel's growth YoY and QoQ slowed down, with YoY figures being lower, which is just a statement about their financials. It is known that Intel is a much larger company, so I am sorry if I don't understand where the criticism is, here. Thanks for the feedback.
    1 point
  45. Not bundling useless waste is not a bad thing. Typical assumption that everyone is like you and has tons of these things around. Here's the deal, wasteful or not, this isn't the place to shave dollars or "save the planet" I have an S20 ultra, at $1400 if it didn't come with a charger, I'm not buying it on principal.
    1 point
  46. Ofcom will ban UK networks from selling locked phones

    Another example of how European countries are taking the lead in the Internet and cellphone arenas. Pity, the US just can't seem to "get with the program."
    1 point
  47. NASA finds water on the Moon's sunlit surface

    Aliens.
    1 point
  48. Neowin trackers and 3rd party cookies

    You may have just guilt-tripped me into a sub @Steven P.
    1 point
  49. Neowin trackers and 3rd party cookies

    Can you tell me how I would otherwise pay for the running costs then? Would you be prepared to buy an ad free subscription, like so many others aren't? I think if we're along the same lines as the BBC which is part publically funded and also under UK government scrutiny, I sdon't think we look bad at all compared to windowscentral, which has 3x more advertiser tracking cookies and double the amount of trackers.
    1 point
  50. I thought of including Half-Life, but then I realized that Half-Life: Alyx can be considered a mainstream entry so the franchise isn't really abandoned VR-only doesn't count!
    1 point