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Microsoft has released Defender for the Linux desktop, available with Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 or Microsoft 365 E5 and E7. Mixed fleets can manage Linux developer machines with Windows tooling, and TechSpot calls the product notorious for false positives.
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Nvidia says an October 16 NBA 2K27 update makes DLSS 5 neural rendering twice as fast and cuts VRAM use at 4K by 20%. Nvidia puts the frame-rate gain at up to 40%. Those figures are the company's own until reviewers test the patch.
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TrashBench cut an RTX 3080's hotspot by about 19C by moving it on a riser cable against a case's side intake. The CPU ran 1.1C warmer in that position, TechSpot reported, so the CPU gains in that build came from other changes.
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AnyPS5's tracker lists all 1,166 tracked RDNA 1 and 2 shader instructions as implemented, a label that means its shader decoder recognizes each one. Translating them into correct SPIR-V for Vulkan is a later stage, and so is getting a game to run.
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San Diego County sued Polymaker on October 5, saying its marketing to ghost-gun enthusiasts turns legal filament into a firearm precursor part. The complaint concedes filament itself is legal, so the case rests on proving how Polymaker marketed it.
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GameStop raised refurbished PS5 Pros to $1,399.99, roughly 55% over the $899 list price for a new one. A leaked staff memo calls the markup "intentional," and the console is out of stock at Sony, GameStop and Target.
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iFixit's teardown of the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max finds real precision in the new magnet-driven aperture and a service path that ends in whole-assembly replacement, plus screen frames that tore on the way in.
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Pew asked more than 42,000 people what AI will do to employment, and the median answer was fewer jobs. TechSpot's reading of the tables puts the most AI-aware respondents among the most worried, and a Mercer survey puts executives at 99%.
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The figures driving 2026's AI budget panic reach operators secondhand, through a vendor's column citing Fortune and TechSpot. The one case with dates attached puts the cost in the five months before anyone checked.
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