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PC gamers who are tired of waiting for their games to "compile shaders" during some load times may want to dig into the latest beta version of the Nvidia App. Alongside new DLSS 4.5 Multi Frame Generation feature...


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If you were eating in a restaurant and the head chef came out from the back multiple times to loudly proclaim that the kitchen was deeply committed to the quality of the food, would you find that reassuring? Or would you start wondering why the chef felt the need to keep saying it?

That's the conundrum facing the Windows team at Microsoft right now. Windows VP Pavan Da...


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In late 2024, the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft’s biggest cloud computing offerings.

The tech giant’s “lack of proper detailed security documentation” left reviewers with a “lack of confidence in assessing the system’s overall security posture,” according to an internal government report reviewed by ProPu...


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Modern gamers are used to loading up a new game for the first time and being forced to wait multiple minutes while a "compiling shaders" step whirs away, optimizing advanced 3D effects for their specific hardware. This week at the...


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When Asus and Microsoft launched the ROG Xbox Ally X last summer, it came with a bespoke controller-driven full-screen interface running on top of Windows 11. The handheld was still running Windows under the hood, and you could bring up the...


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