The latest version of Nvidia's app includes several new features, with the key highlight being DLSS 4.5's Dynamic Multi-frame Generation. However, one lesser-known feature that will be particularly useful for gamers fell through the cracks for me: Auto Shader Compilation, which aims to get you into games faster after a GPU driver update by significantly reducing shader compilation wait time.

When it comes to resurrecting old machines, most folks typically hone in on general-purpose Linux distributions, and for good reason. Regardless of the underlying system specifications, you’ll find a battalion of Linux flavors that ship with neat GUI elements and essential packages. Heck, if you’ve got a gaming system that’s almost a decade old, you can even help it run a bunch of modern titles by getting rid of Windows and choosing a Linux distro that includes the right drivers for your system.

Let's pretend you work in IT and you're looking for a new digital service desk platform to help your employees reset passwords or onboard new hires. You use Google's AI Mode to search for suggestions, which quickly spits out a detailed answer listing companies to explore, their pricing, and what each option is best for. It helpfully cites more than a dozen websites, which AI Mode used to craft a response. The first source link is from Zendesk, a company that offers the exact service you're looking for - but when you click through, something is entirely off. A blog post attributed to the director of product marketing says Zendesk put togeth …Read the full story at The Verge.

Linux is well-known for supporting old hardware. If you have an aging PC and want to install an operating system on it that's still supported by its creators, there's a very good chance you can squeeze a modern-day Linux distro on it, and it'll run just fine. However, it seems that there is a limit to what the Linux community deems appropriate to continue supporting.

When it comes to local LLMs, we have been told that if you aren’t packing a high-end GPU with a massive pool of VRAM, you are stuck with sluggish response times or ‘out of memory’ errors.

I use AI tools almost every day now, and after way too many tools in rotation, I’ve finally settled on a handful of go-tos. A couple of cloud AI tools when I need horsepower, and my local LLM for anything more private. But I’ve never actually sat down and tested all of them on the same prompts; I didn’t see a need to since I reach for each one for different tasks.

One problem with Windows is that it's always been difficult to know what exactly it's doing in the background at any given moment. When you start up an application, what's it doing that we can't see? It could be spawning processes, connecting to the internet, or doing something it shouldn't be, and it's not easy to tell.

If you're an avid OneDrive user, you'll know that when you delete a file, the local version of the file will appear in the Recycle Bin. That way, if you want to grab it again, all you need to do is open up the bin and retrieve it again. It has been like this for a while now, and it has become a part of people's workflows.

A graphics card starts to feel old after 5–6 years, primarily because it starts to let you down in the latest games. The kind of performance you were used to starts becoming a memory, and you're forced to compromise on the graphics settings to extend your GPU's lifespan. That said, raw performance is just one way your GPU feels outdated. Depending on its age, it probably has way bigger limitations than sub-60 FPS. The factors that make your old GPU "too old" come down to its architecture, hardware limitations, software limitations, and memory. Weak performance isn't the end of the world; you can tweak in-game sliders to get playable framerates. However, some bottlenecks you just can't get rid of, and those are the ones that make your graphics card truly ancient.

Web development has changed massively in the last few years. There was a time when building a website meant dealing with raw HTML and CSS and obsessing over every tiny pixel by styling it yourself. Then tools like Wix and Squarespace came along where you could build a decent-looking website just by dragging and dropping elements.

Ever since NVMe became the "fast" SSD everyone talks about, I’ve treated it like one of those upgrades you’re just supposed to want. Every time I checked SSDs, the faster numbers were always associated with NVMe drives, and SATA started to feel like the older option you only bought when they had no choice, or when their PC simply couldn’t use NVMe.

If you're a distro-hopping addict like I am, there's a very good chance you have a Ventoy USB drive loaded to the brim with all kinds of operating systems. With Ventoy, you can load up several ISOs onto your USB drive, boot into it on your PC, and then select which operating system you'd like to load. It's great for storing emergency use operating systems, recovery distros, or just flitting between different Linux systems on a whim.