Linux is about to get a huge performance boost in AES-XTS or AES encryption performance thanks to new improvements. This could tip people over to make the switch from Windows 11 24H2 over to Linux.
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Did I ever think I would become a technology journalist? The answer is No! But that does not matter cause I certainly enjoy it, now that I am doing it. If you read my articles, you may notice I like writing about hardware, stuff like CPUs, GPUs, SSDs, or RAM. Besides that, you will also find me covering Windows news.
Following several aggressive price cuts on Samsung's monitor products, LG has now also been forced to do the same in a bid to keep up and as such, a 27-inch OLED gaming monitor is now the cheapest.
Apple recently dropped the price of its latest MacBook Air 2024 model. Today, the company has done the same for its AirPods Max over-the-ear headphone model as it is $100 or 18% off its regular price.
Microsoft has released the latest Windows 11 update for members flighting the Insider Program in the Dev Channel. This new build, 26120.470, (KB5037864) adds several new features and improvements.
It has been just over a couple of months since Apple released its M3-powered MacBook Air 2024 edition. However, the 15-inch variant of the same is already on sale at its lowest price.
According to one of AMD's partners, the company is looking to stop driver support on Windows 10 with the upcoming Ryzen 8050 series of processors. The report also adds Zen 5 IPC performance numbers.
Microsoft does not allow the personalization of your PC if the copy of Windows you are running is not activated. The company is now testing a similar upcoming change in Edge as well.
Fosi Audio, which is a popular brand that designs various types of amplifiers, is currently giving excellent discounts on three of its Class D offerings, the BT20A, the BL20A, and the TB10D.
Following the Samsung G9 OLED TV deal that we posted earlier, a great deal on an audiophile class Klipsch bookshelf speaker pair is also on sale. We are talking about the Klipsch R-41M.
Samsung has been offering multiple Odyssey gaming monitors at great prices, and they are some of the cheapest they have ever been. These monitors are very popular among gamers due to their quality.
Great SSD deals are super-rare these days and the situation is the opposite of how things used to be. However, currently, there's a good deal on 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB models of a Lexar PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD.
A new report suggests Microsoft may be enabling BitLocker encryption by default on Windows 11 24H2 PCs. What's interesting is that the report suggests that this may happen on Home editions too.
There was a change in the way Windows 11 receives WinRE updates recently. However, Microsoft has confirmed these WinRE updates could also fail and has explained in detail why that is.
It is probably not wrong for a Windows critic to say that the OS is slowly turning into an ad-fest, with more ads and promos now in the Start menu. This unofficial app promises to disable them all.
Microsoft confirmed yesterday that a VPN bug is affecting Windows 10 and 11, as well as Servers. Alongside that, the company has also confirmed that Server systems are also having NTLM traffic spikes.
Wintoys, an unofficial Windows app, which lets users tweak, customize, or optimize their OS, to their will, has received its latest update, which now skips SYSTEM scheduled tasks and more.