Apple has officially rolled out iOS 26.2, iPadOS 26.2, watchOS 26.2, tvOS 26.2, visionOS 26.2, and macOS Tahoe 26.2. The update brings automatic podcast chapters, new News sections, and features for the new Apple Games app.
According to Digital Trends, AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su will open CES 2026 on January 5 with a keynote focused on the company’s AI vision across cloud, edge, and consumer devices. While major GPU or Zen 6 announcements aren’t expected, likely launches include the Ryzen 7 9850X3D CPU and the Ryzen 9000G ser
The narrative that VR is dying is everywhere, but the sales data tells a different story. The audience has just radically shifted to a younger, more cost-conscious generation that loves free-to-play games.
Google is bringing its Gemini AI assistant directly into the Chrome browser for iPhone users in the United States. The feature lets you summarize web pages and generate FAQs without leaving your current tab.
Early benchmarks for Intel’s next-gen Panther Lake mobile CPU are a surprise. The chip appears to outperform AMD’s current Ryzen AI Max+ 395 in single-core tests while drawing significantly less power, hinting at a competitive 2026 for laptops.
Data centers are full of non-linear electrical loads that create harmonics, distorting power and causing massive inefficiency. This can lead to a 2-10% increase in electricity costs and cut equipment life in half. The problem is getting worse with AI.
Intel’s “ANV” Vulkan driver in Mesa has merged a new shader VMA allocator. This is foundational work needed to enable Vulkan ray-tracing capture and replay, a crucial tool for developers. The feature is confirmed working with an older merge request in the RenderDoc tool.
A new patch in the GNU C Library (glibc) enables 2MB Transparent Huge Pages (THP) by default for memory allocations on AArch64 systems. This change aims to reduce page faults and kernel overhead, and has shown a consistent 6.25% performance improvement on SPEC benchmarks.
Microsoft’s latest update for Windows 11 tackles a pesky visual bug that broke dark mode immersion. The patch also bundles a host of new features, especially for users with Copilot+ PCs, and plugs 56 security holes.
Firefox is finally getting native support for the popular Matroska (MKV) video container. The latest beta also brings much-needed order to Linux users’ home directories with XDG support.
