From ExtremeTech: A new report from sources in Taiwan paints a sobering picture of Intel’s CPU plans for next year. The company will supposedly launch Meteor Lake this year, then follow it up with Arrow lake in early 2024. However, sources speaking to DigiTimes report Intel will delay placing its...

From Corsair Press Release: CORSAIR today announced massive new capacities for its DDR5 memory kits, thanks to new 24GB and 48GB UDIMM modules. For the first time from CORSAIR, PC builders can choose from 192GB (4x 48GB), 96GB (2x 48GB), or 48GB (2x 24GB) memory kits. Available in either VENGEANCE...

From Forbes: Meta has jumped on the subscription bandwagon. It’s announced Facebook and Instagram, which have active user bases of 2.9bn and 2bn respectively, will now have a paid-for service called Meta Verified.

The move comes following Twitter’s rocky launch of Twitter Blue, with Meta being the...

From TechCrunch: TikTok is expanding access to its research API to nonprofit academic institutions in the United States, the company announced on Tuesday. The expansion comes as TikTok started testing an early version of the research API back in November. Interested universities and researchers will...

From ExtremeTech: Efforts are still underway to locate and rescue people trapped under rubble following Turkey’s devastating series of earthquakes. Though the death toll across Turkey (as well as Syria’s and Lebanon’s borders) is estimated to have crossed 46,000, and with a new 6.3-magnitude...

From TechCrunch: The U.S. Department of Defense secured an exposed server on Monday that was spilling internal U.S. military emails to the open internet for the past two weeks.

The exposed server was hosted on Microsoft’s Azure government cloud for Department of Defense customers, which uses...

From ExtremeTech: 2022 was the year of companies jumping on the metaverse bandwagon. Facebook got the ball rolling in June by chasing its name to Meta. From there, not a month passed without some big-name company crowing about its plans for the metaverse. It seems like 2023 could be the year...

From The Verge: Google has released optimization features designed to improve battery life and memory usage on machines running the latest version of its Chrome desktop web browser. Chrome’s new Energy Saver and Memory Saver modes were first announced in December last year alongside the release of...

From PC Mag: China's first competitor to ChatGPT launched publicly yesterday, but within a few hours it had crashed.

As Reuters reports(Opens in a new window), a team working at the NLP Lab at Fudan University developed the conversational language model known as MOSS. It's described as being able...

From PC Mag: Microsoft President Brad Smith today announced the company has signed a binding 10-year legal agreement with Nintendo for Call of Duty games.

The formal agreement follows a promise made by Microsoft back in December to bring the gaming franchise to Nintendo hardware once the Activision...