Planes, trains and third-party risks — a tale of two IT-related shutdowns

Planes, trains and third-party risks — a tale of two IT-related shutdowns

Christmas Eve (and Christmas Day) are arguably the most important time-frame for transportation companies. So it was a big deal when an American Airlines system glitch forced the airline to ask the government for a full shutdown on Christmas Eve. And it was an even bigger deal the next day for Bane NOR, which runs the Norwegian rail…

Apple Intelligence: Is AI an opportunity or a curse?

Apple Intelligence: Is AI an opportunity or a curse?

Does the rise of artificial intelligence represent more of an opportunity for the world — or a curse? Because for all the clamor about boosted productivity and enhanced human potential, there’s also the rising demand for energy, processor power, memory requirements and ever more bloat on the machine. Just look at Apple Intelligence, which now…

Same CPU, slower GPU and NPU: Meet the rest of Intel’s Core Ultra 200 laptop chips

Same CPU, slower GPU and NPU: Meet the rest of Intel’s Core Ultra 200 laptop chips

Intel’s Core Ultra 200 series is currently bifurcated between two architectures: Lunar Lake, which powers the Core Ultra 200V series of laptop chips; and Arrow Lake, which is included in the Core Ultra 200S desktop processors. Both share the same CPU architectures across their P-cores and E-cores, but the similarities end there. Arrow Lake processors…

Microsoft would really like you to replace your old Windows 10 PCs this year

Microsoft would really like you to replace your old Windows 10 PCs this year

Last January at CES, Microsoft Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi declared 2024 the “year of the AI PC.” And whether you believe that prediction came true or not—many new PCs come with AI-accelerating neural processing units (NPUs) onboard, but far from all of them—you can’t deny that Microsoft did try very hard to make it…

AI revolution drives demand for specialized chips, reshaping global markets

AI revolution drives demand for specialized chips, reshaping global markets

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly transformed the chip industry since its mainstream arrival over the past two years, driving demand for specialized processors, accelerating design innovation, and reshaping global supply chains and markets. The generative AI (genAI) revolution that began with OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT in late 2022 continues to push the limits of AI…

Best Carlotta build in Wuthering Waves – Weapons, Echoes, team compositions, and Sequences – Destructoid

Best Carlotta build in Wuthering Waves – Weapons, Echoes, team compositions, and Sequences – Destructoid

After what’s felt like an eternity, Wuthering Waves 2.0 has finally been released, and with it came the newest five-star Resonator, Carlotta. Carlotta packs a serious wallop and introduces a new style of play not seen before her release, so if you’ve pulled her, or are planning to, here’s everything you need to know. Best…

Bob Dylan has some Dylanesque thoughts on the “sorcery” of technology

Bob Dylan has some Dylanesque thoughts on the “sorcery” of technology

We might expect someone like Dylan, immersed as he has always been in folk songs, old standards, and American history, to bemoan the corrupting influence of new technology. And he does offer up some quotes in that vein. For example: Everything’s become too smooth and painless… The earth could vomit up its dead, and it…

Rumors say next-gen RTX 50 GPUs will come with big jumps in power requirements

Rumors say next-gen RTX 50 GPUs will come with big jumps in power requirements

Nvidia is reportedly gearing up to launch the first few cards in its RTX 50-series at CES next week, including an RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070. The 5090 will be of particular interest to performance-obsessed, money-is-no-object PC gaming fanatics since it’s the first new GPU in over two years that…