Before Unreal Engine and Fortnite, Tim Sweeney designed and programmed Jill of the Jungle in 1992. The game was ahead of its time with a female protagonist and console-quality platforming on PC. It’s still surprisingly playable today.
Linux kernel developers are working on performance optimizations for context switching, one of the most critical operations in any operating system. The patches focus on forcing inline functions in hot code paths to reduce performance degradation from CPU vulnerability mitigations.
A Chinese gaming PC featuring the Hygon C86-4G processor is reportedly performing on par with Intel’s Core i7 chips. The system handles Windows 11 and AAA games, but benchmark details raise questions. Here’s what we know about China’s latest domestic CPU effort.
Opera has rolled out major updates to its experimental Neon browser, including a one-minute research mode that generates fully-cited reports. The browser now integrates Google’s latest Gemini 3 and Nano Banana Pro AI models alongside Google Docs functionality. These enhancements target advanced user
The UK government is seeking cloud providers for a massive £250 million AI compute expansion. The four-year contract aims to seamlessly integrate with existing supercomputer infrastructure while dramatically scaling national AI capacity.
Google is building a new Android-based operating system called Aluminium OS that will eventually replace ChromeOS. The AI-first platform is scheduled to debut on PCs in 2026 across laptops, tablets, and streaming devices. This represents Google’s most ambitious desktop project in years.
The GNU C Library is getting a massive performance upgrade with a new generic FMA implementation that delivers up to 12.9x speed improvements. The patch eliminates expensive floating-point rounding mode changes and introduces integer-based arithmetic. Additional optimized math functions are also bei
HP has dropped a Windows laptop to Chromebook-level pricing during Black Friday. The $229 machine features a 15.6-inch touch display, AMD Ryzen 3 processor, and 128GB SSD storage.
Google is developing “Aluminium OS,” an Android-based operating system for PCs that may eventually replace ChromeOS. The project, confirmed through job listings, plans to launch next year across various hardware form factors. Artificial intelligence will be central to the new platform’s design.
Intel’s upcoming Panther Lake mobile processor has appeared in Geekbench 6 benchmarks, showing significant performance advantages over current-generation chips. The Core Ultra 9 386H demonstrates impressive single-core and multi-core results that challenge both AMD and Intel’s own recent offerings.
