Windows NT 4.0 brought the Win95 UI to servers 30 years ago today — milestone unifying modern Windows OS hit RTM in the Pentium era
 Windows NT 4.0 brought the Win95 UI to servers 30 years ago today — milestone unifying modern Windows OS hit RTM in the Pentium era

Microsoft released Windows NT 4.0 to manufacturing partners on this day in 1996.

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Legendary Windows developer codes Task Manager for the Mac, says Apple’s ‘Activity Monitor blows’ — Microsoft gave original Windows Task Manager dev permission to reference Windows XP source code

Legendary Windows developer Dave W. Plummer has shared details and screenshots of a version of Task Manager for Apple Mac computers.

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‘I refused to let 3D die!’: Someone built a custom player for all 3D movie formats — and is even futureproofing it to preserve the grandeur of 3D for whatever the future of projectors and TVs holds

An intrepid Redditor has built a 3D movie player that supports three different generations of 3D, with an eye to the future of TV and projector tech.

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Meta smart glasses were the best tech I took on my honeymoon, but privacy concerns kept them from being as frictionless as I wished they could be
 Meta smart glasses were the best tech I took on my honeymoon, but privacy concerns kept them from being as frictionless as I wished they could be

Despite rising hate for Meta’s AI glasses, my wife wouldn’t take her smart Oakley HSTNs off during our honeymoon.

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I’m worried that Windows 11 will slowly turn into a subscription-based OS, and AI agents will be to blame — here’s why
 I’m worried that Windows 11 will slowly turn into a subscription-based OS, and AI agents will be to blame — here’s why

My biggest Windows 11 fear is AI agents — and that they could be a Trojan Horse for subscription fees in Microsoft’s OS.

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Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame, like playing ‘correspondence chess with a shotgun’ — nearly 14 million substitutions to render a frame at 80,000 substitutions per second

Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame by using one text string to the machine, engine, and video output

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The best hidden macOS 27 features people aren’t talking about
 The best hidden macOS 27 features people aren’t talking about

5 of the best macOS 27 features that no one knows about.

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Hate the Copilot key in Windows 11? It looks like Microsoft’s bringing in the option to remap it to do nothing — if you feel that’s more useful
 Hate the Copilot key in Windows 11? It looks like Microsoft’s bringing in the option to remap it to do nothing — if you feel that’s more useful

Think nothing is better than Copilot? Microsoft is going to let you prefer the former over the latter in a very literal sense, with the ability to remap the Copilot key to do nothing.

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Own an LG monitor and tired of seeing that McAfee pop-up? Microsoft has banished it from Windows 11 — but wider issues need to be addressed here
 Own an LG monitor and tired of seeing that McAfee pop-up? Microsoft has banished it from Windows 11 — but wider issues need to be addressed here

Microsoft kills McAfee ad served via LG monitor app in Windows 11 — but there are wider problems to deal with in Windows Update.

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Geekbench 7 introduces biggest overhaul yet — real-world CPU testing, new media workloads, AI benchmarks, and CUDA support
 Geekbench 7 introduces biggest overhaul yet — real-world CPU testing, new media workloads, AI benchmarks, and CUDA support

The latest update introduces more realistic CPU and GPU workloads, redesigned multi-core testing, AI-focused benchmarks, larger datasets, and CUDA support for Nvidia GPUs.