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Sometimes, you may suddenly observe glitches on your laptop screen, such asflickering panelsor lines, duplicating displays, and so on. While there are many types of glitches, they have similar solutions, and we have covered all of them in this article. Before you begin, you need to execute some troubleshooting steps to determine the nature of the issue. If your BIOS also shows a glitchy screen but the external monitor does not, the issue is with your display cable or panel....

After TSMC began buildingFab 21near Phoenix, Arizona, the company said it needed todispatch more than 1,000 skilled workers fromTaiwanso it could complete the project on time and within budget. This madeArizona unions furious, as they argued it essentially took positions from locals, and the situation even spurred a separate lawsuit for racial discrimination. Today, about 50% of the staff at the fab still originate from Taiwan, but this will change over time as TSMC builds out additional phases of its factory, reports theNew York Times....

The pr_connect_reset_error on Firefox simply denotes that the browser is unable to connect successfully to the server. Network connection issues on browsers can stem from a lot of factors that directly work with your network. For instance, the firewall on your PC can accidentally block access to connections with various websites. Similarly, VPNs, DNS cache data, and protocol filtering can alsointerrupt the network connection. Prior to trying out the solutions below, make sure your network is stable....

The noise around AI in general and AI PCs in particular is quite significant these days, as everyone is trying to take advantage of the buzz word and present their products as AI-capable. Technically, 14% of PCs shipped globally in the second quarter contained a neural processing unit (NPU), formally making them AI PCs, reportsCanalys. The latest CPUs from AMD, Apple, Intel, and Qualcomm contain NPUs. As a result, 8.8 million AI-capable PCs were shipped in Q2 2024, comprising 14% of total PC shipments for the quarter, reports Canalys....

While ZIP file support has long been a commonplace feature of Windows and other operating systems, this wasn’t always the case. Once upon a time, aMicrosoftengineer had to create a kernel extension called “VisualZIP” to enable standard ZIP features. This same kernel extension nearly got Microsoft engineerDave Plummerfired due to workplace politics he was unaware of, but ultimately ended up being the basis for today’s ZIP support in Windows. While this factoid has been on the record for a while, Dave Plummer uploaded an 8-minute recounting of the life and death of VisualZIP to YouTube on April 17th, 2024, so we saw fit to take a look at both it and his prolific career in Microsoft today....

PC gaming is an expensive hobby. Even people buying top-tier systems appreciate a good deal, allowing them to spend more on games. Alienware’s most powerful rig,the Area-51, is several thousand dollars (how many thousands depends on how you configure it). In competition withAmazon Prime Day, Dell is offering a few of itsgaming PCs on sale, including its latest model, which comes armed with an Nvidia RTX 5080 gaming GPU. A configuration of the Area-51 with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080, Intel Core Ultra 7 265, 32GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, an 850W PSU, and a 240mm liquid cooler for the CPU is down from $3,899 to $3,499....

Specifications for AMD’s next-generation Zen 6-based server products have surfaced at Baidu, viaHXLat X. Venice, the successor to AMD’s current Turin server offerings, will reportedly pack as many as 256 cores based on the Zen 6c design, suggested with 1GB of total L3 cache, and that’s without any additional 3D cache chiplets. We must tread with caution and not treat these details as definitive, since these products are likely a year or more away from launch....

Asus Germany and Austria are offering significant rebates for the just-launched Asus X870/E and several other AMD motherboards. The scale of the rebates ranges from 15 Euros (around $16.50) to amounts as large as 50 Euros (around $55). This promotion is applicable across 17 retailers in Germany and one seller in Austria. Unfortunately, the company does not appear to have a similar promotion for customers in the U.S. or Canada, at the time of writing....

Update 7/18 07:28 PT We have added the Threadripper Pro 9945WX to the Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-series lineup. The 12-core SKU wasn’t part of AMD’s original blog post but has been listed on the company’s website. Original Article AMD on Thursday disclosed pricing and release dates for the forthcomingRyzen Threadripper 9000and 9000 WX-series (codenamed Shimada Peak) processors, along withRadeon AI Pro R9700,which were originally announced atComputex2025. The most substantial enhancement in the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 WX-series processors is rooted in their architectural design....

In continued efforts to open-source its software stack, AMD has made its GIM driver open-source for developers, according toPhoronix. The driver is used for virtualization with AMD’s Instinct accelerators, but could be coming toRadeondesktop GPUs in the future, according to an AMD roadmap. The AMD GPU-IOV (GIM) driver enables the various functions needed to ensure full virtualization support for the host GPU. Currently, the GIM driver is compatible exclusively with theInstinct MI300Xrunning on Ubuntu 22....

AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X was the flagship Zen 5 CPU for the company’s latest Granite Ridge family of processors before the arrival of the $699 Ryzen 9 9950X3D, but if gaming prowess isn’t your main concern, then the 9950X is still king for 16-core workloads. One of the most powerful consumer CPUs around, the 9950X is the perfect processor for multiple-core and multi-threaded workloads and tasks such as content creation and video editing....

Apple’s MacBook Air is one of the most popular laptops around, and soon it will be faster and, surprisingly in 2025, start at a lower price. Today, the company announced that the next iteration of our pick forbest ultrabookwill get bumped up to an M4 chip and feature a new color option, “sky” blue. Outside of that new color, the M4 MacBook Air looks the same. It still comes in 13-inch and 15-inch sizes, and there are still a pair of Thunderbolt ports on the left side, along with MagSafe for changing, while the right side is home to the headphone jack....

ASRock launched two cutting-edgeZ890 motherboardsin sync with Intel’s release of theArrow Lake-S chips. One of these mobos, the Z890 Taichi OCF, is designed for extreme overclocking, and it supports up to 128GB of non-ECC DDR5 up to and beyond 10,133 MT/s overclocked, according to theproduct pages. Aside from that, ASRock also launched the Z890 Taichi Aqua, which stands out by dropping all USB-A ports in favor of 10 USB-C ports on the rear I/O....