Can Windows improve before x86 catches up? It's unlikely.

We ran free Qwen models offline on a 24GB M4 Pro MacBook Pro and graded them against ChatGPT on 20 tasks. Scores, speeds and ...

ODBC is a native data access application programming interface (API) for applications written in C and C++. The Microsoft ODBC Driver for SQL Server connects to SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, Azure ...

DreamMachine finds where a small language model fails at multi-step arithmetic word problems, writes new training problems by code aimed at exactly that weakness, fine-tunes the model on them, and ...

4GB of RAM is plenty.

Forget ordinary laptop benchmarks - I tested the $4,000 Lenovo RTX Spark with real local AI coding and a brutal battery workload.

Nvidia's RTX Spark packs an NPU that we know very little about, but I was able to get it working.

Cryptographic hashing has two live generations fighting for the same job today. BLAKE2, standardized in IETF RFC 7693 back in 2012, still runs inside Argon2, WireGuard, and libsodium. BLAKE3, released ...

Ask a systems engineer in 2026 which hash function they reach for and you’ll get two very different answers depending on the job. Ask about signing a certificate, verifying a Bitcoin block, or passing ...

Modern baby monitors are expected to do more than stream audio or video; consumers now expect functions such as connected ...

This week's round-up of CG tools ranges from texturing apps to a neat Blender animation add-on, a 3D head generator - and a ...