The Hot Take: So many software updates, seems like they're milking current silicon or having issues with new silicon?
NVIDIA is preparing to showcase a new rendering technique that could move real-time path tracing another step closer to wider game-engine adoption. Scheduled for presentation at the ACM conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in May, the company’s latest research focuses on improving ReSTIR PT, a ...
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By ckasprzak | TkOut | May 21, 2026 |
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The Hot Take: We'll have to see if this take off.... With ARM just entering the market with nvidia we'll have to see if it gains traction.
VMware has quietly debuted a technology preview of its flagship ESX hypervisor that is capable of running on Arm processors and servers. The virtualization giant teased its new tech in a Xeet which piqued our interest and led to the discovery of this document [PDF] on the public internet that explains the hypervisor supports guests running RHEL, Ubuntu, and SUSE, on servers from HPE and Gigabyte powered by Ampere processors, or Supermicro’s ARS-221GL model with an Nvidia Grace processor. The document offers slightly contradictory advice to the…
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The Hot Take: Been saying it for years, Microsoft is pulling Linux into windows on bite at a time. This probably I would assume only accelerates.
Microsoft is turning Azure Linux into a general-purpose, Fedora-based cloud distribution available to all Azure customers, while also productizing Flatcar as Azure Container Linux for immutable container hosts. "When Microsoft joined the Linux Foundation, there was this big conspiracy theory that somehow the Linux Foundation was undermining open source in partnership with Microsoft, and now you announce that you're shipping a Linux distribution," Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation's CEO, said in response to Microsoft's surprise announcement.…
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The Hot Take: SMS/TXT is going to cause some pain for sure.
For years, typing in a six-digit code sent to your phone has been the universal standard for verifying your identity online. But that era is officially coming to an end in the Windows ecosystem.
In a statement to Windows Latest, Microsoft independently confirmed that it’ll stop sending SMS codes for personal accounts.
Now, first spotted by Windows Latest, Microsoft has officially announced that it is pulling the plug on SMS codes for personal accounts. According to a support document quietly published earlier this year, the company is…
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The Hot Take: WTH Microslop.
Microsoft Bitlocker-protected drives can be opened with just some files on a stick
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The Hot Take: Well now, that definitely sucks it was doing that. No wonder people are moving to Linux!
Microsoft is reportedly preparing significant changes to how Windows 11 manages graphics driver installations through Windows Update. The update is intended to address a long-standing issue where the operating system could overwrite newer manually installed GPU drivers with older OEM-certified releases.
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The Hot Take: Reminds me of that one video of sweaty Steve Balmer going on about developers.....
Microsoft has removed the $99 registration fee for companies joining the Microsoft Store, matching last year’s change for individual developers.
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The Hot Take: Trying to get those linux converts back?
Microsoft is reportedly developing a new Windows 11 performance optimization feature internally known as Low Latency Profile. The technology is said to be part of the company’s broader Windows K2 initiative, which focuses on improving responsiveness throughout the operating system.
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The Hot Take: So legacy is always a ball and chain keeping you from moving forward faster. We'll see how they drop some of the legacy architecture to modernize the OS.
When you right-click a file in Windows 11 or launch a traditional desktop application, you are interacting with code that predates the commercial internet. The Win32 API, introduced all the way back in the Windows 95 era, is still a significant part of the world’s most popular desktop operating system. But according to Microsoft’s own leadership, this was never the plan.
First spotted by Windows Latest, in a recent video posted by the official Microsoft Dev Docs account on X, Mark Russinovich, Microsoft’s Chief Technology Officer of Azure…
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The Hot Take: Ai usage growing pretty steady and fast it would appear.
Anthropic is partnering with SpaceX to ease capacity constraints that have stranded Claude customers, a gesture that may soothe developer discontent about service availability and cost. Ami Vora, chief product officer at Anthropic, announced the expanded rate limits during Code for Claude, a developer event livestreamed from San Francisco. "As of today, we are increasing rate limits for developers on Claude Code and the Claude Platform," said Vora. "More specifically, we are doubling Claude Code's five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and…
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