All posts tagged: Anymore

Intel proved why you shouldn’t ignore BIOS updates anymore

Intel proved why you shouldn’t ignore BIOS updates anymore

Published by Miika Tikkanen

One of the most dreaded tasks of owning a PC is the inevitable BIOS update; until a few years ago, it was optional, but now it’s unavoidable. An average PC owner might think BIOS updates are just for stability fixes, but some updates fix specific, dangerous vulnerabilitiesacross millions of systems. However, BIOS firmware updates come with another big hazard: you could brick your hardware. But some BIOS updates do something completely different, like Intel’s mandatory BIOS update to fix its 13th- and 14th-gen CPUs, which were being destroyed by the firmware and, unless updated, were quite literally frying hardware. Related Your CPU is throttling itself, and one BIOS toggle will fix it Your chip is faster than your board allows. Intel’s 13th and 14th gen CPUs nearly cooked themselves Buggy voltage requests turned boost clocks into a liability Credit: Dave Meikleham \ MakeUseOf Back in 2023, Intel faced one of its biggest post-launch hardware issues with the release of 13th- and 14th-gen processors, and it was a hot mess. These newer CPUs, particularly the i7 and …

A Movie Can’t Be Just Its Own Thing Anymore

A Movie Can’t Be Just Its Own Thing Anymore

Published by Sam Flores

Onslaught, in theaters this week, should be the perfect early-September treat. The aggressive action thriller is gory, loud, and packed with interesting actors, and it has a straightforward premise: Three murderous super-soldiers, the result of some shadowy extra-governmental experiment, have escaped from a lab and are descending upon a small town in New Mexico. A tough-as-nails retired Army sniper named Celeste (played by Adria Arjona), living somewhat off the grid in a trailer park, must use her grit and know-how to defend herself against the oncoming attack. Yet as simple as that sounds, the film feels needlessly complex. Rather than just delivering on its clean setup, it becomes fixated on teasing future installments—a symptom of the obsession with sequelization that’s affecting even smaller genre films. The director Adam Wingard was, once upon a time, a master of the cheap thrill. This is a compliment; he emerged from the micro-budget mumblecore scene in the 2000s, then made two impressively nasty bits of horror—the slasher You’re Next and the wonderfully tawdry and tense The Guest. But Wingard …

‘I’m not a programmer’ anymore: Linus Torvalds on the only two tools he uses now

‘I’m not a programmer’ anymore: Linus Torvalds on the only two tools he uses now

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Linus has no interest in supporting obsolete hardware or software. While Rust is important, it’s no panacea for bad programming logic. Linux developers have adopted AI tools for maintenance work.  MUMBAI — At Open Source Summit India 2026, Linux creator Linus Torvalds and his friend Dirk Hohndel discussed the current state of Linux and where it’s headed. Linux 7.1: Slow and steady, not splashy The conversation opened with Hohndel asking about what Torvalds thought about the Linux 7.1 release. Torvalds said he doesn’t think in terms of blockbuster releases: “For me, the highlight has been that it’s been a very steady progression of continued improvements.” He stressed that since they created the Git version control system, “We don’t do releases that have big new splashy features, and I actually actively try to avoid that kind of model; we want to have this kind of incremental improvement and steady progress all the time.” Also: Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days – and never imagined …

You Can’t Escape AI Anymore

You Can’t Escape AI Anymore

Published by Daniella Wilson

AI has ascended to the role of main character. When Donald Trump traveled to Beijing for an historic summit last week, AI was one of the central topics of his discussions with Xi Jinping. As the two nations remain locked in a technological arms race, the president brought along some of the United States’ most powerful AI executives, including Elon Musk and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. A continent away, the European Union has been unsuccessfully petitioning Anthropic to grant access to its advanced cybersecurity model, Mythos. Back in the United States, millions of students and teachers are dealing with the fallout of a devastating ransomware attack on the software platform Canvas—a hack that was likely aided by AI tools. And on Thursday, Cisco became the latest major company to justify layoffs by pointing to AI. The past six months have marked a sea change in the reach and influence of AI. For most of 2024 and 2025, there was talk of AI progress slowing down or even stopping altogether. Even as the technology began to infiltrate …

There is no nature anymore

There is no nature anymore

Published by Miika Tikkanen

These examples are mostly pollution—nuclear, carbon, chemical, light—but I raise them not to highlight the ways human industry and technology degrade the environment but to note how the things humans build change it. Nobody really knows what the exact effects of all that will be, but my point is that no part of the globe is free of human fingerprints. We have literally changed the world.   We’ve changed ourselves as well. Humans are especially adept at bending human nature. Everything about us is up for grabs—appearance, health, our very thoughts. Pharmaceuticals, surgeries, vaccines, and hormones give us longer lives, take away our pain, ease our anxiety and depression, make us faster, stronger, more resilient. We’re getting glimpses of technologies that will let us change who our children will become before they’re even born. Electrodes implanted in people’s brains let them control computers and translate thoughts into speech. Prosthetics and exoskeletons straight out of comic books restore and enhance physical abilities, while gene-­editing technologies like CRISPR are rewriting our very DNA. And meanwhile, people have taken …

I never see “page not found” anymore, thanks to this Chrome extension

I never see “page not found” anymore, thanks to this Chrome extension

Published by Miika Tikkanen

I’ve long considered the Internet Archive one of the most underrated entertainment sites on the internet. But aside from serving as a global backup for all kinds of media, it also has another ridiculously useful feature: the Wayback Machine. The Wayback Machine lets you peer back in time to see old, archived versions of websites, which is super handy for finding old links, downloads, and more. I’ve used it on numerous occasions to check changes to terms and conditions, find data I know used to exist, and more. But little did I know that the Wayback Machine has a Chrome extension designed to make finding old data easier, and once installed, it made sure I’d never see a blank web page again. I’ll never see a timed-out web page again The Wayback Machine extension can delve deep into the past So, as said, the Wayback Machine is a huge internet archive with heaps of cached pages for old versions of websites. Not every website appears in the archive, as that would be frankly bonkers, but …

Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz

Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz

Published by Miika Tikkanen

Emily Krempholtz’s debut novel poses a question that feels both whimsical and deeply serious: can a former villain truly become good? In Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore, we meet a protagonist who spent most of her life as the Thornwitch, the feared right-hand enforcer of the dark sorcerer Shadowfade. With her master now dead, Violet arrives in the quaint mountain town of Dragon’s Rest with a singular goal—to reinvent herself as a kind, normal florist and finally discover who she might have been if circumstances had been different. This isn’t your typical redemption arc where a character simply announces they’ve changed and everyone accepts it. Krempholtz crafts something far more nuanced and emotionally resonant. Violet’s journey toward goodness is messy, uncertain, and filled with the kind of self-doubt that makes her feel startlingly real. She doesn’t just want to stop being evil—she wants to understand what being good even means, and whether someone with her past deserves the gentle life she’s trying to build. The Charm of Dragon’s Rest and Its Residents The …