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I Turned My Graphics Down to Low. Then I Understood AMD's Ray Tracing News.
I turned my graphics down to low, and that's how I understood the AMD news Last week I was playing a game. I had the graphics set to ultra. The frame rate sat at 41. I could hear my GPU fans spinning like a small drone. So I switched to medium. The frame rate jumped to 68. The fans quieted down. The picture turned soft. I stared at the screen for a while and did not move. The room was quiet except for the hum of the computer. I could feel the heat coming off the case. I had spent money on this card. I had checked the reviews. I had compared the numbers. And here I was, turning the settings down because a patch of trees was too much for it.
By Jin11 days ago in 01
Apple’s Hardware Chief Says Your iPhone Screen Protector Makes His Skin Crawl. Here’s What He’s Really Saying.
One screen protector, two worlds: Apple’s “skin crawl” and the user’s “what if” TechRadar interviewed Tom Marieb, Apple’s VP of Product Integrity in Hardware Engineering, about the iPhone Duo’s hinge and Ceramic Shield 2. The interview contained one very shareable line:
By Jin12 days ago in 01
How Long Will an iPhone 17 Last? It’s Not About the Chip
How Long Will an iPhone 17 Last With Normal Use? The base iPhone 17 should last five to seven years with normal use. Light users who replace the battery can get seven to eight years. If you want the full on-device AI feature set in the coming years, the 12GB Pro models are the safer choice.
By Jin12 days ago in 01
I Spent a Week With the Doubao AI Phone. Here’s the Truth About Whether It’s Worth $800.
The Nubia NaviX Ultra Doubao Phone costs several thousand yuan. I bought one to find out whether it's a real tool or just expensive hype.
By Jin13 days ago in 01
I Left Windows 11 for Linux: Five Months on Debian and I'm Not Going Back
Switching your main PC to Linux for the first time: which distro will not make you quit? I did not switch because I love the terminal. Win11 updated one day, and I opened Task Manager. The process list went past three screens. The fan spun. I had written almost no code, and half the RAM was gone.
By Jin13 days ago in 01
I Used DeepSeek Harness and ZCode on Real AI Projects — One Broke Me, One Shipped
dsh and ZCode: a practical comparison In August 2026, two tools appeared on developers' screens at almost the same time. On August 11, ZCode announced that its user count had passed 1 million. Three days later, DeepSeek open-sourced DeepSeek Harness late at night. Its command-line entry point was called dsh. On GitHub, dsh's star count passed 50,000 within twelve hours. In forums, people posted screenshots, wrote long posts, and installed both tools on the same machine, switching back and forth.
By Jin13 days ago in 01
This Is How Three People Hacked OpenAI for the Price of a Subscription
One HEIC Image, Three Subscriptions, and OpenAI's Internal Repository On the evening of July 24, 2026, three people at Hacktron AI sat in front of their screens. They had just gotten access to Claude Opus 5. Two days earlier, they had tried the same vulnerability with Opus 4.8 and failed. Now they opened a new session and entered the target: the Discourse forum, HEIC image upload. Three hours later, the first line of ARM64 exploit code appeared in the terminal.
By Jin14 days ago in 01
I Watched the iPhone 18 Pro Launch. Here’s Why the Pro Max Got Scalped and the Pro Got Ignored.
On September 18 at 8 a.m., barriers were already up outside the Apple Store on Century Avenue in Lujiazui, Shanghai. More than a hundred people stood in line with reservation codes. Staff called numbers at the door and let people in a few at a time. According to staff, neither iPhone 18 Pro model was available for walk-in purchase. Both had been reserved.
By Jin14 days ago in 01
ZCode Uploaded Full Git Histories, Reflog, and Secrets by Default. Zhipu’s Apology Is Not Enough.
ZCode uploaded repositories by default. What Zhipu owes users now. Zhipu’s ZCode incident is worse than a routine bug. A bug crashes, miscalculates, or breaks a button. ZCode reportedly ran a default-on pipeline that packaged a developer’s workspace and sent it to a remote object store. The uploaded package included the full working directory, complete Git history, LFS large-file cache, reflog, and global application configuration. It was encrypted and sent to Alibaba Cloud OSS. The server issued the encryption public key. The private key stayed in the cloud. Users could not decrypt the package, audit it, or find a UI switch to stop the upload.
By Jin14 days ago in 01
Choosing a Leather Watch Strap: Materials, Fit, and Style
A watch strap is more than a simple component that keeps a timepiece attached to the wrist. It can influence comfort, appearance, durability, and even how a watch feels during everyday use. With many materials, colors, textures, and construction methods available, choosing the right strap often requires more thought than simply matching its color with a watch dial.
By charliesamuel16 days ago in 01
The AI Boom Has a Dirty Secret, and Your Town Is Paying for It
The Hum Behind the Revolt: How AI Data Centres Ignited a Transatlantic NIMBY Politics I On the outskirts of Hertfordshire, a large white box is growing. Around it are green fields, a river, and further off, housing estates. Inside the box are tens of thousands of chips performing trillions of calculations per second. The switching of the chips is silent, but every watt of power that feeds them ultimately escapes as heat. Thousands of fans spin day and night to keep the heat from destroying rows of server racks. Transformers in the substation emit a low hum. Security lights burn through the night, cutting the darkness into pieces.
By Jin16 days ago in 01
Find My Phone: How Find My Device and Find My iPhone Are Tracking Lost Phones Faster Than Ever
Find My Phone: How Find My Device and Find My iPhone are tracking lost phones faster. Find My Phone tools, Google Find My Phone and Call My Phone help users track lost phones instantly.
By Alex Ray16 days ago in 01