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Enlarge / AMD’s Ryzen 7700X makes enough sense to feature in our higher-end gaming build. Andrew Cunningham It’s been a while since our last system guide, and a few new products—most notably AMD’s Ryzen 9000 series CPUs—have been released since then. But there haven’t been many notable graphics card launches, and new ones are still…

Enlarge / Apple’s event will likely discuss Apple Intelligence, though that’s not going to launch until later in the year with iOS 18.1 Apple For years, Apple’s September event has focused almost exclusively on new flagship iPhones and new Apple Watch models. Once in a while, other second-tier products make an appearance. And in recent…

Enlarge / Spotify released the Car Thing to the general public in February 2022. It’s bricking them in December. For some of us, few things are more infuriating than when a gadget stops working due to a software change. As we’ve frequently covered here at Ars, startups and big tech companies are guilty of rendering…

Enlarge / A ratgdo, version 2.53i. I live in suburbia, which means I’ve got a garage (or a carhole, if you’re not so fancy). It’s a detached garage, so part of my nightly routine when I check to make sure the house is all locked up is to peek out the back window. I like…

Qualcomm Windows-on-Arm is finally just about good enough to serve as your main PC, thanks to a combination of long-awaited Snapdragon X-series silicon from Qualcomm, Arm-specific improvements in the Windows 11 24H2 update, and third-party software developers that are slowly but surely putting out Arm-native versions of their most popular apps. So far, those Snapdragon…

Enlarge / Rust never sleeps. But Rust, the programming language, can be held at bay if enough kernel programmers aren’t interested in seeing it implemented. Getty Images The Linux kernel is not a place to work if you’re not ready for some, shall we say, spirited argument. Still, one key developer in the project to…

Intel Intel has formally announced its first batch of next-generation Core Ultra processors, codenamed “Lunar Lake.” The CPUs will be available in PCs beginning on September 24. Formally dubbed “Intel Core Ultra (Series 2),” these CPUs follow up the Meteor Lake Core Ultra CPUs that Intel has been shipping all year. They promise modest CPU…

AnandTech Few ’90s tech sites other than Ars Technica are still operating here in 2024, and today, there’s one fewer. AnandTech, a staple of CPU and GPU news and reviews since 1997, will stop publishing today, according to an announcement from Editor-in-Chief Ryan Smith. “For better or worse, we’ve reached the end of a long…

Enlarge / “You’ll never be bored again” is one of the more fitting slogans attached to Tumblr. Getty Images Once-great social media and blogging platform Tumblr has gone through a number of big changes in recent years, and another one is right around the corner. Parent company Automattic says it is migrating all Tumblr blogs—more…

Enlarge / Generative AI Alexa asked to make a taco poem. The previously announced generative AI version of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant “will be powered primarily by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models,” Reuters reported today. This comes after challenges with using proprietary models, according to the publication, which cited five anonymous people “with direct knowledge…