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1 week ago | 
neowin.net | Sayan Sen
Scientists at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) have achieved a major breakthrough in materials science by creating a new type of nickel-based high-entropy alloy (HEA). This alloy can maintain its strength and flexibility over a wide range of temperatures, from extremely cold –196 °C to hot 600 °C. In simple terms, this alloy doesn't bend easily, making it an excellent material for environments with extreme temperature changes.
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1 week ago | 
neowin.net | Sayan Sen
Scientists at Brown University have developed a new method that could help treat eye conditions like macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa using tiny gold particles called plasmonic gold nanorods (AuNRs). These gold nanoparticles are extremely small—thousands of times thinner than a human hair—and may serve as the basis for a cutting-edge system to restore lost vision.
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1 week ago | 
neowin.net | Sayan Sen
This week, Nvidia released its RTX 5060 Ti and 5060 desktop graphics cards and they are priced at $429, $379, and $299, respectively. If you are wondering why there are three different prices for two cards, that's because Nvidia has two variants for the RTX 5060 Ti, the 16GB and the 8GB, wherein the $429 and $379 MSRPs are for the 16GB and 8GB, respectively, whereas the $299 is for the 5060 (8GB variant only).
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1 week ago | 
neowin.net | Sayan Sen
Microsoft is planning to remove a security feature on versions of Windows 11 older than 24H2. The company has confirmed that it is deprecating VBS enclaves on the likes of Windows 11 23H2 and 22H2. The same is happening to Server 2022 and 2019/2016 as well. This essentially makes the older versions of Windows 11 and Windows Server less secure. The company writes:VBS enclaves are being deprecated on Windows 11, version 23H2 and earlier versions of Windows.
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1 week ago | 
neowin.net | Sayan Sen
Microsoft today published its latest edition of the Cyber Signals report, which details how to deal with the latest types of cybersecurity threats, scams and frauds. The company has explained how, with the help of AI, it is easier than perhaps ever to build software with malicious intent and purposes.
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1 week ago | 
neowin.net | Sayan Sen
Microsoft, on its Microsoft 365 roadmap website, has released new details about the addition of Adobe's PDF rendering engine. Microsoft first began rolling these out to consumers in March 2023. The entry was added yesterday, and the company says that the general availability rollout of the same will begin in October 2025, which is, coincidentally, perhaps, around the same time that Windows 10 and older Office versions (2015 and 2019) reach end of support.
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1 week ago | 
neowin.net | Sayan Sen
The Microsoft 365 support team must have had a busy time this last week, as the company has been faced with multiple outages, with the latest one being Teams failing to share files. Meanwhile, the Classic Outlook app is also suffering from buggy updates as Microsoft recently broke downloads. Another bug has hit the Classic Outlook app now, and this one is causing high CPU usage often as high as "30 to 50%," leading to system hogging and performance issues.
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1 week ago | 
neowin.net | Sayan Sen
Back in November 2024, a curious Apple iPhone behaviour stumped even law enforcement as the phones would be restarting automatically if they were kept in the "locked" state for a while. As it turned out, this was not a bug and, in fact, was a feature added to improve the security of the device. Apple added this with iOS 18.1, and it is called "inactivity reboot."It looks like Google liked what it saw, and hence the feature has now been adopted for Android phones as well.
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1 week ago | 
neowin.net | Sayan Sen
Nvidia was supposed to launch the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti last month. However, that did not go through, but those cards are certainly arriving... very, very soon. As such, pricing for the two GPUs has now seemingly been confirmed. According to a new report from VideoCardz, Nvidia is indeed pricing the two new XX60 SKUs lower than last gen. The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is purportedly priced at $429, while the 5060 Ti 8GB will be pegged at $379.
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1 week ago | 
neowin.net | Sayan Sen
Earlier today, we covered a recent Google Cloud outage wherein its UPS systems failed, leading to interruptions and a six-hour outage. Microsoft is no stranger to such occurrences as it faced two just last week, first when Exchange Admin Center went down and second, when the family subscription service misbehaved. It's time for another one this week as Microsoft has confirmed that file sharing functionality on the Teams app is currently broken.
