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Microsoft has acknowledged that the testing OneDrive Photos experience was distributed to Windows more broadly than intended. A future update will add controls to remove the photos experience separately from OneDrive itself.
A test configuration of RTX Spark with 18 cores and 5,120 GPU cores has appeared in Geekbench 7. Reading the performance gap against the 20-core version and the limits of a single benchmark run, we examine the product tiers NVIDIA may be considering.
A paper that analyzed Backblaze's daily HDD data after adjusting for confounding factors estimated that HGST and WD have lower failure rates than Seagate, while Toshiba's is slightly higher. This is a different metric from Q1 2026 AFR figures.
RPCS3 v0.0.42 fixes ARM64-specific compatibility issues and extends integrity checks for PSN packages. Since this is a rolling release, individual verification with the latest build is essential.
Reports suggest ASUS, GIGABYTE, and MSI plan to raise motherboard distribution prices in Q3 2026. While PCB costs are expected to rise 50%, the actual price increase for finished products remains unannounced.
Qualcomm's chip price increase for September shipments is reportedly being negotiated with targets of 10-15% for flagships, 5-7% for mainstream, and 0-2% for low-end. The impact on device prices will vary depending on memory costs and contract terms.
Following a request from Microsoft, Apple is planning a mechanism to share the clipboard between iPhone and Windows PCs. Development is expected to be completed by fall 2027, but the public release date and any expansion outside the EU have not been announced.
In Valve's July 2026 Steam survey, 16GB VRAM reached 25.90%, edging out 8GB by 0.58 points to become the most common tier. Because participation is opt-in, the figures don't represent GPU performance rankings or overall market adoption rates.
The developer behind the Windows Task Manager has released a new app called 'TMOG' to address the lack of functionality in macOS's built-in tool. It visualizes the complex architecture of Apple Silicon and allows users to force-quit processes and monitor resources all from a single screen.
StatCounter shows North American Linux web-browsing share exceeding 10%. A closer look at the sudden daily jumps and country-by-country differences shows this can't yet be confirmed as PC market share or a migration away from Windows, and the data remains subject to revision for 45 days.
