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Julio Franco

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 15, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Julio Franco

    Microsoft issues emergency Windows 11 patch to fix Remote Desktop and audio, but not AMD GPU crashes (opens the original)

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    Winners & losers: Microsoft has released an out-of-band update to repair the damage from September's Patch Tuesday. That release fixed nearly 1,000 vulnerabilities across Microsoft's products and broke a number of things along the way. The emergency patch fixes Remote Desktop failures, a virtualization bug, and part of an audio problem. Several of the most disruptive complaints remain unresolved, including AMD Radeon crashes and Explorer failing to load. The emergency fix arrives as KB5129195 fo

  2. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Julio Franco

    Micron offered its Taiwan workers up to 68 months' pay. They turned it down within hours (opens the original)

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    Bottom line: Micron just put the biggest employee payout in its history on the table in Taiwan, and the union at its Taoyuan plant rejected it the same day. That reads as irrational until you get into the fine print. The workers aren't haggling over the size of this year's check. They're fighting over whether a formula exists at all – and the difference between those two things is worth roughly half a million dollars per head. Following up on our report last month, Micron has now made its offer

  3. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Julio Franco

    Modders have already found two ways to make DLSS 5 playable, and neither one is Nvidia's (opens the original)

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    When we benchmarked DLSS 5 across the entire RTX 50 series last week with no frame generation inflating the charts, the numbers were bleak enough on their own. An RTX 5090 fell from 192 FPS to 76 FPS at 4K. An RTX 5060 Ti dropped from 129 FPS to 46 FPS at 1440p. But another key detail was that enabling upscaling brought back a mere 9% in performance, and that's because DLSS 5's neural rendering pass runs after upscaling, on the final output frame, so its cost scales with your monitor's resolutio

  4. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Julio Franco

    OpenClaw 2.0 lands with an easier setup and a rebuilt browser app (opens the original)

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    What just happened? OpenClaw shipped version 2026.8.1 over the weekend and is calling it 2.0 – the largest update since the open-source AI agent launched last November. The numbers support the label: 933 contributors, 569 of them first-timers, and more than 16,000 merged pull requests, roughly half of everything the project has merged in its lifetime. Community manager Hannes Rudolph's blog post for the release was titled "OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally," explaining that the team set out to simplify

  5. Article · Aug 30, 2026 · Julio Franco

    Nvidia's $63 billion stock portfolio is a map of its own supply chain (opens the original)

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    The takeaway: Nvidia's latest 13F reveals a $63.4 billion portfolio of US stocks, and it is very lopsided. Intel and SpaceX account for roughly 80% of it. But the filing's most interesting detail is what didn't happen: seven of the eight positions were untouched last quarter, but the portfolio more than tripled in value anyway. Nvidia's earnings this week gave the market the growth story it wanted. But a separate SEC filing gives us an additional perspective on what Nvidia is also doing with all

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