Golden Gate and the Ghost of Intel Past

macOS 27 Golden Gate is coming this fall, and it brings everything you would expect from Apple in 2026: Siri AI, next-generation Apple Intelligence features, Visual Intelligence on Mac, a refined Liquid Glass design with the personalisation slider people actually asked for, and over a hundred quality-of-life improvements. It sounds like a celebration. It is, partly. But it is also a funeral. Golden Gate is the first version of macOS that will not run on Intel-based Macs, and that quiet cut-off line is far more significant than Apple’s press release lets on. The Door Closes on a Troubled Era Before the M1 chip arrived in November 2020, being an Apple Mac user meant accepting a...

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NVIDIA RTX Spark Promises Everything, and Costs Almost As Much

Jensen Huang has never been shy about making bold statements at a keynote, but what he unveiled at Computex 2026 was something different. NVIDIA, a company that built its entire consumer identity around discrete graphics cards, just announced its first ever Windows PC processor. RTX Spark pairs an ARM-based Grace CPU with a Blackwell GPU inside a single superchip, and according to Jensen, it marks the moment the PC stops being a tool and becomes a teammate. The hardware is genuinely impressive. The price, however, is the conversation everyone is actually having. What RTX Spark Actually Is RTX Spark is NVIDIA’s attempt to bring the full weight of its AI and graphics platform...

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The King Returns: AMD Brings Back the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and AM4 Refuses to Die

There are CPUs, and then there are CPUs that become legends. The AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D belongs firmly in the second category. When it launched in April 2022, it did something that nobody expected from a chip built on a four-year-old platform: it became the best gaming processor in the world. Not among AMD options. Not among budget parts. The best, period. Now, at Computex 2026, AMD has brought it back in a special 10th Anniversary Edition to celebrate a decade of the AM4 socket. And the timing could not be more deliberate. Why AMD Did This, and Why It Makes Complete Sense To understand the thinking behind this relaunch, you have to look at where the PC market stands in mid-2026. DDR5...

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The Lock Is Broken. How the Hypervisor Bypass Cracked Denuvo Wide Open

For years, Denuvo was the name that made pirates groan and publishers breathe easy. A game shipped with Denuvo? Expect to wait months — sometimes years — before a cracked version surfaced online. That era ended quietly in early 2026, not with a traditional crack, but with something that operates far below the game itself: a hypervisor bypass. And once you understand how it works, it’s hard not to be impressed — even if you’re rooting for the other side. What Even Is Denuvo? If you’re new to the DRM wars, here’s the short version. Denuvo is an anti-tamper and DRM (Digital Rights Management) software made by a company called Irdeto. Game publishers pay to...

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