Month: January 2025

TikTok owner ByteDance is reportedly still searching for non-sale options to stay in the US after the Supreme Court upheld a national security law requiring that TikTok's US operations either be shut down or sold to a non-foreign adversary.

Last weekend, TikTok briefly went dark in the US, only to come back online hours later after Donald Trump reassured ByteDance that the US law would not be enforced. Then, shortly after Trump took office, he signed an executive order delaying enforcement for 75 days while he consulted with advisers to "pursue a resolution that protects national security while saving a platform used by 170 million Americans."

Trump's executive order did not suggest that he intended to attempt to override the national security law's ban-or-sale requirements. But that hasn't stopped ByteDance, board member Bill Ford told World Economic Forum (WEF) attendees, from searching for a potential non-sale option that "could involve a change of control locally to ensure it complies with US legislation," Bloomberg reported.

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Handheld gaming PCs with AMD Strix Point processors may be starting to arrive, but models with Ryzen Z1 Extreme chips still offer pretty good performance… and they’re a heck of a lot cheaper. Handhelds with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 chips tend to sell for around $1200 and up. But Best Buy is currently […]

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The modern Doom games have been a master class in reviving a beloved retro gaming series. Both 2016's Doom and 2020's Doom Eternal paid homage to both the look and feel of the original Doom titles without being slavishly devoted to older gameplay conventions that can feel dated decades later.

Yet by the end of Doom Eternal, you could feel the modernized gameplay system threatening to burst at the seams a bit. Managing your limited ammo, health, and armor resources in Eternal meant expertly juggling a bewildering array of chainsaws, flamethrowers, grenades, and melee-based staggers into powerful, pre-animated "glory kills." That was all on top of the frequent weapon-switching needed to take advantage of the weaknesses of the varied enemies surrounding you and the double-jump-and-dash movement system that required expert use of all three dimensions.

Something had to give. So for Doom: The Dark Ages, the team at id Software has committed to a more streamlined, back-to-basics system that limits complexity while maintaining the same overall difficulty level. That means a "fewer strings on the guitar" approach to controls that narrows almost every action down to just three context-sensitive buttons, as the developers discussed in a hands-off virtual preview session attended by Ars Technica.

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Veröffentlichung im Mai 2025, bodenständiges Strafing statt Rumspringen: Golem.de hat von id Software mehr über Doom - The Dark Ages erfahren. Von Peter Steinlechner (Doom, Steam)

Bei Amazon kann man den Victorinox Handyman, ein Schweizer Taschenmesser mit Zange, günstiger kaufen als woanders. (Victorinox, Energie & Klima)

It's official: The FBI's warrantless searches of communications seized to protect US national security have at last been ruled unconstitutional and in violation of the Fourth Amendment.

In a major December ruling made public this week, US District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall settled one of the biggest debates about feared government overreach that has prompted calls to reform Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for more than a decade.

Critics' primary concern was whether the FBI needed a warrant to search and query Americans' communications that are often incidentally, inadvertently, or mistakenly seized during investigations of suspected foreign terrorists.

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Dasung is a Chinese company that makes E Ink tablets, monitors, and category-defying devices like the Dasung Link. Recently the company has been taking aim at one of the shortcomings of E Ink displays: low screen refresh rates. Now the company has unveiled a portable monitor with an E Ink display that supports refresh rates […]

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Ein Atom-U-Boot der Royal Navy ist nahe eines russischen Schiffs in britischen Gewässern aufgetaucht, um es beim Ausforschen unterseeischer Infrastruktur zu hindern. (Seekabel, Politik)

Die norwegische Bahngesellschaft Go-Ahead hat die Starlink-Satellitentechnologie an Bord eines Zugs erfolgreich getestet. Sie ist Mobilfunkverbindungen überlegen. (Starlink, Deutsche Bahn)

Bei Amazon gibt es ein Angebot zur Polk Audio React. Die Alexa-Soundbar ist mit 57 Prozent Rabatt zum aktuellen Bestpreis erhältlich. (Soundbar, Heimkino)