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Samson's developers announce a major patch to fix launch bugs and performance issues, with the update due April 10 adding up to eight save slots and addressing mission progression, NPC behavior, and various glitches.
Push Square’s Crimson Desert PS5 review praises the game’s vast, living open world and deep combat progression, with plenty of systems to explore and a strong sense of freedom. However, the opening is murky, quest clutter can feel like MMO busywork, and the inventory UI is cumbersome. Technical issues are prominent on base PS5 (with PS5 Pro showing improvements but still facing frame drops and artefacts). The reviewer concludes it isn’t fully recommendable in its current state, though patches could unlock its massive potential.
Microsoft says Windows 11’s 2026 update will roll out in monthly, wave-based releases via the Insider program and optional previews before standard Patch Tuesday updates. The rollout uses a Control Feature Rollout approach, so features like a movable taskbar, reduced Copilot presence, more update control, faster File Explorer, and improved Widgets will appear first in Insider builds and optional previews, then in stable updates. Planned improvements aim for lower RAM usage, faster responsiveness, better search, improved driver and device reliability, and a calmer, more consistent user experience. Non‑Insiders will see changes only after testing and through regular updates.
Microsoft plans to speed up Windows 11 in 2026 by reducing the OS’s baseline RAM usage, moving legacy apps to the WinUI3 framework to cut latency, and sharpening core features like File Explorer and search, while also improving drivers, Bluetooth, and wake behavior; changes will roll out through the Windows Insider program before broad release.
Nissan updates the 2027 Z lineup with styling tweaks and performance refinements, notably adding a 6-speed manual gearbox to the Nissan Z Nismo, along with a revised throttle/ignition map, upgraded brakes that drop unsprung weight, and retuned suspension. All Z models gain a new front fascia, a larger interior option (including a black-and-tan interior), a 15-watt wireless charger with a magnetic connector, and a redesigned gas tank for better fuel delivery at high speeds. Prices are not yet announced, but are not expected to change drastically from current MSRPs, and the 2027 Z hits dealers this summer.
Intel's Core Ultra 5 250K Plus launches at $200 as part of the Arrow Lake Refresh Plus lineup, packing 6 P-cores + 12 E-cores, 30 MB L3 cache, and a higher 3.0 GHz die-to-die interconnect. The Plus introduces Intel Binary Optimization Technology (via IPPP), an opt-in runtime code modification aimed at optimizing game binaries for Intel architecture with claimed up to ~20% performance gains in ideal cases. Built on Arrow Lake’s disaggregated tile architecture (Compute tile on 3 nm, memory/NPU/PCIe tile on 6 nm, graphics on 5 nm) and keeping 125 W base/159 W turbo, it competes in the budget segment against AMD’s Ryzen 5 9600X and Intel’s i5-14600K. The update prioritizes core-count and cache gains alongside software-driven optimizations to deliver improved value and frame rates.
Tom’s Guide compares Apple's $599 MacBook Neo (13-inch, 8GB RAM, fanless) with the $599 Mac mini M4 (desktop M4, 16GB RAM) to help buyers decide between portability and desktop power. The Neo is portable and quiet but RAM isn’t upgradeable and its display/output options are limited; the Mac mini M4 packs a desktop-class chip, more RAM, and higher display flexibility (multi-monitor up to three displays, HDMI), delivering better multitasking and gaming performance. If you need portability, the Neo is a solid budget option; for desk use with multiple displays, the Mac mini M4 is the better buy, even though both cost the same.
Chevrolet’s Corvette ZR1X uses a mid-mounted hybrid system to deliver about 1,250 hp, a 0–60 time of 1.7 seconds, and a 233 mph top speed, starting at $207,000. The battery sits in the center console and is recharged via regenerative braking (no plug needed); front-wheel electrification adds traction for all‑wheel drive, plus an F1-style push‑to‑pass and PTM modes for track use. It’s a high‑performance, driver-focused alternative to Ferrari and McLaren that blends raw power with Corvette practicality.
Verge’s testing shows the 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 Max delivers major speed and storage gains over the M1 Pro/Max, including a substantially faster CPU and GPU and faster SSDs, plus Wi‑Fi 7 and Thunderbolt 5. But at a steep price, many users won’t need the upgrade; those doing heavy 4K/8K editing or GPU workloads will see meaningful benefits.
Microsoft unveils a phased plan to fix Windows 11, prioritizing faster startup and responsiveness, lower memory usage, a movable taskbar, quieter Copilot integrations, improved File Explorer and updates, stronger reliability, and better Start/Search UX—aimed at giving users more control and a more consistent experience.
The 2026 MacBook Air with the M5 chip remains the go-to balance of price and performance for most buyers, delivering a meaningful CPU/GPU uplift, faster storage, fanless operation, strong battery life, and superb portability, while placing itself between the Neo and Pro in Apple’s lineup. Despite modest updates beyond the M5 and a higher starting price, it remains a well-rounded, do-it-all laptop—hard to beat for daily workloads and creative tasks—though power users who need Pro-level features may still prefer a Pro.
Apple's M5 MacBook Air introduces a 3nm M5 CPU with 10 cores, 8–10 GPU cores, plus a neural accelerator per core, along with faster memory/SSD, Wi‑Fi 7 and a 512GB base storage at $1,099 (13-inch) or $1,299 (15-inch). Upgrading depends on your current model: Intel Macs should upgrade now; from M4/M3 the gains are incremental (roughly 9–13% faster Geekbench 6 and 12–18% faster Cinebench 2024 vs M4; about 33% faster single-core and 40% multicore vs M3), while the M2‑to‑M5 jump is more substantial and the M1‑to‑M5 upgrade is a clear choice. The M5 keeps the familiar design but offers meaningful improvements for future‑proofing, making the 15-inch option particularly appealing; for many M4/M3 users, the upgrade may not be urgent, whereas Intel‑based Macs meet the threshold for upgrading now.
Linux 7.1 will retire UDP-Lite, removing long-unused code to clean the networking stack and potentially boost UDP performance, with deprecation notices dating back to 2023 and tests showing modest gains (roughly 3–10% in some UDP workloads) as the change moves toward net-next for the 7.1 release.
Linux is adding a cache-aware scheduling feature that keeps related tasks near shared caches to reduce misses and latency, with early tests showing 30–45% gains on cache-sensitive workloads and steadier performance for gaming and mobile, rolling out via kernel updates in 2025–2026 and tunable alongside existing NUMA and energy-aware logic.
Rust Coreutils 0.7 is a performance-focused release that speeds up dozens of utilities with faster hash maps, ASCII fast paths, and reduced malloc allocations, while refactoring unsafe Rust code for safer abstractions; GNU Test Suite compatibility sits at 94.5% after adding 19 new tests from GNU Coreutils 9.10, with more tests causing increased skips and failures; the update also includes build fixes for NetBSD and PowerPC and is available on GitHub.