Six ways to eliminate the unhelpful "AI Overviews" in Google search results

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Full disclosure: I hate Google's new AI search integration. All it does is get in the way of seeing my results. Most of the time, the "AI Overview" is not the information I am looking for or is outright wrong, and it's frequently plagiarized from an article that I could have read myself had Google given me the search results without its two cents.

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AYANEO AIR 1S OLED gaming handheld gets Ryzen 7 8840U APU option

AYANEO Air 1S announced

The Chinese company unveils its premium lightweight Windows 11 gaming handheld.

AYANEO is updating its 2023 1S design with a new APU version. The 1S is a second-generation product in the AIR series, which was originally powered by Ryzen 5000U APUs (Zen 3). Last year, the device was upgraded to the Ryzen 7 7840U, a high-end, low-power Phoenix processor with 8 Zen 4 cores.

Today

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TCL CSOT unveils world’s first 4K 1000 Hz display panel

4K 1000Hz monitor presented

Gaming monitor with 1000FPS & 1000Hz could reach flickerless motion clarity close to CRT monitor

TCL CSOT 4K 1000Hz panel, Source: Blur Busters

In recent years, companies have been pushing the boundaries of refresh rates in gaming monitors, surpassing the 500 Hz mark. Now, they’re aiming for even higher frequencies. What’s interesting is that this advancement isn’t limited to 1080

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GNOME OS Working On A New Installer & Other Enhancements To Make It More Practical

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund continues providing the resources for various new GNOME desktop development initiatives. There are various efforts underway for new features and refinements with GNOME 47 in September and a renewed emphasis around GNOME OS.

This Week In GNOME is out with their latest weekly summary for all things GNOME. Some of the GNOME developments in recent days include:

- There is work underway on creating a new installer for GNOME OS, but it's at the earliest of stages where there isn't even a public Git
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Linux 6.10 x86 Instruction Decoder Prepares For APX & Other New Intel Instructions

The performance events updates were submitted today for the ongoing Linux 6.10 kernel merge window. This pull adds support for Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and other new Intel CPU instructions to the x86 instruction decoder.

The Linux kernel's x86 instruction decoder is used for decoding kernel instructions, user-space probes, and the perf tools with the Intel processor Trace decoding. With Linux 6.10 the initial Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) instructions are supported along with Intel Key Locker instructions
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Linux 6.10 Preps For "When Things Go Seriously Wrong" On Bigger Servers

While machine check exception (MCE) events tend to be uncommon, a change made by Intel engineers is accommodating the ability in the Linux kernel to store more machine check records for "when things go seriously wrong" on increasingly high core count servers.

The Linux kernel to now had maintained a memory pool for being able to store 80 machine check exception records but Intel's Tony Luck has increased that threshold for accommodating increasingly larger server processors:
"Systems with a large number of CPUs may generate a large number of
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KDE Apps Improving Experience When Running Outside Of Plasma

KDE development remains very busy ahead of next month's Plasma 6.1 desktop release.

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development recap to highlight all of the interesting efforts made to the Plasma desktop and associated apps. Some of the KDE highlights for this week include:

- Reaching a consensus that KDE apps running outside of Plasma should always have Breeze style and icons available unless overrode by the system or the user. Kate, Konsole, and Dolphin are the apps so far using this solution to improve
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Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge laptops with Snapdragon X Elite have been leaked

Qualcomm Snapdragon powered laptops from Samsung, up to 22 hours of battery life

Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Book4 Edge laptops leaked ahead of launch.

Qualcomm is about to announce its new Snapdragon X Elite and Plus processor series based on ARM architecture. Simultaneously, Microsoft is putting great effort into making ARM architecture as compatible as possible on Windows devices. Next week, Microsoft will have a special event where the new features will be presented alongside the new Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6, both based on ARM architecture

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長江存儲推出PC41Q:旗下首款商用消費級QLC SSD,最大2TB,雙尺寸可選

長江存儲 宣佈 ,推出PC41Q,是其面向商用PC客户打造的首款QLC SSD產品。長江存儲表示,隨着AI大模型等應用的不斷髮展,市場對大容量、高性能SSD的需求持續增加。QLC NAND技術憑藉每個存儲單元4 bit特性,可為存儲市場提供兼

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