LG’s reversal on the Copilot shortcut is a rare but telling victory for consumer pushback: after days of viral complaints that a Microsoft Copilot icon had been pushed to many webOS TVs without a clear uninstall path, LG says it will add an option to let owners delete the Copilot shortcut —...
Discord’s desktop client will quietly restart itself on Windows 11 when its RAM footprint climbs into multi‑gigabyte territory, part of a narrowly scoped experiment the company says is designed to reclaim memory, reduce system slowdowns, and buy engineering time to root out long‑running leaks...
Discord has quietly confirmed what many Windows power users already suspected: its Windows desktop client can grow into a memory hog during long sessions, and the company is testing a controversial stopgap — an automatic restart when the app’s RAM footprint breaches 4 GB under tightly...
Windows 11 users are suddenly facing a double squeeze: popular Chromium- and Electron-based apps — most notably Discord — are consuming far more RAM than many expect, and that problem is colliding with a memory market already strained by AI-driven demand and rising DRAM prices. What started as...
Discord quietly confirmed a controversial experiment this week: its Windows desktop client will — under tight safeguards — automatically restart itself when memory use climbs above 4 GB as a stopgap while engineers hunt down persistent leaks and inefficiencies. Background
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Microsoft's decision to remove the registration fee for individual developers publishing to the Microsoft Store is more than a pricing change — it's a clear signal that the company intends to make the Store a lower-friction, broader distribution channel for independent Windows software creators...
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Google's Chromium project has logged a serious security issue — tracked as CVE-2025-9866 — describing an inappropriate implementation in Extensions that can be weaponized to bypass Content Security Policy (CSP) via a crafted HTML page; Google has issued a Chrome stable update to remediate the...