When a modern operating system built for multicore CPUs and GPU-accelerated compositing is forced to run in a display mode designed before many readers were born, the result is part engineering curiosity and part living museum exhibit — and that’s exactly what happened when Windows 8.1 was...
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You’d think that after two decades, the digital skies of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas would hold no more surprises—but just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water (or, rather, to try taking off from it), a bug as old as some Gen Zers themselves emerges, causing fans to wonder: are...
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