Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET When I attended my first Linux convention, a company named Loki Games had a booth that was rather popular. Linux users flocked to the booth to see if a company could bring to the operating system one thing it was sorely missing: Games. Also: The best VPN for gaming: Expert tested and reviewed Loki Games had already delivered several titles by porting them from Windows to Linux. I…

dem10/Getty Images Have you decided what to do with your Windows 10 PCs when they reach their official end-of-support date six months from now? I know some people who are convinced that Microsoft will back down at the last minute and extend that deadline. Take this prediction to the bank: That’s not gonna happen.  Also from Ed Bott: Microsoft’s incredible rise, 15 lost years, and stunning comeback – in 4 charts The end date is right there…

Lance Whitney / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Windows 10 and Windows 11 users who installed last week’s April Patch Tuesday updates may have noticed a strange new folder appear on their system drive, or C drive.  Also: 10 pesky Windows 11 24H2 bugs still haunting PCs despite several patches Named “inetpub,” the folder is associated with Microsoft’s IIS (Internet Information Services), a component for hosting a website on your PC.  If you do not use…

Test and performance measurement vendor Keysight Technologies has developed Keysight Artificial Intelligence (KAI) to identify performance inhibitors affecting large GPU deployments. It emulates workload profiles, rather than using actual resources, to pinpoint performance bottlenecks. Scaling AI data centers requires testing throughout the design and build process – every chip, cable, interconnect, switch, server, and GPU needs to be validated, Keysight says. From the physical layer through the application layer, KAI is designed to identify weak…

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET On Thursday, the Financial Times reported that OpenAI has dramatically minimized its safety testing timeline. Also: The top 20 AI tools of 2025 – and the No. 1 thing to remember when you use them Eight people who are either staff at the company or third-party testers told FT that they had “just days” to complete evaluations on new models — a process they say they would normally be given “several…