Image: AMD AMD promised that Microsoft’s upcoming 24H2 update to Windows 11 would improve performance for its new Ryzen 9000 series CPUs, but it’s also giving a significant boost to some older Ryzen CPUs. Hardware Unboxed has tested the Zen 4-based Ryzen 7 7700X and the new Ryzen 7 9700X (Zen 5) on both Windows 11 version 23H2 and 24H2 and found a significant performance increase thanks to Microsoft’s OS update. On average, Hardware Unboxed found an improvement of 10 percent across multiple games running at 1080p resolution on the older Ryzen 7700X running Windows 11 version 24H2. On the latest Ryzen 9700X, Windows 11 24H2 provides an 11 percent performance improvement on average in the same game tests. KitGuru has also tested AMD’s best gaming... Continue reading…

A top White House official is traveling to China for talks on a relationship that has been severely tested during U.S. President Joe Biden's term in office.Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, will be in China from Tuesday to Thursday. He has been Biden's point...

A French investigative judge extended police custody for the CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Durov was detained Saturday at Le Bourget airport as part of a judicial inquiry opened last month involving 12 alleged...

Confronting Bud Light and Harley-Davidson for advocating LGBT rights and challenging BlackRock for pushing ESG in retirement funds apparently are just the beginning.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Tuesday that the involvement of the United States in Ukraine's ongoing incursion into Russia's western Kursk region is "a fact," the TASS state news agency reported.Ryabkov did not offer evidence to back up that...

A U.S. soldier who fled to North Korea last year will plead guilty to desertion at a court martial as part of a plea deal, his lawyer said.

Russian Telegram channels with links to the security services said on Tuesday that Ukrainian forces had attacked a border post in Russia's southern Belgorod region, though there was no immediate official confirmation of fighting there. Belgorod borders the Kursk region,...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he would likely need to impose "painful" higher taxes on the wealthy as part of his plan to overhaul Britain and rid it of the rot he said had set in during 14 years of Conservative rule. Starmer, whose Labour Party won a landslide election...

Good Tuesday morning. Here is what’s on 46 agenda today: 10am: The President receives the President’s Daily Brief News roundup:Canada imposes a 100% tariff on Chinese-made electric vehiclesAttendee…

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told a U.S. congressional committee that senior Biden administration officials pressured the company to censor certain COVID-19 content during the pandemic, and that the company…