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How to set up the new Fire TV Stick 4K on your TV’s USB power
Amazon’s A$129 Fire TV Stick 4K can run off your TV’s USB port. Here’s how to set it up, and what to do if the TV says there isn’t enough power.
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Quin Halberg
Computing desk
Quin Halberg writes the Computing and How-to desks, with 30 stories covering chips, operating systems and the hardware people buy. Computing pieces run from AMD's EPYC Venice prices to Windows 11 26H2 and Rust 1.99. The how-to guides walk readers through jobs like moving books to Amazon's new Kindle, or checking every clock in the house when daylight saving starts.
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How to move your books to Amazon’s new Kindle
Amazon’s redesigned Kindle is on sale in Australia from A$279. Here’s how to move your books, notes and personal files across, then wipe the old one.
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Daylight saving starts Sunday: check your phone, PC and clocks
Daylight saving starts at 2am on Sunday 4 October in SA, NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT. Here's how to make sure your devices jump forward an hour.
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AMD prices all 31 EPYC Venice chips, topping out at US$14,904
AMD's priced all 31 of its Zen 6 EPYC Venice server chips, from US$700 for eight cores to US$14,904 for the 256-core EPYC 9996.
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Los Alamos switches on its first NVIDIA Vera CPU server
Los Alamos has its first NVIDIA Vera CPU server running in its Darwin testbed, getting code ready for its Mission, Vision and Veritas supercomputers.
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Windows 11 26H2 arrives as a quick, one-restart update
Microsoft began rolling out Windows 11 version 26H2 on 29 September. It installs like a monthly patch and resets support to 24 months for Home and Pro.
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Rust 1.99 lets you write C-style variadic functions in Rust
Rust 1.99.0, out on 1 October, lets programmers write C-style variadic functions in Rust and stabilises raw-pointer layout APIs.
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Raspberry Pi's US$30 Smart Display Module puts a Pi in screens
Raspberry Pi's Smart Display Module went on sale on 29 September for US$30. It slots a Compute Module 5 straight into Intel SDM-ready screens.
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NVIDIA patched 114 holes in its GPU drivers
NVIDIA fixed 114 security holes in its GPU drivers on 30 September. If you run an NVIDIA card on Windows or Linux, it's time to update.
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Four Linux kernel root flaws, including DirtyAH6, go public
Four Linux flaws that let a local user take full control, including DirtyAH6 and TUNderflow, are now public. Kernel updates fixing all four are out.
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Check the KEV Feed First
CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and its CSV and JSON feeds should be your first stop when deciding what to patch. Here's how to use them.