Testing Mavens Launches Next-Gen PerfAgents Performance Orchestration Platform

We're relaunching PerfAgents with a renewed focus on performance test orchestration-bringing load testing, real user ...
Digital Trends

Tests show Apple M5 Max smoking AMD and setting performance record

The first unofficial Geekbench 6 results for the 16-inch MacBook Pro with M5 Max are in, and Apple isn’t just winning the benchmark race. It’s obliterating the competition. The M5 Max’s 18-core CPU ...

Hermeus Flies Second Supersonic Test Plane in Nine Months

For the second time in just over nine months, an Atlanta-based company this week debuted a new supersonic test aircraft.
Communications of the ACM

Measuring What Matters in Large Language Model Performance

As large language models (LLMs) gain momentum worldwide, there’s a growing need for reliable ways to measure their performance. Benchmarks that evaluate LLM outputs allow developers to track ...

Gemini 3 Flash Crushes ChatGPT-5.2 in Accuracy Test – ORCA Benchmark Update

New ORCA results show Gemini leading in practical math, but no AI matches the consistency of a simple calculator.
ADTmag

Apache Geode returns with 2.0 modernization push, moves to Java 17 and Jakarta EE 10

Apache Geode has been revived after a near shutdown. Geode 2.0 is positioned as a modernization reset, not a minor upgrade.
ZDNet

The right way to run an internet speed test (and how I use the results for better Wi-Fi)

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
PC Magazine

The Fastest Laptops for 2026

PC Labs tests more than 100 laptops every year. Buckle up: Based on our in-depth benchmarking, these are the speediest laptops on the market today. I have been a technology journalist for 30-plus ...