Don’t delete that mysterious ‘inetpub’ Windows folder, says Microsoft, as it’s supposedly important for system security

The internet was mystified earlier this month by… okay, let me start this again. Very specific parts of the internet were mystified earlier this month by an empty folder labelled “inetpub” turning up among system files after the Windows 11 April 2025 Update. Some took to deleting it, which on the surface caused no issues…

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If you thought USB naming was nonsense, allow this professional furry engineer explain the total nightmare that is the underlying hardware complexity of USB-C

Question. What’s the difference between USB 3.1, USB 3.1 Gen 2, and USB 3.2 Gen 2? Answer, they’re all exactly the same, they’re just different iterations of the totally bananas naming schemes that have been cooked up for USB over recent years. But if you thought USB branding was a mess, well, you really don’t…

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Two Builds Of An Unreleased Mech-Based Beat ‘Em Up For The SNES Have Just Been Preserved

‘Mechanoids 2 – The Final Conflict’ was in development at Enigma Variations. Games That Weren’t’s founder Frank Gasking revealed earlier today that he has managed to preserve another lost Enigma Variations game, following the discovery of unreleased NES versions of Sensible Soccer and Populous. This time it’s the turn of the 1993 side-scrolling mech beat…

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How to Recreate A Minecraft Movie in Your Minecraft Game

Category: Games April 14, 2025 How to Recreate A Minecraft Movie in Your Minecraft Game Joe Skrebels and Mike Rougeau ‘A Minecraft Movie’ has proved that everyone yearns for the mines – not just the children. Now that the film based on the best-selling video game of all time is a smash-hit success, Minecraft players…

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App promising a universal shopping experience automated with AI actually used a small army of human workers in the Philippines and Romania instead

In the world of technology, exaggerating the capabilities of a product is pretty much the norm. But when one app company managed to raise millions of dollars in investments on the promise that it would be fully automated via AI, the US Department of Justice charged its former CEO with fraud because it turns out…

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