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Friday February 28, 2025. 04:27 PM
You can’t find a new Nvidia graphics card for love nor money. Between pent-up demand from PC gamers and Nvidia selling every GPU it can to the bubbling AI industry, new models are going out of stock in a matter of minutes — and it looks like the situation isn’t going...
For me, one of the most surprising things at Amazon’s lavish Alexa+ event earlier this week was what didn’t happen. A little backstory: Amazon traditionally trots out its latest devices, including Echo speakers, Ring cameras, Kindle tablets, and more during an annual...
Google changed its rules around how product-review sites appear in its search engine. In the process, it devastated a once-lucrative corner [non-paywalled source] of the news media world. From a report: Sites including CNN Underscored and Forbes Vetted offer tips on...
Microsoft plans to sunset Skype, a service that was part of the foundation of IP telephony, by May 5. Instead, Microsoft plans to replace Skype with the free version of Microsoft Teams, the company said. In doing do, Microsoft will throw a shovelful of dirt on Skype, which...
Vo1d is a long-known botnet that infects Android TV devices, and security experts from XLab have now discovered a new variant that’s said to have infected over 1.6 million Android TV devices around the world, turning them into remote-controlled malware bots. According to...
The Alphabet “moonshot” project is launching a new chip to deliver high-speed internet with light instead of radio waves.
A webcam is indispensable for video conferencing. However, other applications can also access the camera, which means there’s a potential risk that a malicious intruder is in the system and watching your every move. Creepy. If you don’t need the camera or want to deny...
Microsoft said Friday it will shut down its Skype messaging service on May 5, replacing it with the free version of Microsoft Teams for consumers. Existing Skype users will have approximately 60 days to decide whether to migrate to Teams, where their message history, group...
Given that Cybertrucks fall to pieces in the face of a particularly menacing spray paint can, the rationale behind wanting to take one camping is just as strange as the rationale behind buying one in the first place. Given that absolutely abysmal bed space, though, you're...
Command & Conquer: Red Alert and its spinoffs represented the peak of the 1990s real-time strategy genre. EA has released the source code to many of the games in the series, now available at Github with an open-source license. The current state of the source code does not...
The question is whether we can find them in stock and at MSRP With the launch of AMD's RX 9070-series graphics cards, AMD is going back to its roots. Rather than trying to compete with Nvidia on raw performance with another flagship GPU beyond the means of most gamers, the...
Welcome to this week's overview of the best apps, games and extensions released for Windows 10 and Windows 11 on the Microsoft Store and elsewhere in the past seven days.
A new report shows that 87 percent of companies in the US and UK have, or are in the process of, rolling out passkeys with goals tied to improved user experience, enhanced security, and compliance. The research from the FIDO Alliance, along with underwriters Axiad, HID, and...
Apple has just announced a series of new tools, features and improvements that it says will “help parents protect their kids in a way that is designed around privacy”. One of the biggest changes is an overhaul of the age rating system that is used in the App Store, with...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (emacs, freerdp2, and gst-plugins-good1.0), Fedora (java-17-openjdk, python3.6, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (radare2), SUSE (libX11, openvswitch3, postgresql13, procps, ruby2.5, webkit2gtk3, and xorg-x11-server), and...
Encrypting your system’s hard drive is a great way to protect your laptop if it ever gets stolen. During the encryption process, readable data (aka plain text) is converted into unreadable character strings (aka cipher text). Only with the correct password can you reverse...
The hits just keep on coming. Mozilla not only changed its Privacy Notice and introduced a Terms of Use for Firefox for the first time with some pretty onerous terms, they also removed a rather specific question and answer pair from their page with frequently asked questions ...
It turns out your 12-cup coffee machine is smaller than you think. But figuring just how many cups it makes isn’t always easy, and it’s probably not what you expect.
Executives pull on the baggy trousers to distribute the pink slips HP says it intends to elbow up to 2,000 workers overboard with the aim to help it save up to $300 million in its current fiscal year that runs until October.…
I've heard of Markov Chains, but I didn't understand them until I visited this site that explains them with simple interactive animations. Look at the illustration above. The gray circle can move in the direction of the blue and orange arrows. — Read the rest The post What...
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