Ransomware criminals use children's phone numbers to coerce payments from parents
"A psychological attack against the victim"
Visa challenges the legitimacy of stablecoins as a payment technology
Not all stablecoin transactions are "real," Visa claims
Apple's impossibly thin iPad Pro packs an M4 chip and tandem OLED technology
Apple's thinnest device ever
Get Microsoft Office for $29, no subscription required
Available for Windows and macOS. Over 80% off.
Robert Dennard, inventor of DRAM and pioneer of semiconductor scaling, dies at 91
His impact on computing lives on
PC market recovery leads to increased client CPU shipments, but server sales lag
Quarterly shipments were down, though
Rare Super Famicom prototype zooms to $40k bid at auction
It's probably even higher by the time you read this
Leak casts doubt on Intel's Battlemage, Celestial GPU plans for 2024
Chipzilla's graphics ambitions may hit a roadblock
FurMark adds Raspberry Pi support, GPU fan monitoring
FurMark's latest release supports Raspberry Pi hardware as well as new GPU fan monitoring capabilities. In addition to bug fixes, it also incorporates the latest versions of GPU Shark2, GPU-Z and GeeXLab.
DDR5 memory prices could rise 20% due to increasing demand for AI chips
The days of dirt-cheap DDR5 RAM may be over soon
Samsung's Odyssey OLED G9 49" ultrawide is currently down to $999
The Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 features an immersive ultrawide 49" QD-OLED display with a 240Hz refresh rate, making this suitable for all your high-end gaming needs. Usually $1,300 or more, it's now down to $999 at Amazon.
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What Ever Happened to ICQ?
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Intel CPUs Are Crashing and It's Intel's Fault: Intel Baseline Profile Benchmark
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Revisit: Is this the GOAT?
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The Best Handheld Gaming Consoles
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AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Revisit: How Does It Compare Against the 7700 XT?
Gamers hack classic Tetris on NES to run custom code without altering cartridges
It involves the infamous "kill screen"
Economic desperation drives 500,000 Argentinians to Sam Altman's Worldcoin crypto project
Would you trade your biometric data for $50 of crypto?
Leaked Asus Computex lineup teases ROG Ally upgrade, Snapdragon X notebooks, and gaming peripherals
No sign of the RTX 50 series though
Negating all VPNs may have been possible since 2002
All operating systems except Android are vulnerable, and the only foolproof mitigation is Linux-only
Nintendo confirms it will announce a Switch successor by April 2025
It will be absent from June's Nintendo Direct event, though
"CPUs Don't Matter For 4K Gaming"... Wrong!
Something we hear a lot is that CPU performance doesn't matter for 4K gaming. Without proper context, CPU benchmark data can be misinterpreted. Let us explain to you what's what with some hard data.
Let Loose: Watch Apple unveil the new M4-powered OLED iPad Pro
And a 12.9-inch iPad Air
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All vehicles will be required to have automated emergency braking
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SOFTWARE
Windows 10 returns to 70% market share as W11 continues to sink
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Desert land in India to host renewable energy park 5 times bigger than Paris
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Skyrocketing metal prices set to impact PC component costs
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AMD
Next-gen Radeon might feature all-new ray tracing hardware
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Fallout: London was ready for launch until Bethesda's buggy next-gen update broke it
League of Legends receives controversial Vanguard anti-cheat, Windows 11 now requires TPM 2.0
Riot denies reports of bricked PCs and clarifies its anti-cheat strategy
FBI and NCA spoofed Lockbit's seized site for some reason
Some guess law enforcement is poking fun at the group, but the bigger burn is how fast LockBit got up and running again
Microsoft's 'Zero Trust DNS' could finally rid Windows of widespread DNS vulnerabilities
A much-needed boost to Windows cybersecurity
CPU overclockers hit a ceiling, and it happened about 17 years ago
The golden age of overclocking has long passed
The big picture: Intel recently invited two leading overclockers to its headquarters to discuss achieving the world's first 9 GHz CPU overclock. The duo of Pieter-Jan Plaisier (SkatterBencher) and Jon Sandström (ElmorLabs) also looked back at CPU frequency overclocking milestones along the way, highlighting an obvious wall that was hit roughly 17 years ago.
The UK could become the best place to create games (with more government money)
Trade association TIGA publishes manifesto to promote game development in the UK
This third-party app blocks integrated Windows 11 advertising
Users will go to extreme lengths to negate Microsoft's latest "improvements" for Windows
Apple iPhone and Samsung Galaxy dominate phone sales, take over the entire top 10 list
No room for competitors
In a nutshell: Apple and Samsung were the best-selling smartphone manufacturers in the first quarter of 2024, together occupying every spot on Counterpoint's latest global top 10 list. iPhones captured four of the top five positions, conceding only the fifth spot to Samsung's Galaxy S24 Ultra. At the top of the stack is the iPhone 15 Pro Max. According to the report, this is the first non-seasonal quarter in which a Pro Max variant reached the top of the hill.
As Amazon's robot ranks swell, workers worry about their future
Amazon added 400,000 robots to its facilities in just two years
Computer science coding classes deemphasize syntax as professors teach higher-level skills in AI era
AI is not just changing programming, it's also altering how students learn to code
Forward-looking: For computer science students, generative AI isn't just the future – it's the present. These smart language models are already reshaping how the next generation of programmers learns to code, with teachers giving their approach a whole new spin.
Apple's first hybrid iPad could launch in 2025, foldable iPhone in 2026
Get ready to sell your kidney
The big three cloud providers, Amazon, Microsoft and Google currently make up 67% of the market
AI services and enterprise spending are pushing strongest growth since 2022
40,000 AI-narrated audiobooks flood Audible, dividing authors and listeners
AI audiobooks have invited backlash from narrators
Warren Buffett compares AI dangers to nuclear weapons, again, says tech will be great for scammers
"We may wish we'd never seen that genie"
German police hail takedown of Europe's "largest" call center scam network in operation Pandora
Ringleaders traded their headsets for handcuffs
SSD Pricing Update, Q2 2024: A Rising Trend for Storage
Until last year, there was plenty of talk about declining SSD prices. However, as we showed a few months ago, that trend has reversed. The AI race has also become a factor for SSD and HDD pricing.
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