Windows users report widespread device issues following January 2025 updates
Problems affect USB connections, DAC drivers, Bluetooth, and more
Scammer uses AI to pose as Brad Pitt, tricks woman into sending $850,000
The fake Pitt claimed he needed money for kidney cancer treatment
Facepalm: Not for the first time, someone has been duped into believing they were conversing with a celebrity online and sent them money. The victim in this instance was a 53-year-old French woman, who sent $850,000 to a scammer that used AI-generated content to convince her she was in a relationship with Hollywood star Brad Pitt.
As Windows 10 end of support looms, Windows 11 upgrade pop-up is crashing PCs for some
Microsoft shows us how to make something even worse
Don't trust generative AI summaries: BBC calls out Apple over false headline on CEO killing
Apple Intelligence falsely claimed Luigi Mangione shot himself
What is the most commonly used password?
Despite all warnings against using poor passwords...
The internet reacts to the CrowdStrike IT disaster that crashed computers worldwide
Botched update already has a fix, but it's not so easy to deploy across enterprise systems
Google defends failing AI search, while promising improvements
AI Overviews struggle with satire, lack of information, and confusing queries
Android 14 uses "nonsensical" logic to calculate space usage on smartphones
Google wrongly describes a bloated "System" directory
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 8GB: Why You Should Avoid It
Although it's true that the 8GB and 12GB variants of the GeForce RTX 3060 are based on the same silicon, the changes go beyond memory capacity and the 8GB RTX 3060 is always going to be slower.
Amazon destroys up to 200,000 items of unsold stock per week at its Dunfermline warehouse
Destroyed items include new and returned products, ranging from books to iMac computers
LG caught red-handed trying to buy favorable coverage from Hardware Unboxed
When you have great products in the first place, why even go there?
Latest Windows 10 update is causing BSOD crashes
You may have lost your ability to print
U.S. Customs seizes 2,000 OnePlus Buds thinking they were "counterfeit" AirPods
Now hiring: Tech savvy self-starter who can read a package label
WordPress' parent company Automattic will buy Tumblr from Verizon for an undisclosed amount
The acquisition was reportedly "well below" $20 million
Facebook admits it stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text
The passwords were searchable by Facebook employees
Commissioning Misleading Core i9-9900K Benchmarks
When a PC gaming site published early Core i9-9900K results today we were a little surprised. The title read "Intel's Core i9 9900K is up to 50% faster than AMD's Ryzen 7 2700X in games," right away many of the results looked very suspect to me, having spent countless hours benchmarking both the 2700X and 8700K, so we looked into it some more.
New York federal judge rules news outlets violated copyright by embedding a tweet
Embeddings tweets may soon come with some risks
Microtransactions from free-to-play games almost three times the revenue of paid game releases
$22 billion in 2017 alone should be enough motivation for developers to keep microtransactions alive
