Bruno Ferreira
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It's now a generally accepted fact that PCIe bandwidth (or lack thereof) generally doesn't tend to affect a graphics card's performance all that much, except in specific scenarios and extreme cases and provided the GPU is installed in a relatively modern system. As it happens, the clients of Puget Systems -- purveyors...
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It's well-known by now that virtually everyone in the hardware and chip business has been trying to diversify their manufacturing, to not be so dependent on Taiwan and China. Apple is one of those companies, having started shifting part of its iPhone production to India four years ago. However, Foxconn, the company...
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We truly are back in the glorious days of 2012-ish, when "thin" was the keyword in the smartphone world, and people would happily use phones that didn't last a day in exchange for them looking like they came out of a sci-fi movie. Everyone got wiser eventually, but any fashion becomes stylish again, and 2025 is the...
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It's been a hot minute since NVIDIA released the RTX 5060 Ti and AMD let the RX 9060 XT out of the bag. Both of these cards are available in with 8 GB and 16 GB of VRAM, and the fact the 8 GB versions could be hamstrung by a lack of VRAM has been the subject of much online discussion, given the performance bracket the...
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Reports of overheating have surfaced of the highly-anticipated Nintendo Switch 2, which claim that units are suffering from various issues in some popular games.
This issue came to light today thanks to a post at the NintendoSoup fan site. We did our own digging around Reddit and X, however, and the reports seem...
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Monster hunters across the planet have something to look forward to. Capcom has released a fresh new patch for Monster Hunter Wilds, packed with lots of improvements and new content, but most importantly, lots of PC-specific performance optimizations.
The patch is called Title Update 2 and the version number is...
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If you use Microsoft Authenticator or know people who do, here's a good heads-up. Keeping with the plan to discontinue Authenticator's password functionality in a bid to transition to passkeys, the software's autofill functionality will stop working as of today, and saved payment information will be erased. Saved...
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Unfortunately, we have another serious security vulnerability to tell you about. This time around, it's on high-end Bluetooth headphones and headsets from a range of manufacturers including Sony, Marshall, JBL, Bose, and BeyerDynamic. The common theme among them is they all use Bluetooth SoCs from Airoha, putting the...
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A significant portion of our readers are PC builders, and we figure that among our collective there's a wide array of bizarre stories about mystery issues that seem to defy any logic and common sense. Today, there's a tale of quite extraordinary dimensions, at least as far as the hardware and price tag are concerned:...
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It is not a good time to be a network administrator, especially for businesses with Brother printers. Security researchers published a laundry list of vulnerabilities affecting a total of 748 printer models, most of them (and the worst of them) affecting Brother gear, with a tally of 689 models. There are a total of...
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If you follow Microsoft news, you may have heard about the Windows Resiliency Initiative that started last year. While at first glance this may appear to be just another marketing-driven campaign to fill a row of buzzword bingo, it appears that Redmond has genuinely been cooking up quite a few changes to Windows in a...
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An e-mail recently sent by Google regarding Gemini's chat recording stirred up a bit of brouhaha in the tech space due to its wording, leading users to believe their chats were saved indefinitely, even if history was turned off. As it turns out, what happened is nearly the opposite and that Google actually improved...
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Android handset fans have been chomping at the bit for news on this year's various upcoming flagship chipsets, and the rumor mill produced a fine bit of info. According to known leaker Digital Chat Station (DCS), flagship-level Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 chips are being tested at a whopping 5GHz. Grab the salt shaker as...
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Customization is a big deal in the PC building space, and there are probably millions of unique accessories and options for those wanting to make their build more expressive. One thing that's annoyingly overlooked, though, is using standard fans as intakes exposes the fan hub to the inside of the case, ruining an...
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Issues with unexpected black screens on Nvidia GPUs have been casting quite the shadow on the company's GeForce RTX 50 series cards lately. There's some hope on the horizon though, at least for Zotac GeForce RTX 5060 Ti card owners that are experiencing black screen issues.
The annoying black screens come in...
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For the 260-plus million Spotify subscribers we've got some news that will be quite pleasing to your ears. After being very wishy-washy with its commitment to launch a lossless streaming option, the latest version of the desktop app finally includes this functionality, albeit not visible to users by default.
The...
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Might we interest you in the quiet, dulcet whoosh of a custom-built graphics card with a whisper-quiet fan/heatsink combo? That's exactly what the Japanese builders at Sycom have just announced -- a trio of RTX 50-series cards bedazzled with Noctua fans.
Sycom is not well known here in the west, but over in Japan...
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It might be high time to rotate your least-changed passwords, if not all of them. The research team at Cybernews has been quietly tracking stolen credential datasets released this year, and the figures aren't good: a total of 16 billion records leaked (so far), including government accounts, Apple, Google, Facebook...
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Linux server administrators, it's time to get your patch on. The boffins at Qualys, a security firm well known for its excellent SSL configuration tester, found a pair of security vulnerabilities that combined can grant any unprivileged user instant root (administrator) access.
The first vulnerability in this...
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After years of being an expensive and potentially risky proposition, OLED monitors are absolutely all the rage right now. Whereas early generations were expensive and prone to burn-in, contemporary OLED displays are colorful, bright, and affordable. Their near flawless viewing angles, intense color, inky blacks, and...
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If you woke up thinking that this timeline couldn't get any weirder, here's today's dose of unreality for you. There's now a Trump Mobile MVNO, and it's firing all barrels on launch with an unlimited usage phone plan and even its own smartphone.
The announcement comes on the 10th anniversary of President Trump's...
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Some people (including yours truly) may well be wondering if Apple will ever fully commit to gaming on Macs instead of just nibbling at the edges. There's definitely movement in that particular area, though, as Valve has just released a beta version of Steam that's native to Apple Silicon chips, as did UL with...
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