Bruno Ferreira
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It's a great day for fighting game aficionados and emulation enthusiasts everywhere. The much-revered 8BitDo, known for its high quality peripherals, has released its own take on a high-quality hitbox-style controller. Comboing off has never been easier.
For those unfamiliar, a hitbox (or leverless) controller is...
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High-refresh-rate OLED monitors of various types are all the rage these days, and every major OEM under the sun is trying to get in on the action. The folks at Acer have just added a couple members to its Predator monitor lineup, the Predator X27U F5 and the Predator X27X that offer some compelling features for...
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Case aficionados everywhere should pay attention to the latest entrant in Fractal Design's lineup. The scandinavian maker's Meshify series has always been popular, and the new Meshify 3 raises the bar in terms of style, ventilation, and customizability for your builds.
The newcomer's proverbial clothing is rather...
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Heads up to all ASUS motherboard, prebuilt system, and laptop owners: if you're running the company's DriverHub software, be sure to update it to the latest version ASAP. The reason for this is an exceedingly nasty bug loitering in the utility that could easily allow for remote code execution.
The vulnerabilities...
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These may be times of uncertainty in the market, but you shouldn't let that dissuade you from your healthy hobbies or passion projects, like building a great new gaming PC. Today, we bring you a build for moderate wallets, with an eye towards high-fidelity, 4K 60 FPS gaming and a clear path to future upgrades. The...
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Samsung's Galaxy S25 range of flagship phones is now complete, thanks to the addition of the new, svelte Galaxy S25 Edge handset. Its 5.8mm-thick titanium main frame is bound to elicit some "oohs" and "aahs" from smartphone lovers worldwide, especially those drooling over the upcoming iPhone 17 Air.
The Edge...
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Hive Systems has released the 2025 edition of its password crack time estimate table, and it's a doozy. Among many other findings, the company's researchers calculated that all random passwords around 8 characters in length are easily brute-forced with only consumer-grade hardware.
Hive Systems used only 12 RTX...
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When everyone is digging for gold, the best business is to sell shovels. That's probably the motto of ASML, the Dutch company that makes the high-end litography machines for most every high-end chip maker, like TSMC, Intel, and Samsung. ASML seemingly can't produce their systems fast enough, as it's reportedly sped up...
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If you're a chip architecture addict, better brush up on your Chinese, as there's steamin' hot news about the Nintendo Switch 2's SoC to discuss. Youtuber GeekerWan got a hold of a dead, but fully assembled Switch 2 motherboard and has spilled the beans in great detail about the SoC therein.
Thanks to the help of a...
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There's some relatively good news for Windows users worldwide: Microsoft has finally deemed the Windows 11 24H2 update fit for general consumption. The point release will now be automatically downloaded on all eligible Windows 11 Home and Pro PCs, with the exception of network-managed devices and those with pending...
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The next wave of fresh smartphones aren't due to arrive for a few more months, but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy a bit of fun in the meantime. Today's entertainment comes by way of Google, who's poking fun at Apple over the rumored iPhone 17 Air's design philosophy.
If you haven't been keeping track, there are...
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Life's Good with an OLED display, and soon enough it might be better still. LG Display has announced a mass commercialization breakthrough and will soon fire-up its "Dream OLED" display production lines.
LG Display calls the upgraded form Hybrid Tandem OLED, describing the way in which its researchers stacked two...
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The upcoming Pixel 10 handset might arrive to user's eyes with an upgraded display with less flicker than the existing models in the lineup. The suggestion comes from Android Central's Nicholas Sutrich, who's been spearheading efforts to raise awareness of this issue for a while now.
Here's an oversimplified...
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After making the decision to exit the smartphone market back in 2021, LG is preparing to sunset its Android update servers for good. This move comes as no surprise to those following the phone market, but it's no less disheartening, particularly to those still rocking an LG handset.
The kill switch will be pulled...
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Patch Tuesday, is sometimes a love hate sort of thing. It's a safe bet that most Windows Home or Pro users hate having to reboot it every time there's a hangnail that needs fixing. Regardless, those days are coming to an end, thanks to upcoming availability of in-memory hot-patching, as long as you're running Windows Server, which is obviously
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TSMC's N2 (2nm) chip fab reportedly has a new customer: Intel, who joins the ranks of AMD and Apple tapping the Taiwanese fab goliath's bleeding edge production lines. It's not the first time that Intel and TSMC struck a deal, but it's the first time the contract is for wafers etched with diminutive 2nm...
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If you're the proud owner of an Intel Core Ultra 200-series CPU, rejoice, as there may be good gaming gains to be gotten from a new BIOS feature that Intel is rolling out. Intel's engineers dubbed the new feature the 200S Boost overclocking profile, and it promises to boost gaming performance without voiding your...
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Bad news for prospective Synology NAS buyers -- the company is now making its drives de facto mandatory for Plus-series NAS boxes launched in 2025 and onwards. Citing compatibility issues, drive reliability, and ease of support as reasons, Synology's 2025 Plus units using non-Synology drives will have limitations on...
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For the longest time, Amazon's tablet and TV devices used a slimmed, somewhat locked-down variant of Android called Fire OS. This was useful for end users for general familiarity and ease of use, and also for techies, who found the devices easy to hack to add functionality. All things must change and evolve though...
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It has been a few days since we covered some power supply shenanigans, which was a story that got us all fired up for a much-needed refresher on PSU purchasing strategies. Processors, graphics cards, and memory standards may come and go, but one fact remains: they all need a copious supply of clean power. Never...
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If there's one piece of advice that's unanimous amongst PC builders of all stripes worldwide, it's to never, ever, skimp on your power supply (PSU)—no matter how much your second cousin says his dollar store special unit is doing fine. This point was quite clearly illustrated by a poor miner who saw their innocent...
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Some chip companies and their customers ought to be breathing a little easier today, thanks to a Chinese exemption on retaliatory tariffs on China-manufactured chips. The is particularly welcome news for AMD, Qualcomm, Apple, and Nvidia, among others, as these companies have Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (aka...
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