Bruno Ferreira
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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If you just bought a motherboard with PCIe 5.0 connectivity, there's a chance you may already see it as a little outdated. How so? The PCI-SIG has formally announced the finalization of the PCIe 7.0 protocol, allowing an x16 slot to carry...
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There's some trouble brewing ahead for developers of custom ROMs for Pixel phones. In the midst of a reorganization about how the Android open-source project is run, Pixel ROM devs have been caught by the truck of unintended...
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If you've been in PC building and the electronics world for long enough, you'll know that kapton tape solves a lot of problems. This time around, it's to fix an incompatibility between NVIDIA RTX 50 series cards and some EVGA Z690...
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Owners of contemporary Pixel phones should be pretty happy today. Hot on the heels of Apple's announcements at WWDC, Google is letting loose Android 16 on its Pixel devices. This release brings the new Material 3 Expressive quasi-redesign...
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We have to say we are quite the fans of metal around here. Apparently some folks at Apple are too, as the company has released version 4 of the Metal API for game developers to take advantage of. There are lots of improvements, but the...
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ChatGPT and its friends are great for researching, as assistants, or meme image creators, but if you need actual smarts, what you really want is a 1977-vintage Atari 2600 console. That's the ultimate finding of Robert Caruso, a Citrix...
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Windows enthusiasts and mainstream users both have a pleasant bit of new technoiogy coming their way. A fresh new development build of Windows 11, available in the Insider channel, includes what Microsoft calls "User Interaction-Aware CPU...
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ASUS may have just released the one gaming router to rule them all. Instead of the usual mecha-arachnoid shape though, the new ROG Strix GS-BE18000 is a dark-gray monolith packed with goodies for super-fast home networks.
The number in...
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A hot minute after the world started talking about GPU-powered neural networks, the conversation's quickly changed to neural networks powered by actual neurons. You can now order a literal bio-computer with 800,000 neurons inside, courtesy...
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Ah, USB-C, the one true port meant to live up to the Universal name, boasting all types of connectivity options, right up until the point that the USB-IF (the entity that defines USB specs) decided to make most of its features optional...
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There are quite a few sore spots with Windows, but a major one is getting a well-deserved patch. Microsoft is previewing a feature to automatically update installed applications, much to the relief of many users.
Most everyone is used...
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Heads up if you have an Asus router in your home or office, as there's a backdoor exploit doing the rounds affecting 9,000 devices and counting. This event came to light by way of the security firm GreyNoise and its Sift AI tool that...
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Diagnosing mystery battery drain issues on a smartphone can be frustrating. Broadly speaking, per-app battery usage indicators aren't all that useful, since they only count usage by the core of the app itself; system call usage usually...
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Move over, 80 Plus Titanium, there's a new boss in town, and her name is Ruby. CLEARresult, the entity handling the well-known 80 Plus power supply certification program, has unveiled 80 Plus Ruby, its top-end badge aimed at...
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In the words of Queen, Another One Bites The Dust. There's a user report of one more GeForce RTX 5090 power cable suffering a nasty case of heatstroke, this time around an MSI yelllow-tipped connector.
The original report came from...
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