Chris Harper
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Microsoft is addressing nearly 60 CVEs with its upcoming "Patch Tuesday" update for Windows 11, six of which are actively-exploited zero-day vulnerabilities. Per KrebsOnSecurity, the most sever CVEs are CVE-2026-21510, CVE-2026-21513...
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Microsoft introduced Secure Boot back in 2011, and made it a key requirement for installation of Windows 11. And now some users will have to update their certificates in June of this year. Microsoft will handle most Secure Boot updates...
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Discord has committed to a global rollout of "teen-by-default" settings. That means users who change some specific settings or attempt to access age-restricted content on the platform, may be prompted to verify their age. Discord age...
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Black Myth: Wukong drew high critical acclaim for its top-notch production values and well-adapted Souls-like gameplay, and now its sequel Black Myth: Zhong Kui is being shown off ahead of its eventual release. The new Black Myth: Zhong...
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There have been some reports of AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs being roasted in their sockets recently, but motherboard manufacturers like ASRock are working to correct any actual problems. ASRock has the most well-documented incidences of AMD AM5...
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In the name of security for its ubiquitous OS, Microsoft is ditching support for legacy V3 and V4 printer drivers in Windows 11. Microsoft previously warned this was coming way back in September 2023, but the updates that remove support...
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On Google Pixel 10 devices, Android Quick Share functionality is compatible with Apple's range of AirDrop-enabled devices, including iPhones and Macs. Just months after Quick Share gained that ability, Google is set to spread Android Quick...
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Fractal Design just debuted a successor to its hit series of Fractal Design North cases, the North Series Momentum Edition. Fractal Design North Momentum PC cases offer a similar internal layout to the originals, but with overhauled...
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Microsoft hasn't had an easy time with Windows 11 updates as of late, but in an unexpected move, the company just offered a very thoughtful, uncontroversial addition to Windows 11—the popular Sysmon (System Monitor) utility, which launched...
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Western Digital is introducing a couple of new technologies, dubbed "High Bandwidth Drive" and "Dual Pivot", that will significantly boost the performance of hard drives. According to Western Digital, the company expects up to a 4x...
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Microsoft Office is victim to a critical zero-day exploit, and Russian hacker groups are already weaponizing it in destabilizing efforts toward the Ukrainian government. While Westerners and most other readers likely have less to worry...
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The Saturn was Sega's fifth generation fully-3D console, launched in 1994 to compete with the PlayStation 1 and Nintendo 64—and all these years later, homebrew developer XL2 has managed to create a functioning ray tracing demo on the...
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Notepad++ reported that its built-in auto-update feature had been hijacked by Chinese state-sponsored hackers from June to September of 2025, and the credentials gathered by the bas actors enabled further exploits until December 2nd, 2025...
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Google DeepMind's Project Genie is a research prototype that allows users to "create, explore, and remix their own interactive worlds" based on text or image prompts. Regardless of what is used to generate the world, controls are limited...
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Google has a deeply-vested interest in cybersecurity and unparalleled resources to take down bad actors. The latest target on Google's kill list was a malicious proxy network called IPIDEA, and through coordinated efforts inside and...
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The history of computers is composed of an ever-growing number of consumer electronics devices, from game consoles to smartphones to music players, and the Computer History Museum's expansive catalog is now open for public viewing online...
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Dispatch, an episodic adventure game from an indie studio with a star-studded voice lineup including Aaron Paul, has earned critical acclaim since its release, but the recent arrival of a port to the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 has caused...
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With its latest TR300 Series TG (and WS) cases, Thermaltake includes a 6-inch 1480 x 720 display for users that want to take their customization to the next level. We've seen case mods integrate mini-monitor before, and ASRock even sold an...
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The controversy around the Windows 11 January 2026 Update won't stop rolling in—and now, Microsoft is intentionally disabling support for legacy hardware, not simply breaking it on accident. Specifically, in the January 13th KB5074109...
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Remember the WinRAR path handling exploit we reported on back in August? According to Google, that same flaw, officially dubbed CVE-2025-8088, is still being actively exploited, even though versions of WinRAR newer than v7.12 have been...
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Valve is being subjected to yet another multi-million dollar lawsuit, this time stemming from the UK and totaling £656 million British pounds, or roughly ~$904 million USD at current exchange rates. The lawsuit from children's welfare...
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SoundCloud, best known as a home to indie musicians including the popular "SoundClown" comedy remixers, has been hit with a major data breach that includes the avatars, email addresses, names, usernames, locations, and profile statistics...
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