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- Security Report Details Growing Ransomware Threat And What Industries Have A Bullseye
- Here's How Scammers Can Steal Your Money And Identity When Applying Online For A Job
- Photographers Brace For Canon And Nikon Camera Lens Pandemic Price Hikes
- SpaceX Starlink Premium Tier Brings 500Mbps Speeds But The Sticker Shock Is Cringe-Worthy
- Google Fixes One Big Annoyance Of Texting Between iPhones And Android
- NASA Outlines Plans For International Space Station's Final, Most Productive Years
- AMD Crushes Earnings With Best Year Ever Fueled By Big Data Center, Zen 3 And Radeon Sales
- Dev Shows Off PC Port Of Zelda Ocarina Of Time And It Looks Amazing
- PlayStation Gamers, Here’s How To Link Your PSN Account To Discord
- MSI Defies Intel By Enabling AVX-512 On MEG Z690 Motherboard But There's A Catch
- NASA’s Space Telescope Detects A Cosmic Oddball 17 Million Light Years From Earth
- This Popular WordPress Plugin Exposed 600K Sites To Remote Hacks, Patch ASAP
- AMD Radeon Pro W6400 Review: Low Power RDNA 2 For Budget Workstations
- Sony's Destiny May Be To Acquire More Game Studios After Its Bungie Buyout
- Alarming Eternal Silence UPnP Exploit Exposes 1.7 Million Devices To Wi-Fi Zombie Attacks
- Cops On A Marijuana Drug Bust Discover An Illegal GPU And ASIC Mining Farm Instead
- Intel Is Adding A Feature To Its Arc GPUs That Will Delight Linux Gamers
- Destiny 2: The Witch Queen Trailer Shows Off Weapon Crafting And Sweet New Exotics
- Google Chromebooks May Be Losing Their Luster But Everyone Still Wants An Apple iPad
- Great Alternatives To Wordle, For When The NYT Wrecks It With Paywalls
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All News for February 2022
Having entered a new year, cybersecurity experts, researchers, and companies are reflecting on 2021 and assessing the state of cybersecurity so that we can better understand and prepare for threats going forward. Unfortunately, the outlook going forward into 2022 seems pretty disheartening as far as ransomware is...
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Practically anything and everything can be accomplished online these days, and that obviously includes applying for a job. As it relates to that, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) posted a notice warning that scammers are preying on job applicants resulting in an average loss of $3,000 per victim, as well as...
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Anyone who has dabbled in photography can probably tell you that lenses are what you need to spend the most money on. New reports are saying that you may need to set aside a larger budget for those already pricey pieces of glass as the pandemic takes aim on photographers.
Canon recently announced its new EOS R5 C...
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SpaceX is currently accepting reservations for a new Starlink Premium service tier that promises a big increase in downloads speeds at respectable latency levels, though you'll pay through the nose for it. Not literally, of course (that would be gross). But at $500 per month, Starlink Premium is not for the faint of...
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A text message exchange between an Android and iPhone user can be a bit irritating. Not only do users have to stare at different-colored messages, but Android users receive long messages if someone who uses iMessages “reacts” to their text. Google is finally getting rid of at least one of these annoyances by improving...
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As the International Space Station enters its third decade of service, NASA begins to look at transitioning to commercial services. The Space Station is set to finish out its operations until the end of this decade.
Space stations are going to be taking on a very different look and feel in the coming years...
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If AMD is in the rear view mirror (arguable), that's only because it keeps making pit stops to collect more money from skyrocketing Zen 3 and RDNA 2 sales. So says the company's latest earnings report. AMD capped off a record year with $4.8 billion in revenue during the fourth quarter, which pushed its full-year...
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It is very likely that The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time needs no introduction for HotHardware readers. Released to universal acclaim in 1998, the first three-dimensional Zelda title is regarded as one of the true all-time greats. The creator of Dark Souls called it "a textbook for 3D action games," and the father...
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In May 2021, Discord announced an upcoming feature allowing gamers to link their PlayStation Network accounts to the chat platform. That feature is finally rolling out, after Discord’s announcement on Jan. 31 that it would soon arrive. Here’s how to link your PSN account, if you either didn’t get the invite...
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As contentious as the topic is among certain enthusiasts, for the most part, the presence or absence of 512-bit-wide vectors in Intel's desktop CPUs is a largely academic consideration. Very little software makes use of AVX-512. Certainly there's not much that Intel expects purchasers of its mainline desktop and...
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has shared a spectacular photo of NGC 1705, a dwarf galaxy situated 17 million light years from Earth in the southern constellation Pictor. Taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the image shows that is described as a "cosmic oddball" after undergoing a spate of star formation...
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Researchers say you should upgrade a popular WordPress plugin sooner than later, or else you could end up losing access to your website, and potentially your web server!
If you exist on the internet, you likely know of or have seen at least one WordPress site. The content-management software is likely the most...
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A couple of weeks back, AMD launched the Radeon RX 6500 XT, an entry-level GPU targeting mainstream gamers with 1080p displays. The Radeon RX 6500 XT is built around the Navi 24 GPU, which is the smallest discrete graphics processor in AMD’s current RDNA 2 line-up. Navi 24 is manufactured on a 6nm process node...
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It seems like game studios are always being acquired by bigger outfits, but what's happening now feels like it could be the start of an arms race. Hot on the heels of Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard for a whopping $68.7 billion, Sony followed suit by scooping up Bungie for $3.6 billion. It's a comparatively...
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Back in 2018, a team of security researchers from Akamai released a white paper detailing a malicious proxy system they dubbed UPnProxy that is now being leveraged in a new attack. The malicious proxy system draws its name from Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), which is a set of networking protocols that enables devices...
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Spain’s National Police recently raided what they thought was an indoor marijuana plantation. In Santipone, located in the Spanish province of Seville, the agents instead found and dismantled a cryptocurrency mining farm that was stealing electricity. [Ed note: Talk about a *shocking* discovery, eh? I'll show myself...
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This is shaping up to be a potentially big year for gaming on Linux. The first shipments of Valve's Steam Deck handheld with Proton in tow will go out later this month, and then later this year Intel will debut its first Arc Alchemist graphics cards, which could land with polished Resizable BAR support on Linux. So...
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Destiny 2: The Witch Queen expansion will be here in a little over three weeks and we have finally learned more about new weapons and armor. Google Adsense appeared to have accidentally leaked a glimpse into the new gear, but we now have something more official to chew on. Bungie has released a Destiny 2 trailer that...
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I can see a pack of Chromebook owners gathering in the distances with torches and pitchforks in hand, but the crowd is getting smaller. A lot smaller, actually, according to the latest figures from IDC. Or bigger, depending on which numbers you look at (more on that in a moment). Meanwhile, in the dedicated tablet...
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Has all of the mirth that Wordle has given come to a close? The New York Times has purchased the hit game Wordle. At the moment we do not know what its long term plans are for the game. However, we can recommend some alternatives should NYT place Wordle behind a paywall.
NYT purchased Wordle for "an undisclosed...
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Well, it's officially the first day of February and that means January is now in the rear view mirror. Why is that notable? Technically, we were supposed to have learned more about NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 3090 Ti by now. During the company's pre-CES livestream a few weeks ago, NVIDIA SVP Jeff Fisher held up a Founders...
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