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Latest News - April 2023
- PC OEMs Feel The Pain As Shipments Plummet Even Amid Big Retail Discounts
- Alarming Study Reveals How Quickly AI Can Crack All Your Passwords
- MSI Issues This BIOS Firmware Guidance After Confirming Cyberattack
- AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X Is An Amazing 27 Percent Off And Other Great CPU Deals
- Bad Idea? Scientists Want To Clone An Extinct Siberian Bison In Jurassic Park Fashion
- Intel 14th Gen Meteor Lake Mobile Laptop CPU Breaks Cover With 4+8 Core Config
- How Tech-Savvy Thieves Are Stealing Cars By Hacking Through Headlights
- Spring Amazon Deals Are In Bloom With AirPods Pro, Apple Watch, Mac Mini And More
- Explore NASA Astronomy Image Of The Day, A Magnificent Grand Design Galaxy
- Watch AMD's Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU Reach 5.4GHz Despite An Overclocking Lock
- Tesla Employees Admit To Sharing Private Car Videos For Laughs In Shocking Report
- Father Of Zen Jim Keller Predicts Zen 5 Will Deliver A Massive IPC Uplift
- Apple Store Thieves Brazenly Cut A Hole In The Wall And Stole $500K Worth Of Devices
- Hubble Spots A Runaway Black Hole Lunging Through Space With A Huge Star Tail
- NVIDIA's Counter-Strike 2 Reflex Announcement Contains A GeForce RTX 4070 Surprise
- WebGPU Is Coming To Supercharge Chrome For 3D Gaming And 3X Faster AI Performance
- Razer Blade Gaming Laptop Deals Deliver Sharp Savings Up To $1,000 Off
- Intel Arc Pro A60 Graphics Card Spotted With 16 Xe Cores In Benchmark Database
- Trolls Already Found A Way To Grief Gamers Using Overwatch 2's Lifeweaver Support Hero
- Seagate's Lightsaber FireCuda SSDs Are The Ultimate Storage Solution For Star Wars Fans
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All News for April 2023
It's been said for centuries (literally) that what goes up must come down, though not always because of a gravitational pull. To wit, a fresh report from the folks at International Data Corporation (IDC), a market research firm, notes that "PC pain persists" in the first quarter of 2023 for OEMs like Lenovo, HP, and...
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Time to tighten up your password complexity, dear readers. A deep learning password guessing tool called PassGAN has been found to take less than six minutes to crack your seven-character password, even ones with symbols.
Nefarious hackers are constantly looking for new means of stealing your information, and...
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You should always be cautious about where and how you obtain BIOS updates for your devices, though that's especially true right now for anyone who owns a product from MSI, be it a motherboard, graphics card, or any other hardware with firmware. That's because MSI recently suffered a cyberattack on part of its...
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While the Easter Bunny might be delivering treats today, the Amazon delivery driver will be dropping off processors, if you snag any of the holiday deals today. With the latest from AMD and Intel up for grabs, now is a great time to get the most cluck for your buck.
Starting the Easter deals, we have the...
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A group of Russian researchers wants to attempt to bring back an extinct species of bison using a DNA sample from an 8,000-year-old specimen. Remains of the young bison were found frozen in Siberia in 2022.
Animal cloning is a complex process that has been around for a while. In fact, scientists are also currently...
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It was in April of last year, almost fully a year ago, that Intel told us it had Meteor Lake silicon up and running well enough to boot Windows. That's why it's sort-of surprising that we're just now seeing our first benchmark leak for what appears to be a mobile Meteor Lake processor in a Dell Inspiron test...
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Early last year, hackers were replaying remote keyless system codes to unlock and steal Honda or Acura vehicles. This year, criminals of TikTok have been showing people how to break into certain Hyundai and Kia models with some hotwiring. However, criminals are upping their thieving game as car companies come to the...
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Spring cleaning is not only cathartic (especially if you open the windows and let the fresh air seep in), it also makes room for new stuff! Sure, that kind of defeats the purpose. But hey, with deals in full bloom who can resist a good bargain? We've rounded up several of them from a variety of categories, everything...
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope continues to provide awe-inspiring images of deep space, as the space agency shares an image the observatory captured of galaxy M100 as its Picture of the Day. Hubble captured the superb image using its Wide Field Camera 3. The image was previously featured as Picture of the Day back on...
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AMD's Ryzen "X3D" processors are created by very literally attaching a second piece of silicon that is almost entirely L3 cache memory to the top of a regular Ryzen processor die, just like the picture above implies. It is the central slab atop the wider CCD. This second chip, known as the "3D V-Cache", is very...
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An eye-opening report has detailed a privacy-abusing culture among groups of Tesla employees tasked with sensitive data analysis. These employees are alleged to have passed “highly invasive videos and images” from customers’ vehicles around the office using Tesla’s internal messaging system. These practices seem to...
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Jim Keller's been getting around in the last decade or so. Back in the early 00s, he was critical to the development of the Athlon 64 at AMD, and in more recent years, he's been at Apple, Tesla, Intel, and AMD again before joining AI-focused chip creator Tenstorrent where he has quickly become CEO.
Every...
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A group of thieves decided to take a five-finger discount on over 400 Apple electronic devices from the Alderwood Mall in Lynwood, WA. The theft totaled up to around $500,000 in stolen merchandise.
Thieves made entry into the mall by first prying open the front doors to Seattle Coffee Gear, according to the coffee...
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A Yale astronomer spotted a 200,000-light-year-long bridge connecting a runaway black hole to the galaxy it is attempting to escape from. The supermassive black hole, weighing more than 20 million Suns, is traveling so fast that it could travel from Earth to the Moon in 14 minutes.
The bridge first appeared to be a...
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NVIDIA has confirmed that its eSports gamer boosting Reflex technology is on the way to Counter-Strike 2. However, the graphics firm’s boasts about Reflex enhancements have gotten a little ahead of its product launch schedule, providing the first official acknowledgement that a GeForce RTX 4070 desktop graphics card...
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Google is currently testing a Chrome browser API that promises to open up "a new dawn for web graphics" as well as give AI a serious kick in the pants. It's called WebGPU and it's been in development for several years, according to Google. In a blog post, Google says WebGPU is now available by default in the latest...
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Easter is just around the corner and for those who celebrate the holiday, that means a basket full of candy, plastic eggs, and perhaps a few small gifts await. If you're looking for something that will really make you hoppy, though, then excuse the pun and check out these deals with huge savings on select Razer Blade...
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Readers of this site are no doubt familiar with Intel's Arc A380, A750, and A770 graphics cards. The A380 was the first one to hit the market, and we've reviewed the other two. What you could have missed are the Arc Pro graphics cards: the A30, A40, and A50. They aren't available at retail, being OEM-only, but they...
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Lifeweaver is a new support hero coming to Overwatch 2, that promises to add new and diverse strategic gameplay to the game with his unique repositioning abilities. However, the hero has come under fire due to his trolling potential with teammates. One of his abilities known as Life Grip is designed to snatch a...
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Seagate has announced a trio of collectable NVMe SSDs with a Star Wars theme. The Seagate Lightsaber Collection Special Edition FireCuda PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSDs cleverly use an RGB LED light bar to represent the glowing blade from a 3D light saber design M.2 faceplate.
Seagate sticks to characters from the original...
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NVIDIA is taking generative AI and other workloads to new heights with its H100 and L4 GPUs. The latest MLPerf 3.0 test results highlight Hopper delivering 4x more performance than A100.
The 2023 GTC Developer conference included 650 talks from leaders in AI development. One of the most prominent of those was from...
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A newly formed ransomware gang is attempting to extort a sizable payment from MSI after claiming to have stolen a treasure trove of data, including sensitive source code. The gang, which goes by the name "Money Message," is giving MSI five days to pay a hefty $4 million ransom. If payment is not received by then, the...
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