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Latest News - July 2022
- Snapchat Just Poached US Secret Service Chief Murray To Head Its Security Arm
- Microsoft Just Reversed Course On Blocking Potentially Harmful Office Macros, But Why?
- PlayStation Store To Pull John Wick And Hundreds Of Other Purchased Movies
- These ASUS Motherboards Already Support Intel's 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs
- Twitter And Musk Appear Headed For An Ugly Legal Battle Over Buyer's Remorse
- Why NVIDIA Might Delay Its GeForce RTX 40 Series And How It Could Benefit Gamers
- NASA Is Floored By This Spectacular Webb Telescope Test Image Of Deep Space
- Hey Students, Here's How To Get Free Beats Flex Earbuds From Apple
- Shocking Study Reveals Most Government Websites Serve Tracking Cookies Without Consent
- Diablo Immortal Is Raking In $1.6M Per Day Despite Huge Backlash Over Microtransactions
- Microsoft's xCloud Game Streaming Looks Better On Windows Than Linux, But Why?
- Intel Meteor Lake Platform Leak Reveals A Mysterious Extended Gaming Mode And Key Specs
- Maingear Vybe Gaming PC Review: A Ryzen And Radeon Hot Rod
- Intel Core i9-12900K, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Fall To New Lows And More Killer CPU Deals
- Timber! This Killer Chainsaw Build PC Mod Rips Through Games With A GeForce RTX 3080
- Evasive New Malware Dodges Detection From Over 50 AV Scanners, Security Report Warns
- Snag The Stunning Matrix Awakens Unreal Engine Tech Demo Before It Vanishes Forever
- Watch An Asteroid The Size Of A Bus Make A Drive By Earth That’s Too Close For Comfort
- ASUS ROG Motherboard Obliterates JEDEC's DDR5 Memory Spec To Claim A New World Record
- Marriott Hotel Duped By Social Engineering In An Embarrassing 20GB Data Breach
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All News for July 2022
Secret Service Director James Murray has left his post in order to take over as the Chief Security Officer for Snap Inc. The 27-year veteran will serve his last day with the storied security service on July 30, 2022.
The Secret Service is the cream of the crop when it comes to security. It undertakes protecting the...
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In February security firms, researchers, infosec employees, antivirus, and malware organizations rejoiced. Why? Microsoft was finally disabling Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros on Microsoft Office. However, the Redmond software giant just took a step back and reversed course on the change, but why?
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There are several good reasons why some people still prefer physical media over the convenience of digital downloads and streaming content. Highlighting one of those reasons, Sony is getting ready to pull hundreds of purchased movies from people's PlayStation Store libraries, without any refund that we're aware...
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What can be viewed as another sign that Intel's 13th Gen Core processors based on Raptor Lake are not too far around the bend, ASUS has announced BIOS updates for nearly two dozen of its 600-series models to support the next-gen CPUs. They're all based on Intel's Z690 chipset, though we imagine other 600-series models...
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According to people familiar with the Twitter buyout, the deal may be in jeopardy due to Elon Musk's team concluding that Twitter's numbers on spam accounts are not verifiable. Those speaking on the condition of anonymity, stated that Musk's team has stopped engaging in certain discussions surrounding the funding for...
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It's been a long and frustrating road back to widespread GPU availability at prices anywhere close to MSRP, and at this point, we're all clamoring for AMD and NVIDIA to release their next-gen graphics cards. Those are coming, though exactly when still remains to be seen. Related, there are rumors that NVIDIA may end...
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NASA is scheduled to share the first full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in less than a week. Ahead of that release, the team captured a rather impressive image of deep space with one of its instruments whose primary purpose, incidentally, is not actually taking pictures.
The world awaits...
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Here's a deal that some of you will quite literally find to be music to your ears. Straight to the point, Apple is gifting eligible students who sign up for a discounted Apple Music student subscription with a free pair or Beats Flex earphones. Technically these are wireless earbuds, as they don't plug into your...
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We recently wrote about TikTok’s extensive user data collection and an FCC commissioner's letter asking Apple and Google to ban the app from their app stores for violating their privacy policies. While TikTok goes to great lengths to collect user data, there is some small solace in the fact that users can avoid the...
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On June 1 and 2 of this year, the world saw the launch of Diablo Immortal on iOS and Android. On Android the title houses a 3.7 out of 5 rating, while the Apple App Store rating is a 4.5 out of 5. These ratings are good, but some of the more vocal parts of the web, and even press, have not been too kind.
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Game streaming services are gaining steam as viable alternatives to spending big money on decked out PCs and dedicated gaming consoles, and they've come a long way in a relatively short time. One of the benefits is they're mostly platform agnostic. Or they should be—there are multiple reports that Microsoft's Xbox...
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Intel's expected to follow up its extant 12th-generation Core processors (codenamed "Alder Lake") with the 13th-generation chips known as "Raptor Lake." Those CPUs, which will feature extra cache, P-core revisions, additional E-cores, and other relatively minor enhancements, are probably going to show up toward the...
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Pre-built gaming PCs have gained in popularity dramatically, as crypto demand and chip shortages drove graphics cards and other component prices through the roof. That said, regardless of current PC components price points (which are now drifting back to MSRP thank goodness), we've always seen the value in a quality pre-built for a myriad...
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You're probably aware that both AMD and Intel are on track to launch a new generation of processors this year—Zen 4 and Raptor Lake, respectively. We still don't know when exactly they'll debut or how much they'll cost, but if you're not in the waiting mood, there are some stellar deals to be had on current generation...
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If you are looking forward to playing the upcoming Texas Chainsaw Massacre game, you really need this PC build to play it on. PC modder Staszek "Tips" Wiertelak has devised a killer chainsaw PC that even Leatherface would be jealous of.
PC mods can take on many different forms, as the people behind them pull the...
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Security researchers say they've uncovered a sneaky new malware strain that may go undetected by virtually all antivirus scanners on the market. While they have not tested each and every one of them in existence, they did upload the sample to VirusTotal and all 56 AV scanners on the site failed to detect a malicious...
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Epic Games' Unreal Engine has been evolving ever since its first appearance as the engine powering its namesake, the original Unreal, in 1998. The second iteration wowed us with its wide-open landscapes, the third version came in with impressive new lighting tech, and the fourth full-number revision brought...
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An asteroid the size of a bus made a nearby pass of Earth yesterday. Asteroid 2022 NF's flyby was broadcast live by The Virtual Telescope Project, and you can watch the replay below.
Asteroid Day is in remembrance of the anniversary of the June 30, 1908 Tunguska event in Siberia, which resulted in seismic...
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For the time being, ASUS can lay claim to one of its enthusiast motherboards helping to facilitate a new DDR5 memory record. Using the ROG Maximus Z690 Apex motherboard, renowned overclocker LUPIN_NO_MUSUME took a 16GB DDR5-4800 module paired with a 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900K Alder Lake processor and cranked it all...
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Last month, a ransomware gang known as ALPHV struck The Allison Inn & Spa, stealing employee and customer data. ALPHV then published this information to the open web, where it could be indexed by search engines and viewed without the use of the Tor network. While the website that presented the data for download wasn’t...
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If you haven't shopped for a high-speed solid state drive (SSD) lately, you might be pleasantly surprised at what you find. Prices in general have continued to fall over the past few months, and even the fastest drives on the market are going for less these days. One example is Kingston's Fury Renegade, a PCIe 4.0...
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We're all spoiled these days. Indeed, in 2022, even low-end smartphones can browse most websites with relative responsiveness. The dark times when clicking a web link could hang up your system for seconds are well and truly done with. Right?
Well, apparently not for some users running Intel's 12th-gen Alder Lake...
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