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- Google Paid A $250K Bug Bounty To The Wrong Hacker And Now Wants Its Money Back
- GALAX GeForce RTX 4090 Flaunts Chunky Quad-Slot Cooler With Four Fans In Render Leak
- CPSC Issues Startling Electrocution Warning For These Cables Sold On Amazon
- FBI Warns Hackers Are Targeting Healthcare Payment Systems And Making Off With Millions
- Here's When AMD's Mid-Range B650 And B650E AM5 Motherboard Platforms For Zen 4 Will Launch
- Intel Arc's XeSS Upscaling Gets Compared To NVIDIA DLSS With Surprising Results
- Ethereum PoS Merge Is Finally Finished, What Does This Mean For Crypto And PC Gaming?
- ASRock's First Gaming Monitors Flex A 165Hz Refresh, FreeSync Support And A Wi-Fi Twist
- Microsoft's Game Changing $75B Activision Blizzard Acquisition Runs Into A Snag
- Valve Shows Off A Supersized Steam Deck Game Console And It's Way Bigger Than You Imagine
- Intel's Tom TAP Petersen Answers Your Arc Graphics Questions Here LIVE At 5:30p ET Today
- Backblaze Storage Report Compares SSD And HDD Failure Rates And The Winner Is Clear
- How NASA's Stunning Supernova Photo Might Help Predict When A Star Is On Death's Doorstep
- Arm Reveals Powerful Neoverse Platform Updates For Next-Gen Data Centers And The Cloud
- Intel's Raptor Lake Mobile VPU: What Is It And What Does It Do
- How Hackers Are Using Sock Puppets To Carry Out Convincing Phishing Attacks
- Intel Raptor Lake And AMD Zen 4 CPU Cores Compared In IPC Benchmark Showdown
- Lenovo GeForce RTX 4090 With Massive 4-Slot Cooler Smiles For The Camera
- Microsoft Is Allegedly Making A Killer Surface Gaming Laptop With These Specs
- GoldenEye 007 Is Headed To Xbox Game Pass Too But It's Missing This Critical Feature
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All News for September 2022
What would you do if you checked your bank account and found it had been unexpectedly padded with a quarter of a million dollars? Seems like a farfetched scenario, except it actually happened to a white-hat hacker, courtesy of Google. The search giant confirmed it mistakenly paid the hacker $249,999...
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Renders of a GALAX branded NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card have been shared online. The spill occurred hours after GALAX took to Twitter with a 'New Serious' teaser, hinting that it has intentions to expand its Serious Gaming/SG graphics card series. Of course, the upcoming card is going to be a GALAX GeForce...
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In no uncertain terms, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a warning advising anyone who purchased a male-to-male extension cable on Amazon to stop using it immediately and throw it away. Using these types of cables is dangerous and presents numerous hazards, including risk of electrocution...
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The Cyber Division of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has published a notice warning the healthcare industry of cyberattacks targeting healthcare payment processors. The attacks generally come in the form of phishing attacks that leverage employees’ publicly available Personally Identifiable Information...
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AMD’s Ryzen 7000-series arrival is fast approaching, but not everything is arriving at once. AMD announced the launch last month with the first processors set to arrive September 27th. Only the company’s top end X670 and X670E boards will be available at this time as AMD indicated more affordable B650 and B650E...
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Along with its Arc Alchemist GPUs, Intel is launching an AI-powered smart upscaler most similar in form to NVIDIA's DLSS. It's known as XeSS, and just like DLSS, it requires game integration. Even though the higher-end Arc cards are not yet publicly available, Digital Foundry was given early access to do one of its...
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It's official, Ethereum is no longer proof of work—the second most popular blockchain after Bitcoin has finished its merge to proof of stake. So why is this a big deal and what does that mean for gaming?
Ethereum development started in 2014 and in 2015 the smart-contract-oriented blockchain gained major popularity...
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ASRock has officially extended its reach into gaming monitor territory with the launch of two models, as was tipped earlier this summer. They include the 34-inch Phantom Gaming PG34WQ15R2B with a curved Vertical Alignment (VA) display, and a smaller 27-inch Phantom Gaming PG27FF1A built around a flat In-Plane...
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Microsoft's attempt at acquiring Activision-Blizzard has had the brakes pumped, as an in-depth UK probe has been requested before finalizing the deal. The request comes after the tech giant was said to not offer any remedies to assuage competition concerns.
A report in the Financial Times says that Microsoft chose...
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The Tokyo Game Show (TGS) kicked off today, and Valve is using it to promote its PC gaming handheld. One of the most eye-catching stands at the TGS thus featured a massive rendition of the Steam Deck—a version that we guesstimate to be about 10ft tall and 25ft wide.
Valve’s extremely popular device only went up for...
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Join us on today’s Two and a Half Geeks livestream where Dave, Marco, and Chris will be joined by Tom “TAP” Petersen of Intel for a special interview. What’s so special? We are going to be fielding YOUR questions about Intel’s Arc Graphics platform for TAP to answer.
You can just kick back, watch and listen here at...
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The folks at Backblaze, a cloud storage and data backup company located in San Mateo, California, published a report comparing the failure rates of solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs), and you might be surprised by the results. Or maybe not, if you were expecting SSDs to emerge as the clear winner...
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The remnants of an exploded white dwarf star are serving as a learning tool for astronomers. The supernova remnant, known as SNR 0519-69.0 (SNR 0519 for short) is the result of debris from a white dwarf star explosion.
It is believed that the dwarf star in question reached a critical mass, "either by pulling matter...
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Designing mobile CPU cores like those found in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 is only one aspect of Arm’s business. The company licenses designs for a myriad of enterprise use cases as well, which range from the datacenter to edge devices, and everywhere in between. Today, Arm has announced significant improvements...
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Machine learning and AI demand enormous amounts of horsepower, if you're doing it on general-purpose processors, which is why companies like Meta and Alphabet have spent billions developing their own specialized neural network accelerators. Intel wants a piece of the AI-acceleration pie of course as well, and that's...
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Cybersecurity researchers at Proofpoint have been keeping tabs on an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) known as TA453 and recently found the threat actor employing a phishing technique that makes use of sock puppet email accounts. Sock puppets are alternate accounts or personas used in a deceptive manner by a single...
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It seems like regular leaker Raichu (@OneRaichu on Twitter) has gotten his little Pokémon paws on a pair (at least) of pre-release processors from both Intel and AMD. With the hardware in hand, he did what any proper enthusiast would do, and benchmarked them against each other.
However, these benchmarks aren't just...
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A series of photos alleging to show a hefty new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card have been shared on social media. An image showing the headlining quad-slot triple-fan behemoth appeared first, with the card installed in a new-looking Lenovo Legion PC. The poster has followed up with two further images, showing...
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Microsoft has gone through several generations of Surface Laptops, some of which have been quite powerful machines. However, none of them have been explicitly tuned for gaming. That could change at the company's upcoming Surface unveiling later this month. A new leak purports to show the specs of Microsoft's Surface...
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You started your day with some French Toast Crunch, you've stocked up the fridge with Surge, and you've got four controllers. Your buddies are on the way, it's time to play Slappers Only, no Oddjob! What year is it? Well it's not 1997! It is 2022 and Microsoft has announced a high-resolution remake of the mega popular...
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Amazon has announced its latest 6" Kindle device, with a high-resolution display, up to six weeks of battery life, and even more upgrades. There is also a kid friendly version that comes complete with a cover and one year Amazon Kids+ subscription.
The Kindle tablet has been a fan favorite eBook-reader for quite...
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It's official—Tekken 8 is in production for the PlayStation 5 and is looking like a strong contender for brawler of the year, based on the first trailer that dropped during Sony's State of Play event. Whether it's ultimately anointed that designation will depend on when exactly it comes out, how it actually fares, and...
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