Bruno Ferreira
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Tech Industry
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YouTuber escapes the modern AI tech market by recreating his 1996 PC — nostalgia build relies on manual motherboard jumpers and a 2GB hard drive
Zero account requirements. Zero pop-ups. Zero microtransactions.
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Tech Industry
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Leaked private keys for eight CA certificates let any attacker impersonate any domain — billions of older devices and software installations may be vulnerable after round of fixes, patch yours immediately
Stop everything and update your browsers, OSes, development tools, and routers.
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AMD's FSR 4.1 now works on Radeon RX 6000 GPUs, Xbox Series X and S, and Ryzen AI Max, AI 9, and Z2 SoCs — new release brings cutting-edge tech to older hardware with a small performance cost
AMD gives older GPUs an image quality boost amid the ongoing AI chip drought
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Modern software is built on the backs of low-paid maintainers, opening the door to potential threats — report details critically underfunded projects that remain understaffed or unfunded
Modern computing remains vulnerable to the low bus factor of many open-source projects — continued lack of funding and manpower for voluntary-maintained infrastructure makes for a perennial threat
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US restarts three shut-down nuclear reactors to feed AI data centers — 2.25 GW coming online with backing from Microsoft and Google
Doc Brown would be abuzz and alight with joy.
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Modder finishes nine-year Xbox 360 voltage glitch mod with a $4 microcontroller, cracks the console open — tiny microcontroller dumps NAND and flashes timing files to bypass CPU cryptography
Back in my day, it took substantial dedicated hardware to pull off these shenanigans.
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Nvidia reportedly insists the RTX 5090 isn't dead despite severe shortages and removed listings at multiple retailers — flagship GPU is missing from Nvidia's store and commands $8,500 on Amazon
Hold one sec, there's a bridge salesman at the door.
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Video Games
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Linus Torvalds posts his first AI-assisted patch to the Linux kernel, synthetic test clocks 23x performance leap — the bossman makes use of AI tooling himself after issuing clear pro-AI directives
That seemingly didn't stop the pro- and against-AI camps in the kernel from continuing to bicker, though.
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Russian chipmakers demo homegrown RISC-V and Arm chips with retro games — NES clone runs on Baikal microcontroller
Russia's homegrown chipmaking continues apace despite sanctions.
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Store-bought hardware crypto wallets had secret chips installed that enabled stealing crypto recovery phrases — $93 million and counting stolen thanks to implanted eSIM and LTE modules in Ledger wallets
Hardware sold directly by Ledger appears safe, but some reseller supply chains may be compromised.
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Video Games
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Video Games
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Two Steam games generated $560,000 across 135,000 sales in five years, but the co-creator only took home $15,000 annually, leaving him driving a 2012 Mazda — high Chinese refund rates, Steam's 30% fee, and publisher cuts eat most of the profit
Just like that raccoon washing his cotton candy and watching it melt.
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U.S. suspends green card path for H-1B workers at Microsoft and Adobe — labor certification program blocked due to alleged fraud
Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, and others are also listed.
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Trettire's Retro Ambient Audio System offers a full hi-fi system with no wires — wall-mountable vinyl, CD, and cassette players serve as functional decor
Ought to elicit more than a few "wow, no wires" comments.
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Modder brings spport for deade-old Nvidia Pascal GPUs to 24-year-old Windows XP 32-bit — modded drivers unlock better DisplayPort and HDMI support for modern monitors
Bringing high-performance cards to retro gaming systems.
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Database expert runs Doom in SQL with just 5,900 lines of code — 1,300-line graphical renderer spans 89 different tables, full-featured SQLDoom is the sequel to embryonic DoomQL
Complete with full graphics at 60 FPS, sound, and even multiplayer.
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'AI Torture Chamber' triggers massive backlash for putting chatbots in simulated pain — critics issue death threats while anthropomorphizing text predictors, demand GitHub remove the repository over 'unethical' treatment
Event puts both public ignorance and LLM marketing hype in full display.
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BiWin's CL 100 Mini is a particularly puny but potent SSD for portable gaming — tiny drive is only 15 x 17 mm in size, but up to 2TB in capacity
It's destined for BiWin's gaming portables, but can probably be made to fit other gear.
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Russian missile strikes take out popular piracy websites — Russo-Ukrainian war temporarily achieves what lawmakers can't, world's second-biggest torrent tracker suffers 'Direct Destruction of Server' downtime before rebounding
As one commenter put it, "DDoS now means Direct Destruction of Servers."
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AI agents inadvertently leak 13,000+ internal screenshots from 300 organizations — list of companies includes Fortune 500 and a frontier AI lab
When agents are too clever for their own good.
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Console Gaming
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Teenager hacks open Microsoft database with 17 trillion total rows and 25,000 user accounts — custom AI bot and lack of JWT token validation yields a fruitful trove, earns $5,000 bug bounty
I guess that purely technically, the JWT token authorization was there.
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Demon's Souls reaches 40-50 FPS on private PS5 emulator with accurate graphics — KyTyPS5 surges from unplayable 1-2 FPS in just three weeks, new milestone comes only three weeks after the game barely booted
As one Reddit commenter put it, "hate-fueled progression."
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Denuvo cracking group DenuvOwO reportedly disbands — lawsuit from Irdeto has a chilling effect, but cracking continues as piracy hub purges links
Voices38 and the Rune group are still expertly whittling away at Denuvo cracks, though.
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Novel attack slashes computing power needed to crack textbook RSA cryptography — attacks within state-actor reach, could target Apple and Cloudflare privacy services
Not very practical yet, but could serve as the basis for future improvements.
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Federal bill would force VPN providers, ISPs, and DNS services to block foreign piracy sites — yet fuzzy location rules could trigger heavy-handed bans
Determining a user's location can be an exercise in quantum mechanics when VPNs are involved.
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Console Gaming
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Asus confirms eShop data breach exposed customer order records and contact details — payment data safe, but firm warns of targeted phishing scams
The company is staying mum on the size and location of the breach.