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Cybersecurity
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North Korea named as primary suspect in $387 million Bitget crypto hack — investigators identify IP addresses tied to VPN infrastructure previously used by North Korean hacker groups; thieves swapped stablecoins for ETH in minutes to dodge freezes
Bitget to cover the full loss with its over $464 million User Protection Fund
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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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Proposed Pennsylvania law targets publishers that kill digital games — publishers must provide offline mode, an independent server patch, or a 25% minimum refund
Pennsylvania is taking steps to protect its gamers.
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OpenAI and Anthropic are reportedly investigating tens of thousands of AI security incidents; OpenAI pauses testing after AI 'kill switch' fails to stop a rogue agent — report says problem is orders of magnitude more complex than what is publicly known
OpenAI to suspend model training after rogue agent bypassed failsafes
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Video Games
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Retro Gaming
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DDR5
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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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G.Skill wins PC enthusiast as 'customer for life' simply by honoring its warranty replacement policy — enthusiast gets new module for kit that cost $150 but now sells for $1,200
Here’s a happy story regarding broken DDR5 RAM modules, for a change.
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Modders bring Nvidia’s DLSS 5 Neural Rendering to AMD Radeon GPUs — latest build delivers 74% performance boost in just 24 hours, new launcher automates install process
No more manually copying and replacing DLL files for each game.
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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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Data Centers
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Cryptocurrency
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Gaming PCs
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GPUs
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Mini PCs
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PS5 emulator successfully runs six titles at a playable 60 FPS — PS5 emulation continues to gather momentum as developers improve shader translation and Vulkan support
12 of 55 tested titles tested could be played, but only six achieved a playable 60 FPS.
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Flock seeks to have security researchers' map of Flock cameras taken down — unauthenticated flaw exposed 335,701 camera locations nationwide
It could also potentially be used to track key personnel heading to and from sensitive sites like military bases, intelligence agencies, and law enforcement headquarters.
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Cybersecurity
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Custom 24-carat gold mini PC costs around $1.7 million, weighs nearly 29 pounds for up to 50% faster heat transfer — copper would have been far cheaper and offers even better thermal conductivity
28.7 pound Kubb Fanless mini PC was a special order by a lover of 24-carat gold.
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Linux
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Linux enthusiasts see 10-second kernel compilation times on the horizon — AI-assisted patches cut build times by nearly a third without a RAMdisk
Upcoming advances like Zen 6, PCIe Gen6 storage are expected to help get us into single figures.
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U.S. and UK navies successfully launch 3,700-pound submarine-sinking torpedo from robotic drone submarine in historic first — Project Broadsword proves weapon interchangeability in just seven months
Project conducted under military partnership between the U.S., the U.K., and Australia
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Tech Industry
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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Taiwan's chip talisman snack faces production halt after 94% strike vote — snacks are seen as a good luck charm in the computing industry, but workers demand share of $176 million factory sale to ASE
Ironically, the snack maker is relocating to Taiwan’s Silicon Valley. That’s roughly 45 minutes south of its current location.
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Developer says Jev decision model beat Pokémon Red in under a week — non-LLM engine succeeds where traditional chatbots stalled for months, but Claude Opus 5 coached the model through its dead ends
With only a list of choices to pick from, the AI made the Hall of Fame.
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Gaming Monitors
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SSDs
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27-year-old GTA 2 gets full path tracing and 60 FPS frame generation via RTX Remix — custom Direct3D 9 wrapper modernizes classic, unlocks dynamic lighting
Anywhere City glows brighter than ever.
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Liquid Cooling
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Microsoft Surface
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VPN
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Cybersecurity
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Data Centers
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GPUs
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Nvidia patents AI chatbot to streamline PC game optimization — could one day help developers better optimize their games with requests made in plain English
Games could be quicker to make and run better when they go on sale.
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PC Gaming
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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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Russia bombs Ukrainian data centers in latest escalation — 100,000 households lose connectivity as firms migrate data abroad, Zelensky says ‘ordinary life is simply a target’
Russia argues site was used by Ukrainian military intelligence.
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PlayStation
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Nvidia’s RTX Mega Geometry 2.0 streams ray-tracing geometry into VRAM on demand — Nanite-inspired design drops detail instead of dropping out
Nvidia's new ray-tracing sample handles a 1.6-billion-triangle scene with just 2GB of VRAM dedicated to geometry.
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