Collaborate Disseminate
This year is a big one for new generations of gaming tech. Not only are both Microsoft and Sony gearing up to launch new consoles, but Nvidia has now revealed its latest generation of GPUs with the GeForce RTX 30 series, the beefiest of which can play … Continue reading Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 30 GPUs crunch up to 8K resolution at 60 fps
Since Apple switched to Intel chips in the mid-00s, the PowerPC chips from Motorola and the PowerPC Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that they had been using largely fell by the wayside. While true that niche applications like supercomputing still use the Power ISA on other non-Apple hardware, the days of …read more
Black Lives Matter is the latest hook bad actors are using to persuade people to open email attachments containing malware, according to Bitdefender’s telemetry. Criminals use any new massive event to accelerate the spread of various malware camp… Continue reading Black Lives Matter-Related Spam Used to Deploy Malware
After unveiling its flashy new laptop processors a few weeks ago, Intel has now shown off its latest generation of desktop processors. The 10th Gen Intel Core S-series is much faster for playing games, streaming content and editing video, with the comp… Continue reading Intel reveals 10th Gen desktop processors, its fastest ever
Dozens of Israeli soldiers were tricked by Hamas into installing malware on their phones and computers via an old ruse: messages from young women looking for companionship. Investing in security solutions is always a good idea, but what’s the poi… Continue reading Hamas Tries to Trick Israeli Soldiers into Installing Malware Using Fake Messages from Women
There are probably few parents who haven’t watched their kids sitting on the floor, afloat on a sea of LEGO pieces and busily creating, and thought, “If only they could make a living at that.” But time goes on and kids grow up, and parents soon sing the same refrain …read more
Continue reading LEGO and Minecraft Team Up for Custom Gaming PC Case
If you’ve built a few PCs, you know how frustrating troubleshooting can be. Finding a faulty component inside the cramped confines of a case can be painful — whether its literal when sharp edges draw blood, or just figurative when you have to open that cramped case multiple times to …read more
Continue reading DIY PC Test Bench Puts Hardware Troubleshooting Out in the Open
After briefly teasing it at CES back in January, HTC has now fully whipped the covers off the new VR headset, the Vive Cosmos. The new headset seems to be positioned towards the upper-middle of the range, featuring inside-out tracking, improv… Continue reading HTC Vive Cosmos claims crown for clearest VR headset
So far 2019 has been a bit of a slow year for big game releases, but with E3 fast approaching, we’ll soon know how the next six months are shaping up. This is always one of the biggest weeks of the year for game announcements, details and tra… Continue reading E3 2019: Which games are confirmed, expected, or unlikely to appear?
Oh, the hijinks that the early days of the PC revolution allowed. Back in the days when a 20MB hard drive was a big deal and MS-DOS 3.1 ruled over every plain beige PC-clone cobbled together by enthusiasts like myself, it was great fun to “set up” someone else’s machine to do something unexpected. This generally amounted to finding an unattended PC — the rooms of the residence hall where I lived in my undergrad days were a target-rich environment in this regard — and throwing something annoying in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Hilarity ensued when the mark next booted the …read more
Continue reading 35C3: A Deep Dive into DOS Viruses and Pranks