At OCP Summit 2024 Intel And AMD Actually Agreed On x86 Standardization
2024 is a wild year and it keeps getting stranger; AMD and Intel have agreed to work together towards a shared goal. The plan is to provide consumers and system makers with…
View ArticleThe FTC Makes Click To Cancel A Thing In The US
You may have noticed a trend towards making it difficult to cancel your subscription services, assuming you can keep track of them. Many online services force you to jump through a number…
View ArticleGoat Simulator Remastered, Pilgor Rides Again November 7th
Calling all Tall Goats, Fancy Goats and maybe even Italian Dinosaur Goats! Coffee Stain Studio's original sin is coming back and it'll be better than ever. The original Goat Simulator, which…
View ArticleJust In Time For The Spooky Season, Another Spectre Sequel!
The only good news is for people who grabbed a relatively new AMD processor as the new Spectre vulnerability only effects Zen 1, Zen 1+, and Zen 2. Intel owners, on the…
View ArticlePodcast #795 – AMD and Intel Team Up for x86, RIP Ryzen 7 5800X3D, 9800X3D...
We've got Intel and AMD teaming up, Click2Cancel making waves, so much ARM discussion where it wasn't meant to be, Windows 11 BSODs (suprise!), a bunch of X86 discussion and a terrible…
View ArticleHelp Turning Off That AI Assistant; If The App Allows You
Chatbots, AI Assistants and LLM enhanced apps are all the rage now, whether you like it or not. If you do enjoy the suggestions Google search now provides or Copilot's suggestions then…
View ArticleHeard About Creative’s Outlier Free+ Or Outlier Pro+ Bone Conduction Earphones?
At first glance, the big difference between the Outlier Free+ and the Outlier Pro+ is that the former has an IPX5 rating which makes it definitely sweat proof while the latter has…
View ArticleChanges Ahead For uBlock Origin And uBlock Origin Lite
If you are a fan of using uBlock Origin or uBlock Origin Lite, on sites other than this one, you have to make some choices. Until now both extensions were available for…
View ArticleArm And Qualcomm Are At It Again! Arm Just Issued A 60 Day Termination Notice
It seems that this has taken Arm a while to decide to litigate, but they are calling Qualcomm on their $1.4 billion acquisition of Nuvia in 2021. Nuvia also designed custom Arm…
View ArticleIs It Wrong To Still Mock Star Citizen And Squadron 42?
Roberts Space Industries may be moving on from simply harvesting money from hopeful backers and might be releasing an actual game next year. At CitizenCon, because of course the unreleased game has…
View ArticleSamsung Users, Keep Your Eyes On The Software Update Section Of Your Phone
Those who use Samsung phones should be cautious over the next few days, until Google can create a fix for yet anther new exploit. The problem is in the hardware and can…
View ArticleRunning And Updating Windows 11 Without A Wire
This topic has been covered before but with the pending demise of Windows 10 in just under a year it is worth repeating for those who would like to move to a…
View ArticlePodcast #796 – Intel Core Ultra Happened, Arm to Cancel Qualcomm License,...
What a week. So much exciting news to cover, including the extremely well-received new Intel Core Ultra desktop processors! Does sarcasm evident? Anyhow, we received them, too, but without a...
View ArticleWondering Why You Can’t See Windows 11 24H2? Here’s A Handy Incompatibility List
Bleeping Computer have compiled a list of the hardware and software which will cause Win11 24H2 to be hidden from your Windows Update or will cause you frustration if you force the…
View ArticleNice Cookie Encryption Scheme Google … Shame If Something Happened To It
Google's cookie encryption was a decent idea, a way to ensure that if a bad actor managed to get their fingers in your cookie jar, they wouldn't be able to savour a…
View ArticleTurtle Beach Starts Taking Advantage Of Buying ROCCAT, Introducing The Burst...
Turtle Beach's gaming peripheral has been pretty quiet but that has changed with the Burst II Air and several other mice you can check out below the fold. The wireless Burst II…
View ArticleNew FakeCall Android Malware Redirects Bank Phone Calls To Scammers Invisibly
It can be fun to load and configure an Android APK which didn't come from the Google Store, or to grab an app that sounds great from somewhere on the web but…
View ArticleManor Lords Meets Crusader Kings In Liegecraft?
If you are unfamiliar with either Manor Lords or Crusader Kings, the former is a medieval city builder in early release while the second is a long running series of turn based…
View ArticlePodcast #797 – Ryzen 7 9800X3D Details Revealed, AMD Financials, Supermicro...
Welcome to the creepiest PC hardware podcast on the net, and that's on a NORMAL week. We've got Intel Core Ultra, Ryzen 7 9800X3D, Windows 24H2 ... but will we surpass our…
View ArticleNASty Flaws In Networked Storage, Patch Synology And QNAP ASAP
Last week at Pwn2Own there were serious flaws discovered in QNAP and Synology NAS software, and this week those companies have released patches for them. In Synology's case, several versions of both…
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