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A hot potato: YouTube’s ongoing war against those who use adblockers has moved up a level. The company is now rolling out a punishment to more people that causes the entire site to slow when it detects ad-blocking software is being used, causing a “suboptimal viewing” experience. It was back in November that YouTube’s previous […]

In brief: We’re only a few weeks away from the release of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, one of the first big and highly anticipated games of 2024. That means the final PC requirements have dropped, and they’re not too demanding at the lower end, especially if you’re using a 1080p monitor. It might

In brief: Last year was not a good one for the PC market, with one analyst firm calling it the industry’s worst ever twelve months. However, the final quarter of 2023 offered reasons to be optimistic going forward. That’s a good reason for PC companies to celebrate, but the less welcome news for consumers is

Would buying a Ryzen 5 7600 with a GeForce RTX 4070 Ti be a better option than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D with the RTX 4070 Ti? Both hardware combos cost the same. In other words, should you opt for the faster GPU or CPU? To find out, we’ve benchmarked both combinations. Traditionally, we’ve recommended that

Forward-looking: Among the 50 consumer electronics products that BOE showcased at CES 2024 was a 45-inch 8K screen that stretches over a car’s dashboard combining the driver panel, central control, and passenger panel into a single display. Smart cockpit technology keeps on advancing, and its integration into popular EVs will continue to drive the space.

WTF?! In what could have been another example of the dangers of making every single household appliance internet-connected, the owner of an LG washing machine got a shock this week when the device started reporting the use of 3.6GB of data every day. Johnie, who describes himself as a FinTech Geek in his X/Twitter bio,

Memtest86+ is a free, open-source, stand-alone memory tester for x86 and x86-64 architecture computers. It provides a much more thorough memory check than that provided by BIOS memory tests. It is also able to access almost all the computer’s memory, not being restricted by the memory used by the operating system and not depending on

A hot potato: Training advanced AI models with proprietary material has become a controversial issue. Many companies now face legal challenges from authors and media organizations in court. Meta admitted to using the well-known “pirate” dataset, Books3, yet the company is reluctant to compensate writers adequately. A group of authors filed a lawsuit against Meta,

Facepalm: China isn’t exactly a standard-bearer for human rights and individual privacy, so being able to grab AirDrop users’ contact information is worrisome. Apple was warned its service was vulnerable years ago, but did nothing about it. In 2019, researchers at Germany’s Technical University of Darmstadt discovered that Apple’s AirDrop wireless sharing function had vulnerabilities

Forward-looking: At CES this year, exhibitors have once again attempted to show how projectors can provide a premium home theater viewing experience while better complementing a room’s décor compared to large televisions. Xgimi’s latest products exemplify these design goals, one of which resulted from a collaboration with IMAX. Xgimi announced what it calls the world’s