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A hot potato: In a move that some might call hypocritical, the lawyers who stopped Elon Musk’s $56 billion Tesla pay package by successfully arguing it was excessive are now asking to be paid the equivalent of $6 billion in the EV giant’s stock. According to a court filing, that works out at an hourly […]

Cyber warfare: The Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) is tasked with defending the country against espionage, sabotage, and terrorism. Comparable to the FBI in the US and MI5 in the UK, ASIO has recently been actively working to disrupt a significant cyber-warfare effort by foreign entities. Australia is facing significant cyber threats from unknown parties,

Bottom line: It’s now or never for Nvidia to re-enter the handheld gaming market if it wants to catch up with AMD and compete with the Intel alternatives expected later this year. The company will be providing the silicon for the Switch 2, which many suggest should outperform the Steam Deck. Nvidia may be having

In brief: Sometimes there’s nothing more gratifying than watching an orbital strike decimate its target from the heavens. But even with all of that firepower, there are some notoriously difficult enemies that make liberating Helldivers 2’s planets extremely tough. Fortunately, players may soon get some heavy (and heavily armed) reinforcements to help the cause and

Why it matters: The ruling that NSO Group must hand over information regarding the “full functionality” of Pegasus is a key win for WhatsApp and other entities following this issue. Once the code is in hand, WhatsApp may be able to prove its central claim that Pegasus can intercept communications sent to and from a

In context: GPU manufacturers are always looking for new ways to increase sales and offload excess product. On Friday, Asus unveiled a new cashback rewards program offering UK customers up to £85 back on qualifying Radeon GPU purchases. While the prospect of free money is always a tempting proposition, the question remains: is the cashback

Forward-looking: Several classic PC games have received path tracing refreshes through RTX Remix and other mods, allowing fans to revisit them with a new feel and enhanced with more realistic lighting. Early Unreal Engine titles have remained largely untouched until now, but renderer modifications might offer a preview of what’s to come. Unreal and Unreal

What just happened? After becoming the first American craft to land on the lunar surface since Apollo 17 in 1972, and the first ever commercial craft to achieve such a feat, the Odysseus lander has powered down and may never wake again, bringing an end to its historic mission. At 6:23 p.m. ET on February

In context: Raspberry Pi Pico has become a very popular microcontroller board in the few years since it was introduced and used for almost any type of imaginable project, including the basis for a hardware experiment that adds some oomph to very old PCs. Somewhere out there, a gamer in possession of a vintage PC

Why it matters: Devices utilizing standard USB4 connections aren’t quite ubiquitous yet but are becoming more common. The USB Promoter Group unveiled specifications for a faster variant of USB4 over a year ago, but compatible products still aren’t widely available, and Windows has only just begun to support the standard. Its counterpart, Thunderbolt 5, also