Tech

A hot potato: CEOs, bosses, and the those who make the technology love to assure people that artificial intelligence isn’t going to replace everyone’s jobs; it will merely augment them – working alongside humans to make life easier. Yet we keep hearing stories like the one about a writer whose employer fired his 60-person team […]

Facepalm: Like Google, Apple, and other major online providers, Microsoft is willing to play dirty to keep users within its digital ecosystem. The Redmond corporation is now making it difficult for Windows 11 users by removing official instructions on how to convert an online account into a local one. The Windows ecosystem was traditionally designed

WTF?! Usually, the fans go inside the PC, but a modder wanted to see if arranging things the other way around had thermal advantages. Aside from increased chassis size, the test highlighted clear safety reasons why users shouldn’t spin computer hardware at high RPMs. In a recent video, a Chinese PC hardware modder and influencer

What just happened? LG Display has begun mass producing the world’s first 13-inch tandem OLED panel for laptops. As the name suggests, tandem OLED technology literally involves stacking two layers of red, green, and blue (RGB) OLED panels to enhance durability and performance. The tech was commercialized by LG Display in 2019 and initially adopted

Why it matters: In a conference in Washington D.C. this week, NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office and the Federal Emergency Management Agency ran a chilling simulation – what if a massive asteroid was barreling towards Earth with over a decade’s notice? The exercise, held every two years, lets concerned agencies game out response plans for

A hot potato: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s statement that he uses Perplexity almost every day is certainly a strong endorsement. However, recent allegations against the AI chatbot may cause some people to reconsider its use. Critics accuse it of dishonesty and theft, with one publication even threatening legal action for copyright infringement. There are numerous

The big picture: When it comes to retro gaming, nothing beats playing on original hardware. For PC gamers, that can often be difficult unless you happen to have an old machine collecting dust in your closet. Fortunately for hardcore retro gamers, there’s a new option on the block that lets you play on original hardware

Can’t catch a break: Remember BlackLotus? A similar new vulnerability has now appeared, and it could be the next big headache for Intel-based devices, including those based on the latest Raptor Lake platform. It affects the UEFI firmware, potentially giving attackers a backdoor to wreak havoc on vulnerable PCs. The flaw (CVE-2024-0762 with a reported

A hot potato: It’s the little things that can annoy browser users, especially when the program in question is Firefox – the last so-called independent browser devoted to the customer experience. In its latest release of Firefox 127, Mozilla added a few tweaks to its privacy offerings that have made some users very unhappy. It

In brief: Intelbroker is gaining a reputation for breaching some big-name entities. After it hacked AMD, the group now says it has also compromised Apple. However, it is difficult to verify these claims, and Apple has yet to respond. This is what we know so far. Notorious cybercriminal Intelbroker has made another eyebrow-raising claim on