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“The girl should be calling men.” Leak exposes Black Basta’s influence tactics.
A leak of 190,000 chat messages traded among members of the Black Basta ransomware group shows that it’s a highly structured and mostly efficient organization staffed by personnel with expertise in...
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Nintendo Switch 2 and GTA 6 projected to increase video game spending despite...
Recent market reports from Newzoo and DFC Intelligence predict that US tariffs will slow but not stop PC and console game spending over the next few years. The Nintendo Switch 2 and Grand Theft Auto...
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Mario Kart World’s $80 price isn’t that high, historically
Last week, Nintendo made waves across the game industry by announcing that Mario Kart World would sell for a suggested price of $80 in the US. That nominal price represents a new high-water mark both...
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Windows 10 KB5055518 remove seconds from the clock, following Windows 11
Windows 10 KB5055518 is now available for everyone not using Windows 11, but it takes away one of the basic features from the operating system: clock with seconds in the Calendar. This update is...
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The IBM z17 Mainframe Brings AI with Telum II and Spyre
The IBM z17 mainframe brings new AI capabilities with the Telum II processor and its built-in AI accelerator and the PCIe-based Spyre AI cards The post The IBM z17 Mainframe Brings AI with Telum II...
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Tech Giants Propose “Critical” Piracy Shield Regulation Amendments
More than a year after its official debut in February 2024, Italy’s controversial Piracy Shield blocking system is yet to deliver on the key predictions justifying its launch. Claims of piracy’s total...
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Trump’s dream of a US-made iPhone clashes with Apple’s manufacturing reality
Trump has said that if companies want to avoid the tariffs placed on countries such as China, Vietnam, Thailand, and India, they should move their manufacturing to the United States. But that’s a lot...
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The Ars cargo e-bike buying guide for the bike-curious (or serious)
Are you a millennial parent who has made cycling your entire personality but have found it socially unacceptable to abandon your family for six hours on a Saturday? Or are you a bike-curious urban...
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Trump pauses global tariffs but raises China tariffs to 125%, potentially...
The decision marks a sharp reversal from the steep tariffs the President announced on April 2, which included significant duties on imports from countries such as Japan (24%), Vietnam (46%), and...
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After months of user complaints, Anthropic debuts new $200/month AI plan
On Wednesday, Anthropic introduced a new $100- to $200-per-month subscription tier called Claude Max that offers expanded usage limits for its Claude AI assistant. The new plan arrives after many...
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OpenAI helps spammers plaster 80,000 sites with messages that bypassed filters
Spammers used OpenAI to generate messages that were unique to each recipient, allowing them to bypass spam-detection filters and blast unwanted messages to more than 80,000 websites in four months,...
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Google’s best Gemini AI model is showing up in more places
Google made waves with the release of Gemini 2.5 last month, rocketing to the top of the AI leaderboard after previously struggling to keep up with the likes of OpenAI. That first experimental model...
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Internet Archive vs. Music Labels: $600m+ Copyright Rift Edges Toward Settlement
The Internet Archive is widely known for its Wayback Machine, which preserves copies of the web for future generations. These archiving efforts, which started decades ago, will become more valuable...
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Trump administration’s attack on university research accelerates
Shortly after its inauguration, the Trump administration has made no secret that it isn’t especially interested in funding research. Before January’s end, major science agencies had instituted pauses...
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Corsair’s new firmware update tool works from the browser, doesn’t require...
Corsair recently introduced a web-based utility for installing newer firmware versions for PC peripherals. The Firmware Update Utility allows users to “effortlessly” update a device’s microcode using a...
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Kioxia AIO Core and Kyocera Develop PCIe Gen5 Over Optics SSD
Kioxia, AIO Core, and Kyocera are now demoing a faster PCIe Gen5 over optical SSD designed to move SSDs out of AI and server racks The post Kioxia AIO Core and Kyocera Develop PCIe Gen5 Over Optics...
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The Most Memorable Overclocking-Friendly CPUs
Enthusiasts have pushed silicon to its limits for decades. The thrill of extra performance lives on, and here are some of the most iconic CPUs ever, revered for their overclocking prowess. Read Entire...
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Microsoft Edge 135 breaks with ERR_INVALID_URL on First-Run Experience on...
Microsoft released Edge version 135 for the stable channel recently, causing pandemonium amongst admins and users. Especially users in a workplace or enterprise that use a managed PC are getting a...
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Google takes advantage of federal cost-cutting with steep Workspace discount
Google has long been on the lookout for ways to break Microsoft’s stranglehold on US government office software, and the current drive to cut costs may be it. Google and the federal government have...
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy calls for startup culture in shareholder letter to...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy recently outlined his vision for the company in an annual letter to shareholders, blending startup-style agility with the scale of a global giant. He addressed challenges,...
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