Month: February 2024
Samsung’s popular Magician SSD software has a critical flaw – here is what you need to do if you use it on any Samsung SSD
Samsung‘s Magician SSD software, widely used for managing Samsung’s various memory products, ranging from internal SSDs and portable SSDs, to memory cards and USB flash drives, has been reported to have a critical flaw. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Vulnerability Database, this flaw, designated as…
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Here’s how not to get phone-scammed out of $50,000
The incredible, heart-wrenching, frustrating tale of a respected financial expert getting phone scammed out of $50,000 has sparked a good bit of incredulous and outraged reactions, but I’m more interested in ensuring – wherever you stand on the veracity of this tale – that you don’t end up similarly scammed.…
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AMD’s next-gen Zen 6 ‘Medusa’ processor might be an absolute beast of a chip
AMD‘s next-gen “Medusa” processor is shaping up to be a mighty big chip if recent rumors are to be believed, though it’ll still be a very long time before we even get close to seeing it. The forthcoming processor architecture, shared on X (formerly Twitter) by Olrak29, shows the CPU…
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Acer’s latest Swift laptops have AMD 8040 chips with Ryzen AI support
Acer unveiled a pair of AMD Ryzen 8040 series laptops on Tuesday. Unsurprisingly, given their chips’ dedicated neural processing units (NPU), the company is marketing the 2024 Acer Swift Edge 16 and Swift Go 14 as AI workhorses. The Windows 11 machines support OLED displays, Radeon 780M graphics and 32GB…
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‘Prolific’ LockBit ransomware group loses its keys to a global takedown
Enforcers from the US and UK disrupted a ransomware group they say has targeted more than 2,000 victims and taken over $120 million in ransom payments. They even got the keys from seized LockBit assets to access data that was encrypted after the group’s attacks, the US Department of Justice…
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Ubisoft turns Rainbow Six teeny tiny for new game on Netflix
The typically gritty world of Rainbow Six is getting a colorful makeover. Ubisoft just revealed the franchise’s latest spinoff, a mobile game called Rainbow Six: Smol that shrinks down the tactical action and adds a whole lot of goofy personality. The game is available now through Netflix games on both…
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