Month: February 2024
Presidents’ Day sales have been extended – shop the 25 best deals still available
The holiday weekend is officially over, but if you didn’t snag a Presidents’ Day deal and still want to grab a bargain you’re in luck. Several Presidents’ Day sales have been extended, which means you can still score massive savings on appliances, mattresses, TVs, Apple devices, laptops, and vacuums. I’ve…
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AMD Zen 5 processor rumor sets stage for epic end-of-year battle with Intel
AMD’s hotly-anticipated Zen 5 CPUs could launch at the end of this year, lining up closely with Intel’s Arrow Lake release – which could spell trouble for Team Blue and edge AMD further towards hard-earned desktop supremacy in the best processors ranking. Chinese tech outlet UDN reports that AMD’s Zen…
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“Finger-swiping friction sounds can be captured by attackers online with a high possibility” – New research shows your fingerprints can be digitally recreated just from the sounds they make
New research has found that your fingerprints can be recreated just from the sounds they make on a touchscreen, and then used to attack biometric security measures. While this sounds like something straight out of the plot of a budget spy film, the findings (PDF) from team of researchers from…
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Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 tipped to draw design inspiration from Galaxy S24 Ultra
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 could come with a flatter and square-aspect-ratio inner display, potentially making for a phone with a wider inner screen and cover display. That’s according to reliable smartphone tipster Ice Universe, who claimed on X that the next Galaxy Fold could be wider and have…
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The official Xbox wireless controller is down to $44 ($16 off)
A sudden gout attack dictated that my long holiday weekend was full of gaming. Between fraught journeys across the high seas in Skull and Bones, I scratched my competitive itch with several rounds of Tekken 8 and Madden NFL 24. However, my game time was interrupted by a few too…
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This popular WordPress site builder has a serious security issue — and hackers are already taking advantage
A popular WordPress theme with tens of thousands of users carries a high severity vulnerability that allows threat actors to run malicious PHP code. The patch for the flaw has already been made available, and hackers have started targeting vulnerable sites to disable security plugins. A security researcher alias “snicco”…
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