Month: November 2025

Cloudflare explains Tuesday’s outage that temporarily took down ChatGPT

Cloudflare’s bot controls are supposed to help deal with problems like crawlers scraping information to train generative AI. It also recently announced a system that uses Generative AI to build the “AI Labyrinth, a new mitigation approach that uses AI-generated content to slow down, confuse, and waste the resources of…

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Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 has some of the best multiplayer and zombies in the series, but also one of the worst campaigns

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Playing the co-op campaign of first-person shooter Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 feels like diving into season 13,…

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This is one benchmark you won’t want to top – devious ransomware will test your system to see how easy it is to hack

Kraken ransomware measures system performance before deciding the scale of encryption damage Shadow copies, Recycle Bin, and backups are deleted before encryption starts Windows, Linux, and ESXi systems all face Kraken’s benchmark-driven attacks The Kraken ransomware campaign introduces a benchmark step which times the encryption of a temporary file to…

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EA will skip next year’s F1 game and release update DLC instead

EA has announced some big changes for the future of its F1 racing series. Next year, instead of a new game, the company will opt to release a paid expansion for F1 25 as part of “a strategic reset for the F1 Franchise,” EA says. The next full F1 game,…

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The Jeep Recon lives

It’s been over three years since we first caught glimpse of Jeep’s Wrangler-esque Recon EV, named after the automaker’s suspension-lifting package of off-roading options for its popular lineup of SUVs. Jeep originally pegged the Recon’s sales debut for 2023, but that obviously didn’t happen. And since then, there have been…

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It’s official – the iPhone 17 gets a big Wi-Fi boost from Apple’s new chip, but the Pixel 10 Pro still beats it

Ookla has tested the Wi-Fi performance of multiple flagship phones The iPhone 17 range has performed especially well That’s largely thanks to its new N1 Wi-Fi chip, Ookla says Before Apple moved its best iPhones to its all-new, in-house N1 wireless chip, the benefits weren’t exactly clear, and you would…

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