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AMD CPU owners won’t be pleased with Windows 11’s latest update
AMD chips are having issues on Windows 11 and the latest OS update has made the problems even worse. AMD and Microsoft previously revealed that Windows 11 was causing a reduced performance for AMD Ryzen CPUs for certain applications, with extreme cases seeing as much as a 15% performance hit.…
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GitHub Revoked Insecure SSH Keys Generated by a Popular git Client
Code hosting platform GitHub has revoked weak SSH authentication keys that were generated via the GitKraken git GUI client due to a vulnerability in a third-party library that increased the likelihood of duplicated SSH keys. As an added precautionary measure, the Microsoft-owned company also said it’s building safeguards to prevent…
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Instagram to introduce “take a break” feature and “nudge” teens away from harmful content
Instagram to introduce new features to nudge teams away from harmful content | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram will introduce new measures to nudge teenagers away from harmful content and encourage them to “take a break,” from the platform, Facebook vice president of global affairs Nick Clegg…
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Google Pixel 6 leak teases Magic Eraser feature, plus five years of Android security updates
The Google Pixel 6 (top) and Pixel 6 Pro (bottom) | Google New leaks from a marketing site appear to confirm that the camera for the Pixel 6 will have a new Magic Eraser feature, and the devices will apparently get five years of Android security updates (h/t 9to5 Google)…
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Facebook, Instagram, And WhatsApp Are Down
Facebook and the company’s entire family of apps suffered an outage Monday morning. Shortly before 9 a.m. Pacific time, the social network’s namesake app, along with Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Oculus — Facebook’s virtual reality service — became unreachable for many people. The outages appeared to be caused by…
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The Secret to Media Superstardom? Tell People How To Get a PS5
Gabby Jones for BuzzFeed News Matt Swider at his home office in the New York City on September 30, 2021 It’s not unusual for Matt Swider to gain 10,000 Twitter followers in a single day. So it’s natural that Swider, the US editor-in-chief of TechRadar, a popular gadget site, doesn’t…
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