A few weeks ago, we reported a study alleging that CAPTCHA does not deter bots and that Google merely uses it to collect and sell data. This week, HP Wolf Security researchers have launched a new complaint against CAPTCHA in the latest edition of the HP Threat Insights Report. This time, however, the complaint has nothing to do with Google;

It looks like 2025 it will be a year of big changes for Plex, which is one of the top choices for those looking to host and stream their own media. Just last month the company announced that it’s going to be removing its incredibly popular Watch Together feature as it revamps the software’s code base. Now, it’s informing subscribers that some

More than ten-thousand users have complained to YouTube about an irritating problem where YouTube videos play in poor quality. Perhaps you’re an iPhone user and are facing this issue yourself. Maybe you’ve adjusted your internet settings repeatedly or tried other troubleshooting methods, but the issue remains unresolved. Well, don’t waste

AMD’s just launched its Strix Halo high-end mobile APUs, but progress marches ever forward, and so it goes that we are now looking at leaks concerning the Strix successor, supposedly known as Medusa Point. Based on the Zen 6 “Morpheus” CPU core, Medusa Point has been said to sport a twelve-core CPU CCD as well as an eight-WGP GPU based on

We made the trek out to HP Amplify this week (as well as NVIDIA’s GTC conference), and while there, we got to to go hands-on with a beastly laptop configuration that is available to preorder. It’s the HP Omen Max 16, and as configured it pairs an Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor based on Arrow Lake-HX with a mobile GeForce RTX 5090 GPU.

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has issued another Tesla recall. This time, it involves nearly every Cybertruck on the road over a poorly attached cant panel. The panel has been found to detach and/or completely fly off at speed due to dried out structural adhesives. Unlike most other recalls involving Tesla vehicles,

If you’re building a new, no-compromise (or low-compromise) gaming PC, a great place to start for primary storage is Crucial’s T705. When we reviewed it last month, we called it the “fastest SSD for gamers and creators” thanks to its combination of ultra-high sequential transfers, low latency, and top performance in trace-based test. Even

Sennheiser’s consumer audio division is steadily building its entry-level HD 500 series of headphones this year. The latest hardware to hit the shelves is the HD 550 open-back set that touts a featherweight design, a frequency response of 6Hz to 39.5 kHz, and modular components, which means users can easily swap out earpads and cables to suit

Video games and their accompanying hardware have been a big part of mainstream entertainment for decades with billions of gamers worldwide partaking in the pastime. This segment is also not immune to the slings and arrows of fortune, and thus plummeting sales at certain times. To that end, video game hardware spending is down about 11% in

After what felt like an near-endless barrage of leaks and rumors, Google finally lifted the curtain on its Pixel 9a, a midrange Android handset that is poised to battle Apple’s recently launched iPhone 16e. Both are priced similarly, though the Pixel 9a has a $100 price advantage—it starts at $499, versus $599 for Apple’s replacement to the

Bitdefender reports that more than 60 million users have recently downloaded applications used in massive ad fraud campaigns from the Play Store. The fraud campaign, code-named “Vapor,” allows attackers to lure users into downloading apps that make them vulnerable to cyberattacks.

The cat-and-mouse game between Google and hackers continues;

Yesterday, Google announced that it has updated its Gemini AI tool with two new additions; a Canvas feature, which allows users to fine-tune documents and code, and an Audio Overview feature that transforms documents into audio files similar to podcasts. These additions were shared in a blog post on Tuesday by Dave Citron, Senior Director

Imagine, for a moment, that you had a brand-new M.2 SSD rated for sequential transfers of over 15 GB/second. Obviously, it’s the latest design, using four lanes of PCI Express 5.0 to achieve this immense throughput. Alternatively, it could be an x1 design—using PCIe 7.0. That’s right kids: PCIe 7.0 offers per-pin transfer rates of 128 GT/s,

Retro gamers are eating good these days: classic games are getting remakes that make them more accessible to 2025 gamers, and older hardware is being brought back to life with FPGA-based machines. However, the effort by the retro gaming experts at Analogue to create the ultimate Nintendo 64 has hit a snag, with fans having to wait a bit longer

The current understanding (or debate, depending on who you ask) that refueling a car with gas is quicker than charging an EV might be coming to a close. China’s BYD Auto has revealed a new 1000 volt, 1000 ampere EV architecture called “Super E-Platform” that promises not just gobs more power and capacity potential over current architectures,

It won’t be long before you’ll be able to purchase a gaming laptop with a newfangled mobile GeForce RTX 50 series GPU inside. Heck, there are already a bunch of listings on Best Buy, though none that are in stock and only one that is up for preorder (HP Omen priced at $2,899.99). If you want to stretch your dollar, though, there are deals

Towards the latter part of last month, Samsung reinserted itself into the flagship solid state drive (SSD) space with the introduction of its 9100 Pro series to supplant its still-awesome 990 Pro as its fastest consumer drive line. Now several weeks later, you can actually purchase the 9100 Pro in various capacities, and with or without an

Remember the Pebble? Quite possibly the first smartwatch when it launched in 2013, it eventually fizzled out three years later (not thanks to FitBit), but it left an indelible ripple in the tech world that’s still felt in the wearables we have today. Guess what, the founder of Pebble has decided to bring the nostalgia into 2025 with two new

These days, you have a better shot at finding a needle in a mile-wide haystack than tracking down a current-generation graphics card that’s both in-stock and priced at MSRP. It’s fair to wonder how many GPUs AMD and NVIDIA actually shipped. Well, we may have an answer for the former—over 200,000 Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9070 graphics

The proliferation of gaming has reached levels never before seen, leading to billions of humans partaking in the activity. Those with more limited mobility love to game as well, but standard devices aren’t always suitable for them. Microsoft has launched a new joystick gaming accessory aimed at making it easier for those with accessibility