Android’s most diehard fans were less than pleased when Google announced plans to limit the sideloading of apps, in an effort to create a more secure platform. The backlash from power users was immediate, with the developers behind the popular third-party app store F-Droid penning a scathing letter denouncing the coming clampdown. Today, fans

You may recall that just a couple of days ago we posted about Intel’s new Arc Graphics Precompiled Shader Distribution. This is an implementation of Microsoft’s Advanced Shader Delivery, where gamers can download pre-compiled binary shaders ready to run on their Arc GPUs instead of having to sit there and slowly compile them before beginning

FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed in a Senate hearing on Wednesday, “We do purchase commercially available information that’s consistent with the Constitution and the laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and it has led to some valuable intelligence for us.” In 2023, the last FBI director claimed that such practices were no

Law enforcement agencies have scored a major win against the world’s most predatory botnet operations, dismantling the infrastructure of four major networks responsible for some of the most aggressive cyberattacks in internet history. The coordinated operation, led by the U.S. Department of Justice alongside authorities in Canada and Germany,

Savvy shoppers know that a surefire strategy to save some coin in the land of tech is to wait for a new generation product to emerge, and then pounce on the inevitable discount offered on the item it’s replacing. Now is one of those opportune times. Apple’s new M5 MacBook Air is barely two weeks old, and you can find the still-capable M4 model

Looks like we have a new entrant to the orbital data center race: Blue Origin is formally challenging the likes of SpaceX and Axiom with plans for an initial constellation of tens of thousands of satellites.

Filing plans with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for Project Sunrise, Jeff Bezos’s space venture aims to deploy a not

The unsealing of a federal indictment has exposed a multi-billion dollar shadow pipeline designed to funnel restricted NVIDIA AI chips into China. At the center of the controversy is Wally Liaw Yih-Shyan, the 71-year-old co-founder and Senior Vice President of Super Micro Computer, who now faces serious criminal charges for allegedly orchestrating

You can be forgiven for having forgotten all about Amazon’s ill-fated Fire Phone. It released a long time ago and despite an initial flurry of sales, it wasn’t all that long after launch that Amazon held a fire sale of its Fire Phone due to underwhelming demand, and vowed there would not be a sequel. Never say never, though, as Amazon is evidently

Mini PCs have grown in popularity over the last several years, even with Intel handing off the reins of its NUC to ASUS. These days, we’re seeing a bunch of AMD-powered mini PCs. They’ve sort of become a dime a dozen, though Arctic has found a way to stand out from the crowd with its Senza AI 370, a fanless mini PC that you can mount sight

Apple is spending significant resources in an attempt to become a legitimate player in the AI race, going so far as to ink an agreement with one of its chief rivals, Google. This pivot towards AI has led many to wonder what the future holds for its most famous product, the iPhone. The company’s CEO, Tim Cook, touched on the subject during

After 8BitDo collaborated with Analogue on the final (delayed) release of the Analogue 3D with its 8BitDo 64 Bluetooth wireless controller, 8BitDo is following up with the release of two new products: a Bluetooth 8BitDo Retro Receiver for Nintendo 64, Analogue 3D, and Windows PCs, as well as a 2.4GHz 8BitDo 64 controller + Receiver pair that

How much storage do you need? It’s a fair bet you could be satisfied with 2TB or less, which is the typical capacity of M.2 SSDs. If you need more, it’s likely warm or cold data that could be stuffed onto relatively inexpensive spinning rust. Some folks truly need storage that’s high-density, high-speed, and high-capacity, though, and for

Unofficial community support for AMD’s FSR 4 upscaler continues to improve, as OptiScaler FSR 4 injection for RDNA 2 GPUs now works with current AMD drivers and no longer requires reverting to older drivers to function. Fancy that! 

Just last month, OptiScaler also brought FSR 4 to Vulkan games which previously had no support for FSR 4

Valve just rolled out a Counter-Strike 2 update that fundamentally changes reloading, and longtime players are sounding the alarm about the potential it has to completely overturn the meta-game. In short, instead of partially used magazines magically returning unused rounds to your reserve, reloading now discards whatever is left in the mag.

Building a PC in this economy is not for the faint of wallet or purse, not when memory and storage prices are ascending the way they have been. That said, there are still budget-oriented parts out there, and Corsair’s new 3200D mid-tower computer case is one them. Offered in black, white, and smoke colorways and with or without ARGB fans,

Microsoft might already be touting its next generation of gaming consoles, but it hasn’t forgotten about its current models (Xbox Series X and S), which are about to get some welcomed upgrades as players will finally see the introduction of features that have been requested for years by the community. These improvements include an expanded

A little over a year after his death, Val Kilmer is set to return to the screen and as one of the main characters, no less, through physical AI in the upcoming noir thriller As Deep as the Grave. This project, developed with the full blessing of the Kilmer estate, moves beyond the simpler cameos by digital twins of deceased performers into

A 7-ton asteroid roughly the size of a storage shed was spotted streaking across the Northeast Ohio sky at 45,000 mph, detonating over Medina County with the force of 250 tons of TNT. This event didn’t just rattle windows from Cleveland to Pittsburgh; it sent dozens of residents scouring their properties for the charred remains of a 4.5-billion-year-old

When an apparent Medusa Point APU based on AMD’s next-generation Zen 6 architecture found its way to Geekbench earlier this week, the big news was the amount of reported L3 cache. Well, whoever is uploading benchmark runs of the mystery chip to Geekbench has done so again, and this time the highlight is on the performance and what looks like

It’s been nearly 20 years since Sony released the PlayStation 3, which at the time ran $499.99 for the 20GB model and $599.99 for the 60GB model. If you’ve held onto one for that long, your splurge continues to pay off, as Sony is still releasing updates two decades later. The latest one isn’t overly fancy, but it is required if you plan to