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How to Cool Down Your Overheating Gaming Laptop: Tips and Solutions
Use these tips to cool down your laptop with minimal loss to gaming performance. What comes to mind when you think “powerful gaming setup”? Perhaps a monstrous PC tower in RGB-spiked glory. Or, if you’re like me, a top-of-the-line gaming laptop with absolute frame-crunching performance. But when you confine such power into the tight constraints […]
Nvidia patches five high-severity bugs in its software
High-flying Nvidia took care of some routine business on June 6 when it reported three high-severity bugs in its GPU Display Driver and another two high-severity bugs in Nvidia’s vGPU software. In a security bulletin to customers, Nvidia said an exploit of the GPU Display Driver bugs could lead to a combination or all of […]
CapraRAT malware targeting Android users with fake apps
A politically driven threat actor has unleashed a fresh malware offensive targeting Android devices. Experts at SentinelLabs have identified a new tool, CapraRAT, deployed by the Pakistani state-sponsored hacking group Transparent Tribe. This sophisticated trojan is designed to monitor user activities, with Indian users being the primary focus. Echoing its past strategies, Transparent Tribe’s CapraRAT […]
Don’t trash your old iPhone! Verizon will give you a free new iPhone 15 for it
Although the iPhone 16 launch is only a few months out, there are still plenty of reasons to pick up an iPhone 15. Now Verizon is giving consumers one more reason to think about grabbing one. First spotted by The Mobile Report, Verizon currently has a few deals on the latest iPhone. If you’re a Verizon customer, or you’ve been […]
AMD Ryzen 9000 CPUs To Introduce “Curve Shaper” Add-On For Curve Optimizer For Enhanced Overclocking
AMD Ryzen 9000 “Zen 5” CPUs are expected to introduce a brand new overclocking feature called Curve Shaper as revealed by 1usmus. AMD Ryzen 9000 “Zen 5” CPUs Getting Curve Shaper Feature As An Extension To Curve Optimizer For Better Overclocking 1usmus has shared some interesting details regarding the overclocking capabilities of the next-gen AMD Ryzen 9000 “Zen […]
CyberSecurity Alert: $5.2 Million Ransomware Demand Hits New High in 2024
In the first half of 2024, ransomware attacks continued to wreak havoc globally, with a startling average extortion demand exceeding $5.2 million (£4.1 million) per incident, as revealed by a comprehensive study from Comparitech. This unsettling statistic stems from an analysis of 56 documented ransom demands issued by cyber threat actors between January and June […]
Meta’s ‘Pay or Consent’ Data Model Breaches EU Law
Regulators say the tech giant breached the Digital Markets Act in requiring Instagram and Facebook users to pay if they don’t want personal data used to generate targeted ads. European Union regulators have accused Meta of breaching the bloc’s stringent new competition rules by compelling users of Instagram and Facebook to pay to avoid having […]
Best Smartphones Under Rs. 10,000 in India
Poco M6 Pro 5G, Redmi 13C, Realme C53, Lava Blaze 5G and Samsung Galaxy M13 are some of the top smartphones you can buy with a budget of under ₹10,000. The race for the best smartphone under ₹10,000 is getting tougher with each passing day with consumers having a plethora of options already available to them, […]
Top RTX 40-Series GPU on Steam: Found in Gaming Laptops, Not Desktops
June’s Steam hardware survey shows ever more RTX 4060 laptop gamers. The latest Steam hardware survey has been released, revealing some intriguing shifts. The standout change is the rising popularity of RTX 4060 laptops among gamers, with a noticeable increase in usage from May to June 2024. Specifically, the survey indicates a 0.74% uptick in […]