14 Nov, 2024

‘Watch Dogs’ Movie Finally Starts Filming 11 Years Later

It’s taken 11 years, but the long-gestating Watch Dogs movie is finally one step closer to seeing the light of day. In a surprise update on X/Twitter, Ubisoft announced that filming has begun on the live-action project, with a picture of a clapboard and the caption “Lights_Camera_Action.exe”. An individual sitting at a computer can also be seen in the background, […]

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EndeavourOS 2024.06.25 rolls out with Plasma 6.1 and various fixes

As its fifth anniversary draws near, EndeavourOS gets a new update. Labeled 2024.06.25, this software refresh comes with Plasma 6.1 (both offline and live), Firefox 127.0.1-1, and Calamares 24.06.1.2-1, as well as a few fixes. Also, the r8168 legacy driver package has been removed in this update. In the second half of May 2019, the […]

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0Patch promises Windows 10 support until 2030

While Microsoft plans to end support for Windows 10 in late 2025, 0patch comes with the promise of supporting Windows 10 v22H2 with critical security patches until 2030 and even further if there is enough demand. Fortunately, the $25-per-year or $35-per-year Pro and Enterprise subscriptions are also accompanied by a free plan. On October 14, […]

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Linux Mint 22 beta released with Cinnamon 6.2 desktop based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

The Linux Mint development team has released the beta version of Linux Mint 22 for download, which for the first time is based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and comes with the Linux 6.8 kernel. In addition to the updated Cinnamon 6.2 desktop, MATE 1.26 and Xfce 4.18 are also available. Version 22 (code-named “Wilma”) of Linux […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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