Category Archives: Computering

Popular PDF reader has database of 77 miliion users hacked and leaked online

Sensitive information relating to thousands of users of the Nitro PDF reader has been leaked online. Back in October, Nitro admitted to what it described as a “low impact security incident” but claimed that no customer data was impacted. This now appears to have been false. A threat actor claiming to be part of the […]

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Biden administration hid a secret call for coders where no one else would find it

On his first day as President of the United States, Joe Biden acted swiftly to neutralize a number of the policies enacted by his predecessor, signing 17 executive actions in all. Although most are of a political flavor, the move to reinvigorate the presidency has also extended to the digital realm, as demonstrated by a […]

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This RTX 3080 powered Sneaker PC from NZXT is giving us a real kick

Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards are harder to find than gold dust right now, but a collaboration between computing hardware maker NZXT and virtual sneaker designers Artefact Studios has resulted in a concept gaming PC that’s worthy of displaying such a rare piece of tech. Upon inspection, this isn’t a wearable piece of gaming […]

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Windows 10X shown running on a Surface Pro 7 – and it looks pretty cool

Windows 10X is now running on another device, with the recently leaked build of the lightweight OS having been shown off on a Surface Pro 7. Well-known Microsoft leaker Zac Bowden already provided us with a video of the purportedly near-final build of Windows 10X in action, but there’s now footage of it running on the […]

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Windows 10X shown running on a Surface Pro 7 – and it looks pretty cool

Windows 10X is now running on another device, with the recently leaked build of the lightweight OS having been shown off on a Surface Pro 7. Well-known Microsoft leaker Zac Bowden already provided us with a video of the purportedly near-final build of Windows 10X in action, but there’s now footage of it running on the […]

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A large number of retail apps are hiding serious security flaws

A concerning number of apps in the retail and hospitality sectors have at least one security flaw, according to new research from security firm Veracode. Analysing over 130,000 applications, Veracode found that 76% in the retail and hospitality sectors had at least one security flaw, which was a similar figure to that found in other […]

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Half-Life: Alyx could be just the start, as Valve confirms more single-player games

It looks like more games are coming from Valve, after Valve president Gabe Newell confirmed the company was working on a number of new titles – seemingly galvanized by the success of Half-Life: Alyx. “We definitely have games in development that we’re going to be announcing,” said Newell, in an interview with 1 News, adding […]

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Coinmining attacks saw a huge rise in 2020

As bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies saw a resurgence during the end of last year, security researchers from Avira Protection Labs observed a huge increase in the number of coinminer malware attacks. Coinminer malware attacks increased by 53 percent in the fourth quarter of 2020 when compared to the number of attacks observed during Q3.  However, […]

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Intel Core i5 Rocket Lake-S CPU fails to match AMD in leaked benchmarks

The Intel Core i5-11400 has debuted on Geekbench, giving us a glimpse of Intel’s upcoming Rocket Lake-S CPU lineup beyond the heavily-leaked Intel Core i9-11900K. According to the Geekbench listing, spotted by Videocardz, the Core i5-11400 features 6 cores and 12 threads and will be based on the 14nm Cypress Cove architecture, which Intel claims […]

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