Google is rolling out Chrome 78 to Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, and the latest version of the browser includes a raft of new options. For fans of apps with dark modes, there is great news. Chrome 78 includes a new option called – perhaps unsurprisingly – forced dark mode. As the name suggests, …
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Want to know what AMD’s 2nd-gen Epyc processors look like close-up? Well feast your eyes on the below image of one of these innovative server chips which is bristling with no less than 39.54 billion transistors. The image of the Epyc processor under a microscope was provided by Hardwareluxx.de forum member OC_Burner, who has taken …
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Earlier this year, Intel showed off the NUC Compute Element, previously known simply as The Element, and it was one of the best PC components at Computex. But, it was unclear just what sort of product we’d see built around it. Now, the details are starting to come together. In a recent teardown from Chinese …
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The Unmistakable Signs Of A Dying Laptop A laptop is one of the best pieces of hardware you can have for your computing needs. While they come in handy in various tasks, they too have an expiry date. The expiry date might not be indicated on a sticker, but by how your laptop behaves. A …
Security researchers from the web security and protection company Sucuri have discovered that cybercriminals are using malicious plugins, which hide in plain sight and serve as backdoors, to gain access to and maintain a foothold on WordPress sites. The firm found that two of these fake plugins with backdoor functionality, named initiatorseo or updrat123 by …
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Intel may have moved onto 10nm process nodes for its Ice Lake processors (CPUs), but it looks like 14nm is still where its focus is for desktop. And, it may not be such a bad thing, as a recent leak has shown what could be a new Intel Core i5 CPU with 6 cores and …
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In an effort to protect users against firmware level threats, Microsoft has announced a new initiative the software giant has been working on with its partners to create Secured-core PCs. The company partnered with both chip and device makers to apply “security best practices of isolation and minimal trust to the firmware layer, or the …
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Windows 10 May 2019 Update users are hitting even more issues with the problematic KB4517389 cumulative update which was released earlier this month, and is now reportedly causing a Blue Screen of Death, or boot failure, for some folks. Unfortunately, as Windows Latest spotted, there are several users on Microsoft’s Answers.com forum pointing the blame …
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It looks like Intel’s CPU shortages, which began back in 2018, could continue well into 2020, and if true, that could help its rival, AMD, further increase its processor market share. Nearly 14 months after Intel’s struggles to produce enough 14nm processors began, rumors are flying that the shortages will last at least one or …
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Another day, another set of leaked benchmarks, and once again we’re seeing the power of AMD’s imminent Ryzen 9 3950X – this time in a comparison to Intel’s incoming Core i9-10980XE (although this is not an apples-to-apples comparison in several different respects – more on that later). So, before we come to the caveats – …
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