A new strain of the Snatch ransomware has been discovered that reboots the computers it infects into Safe Mode in order to bypass security solutions. Dicovered by security researchers from the Sophos Managed Threat Response team and SophosLabs, the new strain makes infected Windows devices boot into Safe Mode, allowing it to encrypt victim’s files …
Windows 7 will be entering its end of life in early 2020, and Microsoft is set to really step up its efforts to get people to upgrade from the old operating system, with a large full-screen pop-up appearing from January 15, telling people that “your Windows 7 PC is out of support”. When Windows 7 …
Microsoft will start to really pester you to ditch Windows 7 in January 2020 Read more »
AMD’s new flagship Ryzen 9 3950X goes on sale via Silicon Lottery on December 11, offering those keen to get a ‘golden’ pre-binned CPU with a good guaranteed overclock speed the chance to grab one of these – at a cost, naturally. It’s quite a considerable premium if you want the best chip Silicon Lottery …
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X ‘golden’ CPUs will offer better performance for a lot more money Read more »
Intel’s Comet Lake-S next-gen desktop processors are apparently set to be sprung on the world in April 2020, at least going by the latest gossip from the rumor mill. So as ever, treat this with a healthy degree of caution, but according to Hong Kong-based hardware news site HKEPC, next April Intel will launch new …
Gmail has a new feature that allows you to send emails as attachments in an attempt to tackle the problem of colossal email chains that take up acres of screen real estate. Emails are attached in EML format, and open in a new tab when selected, so you can keep all previous messages in the …
New Gmail feature eliminates long, annoying email chains: here’s how to try it Read more »
Intel has been having a tough time recently trying to compete with AMD in the desktop segment, that’s nothing new. But, Intel has been busy making some confident claims, this time revolving around the Intel Core i5-9600KF. A Chinese marketing slide has been spotted by Wccftech, sourced via the Baidu forums. This slide makes claims …
Intel may be claiming that the Core i5-9600KF is better than the Ryzen 7 3800X Read more »
Managing data is a full-time job for some (quite literally). Especially at a larger company, there may be requests to run an analytics report, move data from one repository to another, or even create “clean data” for an important new web application. In terms of data management, cloud computing services provide extreme flexibility in what …
Fed up of rebooted movies? Or remakes of old games? Creativity and originality are dead in contemporary culture, you say? Well we’re not sure how you’ll feel about the prospect of ancient processors rising from the silicon grave, but this is exactly what Intel has done with its latest move in the CPU arena. Intel’s …
Intel’s 6-year-old Haswell Pentium processor is making a comeback – but why now? Read more »
The amount of gamers using AMD processors has exceeded 20% going by Steam’s latest hardware survey, meaning this figure has increased by a factor of 2.5 since the beginning of last year. The survey for November 2019 shows that 20.5% of Steam users are running with an AMD CPU, and 79.5% with Intel. We’ll show …
AMD CPUs are 2.5x more popular than two years ago, according to Steam hardware survey Read more »
We know AMD has a major driver update planned for its Radeon products in December – rumors have even indicated official ray tracing support could be part of this, but whether that’s true or not, there might also be a seriously smart sounding new feature coming to ramp up frame rates. And this could be …
AMD’s Radeon Boost could be a secret weapon to take down Nvidia’s budget graphics cards Read more »
