Do You Use WinRAR? Install This Urgent Security Update ASAP To Thwart Hackers

Hot Headlines In Tech For Today [View this email in your browser]( [Do You Use WinRAR? Install This Urgent Security Update ASAP To Thwart Hackers]( By Zak Killian on Aug 23, 2023 01:30 pm [Do You Use WinRAR? Install This Urgent Security Update ASAP To Thwart Hackers]( Once upon a time, WinRAR was far and away the most popular archival software for Windows. While it isn't as ubiquitous as it once was—due both to the rise of the open-source 7-Zip as well as Microsoft including archive management functions in the operating system itself—it's still extremely popular. Estimates of WinRAR's global user base range [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [ASUS Zenfone 10 Goes Up For Preorder With Specs That Punch Above Its Price]( By Ryan Whitwam on Aug 23, 2023 01:05 pm [ASUS Zenfone 10 Goes Up For Preorder With Specs That Punch Above Its Price]( Smartphones just keep getting bigger, and most efforts to offer smaller phones to consumers were doomed to failure. Asus is still fighting the good fight for those who demand a smaller phone. After announcing the Asus Zenfone 10 several months back, Asus has finally released the phone in the US. It's compact and not too expensive, but the [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Sinister Mac Malware Strain Returns With A Clever Trick To Dupe Apple Users]( By Nathan Ord on Aug 23, 2023 12:15 pm [Sinister Mac Malware Strain Returns With A Clever Trick To Dupe Apple Users]( XLoader, an infostealer and botnet malware-as-a-service solution, has been around since 2015, taking on many forms that have been tracked by researchers such as those at SentinelOne. Most recently, though, the security company has found that XLoader has returned as a new malware strain masquerading as an app called “OfficeNote” that isn’t [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Corsair's Modular Platform:6 Looks Like An Ultimate Sit-Stand Desk For Creators]( By Tim Sweezy on Aug 23, 2023 12:00 pm [Corsair's Modular Platform:6 Looks Like An Ultimate Sit-Stand Desk For Creators]( Corsair targets content creators with its new highly customizable desk it unveiled at Gamescom 2023 earlier today. The Platform:6 is a modular desk that can be customized to fit all the needs of a modern-day workstation. Corsair and its subsidiary Elgato are no strangers to the realm of content creation. The pair have been producing some [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [Microsoft Makes An Unexpected Concession With Rival Ubisoft To Win Activision Deal]( By Zak Killian on Aug 23, 2023 10:45 am [Microsoft Makes An Unexpected Concession With Rival Ubisoft To Win Activision Deal]( If you're against the Microsoft purchase of Activision-Blizzard-King, what would be some potential reasons that you might present in a court to convince the judge that the deal shouldn't proceed? Would you talk about Call of Duty, or perhaps the massive back catalog of beloved IPs held by ABK? Or would you focus on the controversial cloud [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [There's So Much Junk In Space That Space Junk Clean-Up Missions Are A Moving Target]( By Tim Sweezy on Aug 23, 2023 10:05 am [There's So Much Junk In Space That Space Junk Clean-Up Missions Are A Moving Target]( ClearSpace-1 is part of the first-ever mission to remove existing space debris from orbit through a highly precise and close proximity operation. The upcoming cleanup mission will target a defunct rocket part that was launched into space in 2013. With companies like SpaceX launching more satellites than ever while NASA and other space agencies [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [AMD And ASRock Tease New RDNA 3 Radeon 7000 Series GPUs At Gamescom]( By Zak Killian on Aug 23, 2023 09:15 am [AMD And ASRock Tease New RDNA 3 Radeon 7000 Series GPUs At Gamescom]( In case you somehow hadn't already heard, over in Cologne, Germany, the biggest in-person gaming event in the world is going on. It's Gamescom time, and nearly every single vendor who has even the most tenuous connection to gaming is present at the show. That includes hardware companies like ASUS, AMD, and ASRock, the latter of which has something [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [LG's 27" G-Sync And FreeSync QHD Monitor Is $130 Off And More Great Deals For Gamers]( By Paul Lilly on Aug 23, 2023 08:37 am [LG's 27]( Imagine buying a sports car and then saddling it with a set of cheap, non-grippy tires. That's sort of what it's like to own a fast gaming PC, only to then attach it to a monitor that can't keep up with what's underneath the hood. Let that not be the case, PC gaming elite. Yes, grippy tires built for redlining are expensive, but a fast gaming [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [NVIDIA NeMo SteerLM Tunes Game NPCs With AI Emotions In An Effort To Fix Stupid]( By Paul Lilly on Aug 23, 2023 08:19 am [NVIDIA NeMo SteerLM Tunes Game NPCs With AI Emotions In An Effort To Fix Stupid]( NVIDIA is leveling up its Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) technology to make in-game non-playable characters (NPC) a lot more realistic in how they respond to player interactions and conversations. The result is that developers can quickly and easily inject human-like emotions and personalities into NPCs, both good and bad, for a more realistic [Read in browser »]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Reddit]( [Pinterest]( [LinkedIn]( [NVIDIA's GeForce GPU BIOS Signature Lock Finally Defeated By New Modding Tools]( By Zak Killian on Aug 22, 2023 03:05 pm [NVIDIA's GeForce GPU BIOS Signature Lock Finally Defeated By New Modding Tools]( If you're a PC hardware enthusiast of a certain age—and if you're reading this site, you probably are—you are likely to recall that back around 2010, GPU overclocking was a big deal. Folks were doing overclocks by 25% or more, something that's basically impossible now. 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