Meta’s new music deal with UMG includes Threads and WhatsApp

From The Verge: Meta and Universal Music Group (UMG) are refreshing their licensing agreements to expand the use of the publishing giant’s content on more Meta social apps. The new multiyear agreement announced on Monday now includes licensed media in content like shortform videos on Threads and...

Millions of AMD CPUs vulnerable to hacks, and some won’t get patched

From PC World: It seems like every month or so we hear about a new security flaw affecting tons of consumer-grade CPUs. Perhaps that shouldn’t be surprising, though, since the complexities of modern processors and the PCs around them have grown to truly labyrinthian degrees.

But the latest issue...

Turtle Beach Atlas Air Review (Page 1 of 4)

As you may or may not know, my hometown hockey team plays in an arena called the Scotiabank Saddledome. It is unique for its shape, with a reverse hyperbolic paraboloid roof that resembles a saddle and a slightly bulbous exterior down the sides. It is quite iconic as a staple of Calgary's skyline built for the 1988 Olympics. However, as this arena is now almost forty years old, a replacement building, Scotia Place, was announced a couple of weeks...

Microsoft might be resurrecting its mixed reality business

From The Verge: Microsoft has reportedly struck a deal with Samsung for OLED panels that could power a new line of mixed reality headsets. Korean outlet The Elec reported earlier this week that (as per a machine translation) the partnership is still in its very early stages, with mass production not...

Signal Developer Explains Why Early Encrypted Messaging Tools Flopped

From PC Mag: The developer of the Signal encrypted-messaging app offered a two-part lesson at Black Hat 2024: Software may be today’s magic, but you still need to know for whom you’ve waving your magic wand.

And with other developers of early encryption apps, Moxie Marlinspike made the mistake of...

First BIOS fixes for crashing Intel CPUs are finally rolling out

From PC World: If you’ve been keeping up with tech news for the last few months, you’ve almost certainly heard about the flaws affecting Intel 13th- and 14th-gen desktop CPUs. You might’ve also heard that Intel’s fixing them — or at least trying to mitigate future CPU failures.

Today, the first...

CORSAIR Launches VENGEANCE a7400 Gaming PCs

From Corsair Press Release: CORSAIR® (Nasdaq: CRSR) today announced the launch of its VENGEANCE a7400 Gaming PCs, offering world-class performance from the new AMD Ryzen™ 9000 Series processors and Nvidia® GeForce RTX™ 40 series graphics card. Built with a full range of award-winning CORSAIR...

Google’s new weather app has leaked ahead of the Pixel 9 launch

From The Verge: Google is expected to launch a new weather app alongside the Pixel 9 — but you don’t have to wait to try it out. As highlighted by 9to5Google and Android Authority, the Pixel Weather app is now on APKMirror, where you can sideload it on devices running Android 14 or newer.

Based on...

YouTube Outage Hits Russia After Country Throttles Loading Speeds

From PC Mag: Russia's promise to dramatically slow down YouTube speeds in the country has effectively led to a YouTube outage there, according to thousands of user reports and news outlets.

Many Russia-based YouTube users reported issues with the site's desktop version on Thursday. The Moscow Times...

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