From The Verge: A new vulnerability impacting AMD’s line of Zen 2 processors — which includes popular CPUs like the budget-friendly Ryzen 5 3600 — has been discovered that can be exploited to steal sensitive data like passwords and encryption keys. Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy disclosed...

From PC Mag: As Elon Musk rebrands Twitter into X, he faces a thorny legal problem: A tech giant where he's seen as persona non grata already owns the trademark to the X brand for social media services.

In 2019, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta received a trademark for its own X logo to be used across a...

From ComputerWorld: New UK government surveillance laws are so over-reaching that tech companies can't possibly meet all of their requirements, according to Apple, which argues the measures will make the online world far less safe.

The UK Home Office is pushing proposals to extend the...

From ExtremeTech: The "No Visible Cables" movement is gaining steam amongst PC hardware manufacturers. Earlier this year at Computex, several companies showed off motherboards and GPUs designed to make cable management easier, and one of the more interesting prototypes was from Asus. The company...

From Tom's Hardware: Although TSMC's revenue in the second quarter dropped by 10% year-over-year, the company is quite optimistic about the rebound of the semiconductor sector in the coming years. This is why it announced its intention to construct a new advanced chip packaging plant that will cost...

From PC World: The Entertainment Software Rating Board, better known as the ESRB, is the self-regulating body for video games in the United States. It’s the organization responsible for those E, T, and M ratings you see on video game boxes. Apparently the Board is preparing to not only rate games to...

From TechCrunch: Meta’s text-based social network Threads is rolling out one of the most requested features after its launch — a Following feed. The company has also announced the ability to see posts you’ve liked in your settings, which will be available soon.

You’re able to either hide or show...

From Tom's Hardware: MSI has seemingly started to sell its own GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card with a two-wide blower-type cooling system. Since Nvidia does not produce its own high-end graphics cards with blowers since they may compete against its expensive workstation and server-oriented add-in...

From The Verge: After 12 years, the price of Spotify Premium is increasing in the US. The subscription will now cost $10.99 a month, the company announced today. Spotify has charged $9.99 for its Premium subscription ever since its launch in the US in 2011. “So that we can keep innovating, we are...

From CNET: The White House has secured "voluntary commitments" from tech companies that they'll help reduce the risks involved in artificial intelligence.

US President Joe Biden met with Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Inflection on Friday at the White House, where they...