TikTok Debuts Group Chats, Enabling Conversations With Up to 32 Users

From PC Mag: TikTok is adding Group Chats, which will support up to 32 people per chat.

The social network announced the highly requested feature on Monday. It allows the group to watch, comment, and react to videos together in real time on the platform. It also comes with a few safeguards: it’s...

AM4-ever: AMD Ryzen 5500X3D CPU shows up in listings

From PC World: AM4 is the processor socket that just refuses to die. With a couple of new chips debuting in June — an astonishing seven years after the original Ryzen 1000 series debuted on AM4 — it looks like AMD is releasing yet another CPU for the perennial computer platform.

New regulatory...

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...

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