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...

Firefox 129 release fixes security flaws and improves Reader View

From PC World: Mozilla just released the latest Firefox update (version 129.0) for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. This update comes with numerous fixes to security vulnerabilities, an enhanced Reader View, and revised handling of DNS entries. There are also security updates for the two ESR...

Rejoice! AMD’s Ryzen 9000 CPUs are cheaper than last generation

From PC World: AMD confirmed today that prices for its next-gen Ryzen 9000 desktop processors, previously leaked by Best Buy, are accurate. Surprisingly, these prices represent a decrease relative to the prior generation.

An official X/Twitter post says that the Ryzen 7 9700X will be priced at $359...

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