Twitter Reportedly Drops Thousands of Contractors Without Notice

From PC Mag: Twitter has cut upwards of 5,500 contract employees without notice, according to Platformer.

First reported by Casey Newton, and confirmed by Axios and CNBC, the mass firings span global workers in content moderation, real estate, and marketing, "among others."

Some 4,400 to 5,500...

Asus Purportedly Prepping Eight ROG Strix RX 7900 Cards

From Tom's Hardware: Asus might be readying as many as eight ROG Strix graphics cards with AMD's Radeon RX 7900-series graphics processors onboard if a filing with the Eurasian Economic Commission found by @momomo_us is accurate. This would be a major departure from the company's tactics to release...

FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Said to Be in the Bahamas

From CNET: Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, said Saturday he's in the Bahamas, Reuters reported. In a text message sent to the news outlet, Bankman-Fried denied speculation he had flown to South America after being removed from his position at the...

Turtle Beach Recon Cloud Controller Review (Page 1 of 4)

A few weeks ago, we had a celebration at church for the finish of one of the youth programs. For a party game, we got all of them to perform a piece of music that was chosen by others. As it happened, there were two people on the one team who had been joking about singing all year round despite not wanting to sing, so it only was fitting they were chosen to sing. Soon enough, the time came for the aforementioned two and their team to sing a song...

Cooler Master Mobius 120P ARGB and Mobius 120 Review (Page 1 of 4)

Life requires a precise amount of silence. It is like the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears where one is too hot, another too cold, and the last just right. Everyone has a preference in what is too much and what is too little. It may even vary in range. I think it is important to figure out for yourself how much space and time in silence you need. There could be times in life where you need more and sometimes when you need less, but...

FTX files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as CEO Sam Bankman-Fried resigns

From The Verge: Crypto’s no-good, very bad 2022 got even worse as FTX (along with its international platform, the independent FTX.us exchange, and Alameda Research), previously the world’s third-largest crypto exchange by volume, couldn’t come up with the money to satisfy customers’ withdrawal...

Kaspersky Is Shutting Down Its VPN Service in Russia

From PC Mag: Russians are losing one of the few remaining VPN services available to them in the country.

As BleepingComputer reports(Opens in a new window), Kaspersky announced that the Kaspersky Secure Connection VPN service is being shut down in the Russian Federation. The free version will stop...

Vendors Turn RTX 3070 Ti Mobile Into Bogus Desktop GPUs

From Tom's Hardware: A small maker of graphics cards is selling its so-called "GeForce RTX 3070 TiM" graphics card that barely offers the performance of a desktop GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. The board is indeed based on Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3070 Ti graphics processor for laptops configured accordingly and...

PC Game Performance Can Drop With Windows 11 22H2, Microsoft Warns

From PC Mag: Bad news for PC gamers running the Windows 11 22H2 Update: You might encounter some sluggish performance due to a software bug.

Microsoft started rolling out the Windows 11 22H2 update in September. But on Thursday, Microsoft issued a warning(Opens in a new window) on its support page...

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