From ASUS Press Release: ASUS today launched the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPUs and are offered in a diverse family of ROG and TUF Gaming notebooks, making RTX enhancements and performance available to a wider audience than ever before.

The ROG and TUF Gaming...

From The Verge: Google is using machine learning to help design its next generation of machine learning chips. The algorithm’s designs are “comparable or superior” to those created by humans, say Google’s engineers, but can be generated much, much faster. According to the tech giant, work that takes...

From PC Mag: Facebook hopes to fully open all US offices by the fall, with an option for employees to continue working from home.

The social network, which said it will expand remote-work eligibility, plans to reconvene at half capacity in September, before inviting all staff back in October, The...

From CNET: One of the biggest meat producers in the US paid an $11 million ransom to cybercriminals responsible for temporarily knocking out processing plants last week, the company said Wednesday.

JBS USA made the payment to avoid further disruption to production and to limit the impact on...

From The Verge: Google is changing how its Android search engine choice screen works in Europe, following complaints from rivals about its pay-to-play model, the company has announced in a blog post. The selection screen appears for users when they first set up an Android device, and is designed to...

From PC Mag: Fastly today provided more details on Tuesday's outage, placing the blame on an "undiscovered software bug" that was triggered by a "valid customer configuration change."

The issue dates back to May 12 when Fastly rolled out a "software deployment that introduced a bug that could be...

From CNET: In a supermajority vote by its Congress, El Salvador has become the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. On Wednesday morning, President Nayib Bukele sent the bill to Congress, where the measure passed the legislature with 62 of the body's 84 votes. News of the move boosted...

From Corsair Press Release: Elgato today announced the launch of Stream Deck 5.0, a major app update that introduces the Stream Deck Store, an online distribution platform for plugins, icon packs, tutorial videos, and pro tips, plus thousands of royalty-free music tracks and sound effects. Stream...

From The Verge: Adobe is now shipping new versions of more Creative Cloud apps that run natively on Apple silicon Macs. Lightroom Classic, Illustrator, and InDesign have all been updated for the M1 processor, and Adobe says that you can expect average performance boosts of up to 80 percent across...

From PC Mag: In an effort to "help more creators make a living on our platforms," Facebook will keep paid online events, fan subscriptions, badges, and upcoming independent news products commission-free for another two years, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

That means creators will continue to...