Corsair’s MP600 Pro XT sets a new standard for high-end SSDs, pushing the boundaries of performance with up to 7.1 GBps of throughput and over 1.5 million write IOPS. Corsair also tops the SSD with your choice of a heatsink or waterblock for cooling, enabling high performance in even the most demanding scenarios. That means…
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I want to buy a smart doorbell, but the cost of them is a little outside of my budget. Instead, I’m using a Raspberry Pi, a speaker system, and a camera to build a smart doorbell system for a fraction of the cost. In our last project, we created a doorbell system which rang when…
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Budget webcams continue to come out even with the best webcams coming back into stock. And while it’s common to find them coming from companies you’ve never heard of, Monoprice has now expanded its Workstream brand to include a few contenders of its own. These are priced to match other budget cameras, but come from…
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AMD has divulged details about a chipset vulnerability that can allow non-privileged users to read and dump some types of memory pages in Windows. This technique allows an attacker to steal passwords or enable other types of attacks, including circumventing standard KASLR exploitation (aka Spectre and Meltdown) mitigations (via TheRecord). Word of the bug came…
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The GeForce RTX 3060, which is one of the best graphics cards for lower end systems, has gone through a small transformation involving defective dies from more powerful GPUs. Matthew Smith, who maintains TechPowerUp‘s graphics card database, discovered today that Nvidia is utilizing GA104 dies inside an unannounced GeForce RTX 3060 model. Unfortunately, chip production…
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Are you a Linux user? Do you like the look of Microsoft’s newest Windows 11 operating system but still fancy running a Linux kernel-based OS? Well, for all 12 of you out there, the Brazilian Linux distribution LinuxFX version 11 might be for you. This distribution is all Linux under the hood, but the UI…
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Just as soon as I thought Gigabyte was done cutting the price of its gaming monitors with the G27Q, another deep discount catches me off guard! This one’s pretty special, as it comes on a 32-inch QHD panel with an impressively high refresh rate. At Newegg, the Gigabyte M32Q is now just $369.99 after a…
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Microsoft this week released a patch to fix the last vestiges of a remote code execution vulnerability called PrintNightmare (CVE-2021-34527), but while the vulnerability now seems fixed, BleepingComputer reports that the patch seems to have broken network printing altogether. The PrintNightmare bug is a vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code on users’ systems…
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Black Lotus Labs revealed on Thursday that it’s discovered new malware that uses the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to avoid being detected by security tools. WSL debuted in 2016 alongside the Windows 10 Anniversary Update as a way to access GNU and Linux tools without having to boot into a different operating system. It…
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Intel’s 12th Generation Alder Lake processors are scheduled to debut in Fall 2021 to compete with the best CPUs on the market. We’ve already seen the alleged specifications for the K-series chips, and today, FanlessTech has shared the potential specification for the T-series parts. Intel’s K-series SKUs typically gain all the attention because they come…
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