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Chromebook bug could reveal location history from Guest mode

A little-known behavior in Chrome OS could reveal a user’s movements through Wi-Fi logs. Leveraging Chrome OS’s Guest mode feature, the attack would require physical access to the device, but it can be executed without knowing the user’s password or having login access. The bug was flagged to The Verge by the Committee on Liberatory… Read more

Privacy and ads in Chrome are about to become FLoCing complicated

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is forging ahead with its third-party cookie replacement technology Repent, o ye ad trackers, for the cookiepocalypse is nigh! If Google sticks to its roadmap, by this time next year Chrome will no longer allow websites to use third-party cookies, which are cookies that come from outside… Read more

Nvidia Adds Resizable BAR Support to All RTX 30 Series GPUs

Home News (Image credit: Nvidia) Nvidia just released a new Game Ready Driver, version 465.89, earlier this morning. This driver update comes with several new features, plus an assortment of bug fixes and more game support. The highlight of the new driver is the addition of Resizable BAR support on all desktop RTX 30 series… Read more

ASRock Z590 Steel Legend WiFi 6E Review: Feature-Rich, Affordable

Our Verdict The ASRock Z590 Steel Legend WiFi 6E is an inexpensive yet capable Rocket Lake board that should handle any ambiently cooled CPU you can throw at it. It packs integrated Wi-Fi 6E, three M.2 sockets and six SATA ports. This roughly $210 board looks to be a well-rounded option to jump into Intel’s… Read more

MSI MEG Z590 Ace Review: New Ace in Town

Our Verdict Priced at $499, the MEG Z590 Ace is a premium option for Intel’s new platform. But with four M.2 sockets, Wi-Fi 6E, robust power delivery, plus premium audio and styling, it delivers on the feature front. Just be aware when running AVX-512 loads with the power limits unlocked temperatures skyrocket. For + Robust… Read more

Apple WWDC 2021 announced as online-only event

Apple just announced that its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will take place on June 7th through June 11th this year, and that like last year it will be an online-only event. The announcement, as is typical for Apple, is opaque when it comes to details, but there might be a tantalizing hint: is the memoji… Read more

Building Project A.R.E.S: My Award-Winning Sci-Fi Case Mod

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Page 1 of 3: Project A.R.E.S. (Astral Robot Enclosure Systems) Project A.R.E.S. (Astral Robot Enclosure Systems) tells a story: Starship Copper Nebula, named so for its peculiar color, is tapped for space program A.R.E.S. The starship comes in contact with some sort of organic alien technology, which starts to… Read more

Facebook, Uber, and Microsoft plan to start bringing employees back to offices

Facebook is planning to start its return to in-person work in May, after over a year of working remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Bloomberg. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced remote work plans near the start of the pandemic that promised around half of his employees could work remotely in the next five… Read more

Amazon keeps trying to troll US Congress members in perplexing new PR strategy

Amazon is intensifying its bizarre online public relations strategy of picking increasingly petty and unhinged fights with sitting US Congress members, with the company’s Amazon News account on Friday shifting from Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). “You make the tax laws @SenWarren; we just follow them…. Read more

Jack Dorsey is just trolling Congress with Twitter polls now

Congressional “Big Tech” hearings often follow a three-step formula. Step one: lawmakers demand that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai answer questions simply with “yes” or “no.” (Sample: “Is YouTube’s recommendation algorithm designed to encourage users to stay on the site?”) Step two: the aforementioned CEOs inevitably say… Read more

Oculus Quest 2 vs Oculus Quest: What’s the difference between these VR headsets?

(Pocket-lint) – The Oculus Quest 2 is an updated version of Oculus’ wireless virtual reality headset, but what makes it different to the original? Buy the Oculus Quest 2 Well, there are a number of both aesthetic and technical changes that make the Quest 2 worth considering. It might well be a brilliant purchase for… Read more

Moto G100 review: A new dawn for the G series

(Pocket-lint) – Motorola’s Moto G100 marks a big occasion for the brand. Why? Because it’s a G series phone with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 processor inside. That, on the face of it, contradicts what a G series is supposed to be all about: affordability. Which, in turn, would typically mean entry-level specification – not a… Read more

Modular Mini Computer PocKit Now Powered by Raspberry Pi

Home News (Image credit: PocKit) Building a PC is often compared to assembling a Lego kit. Modular devices extend the comparison by offering hot-swappable components that can be arranged to suit a variety of use cases, and the latest attempt to deliver on this promise is Project PocKit, a work-in-progress Liliputing highlighted after seeing its… Read more

Wilson Benesch’s Torus Series to enter its next generation in the summer

Home News (Image credit: Wilson Benesch) For British Hi-Fi Week, Wilson Benesch has shared with What Hi-Fi? its plans to launch an all-new Torus Series in the summer. Based on the eponymous design that precedes it, the new model (naming of which is being kept under wraps for now) will replace the 2006-released Torus Infrasonic… Read more

12 of the best Cambridge Audio products of all time

Home Features (Image credit: Cambridge) In the early 1960s, before it became known as ‘Silicon Fen’, the small university city of Cambridge, long a magnet for scientists and engineers, started to attract a new breed of technologically minded entrepreneurs. It was in this stimulating environment, with networks of like-minded people, that a group of young… Read more