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Your Tenda router could have a hidden firmware backdoor - disable this setting ASAP (zdnet.com)

2026-07-09 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | tags: able, access, backdoor

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Sega’s $5M investment saved Nvidia in 1996, now Jensen Huang is heading to Tokyo to mark 30 years of partnership — Akihabara event will include a GeForce RTX 5090 FE lottery, an RTX Spark presentation, and more (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: hardware, mini, nvidia

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I tested Norton Antivirus on my PC - and it found a hidden Trojan in 15 minutes (zdnet.com)

2026-07-09 | by Cesar Cadenas | tags: antivirus, features, malwarebytes

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Alienware AW3426DW gaming monitor review: Premium gaming and OLED goodness in a value-priced package (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-09 | by Christian Eberle | tags: color, credit, hardware

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Elon Musk receives FTC greenlight to buy Mesh Optical as interconnects emerge as AI's tightest bottleneck — the move will expand Musk's growing stack of critical AI infrastructure (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-09 | by Etiido Uko | tags: hardware, industry, mesh

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How Version Control Will Evolve for the Agent Boom (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-09 | tags: agents, code, developers

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Lenovo Legion 9i Gen 10 Laptop Review: An 18-Inch Gaming Monster in Performance and Size (cnet.com)

2026-07-09 | by See Full Bio | tags: alienware, area, legion

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I tested Norton Antivirus for six weeks - and its biggest strength wasn't what I expected (zdnet.com)

2026-07-09 | by Cesar Cadenas | tags: antivirus, features, malwarebytes

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Future Nostalgia Project asks retro hoarders to ‘Copy That Floppy!’ — flips the early 1990s anti-piracy campaign on its head to encourage budding archivists (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-09 | by Mark Tyson | tags: drive, floppy, hardware

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AMD EXPO ULL shows middling performance gains in initial tests despite eye-watering price increase — first benchmarks show up to a 4% improvement with DDR5-6000 CL36 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-09 | by Jake Roach | tags: expo, hardwareluxx, kits

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Apple's Widow's Bay has the most Emmy noms of any new show this year (engadget.com)

2026-07-08 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: apple, awards, nominations

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IBM and Red Hat launch Lightwell to defend open-source code from AI attacks (zdnet.com)

2026-07-08 | by Steven Vaughan-Nichols | tags: lightwell, open, open source

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Hidden backdoor in Tenda routers goes unpatched as company ignores warnings from cybersecurity researchers — Chinese company's firmware allows admin access without a password (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-08 | by Etiido Uko | tags: administrator, authentication, cert

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Global consumer Wi-Fi router shipments fell 6% in Q1 2026, down 34% from 2021 peak — mesh systems and gaming routers still prove popular (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-08 | by Brandon Hill | tags: counterpoint, global, hardware

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Cooler Master V4 and V8 3DHP Review: A masterful engineering achievement (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-08 | by Albert Thomas | tags: cooler, credit, hardware

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Venus Williams-backed WeWard can now lock your apps until you hit your steps (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-08 | by Amanda Silberling | tags: apps, walk, walking

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Modding tool 'DLSS Swapper' might infect your PC with malware if you download the wrong files — App creator warns against using random, user-submitted DLLs (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-08 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: dlss, dlss swapper, files

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Save $527 on this 1440p gaming PC from Newegg with a 16GB RTX 5060 Ti right now — huge discount for high-end performance rig with an Intel Core i7-14700F, 32GB DDR5, and a 1TB SSD (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-08 | by Ben Stockton | tags: deals, gaming, gaming pc

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Valve releases drivers, notes to make Windows work on Steam hardware, but refuses to support it — tells users it doesn’t offer support for ‘Windows on Steam Hardware,’ gaming company provides resources ‘as is’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-08 | by Jowi Morales | tags: gamers, hardware, steam

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Nvidia touts Vera CPU's single-threaded performance as its agentic AI advantage, reveals next-gen 'Rigel' Arm CPU cores — frames chip as a 'max single-threaded CPU at scale,' not a parallel monster (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-08 | by Bruno Ferreira | tags: core, design, hardware

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Space Force gets first mobile high-powered electromagnetic beam weapon to cripple enemy satellites — plans to deploy 32 ‘Meadowlands’ units to detect, deny, disrupt, and degrade hostile space assets (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-08 | by Mark Tyson | tags: electromagnetic, electromagnetic warfare, force

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ANBERNIC’s latest update adds a new launcher, button mapping and more to its gaming handhelds (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-08 | tags: anbernic, button, button mapping

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Doom Developer id Software Is Reportedly Losing Half Its Staff (slashdot.org)

2026-07-07 | tags: cuts, developer, doom

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Doom developer id Software is reportedly losing half its staff (engadget.com)

2026-07-07 | by Ian Carlos Campbell | tags: game, id software, layoffs

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Apple releases new beta firmware for AirPods Pro 3 and more (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-07 | by Marcus Mendes | tags: airpods, airpods beta, airpods firmware

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The Nintendo Switch's days are numbered—but what is that number? (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-07 | tags: hardware, hardware sales, nintendo

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Notes on Software Quality (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-07 | tags: high, quality, software

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Nearly 12,000 Businesses Faced the Same ‘Messy’ Problem. This Founder’s Simple Fix Changed Everything for Them. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-07 | by Shawn P. Walchef | tags: davis, marginedge, restaurant

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Why the global memory bottleneck may signal early innings in the cyber stock comeback (cnbc.com)

2026-07-07 | by Zev Fima | tags: alto, crowdstrike, cybersecurity

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Why this fully agentic ransomware attack is giving researchers nightmares (zdnet.com)

2026-07-07 | by Charlie Osborne | tags: campaign, case, human