We’ve made several posts over the past year about “BlueKeep,” a serious exploit present in Windows 7’s remote desktop protocol (RDP) that could allow a hacker to take control of someone’s PC. Hell, we even covered recent news about the first successful use of BlueKeep attacks earlier this week, wherein hackers remotely installed cryptocurrency-mining software on ... Read More »
As the battle over backwards compatibility rages between Xbox One and PS4, the PC looks on at this tribal console scuffle with detached amusement. The option to dust off and boot up old games has always been a perk of the Windows platform, making the idea of ‘backwards compatibility’ virtually non-existent. Yesteryear’s games ... Read More »
Scientists have created a digital reconstruction of the skull of a 200-million-year-old South African dinosaur, which will allow enthusiasts all over the world to make 3D prints of the fossil at home. The researchers from University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa hope that this will facilitate research on the ... Read More »
HIGHLIGHTS A Reddit thread sparked investigations into changes caused by iOS updates Data indicates that Apple began throttling the CPUs of older iPhones This feeds the narrative of Apple knowingly forcing users to upgrade Apple has allegedly made changes to iOS that deliberately scale down the performance of older iPhone ... Read More »
If you have been using Microsoft’s ‘next-gen’ Skype client for the past few months, you will have seen that app add new functionality nearly every week. And knowing that it now has feature parity to the older desktop clients, Microsoft is formally ending the preview. Starting today, the ‘next-gen’ desktop client ... Read More »
Syrian rebels have left the last areas they held in Aleppo’s old city, while calling for a five-day truce to allow the evacuation of civilians. Activist monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the pull-back in Syria’s second city came after days of heavy fighting. State media confirmed ... Read More »
Apple is reportedly working on the A10X chip, a new super-chip that will likely power the next iPad Pro and blow its predecessors out of the water, according to a rumor post by Dutch tech blog Techtastic. Last year Apple unveiled its iPad Pro alongside the iPhone 6S. While the ... Read More »
Next week, Tim Cook will stand on a stage in San Francisco and unveil a new iPhone model. Shortly after the Apple chief executive delivers his speech, some of you will start wondering about upgrading your current iPhone. But what is it worth, and what can you expect to pay secondhand ... Read More »
As secure as Microsoft is touting Windows 10 to be, the remnants of older versions may still be putting new users at risk. According to a research project highlighted by a ghacks.net reporter, there is a legacy bug that dates back all the way to Windows 95 that is putting ... Read More »
Old habits die hard, they say. It sits perfectly on the Indian men’s hockey team. After playing beautiful, hard-fought hockey for a majority of their Pool B match against the reigning double Olympic champions Germany, the Indians let it slip in the dying seconds of the game. Three seconds, to ... Read More »
