What just happened? Earlier this month, the Senate passed the USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act to reinstate the expired powers of the PATRIOT Act. Absent from the new bill is a crucial amendment that would require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before accessing private browsing data recorded by internet service providers. As it stands, the bill grants agencies like the FBI complete access to the internet history of all Americans.

The amendment was proposed by Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Republican Sen. Steve Daines of Montana. Neither party opposes

In brief: Microsoft's Security Intelligence team is warning of a massive phishing campaign, apparently parading around with a Covid-19 theme -- which seems especially malicious given the current state of events. As ever, be wary of emails you receive. Doubly so as phishing attempts get more modern.

The phishing campaign, as detailed by Microsoft's Security Intelligence team via Twitter , has been circulating since at least May 12th and comes with a Covid-19 lure to bait users into opening the

Why it matters: Square Enix’s remake of Final Fantasy VII is off to a strong start. According to The NPD Group’s analysis of last month’s US video game sales, the PlayStation 4 exclusive was the best-selling game in April despite only launching on the 10th.

Final Fantasy VII bested both Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Animal Crossing: New Horizons for the top spot. The other two titles finished in second and third place, respectively, according to NPD .

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Editor's take: It’s difficult to say just how much of an impact the leak will have on the final product, good or bad. Having leaked so early, it’s almost a certainty that Apple has added some new features and cut others since December. And while hackers are having more time with this version than any other to hunt for vulnerabilities, Apple no doubt has moles within the community that monitor for such discoveries and could get a jump on fixing them before a public release.

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Highly anticipated: Biostar has accidentally revealed the names and base clocks of seven upcoming AMD Ryzen Renoir APUs in their motherboard documentation. As a nice coincidence, Biostar’s information is the exact puzzle piece needed to verify other leaks and fill in some blanks. As a result, we now have a thorough and seemingly quite reliable picture of the whole release.

Without further ado, here’s what we’re looking at. There are three tiers: Ryzen 7 with eight processor cores and eight graphics cores, Ryzen 5

With over four years under its belt, Rainbow Six Siege continues to evolve as a unique, tactical shooter experience that hasn’t really been duplicated anywhere else. Well, except that awkward mobile “ripoff” that Ubisoft is currently suing over. Every new Siege seasonal update adds something new to shake up the meta, forcing players to adjust to changes in the beautiful chaos of operator abilities and destructive environments found in each match.

Siege’s core hasn’t changed over time, still consisting of 5v5,

Forward-looking: Samsung is the global leader in the memory chip business, but it still has some catching up to do when it comes to contract chip-making, currently dominated by TSMC. To that end, the South Korean tech giant is implementing a multi-year plan to build additional manufacturing capacity.

Samsung has talked a lot about its ambitions around building more manufacturing capacity for next generation silicon, both for its own custom chips as well as serving the needs of others like Apple, Google, Nvidia, Qualcomm

In context: Artificial intelligence has come a long way over the years. It's now used by giant tech corporations like Google and Facebook to moderate their platforms, and it's even managed to beat some of the world's top board and video game players. However, one thing AI can't do is recreate those games -- right?

Up until now, that's seemingly been the case, but one Nvidia-created AI is challenging the norm. To celebrate Pac-Man's