What just happened? Roblox, the online gaming platform that’s loved by younger players, has had its user data accessed by a hacker. Rather than using more traditional means of breaching systems, a company employee was bribed to gain access to the back end customer support panel.

As reported by Motherboard , the hacker was able to look up the personal information of over 100 million active monthly users. The perpetrator could see email addresses, change passwords, remove two-factor authentication from accounts, ban users,

Rumor mill: Next week will finally see Nvidia confirm its Ampere architecture, and it seems the company has put in a massive order with TSMC for its 7nm node technology. Looking beyond Ampere to the next-generation 5nm Hopper family, Nvidia is lightening the load on TSMC by handing some of the work over to Samsung.

According to reports in The China Times and DigiTimes , Nvidia has been one of TSMC’s main customers of the 7nm process node, which seems to confirm that Ampere GPUs, including

Something to look forward to: It’s been an interesting week for the once again vibrant PC industry. We saw the release of several new systems from different vendors, announcements on the future directions of Windows, and hints of yet more new systems and chip developments on the near-term horizon.

While most of the news wasn’t triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, all of

In context: Whether you have hearing difficulties or not, closed captions are an incredibly useful tool in games, movies, shows, and more. When the audio mixing for a given piece of media isn't the best (or you simply don't have the greatest sound setup), captions can help you more easily follow what's happening on screen.

Unfortunately, not all media has support for captions out of the box. Fortunately, that could change moving forward; in a sense, anyway. As

Forward-looking: Facebook's Oculus division is reportedly working on a new version of the Quest headset. It was initially slated to come out later this year, but problems with Oculus' supply chain caused by the pandemic have pushed a launch into 2021.

A standalone VR device is something that many were looking forward to, and the Quest delivered that, for the most part. The chief complaints were that it was somewhat heavy and bulky, making it uncomfortable to wear for extended periods and that it

Rumor mill: Uber may be eyeing Lime to bolster its micro-mobility ambitions. By leading an emergency funding round into the scooter company, Uber's strategy would be to lower Lime's valuation before taking over.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told investors in March it was well positioned to weather the storm created by lockdown and social distancing orders. Last month, the company laid out a new strategy

Something to look forward to: After a lengthy delay and months of silence, the gears of Cyberpunk 2077's marketing machine are finally starting to turn once more. Over the past few weeks, we've seen several pieces of special edition Cyberpunk merchandise hit the market -- including branded hard drives -- and now, developer CD Projekt Red has unveiled a mystery event scheduled for next month.

The event, simply called "Night City Wire," (Night City is the fictional setting of Cyberpunk

The big picture: Of course, what astronomers are looking for is arguably just as important as the gear they are using to find it. And in the hunt for alien life forms, they believe it is important to consider environments that aren’t only dominated by nitrogen and oxygen like here on Earth.

Astronomers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are hoping that next-gen hardware like NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will help them discover evidence of extraterrestrial life in the universe.

In a recently published paper in the