Steam Replay 2025 shows the vast majority of users' playtime was spent in older games
Steam Replay presents a slew of information related to your time on Valve's platform since the start of 2025: How many games you played, the number of achievements you unlocked, favorite games, longest streaks, favorite genres, and so on.
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Apple and Amazon face £900 million UK lawsuit over alleged price-fixing
The claim is being led by Justin Le Patourel, former head of Ofcom's consumer policy team, through JLP A&A Class Representative Limited and supported by competition litigation firm Hausfeld & Co LLP.
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Texas sues the five biggest TV makers over claims they secretly track viewing habits
Paxton's office writes that all five companies have been harvesting users' personal data through Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technology.
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RAM scammer swaps DDR5 modules for DDR2 and metal weights
VideoCardz reports that a reader recently warned it of a RAM package scam from Amazon. The fraudulent shipment shows that the number of components that warrant caution from buyers is growing.
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Microsoft will soon deprecate the insecure RC4 encryption algorithm
Microsoft recently confirmed that it is finally deprecating RC4, the encryption method used by the Kerberos authentication protocol for the past three decades. Developed by mathematician Ron Rivest in 1987, Rivest Cipher 4 has been vulnerable to attacks since 1994, when the secret algorithm leaked to the public.
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EU probes Google for "illegally" scraping the web to catch up to its AI rivals
European regulators have opened a new antitrust investigation into Google, centering on whether the company illegally scraped online content to shore up its artificial intelligence products as it struggled to keep pace with faster-moving rivals. Fortune reports that the probe targets Google's use of publisher content and user-uploaded material to...
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Arctic launches MX-7, its best-performing thermal paste to date
Arctic MX-7 is non-capacitive and electrically non-conductive, making it safe to use across a variety of applications including GPUs, GPUs, and even in game consoles. Arctic says the paste is a bit smoother than MX-6, but not quite as liquid as MX-4. Its high cohesion is said to ensure long-lasting...
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Apple leaks reveal iPhone Fold specs, a tabletop robot, new MacBooks, and more
According to a Weibo post by well-known tipster Digital Chat Station, Apple's foldable iPhone will do away with Face ID and bring back Touch ID. However, instead of using a 3D ultrasonic under-display sensor, Apple is said to be opting for a side-mounted fingerprint scanner to minimize device thickness. The...
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Modder slaps dual CPU tower coolers onto an RTX 2060, drops temps by 31 C
In his latest video, TrashBench took a stock Asus RTX 2060 and subjected it to some "experimental" cooling solutions. Baseline load temperatures checked in at 74 C, and he was able to get this down to 73 C just by slapping some passive heatsinks and a fan on the GPU...
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PayPal wants to become a bank in the US
The San Jose-based firm submitted applications to both the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Utah Department of Financial Institutions to form an industrial loan company chartered in Utah. The proposed entity, to be known as PayPal Bank, would allow the company to expand its small-business lending operations and offer...
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