It turns out there's one good thing about hurricanes: they can help the cities they hit prepare for cyber attacks. Or at least that's what New Orleans officials said after their systems were targeted by phishing and ransomware attacks on Friday.
Nola.com reported that New Orleans government employees responded swiftly to the attacks. They started to notice suspicious activity around 5am, received more reports about potential issues at about 8am and shut down their systems at 11am.
Officials
Portkeys released its most affordable monitor yet this month. On the official website is a new monitor listing called P6 5.5" 4K Signal HDMI Monitor With 3D LUT . It spans 5.5" across, as the name implies, with a resolution of 1920 x 1080.
| Spec | Portkeys P6 5.5" Monitor |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 142mm x 78mm x 16.5mm (5.5" x 3 |
Dell's XPS 13 is widely-regarded as the pinnacle of ultrabook excellence. This 13-inch notebook weighs just 2.7 pounds and lasts over 12 hours on a charge when you have its default, 1080p non-touch screen. It also has a slew of attractive features such as a nearly-bezel free display and a luxurious soft-touch deck (on the silver / gold models).
While the XPS 13 typically
As spotted by Shaun Fosmark , Australian overclocker jordan.hyde99 has set a new world record in wPrime 1024M with AMD's Ryzen 9 3900X processor. What's fascinating is the fact that the AMD processor was running a much slower clock speed than the previous record holder, the Intel Core i9-7920X.
A leaked Intel CPU has been discovered on the SiSoft database . This CPU has six cores, Hyper-Threading, and was used in a server or workstation configuration with another identical six-core for a total of 12 cores and 24 threads. What's interesting, however, is that the amount of L2 cache per core has been increased from just 256 KB on Coffee Lake CPUs, like the Core i9-9900
Igor's Lab community member that goes by the name of 'hellm' has updated his MorePowerTool (MPT) AMD graphics card overclocking tool to support the recently-launched Radeon RX 5500 XT .
The Radeon RX 5500 XT comes with a 1,607 MHz base clock, 1,717 MHz game clock and 1,845 MHz boost clock. However, AMD's partners are free
If you're building a budget gaming PC, particularly in a smaller chassis, a Radeon RX 570-powered graphics card could be your best choice right now. Though this entry-level chip is long in the tooth, having launched in 2017, it is more than adequate for playing PC games at 1080p resolution at reasonable settings.
As part of the holiday tech deals madness, Newegg has a couple of RX 570 cards at
When you're at your desk, you get the benefit of two or more monitors, but when you hit the road with your laptop, chances are that you're stuck with just one screen. A portable, USB-powered monitor is the best solution to this problem, and Lenovo's ThinkVision M14 is the best of these we've seen.
When we wrote our Lenovo ThinkVision M14 review , we praised the 14-inch
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You don't always get what you pay for. Customers who ordered an Adata XPG SX8200 Pro (1TB) SSD from Rakuten during the Black Friday weekend have been receiving the slightly-slower, SX8100 drive instead
The Adata XPG SX8200 Pro is one of the fastest M.2 NVMe SSDs on the market and the best value or the money when compared to pricier competitors like Samsung's 970 EVO Plus .