It's not often we see a repair video that includes no repairing, but that's exactly what happened when an Asus TUF RTX 4090 landed on the legendary desks of Northridge Fix. We've covered their escapades before, how they revived a RX 7800 XT and brought a dead 4090 back to life , but this 4090 befell a fate worse than death — it was a hollow scam.
Scalable vector graphics (.svg) files are lightweight, XML-based images that render at any resolution. They’re usually harmless, but they can also contain active code, and hackers appear to be relying on them more often as a means to stealthily deliver malware.
A new report from VirusTotal shows just how far that tactic has evolved, unearthing a campaign that used weaponized SVGs to drop malware, spoof a government agency, and dodge antivirus detection entirely.
AMD has added a graphics card called Radeon 9060 XL, that does not officially exist, into the list of products supported by its ROCm 6.4.2 software stack , noticed a VideoCardz reader. However, the Radeon 9060 XL may not be a name of a new product, but simply a typo on AMD's part.
AMD's list of products supported by the ROCm 6.4.2 software stack includes the company's latest
Tokyo’s renowned electronics shopping district was plunged into darkness on Friday due to a rare power outage, reports Akiba PC Hotline (machine translation). The district of Akihabara (秋葉原), often appended with the nickname ‘Electric Town,’ became a simple ‘Town’ for an hour, losing all its neon and RGB glitz for a short period. Multiple stores reportedly shut for this brief dark mode interlude. Some locals claimed this was the first Akihabara power outage in around
The Creality Hi Combo is a premium 3D printer with a well-built design and four color material system. It can’t print TPU, it takes up a good bit of real estate, and is priced higher than the competition without being obviously superior.
Color
Speed
Roomy build volume
Excellent build quality
Super sticky build plate
Reliable auto bed leveling
High flow hotend creates a
Windows bloat hater NTDEV has released an updated version of Tiny11 Builder, a tool which facilitates the creation of minimal and decluttered Windows 11 installs. The headlining changes presented here are the tool's ability to remove Copilot, the new Outlook client, and Teams. But there’s much more. NTDEV says that Tiny11 Builder is now ready for Windows 11 25H2, despite Microsoft ’s whack-a-mole attempts to push unwanted apps onto
Nvidia’s new RTX 5090 and RTX PRO 6000 GPUs are reportedly being plagued by a reproducible virtualization reset bug that can leave the cards completely unresponsive until the host system is physically rebooted.
CloudRift, a GPU cloud provider, published a detailed breakdown of the issue after encountering it on multiple Blackwell-equipped systems in production. The company has even issued a $1,000 public bug bounty for anyone able to identify a fix or root cause.
TP-Link delivers another Wi-Fi 7 standout with the Deco BE68.
Competitive pricing with other three-node, tri-band mesh routers
Class-leading 6 GHz performance
10 GbE is included on each node
TP-Link Deco app required for initial setup and ongoing maintenance
Two 10 GbE ports per node would be better than a second GbE port
The curious case of failing SSDs, following Microsoft ’s August security patch for Windows, has once again taken an unexpected turn. According to the Chinese Facebook group PCDIY! , the root cause of the issue stems from pre-release engineering firmware on certain SSDs, which may have been triggered by the Windows 11 updates.
In a Facebook post, group admin Rose Lee said that the issue has been identified and additionally verified by Phison engineers, thereby giving credibility to the
Microsoft was forced to reroute Azure traffic on Saturday, September 6, after two major submarine cable systems were severed in the Red Sea, triggering latency spikes and degraded performance for cloud users across South Asia and the Gulf. The company confirmed the disruption via Azure system status messages just before 06:00 UTC, saying customers whose traffic normally passes through the Middle East “may experience service disruptions.”
Those reroutes currently remain in effect, with Microsoft noting that they expect “higher latency