MSI Afterburner, a free and popular software utility that lets you overclock, monitor, benchmark, and video capture, is perhaps dead due to licensing issues faced because of the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. Alexey “Unwinder” Nicolaychuk, a Russia-based developer who developed the MSI Afterburner software, states that the project is “probably dead” and “semi abandoned”, as MSI has stopped “performing their obligations under the Afterburner license agreement” due to political reasons even though it remained active in the Russian market....

Meet ‘Switch Lite’, Nintendo’s cheaper handheld video game console Nintendo finally unveiled its smaller and portable gaming console called the ‘Nintendo Switch Lite ’, after months of being in speculation. “Adding Nintendo Switch Lite to the lineup gives gamers more color and price point options,” said Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser in a release. “Now consumers can choose the system that best suits how they like to play their favorite Nintendo Switch games....

Nissan Motor Co. has confirmed that the personal information of around 21,000 customers was exposed following a cybersecurity breach at Red Hat, the U.S.-based software provider contracted to support systems used by Nissan dealerships. The Japanese automaker said it was indirectly affected by the incident, which involved unauthorized access to Red Hat’s data servers in late September. According to Nissan, the breached systems were used to develop customer management tools for its sales companies....

Windows PCs are known to face “no sound issues”. The major cause is buggy updates by Microsoft that several times have left windows 11 users with no audio on their PC. The issue is not only limited to internal speakers but external speakers, and headphones as well. While there are several reasons why your windows 11 PC or laptop suddenly has no sound. The major reason can be a faulty windows update, a broken driver, audio software, or sound card issue....

NordVPN compromised in a data breach in 2018, admits the popular VPN service Virtual private network (VPN) provider NordVPN on Monday confirmed that a server it had rented from a Finland-based data center was breached in March 2018. However, the company claims that no user data was exfiltrated and that the breach was an “isolated case.” For those unaware, VPN is a network technology, which links the private network over the internet using encryption methods and allows easy access of remote users to secured private networks....

Low-quality capacitors made by AIB (Add-In Board) partners are possibly behind the CTDs (Crash to Desktop), instability, and black screens occurring in Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3080 graphic cards. Majority of forums have reported about the problem including NVIDIA’s own forums . Apparently, the problem only affects custom variants of the GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card. It occurs during gaming when custom boards reach a boost GPU clock speed of 2.0GHz or higher, resulting in the game freezing or crashing and then returning to the desktop....

After a fortnight of leaks and whispers in the hushed tone, Nvidia has put the rumors to bed with their new RTX 30 series. The new range of graphics card has been premiered with the new 3090, a notch up above 3080, followed closely by the 3070. The 90 lineup makes a debut Prices The Newest Tech in the Town New Softwares Launched The 90 lineup makes a debut Gone are the days when the x080 was the epitome of the Nvidia graphics card range....

On August 9, 2018, ODX Pte. Ltd (ODX), announced its partnership with YouDeal, the world’s largest peer-to-peer services marketplace. ODX, which is a subsidiary of Xurpas, the largest consumer technology company in the Philippines, aims to solve what is perhaps the most basic problem for consumers in emerging economies: internet access. Based out of China, YouDeal has more than 50 million users, seven million sellers and does $60 billion in trading volume....

PayPal on Monday announced that it is adding support for passkeys to its app and website, which will make it an easy and secure login method for PayPal accounts. Developed by the FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium, passkeys is a new passwordless authentication solution designed to replace passwords with cryptographic key pairs and reduce dependence on login credentials. They are resistant to phishing and social engineering attempts....

Poco, which is Xiaomi’s sub-brand, on Tuesday launched the third product of the company’s most affordable series – Poco M3. Poco M3 features a 6.53-inch full HD+ IPS LCD display on the front paired with a teardrop notch and has a Corning Gorilla Glass 3 protection. It comes with a standard refresh rate of 60Hz, 19:5:9 aspect ratio, and 90.3% screen-to-body ratio. It also has Widevine L1 certification. The handset measures 162....

Last month, Poco had announced that it would be operating independently of Xiaomi with its own team and market strategy. On Tuesday, Poco launched its first smartphone, Poco X2 in India as an independent entity. For those unaware, “Poco” was launched as a sub-brand of Xiaomi in August 2018 to represent the company’s line of mid-range smartphones. Poco F1 was the first-ever smartphone to be unveiled under this brand in the same month in India as well as in the international markets....

Google on Tuesday announced Project IDX, an AI-enabled browser-based development environment, which is designed to make it easier to build, manage and deploy full-stack web and multiplatform applications. Instead of building a new integrated development environment (IDE) from scratch, Google has built Project IDX on Code OSS, the same codebase that powers Visual Studio Code, so it should feel very familiar to most developers. This allowed the company to focus on AI integrations like Codey, a foundational AI model trained on code and built on PaLM 2 (Program Learning Model)....

One of the most popular Pirate Bay Proxy aggregator namely Proxy Bay has suddenly disappeared from GitHub. As you might know, thousands of ISPs and government organizations across the world have blocked The Pirate Bay. Luckily users can still bypass the restrictions by using Proxy Sites. However, now it seems popular TPB Proxies are also being targeted. With well over a million visitors per month, Proxy Bay is not a dedicated proxy website for The Pirate Bay....

PUBG Lite is a free and much lighter version of the popular battle royale game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds for PC. After a long overdue PUBG Lite is finally available for beta testing in many different South Asian countries including India. Well, if you want to download PUBG Lite on your PC, then here is the easiest method to download and install PUBG Lite on Windows PC and laptops. ALSO READ: PUBG PC Download...

Semiconductor manufacturer Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., on Tuesday, announced that it has collaborated with Vodafone and Thales to demonstrate a working smartphone featuring iSIM technology, which aids the functionality of a SIM card to be blended into the main processor of a device. This ground-breaking move “paves the way for commercialisation of the technology, which could be rolled out in a host of new devices that will use iSIM to connect to mobile services....

“Spotify Premium is the ultimate destination for fans to enjoy the music they love, and we’re always evolving to make it even better. With custom transitions in playlists, we hope to empower users to shape their listening experience and express themselves through the music they love,” Spotify said in its press release on Tuesday. The new “Mix” button, now available in the playlist toolbar, offers both automatic and manual modes. Listeners can instantly blend songs using the “Auto” option or choose from preset transition styles such as Fade and Rise....

Researchers at Norwegian security firm Promon have discovered a new elevation of privilege vulnerability in Android that allows hackers to gain access to almost all apps. This Android bug dubbed as “ StrandHogg 2.0 ” (CVE-2020-0096) attacks a device by showing a fake interface, which tricks users to give away sensitive information that includes private SMS messages and photos, stealing of victims’ login credentials, tracking GPS movements, making and/or recording phone conversations, and spying through a phone’s camera and microphone....

Tamilrockers is one of the most popular Indian Torrent websites that leaks and allows downloading of the latest movies and TV shows for free. It has reportedly leaked several popular Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bollywood, and Hollywood movies online. Back in 2011, Tamilrockers used to be a bootleg recording network. However, soon after its inception, Tamilrockers transformed from a bootlegging site to a public torrent website . Content on Tamilrockers is available in 360p, 480p, 720p, and 1080p....

If you use Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), you could be a target. Apparently, security researchers have found out that devices powered by Qualcomm and MediaTek SoCs using Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC) are vulnerable to remote code execution due to a flaw in the implementation. Apple released its open-sourced lossless audio compressions dubbed ALAC back in 2011 and has been updating the same with constant security fixes and more....

TikTok has announced that it is adding Passkeys support to iOS devices for passwordless login for a faster, easier, and more secure way for people to sign into their accounts using Face ID or Touch ID. TikTok iOS users will now have the option to use passkeys instead of a password to sign into their TikTok account directly from their iCloud account across devices. Passkeys for iPhone are supported on iOS 16, iPadOS 16....