The FBI says that elderly Cisco Linksys router you’ve been meaning to replace may be under serious threat from cyber criminals

Unless you’re a networking engineer, it’s unlikely you’ve thought about your router in some time. After all, working tech is working tech, and if it’s still delivering the speeds your internet provider promised, why change it? Cyber criminals, that’s why. Especially if yours happens to be a Cisco Linksys model. That’s according to the FBI,…

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Even in early access, Blacksmith Master is a well forged ingot of cozy management and metalwork

“Cozy” isn’t the word I’d usually reach for when discussing the hot and sweaty labour that comes with running a medieval forge. But even in its early access form, Blacksmith Master’s unlikely combination of hard metalwork and decorative drapes brings a pleasantly relaxing vibe to all that smelting and hammering. My little workshop’s comfortably nestled…

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One day the silicon in this $7000 Asus RTX 5090 will be worthless, but you’ll still have a whole 6 grams of solid gold to make up for it

Graphics cards are very expensive these days. Hardly news, of course, and the most powerful of these have been ludicrously pricey for quite a few years now. Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition has a painful MSRP of $1,999 and other models are considerably more expensive. Enter stage left, the Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX…

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