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Interpol’s ‘Operation Ramz’ has arrested over 200 people for phishing scams, malware threats, and all sorts of internet ne’er-do-well behaviour

International police organisation Interpol has announced the arrest of 201 individuals as part of “Operation Ramz“, a multinational effort to target phishing operations, malware threats, and “cyber scams” in the Middle East and North Africa region. The “first of its kind” operation involved the participation of 13 countries and resulted in the seizure of 53…

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Razer Kiyo V2 review

Though I have a lot to say about it from a technical perspective, I don’t think I have that much to say about the Razer Kiyo V2. That’s because, after testing tons of 4K webcams, it’s pretty middling. Its quality is worse than the more expensive DLSR-like Yolocam S3 but better than the value-oriented Obsbot…

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Party Animals’ studio finally cancels its AI video contest and promises to approach topics like this in the future ‘with a much more humble and cautious attitude’

It’s official: there will be no AI video contest as part of Party Animals “Golden Paw Awards”, as its studio has decided after masses of player backlash followed by a vote across major platforms to wholly cancel the event and apologise to players. “Regarding the controversy surrounding the recent ‘Golden Paw Awards’ AI Video Contest,…

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Intel is reportedly forcing PC builders to buy its latest, most expensive 18A CPUs and I’m wondering what that means for Arrow Lake desktop chips

A new report claims that Intel is pushing its client PC customers to buy its latest CPUs built on 18A silicon. It’s said the older Intel 7 node is increasingly being reserved for more profitable server chips and even Intel CPUs made in TSMC’s fabs will be in short supply. Nikkei Asia says Intel’s move…

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Discord just got the privacy feature it probably should have had for years, introducing end-to-end encryption for very nearly every voice and video call

Discord has just announced that all voice and video calls that take place on its platform will now enjoy end-to-end encryption. You may be forgiven for thinking the platform already had this in place, but that’s not the case. The platform began ‘experimenting’ with end-to-end encryption back in 2023, but has only just made it…

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