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MSI’s monstrous 1000 W watercooled RTX 5090 has been designed to ‘completely ignore the concepts of balance in favour of extremes’, apparently

There’s something to be said for throwing moderation out the window and going all in on excess. MSI seems to agree, as it’s just taken the wraps off the MSI GeForce RTX 5090 32G Lightning Z, a truly monstrous, water cooled, 8-inch screen emblazoned GPU that makes the regular RTX 5090 look downright pedestrian. It’s…

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In a truly galaxy-brained rebrand, Microsoft Office is now the ‘Microsoft 365 Copilot app,’ but Copilot is also still the name of the AI assistant

About a decade ago, hardware company Corsair attempted to pivot from its classic logo—a subtle trio of ship sails—to a newer, edgier look, a pair of crossed swords that gave off regrettable ‘2000s tribal tattoo’ energy. The rebrand didn’t last long: after a fierce outcry from people who correctly thought the new logo sucked, Corsair…

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League of Legends players worldwide couldn’t login for hours because Riot forgot to renew the client’s SSL certificate—just like it did 10 years ago

The changing of the year can be a time of renewal and reinvigoration, but that renewal isn’t always frictionless. The new year might mean wrestling with over-ambitious resolutions, the frustration of writing the previous year whenever you’re dating a document, or—in the case of Riot Games—forgetting to renew the encryption certificate for your software and…

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League of Legends players worldwide couldn’t login for hours because Riot forgot to renew the client’s SSL certificate—just like it did 10 years ago

The changing of the year can be a time of renewal and reinvigoration, but that renewal isn’t always frictionless. The new year might mean wrestling with over-ambitious resolutions, the frustration of writing the previous year whenever you’re dating a document, or—in the case of Riot Games—forgetting to renew the encryption certificate for your software and…

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Cherry may be down but it isn’t out with two new ‘more than magnetic’ TMR gaming keyboards

During this year’s CES, Cherry announced two keyboards with tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) switches. Both TMR boards will be part of the company’s peripherals sub-brand Cherry XTRFY—better late to the party than never turning up. According to Cherry, the new MX 8.2 Pro TMR keyboard is “more than magnetic”—whatever that means. What I can tell you…

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