November 14, 2024
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HP gets slapped with yet another lawsuit for blocking printers using anything other than its own inky liquid cash cow

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You might think that Hewlett-Packard’s most important profit generator might be AI servers or cheap laptops, but you’d be wrong. Over half of HP’s annual profits last year were entirely down to its print division, with no small thanks to its Dynamic Security printer firmware upgrade that completely blocked all third-party ink cartridges. Cue yet…

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It’s not just you: YouTube is slowing down your PC if you have AdBlock installed by making your CPU sweat, likely as part of its draconian war on ad blockers

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In the latest wave of anti-ad blocker measures implemented by YouTube, AdBlock users have been reporting widespread performance issues with the extension enabled. In a thread posted to the YouTube subreddit over the weekend (thanks, 9to5Google) users noted that having AdBlock enabled caused slow load times and increased CPU usage, as one user writes: “This…

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Analysts are calling 2023’s decline in PC shipments ‘unparalleled in the industry’s recorded history’ but suggest the only way now is up

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There’s nothing like a bit of heart-warming, cheery news to start a new year but the PC shipment estimates for 2023, from market analysts IDC and Gartner, are anything but cheery. The total number of units shipped varies between the two groups, with IDC estimating just under 260 million, whereas Gartner puts it at around…

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How to fast travel in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

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Conquer Mount Qaf with these Prince of Persia guides (Image credit: Ubisoft) Prince of Persia sidequests: Where to find each Prince of Persia Amulets: Powerful trinkets Prince of Persia The Deserter quest: Help the lost soldier Prince of Persia Sacred Archive puzzles: Each solution The fast travel feature in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown…

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Baldur’s Gate 3 player finds an edge case the game doesn’t account for: Reverse-pickpocketing a dead wizard into the devil’s inventory like a Trojan nuke

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Baldur’s Gate 3 has choices—oodles of ’em. Choices that Larian’s accounted for, for the most part. In my recent playthrough, instead of taking a certain character to a certain body for a story quest, I picked up the corpse and dumped it back in camp like a cat bringing their owner a dead bird. The…

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