Accept Roku’s New Individual Arbitration Terms Or Else!
Roku owners in the US are being greeted with a choice when they fire up their TV or HDMI adapters today. They can either accept the new terms of service...
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HP Never Learns, Here Comes Yet Another Lawsuit About Proprietary Ink
HP's proprietary ink business makes them a lot of money, at least it better considering the number of times they've been sued over it. They might not be quite as bad as…
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Great, BlackLotus Windows UEFI Source Code Revealed To All
While source code leaks are often a bad thing, in this case it can only be considered wonderful. BlackLotus, which we have covered before, has been horrifying security professionals and...
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NVIDIA “Unlaunches” The RTX 4080, But The RTX 4080 Is Still Available
It turns out that launching two very different video cards with the same name is as bad an idea as it sounds. Today NVIDIA has pushed the 'unlauch' button on...
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A Class Action Suit Fired At Canon For Tying Low Ink To Scanning
The printer industry, or at least Canon, seem to have forgotten the lesson HP learned twice. It was back in 2005 when HP was originally taken to court, for programming in an…
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Western Digital Makes A Crucial Error With The Cache On The WD SN550 Blue
Storage companies have surprisingly poor memories, as they keep changing their drive's internals without notice even though they tend to get caught doing it. Crucial was recently reminded of this when they…
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Global Chip Shortage Or Counterfeiters Paradise?
As always seems to be the case, when there is a crisis and people are hurting some individuals will chose to profit off the situation regardless of the damage they cause others. …
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Those Cute Little Favicons Always Did Seem Pretty Sus
Move over LSOs and get out of the way super cookies, there's a new way to track people's movement on the internet that works on just about every browser. It's those cute…
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Deleted Facebook? Kiss Your Oculus Games Goodbye
It took a mere two months for Facebook to start enforcing the changes they announced back in August, and fully assimilate all of your Oculus assets into their social disease. ...
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Please Log In To FaceBook To Access Your Oculus Rift
In a move which came as a surprise to absolutely no one who was paying attention, you now have a limited time to link your Oculus account to your Facebook account. If…
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Patent Enforcement In A Time Of Troubles
Update: Manufacturing company Intersurgical says it had no intention of making a threat. Managing director Charles Bellm issued a statement to The Verge: You may recall the story from earlier this week...
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A New Type Of Apple Pay Means Money Back To You
Apple will be handing over between $310-$500 million to customers in the US who found their older iThangs mysteriously slowing down around about the same time new devices were released...
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Sonos Speakers Go Silent And Under Armour Record Is Wiped
The Internet of Things has once again reminded us how incredibly poorly thought out the various devices which call that place home are. Users of a variety of Sonos smart devices, including…
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Trend Micro Employee Took The Fable Of The Pyromaniac Firefighter A Little Too Seriously
The headline pretty much says it all, 68,000 customers of Trend Micro are now receiving phishing and spam calls thanks to the nefarious deeds of a single employee, now an ex-employee. The…
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Did You Know Chrome Rusts? Google Does!
Did you know that Google provides 6.5 years of Auto Update support for devices, after which you hit the Auto Update Expiration (AUE) Date. That date is not tied to when you…
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Apple Continues Its Assault Against Batteries
Apple has a very interesting relationship with batteries, one which has not gone well for them in the past unless you consider legal action against your own policies a success. ...
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SSD Manufacturers Uniting Against Ryan’s Law?
With so little information at the moment this should be treated as nothing but a rumour; though history suggests a grain of truth is likely to emerge. Flash memory and controller makers…
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Sorry about that, you are going to have to post your smartphone usage stats to Facebook manually now
You may remember news back in the summer of 2018 about Facebook's Onavo Protect VPN, when it was pulled from the Apple store due to the fact it collected an...
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