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Nvidia’s Q4 2018 results are in (that’s fiscal quarter, not calendar year) and they’re not going to surprise anyone who’s been paying attention to the GPU market. The mammoth surge in cryptocurrency demand may not directly affect Nvidia’s bottom line, since the company has already signed contracts to provide GPUs …

Apple is notorious for keeping its source code close to its chest, but someone just leaked a heap of very sensitive code online. A user known as “q3hardcore” posted large segments of Apple’s secure iBoot code to GitHub. The company issued a DMCA takedown request, but the code is out …

Lenovo has issued a recall for about 80,00 laptops it sold in 2016 and 2017. You might be in the habit of ignoring recalls, but this is definitely not one to ignore. Lenovo says the ThinkPad X1 Carbon laptops included in the recall contain batteries that could overheat and damage …

WhatsApp has begun testing a new payments feature in India that will allow people to send money to other WhatsApp users, excluding merchant accounts. The feature is currently in beta, according to sources familiar with the company’s plans, but hasn’t been publicly announced because it’s not widely available at this …

The mobile world moves at a breakneck pace compared with other types of silicon. Where top-end CPUs and GPUs tend to evolve more slowly, mobile chips are launched each year, every year. But even by these standards, it’s surprising we’re already hearing rumors of a Snapdragon 850, barely two months …

Intel’s Optane memory is the first “new” storage technology to appear on the consumer and enterprise market since the earliest iterations of SLC NAND flash started showing up in enterprise solutions a decade ago. While the products have, thus far, been limited to a small slice of the consumer and …

Ever since bugs like Spectre and Meltdown became public knowledge, Intel has been working to craft updated microcode that would close the loopholes and secure its processors. Progress on this front has been relatively slow and, in some cases, downright confusing. Several updates have been yanked as a result of …

The Turing Phone looked like an interesting device when Turing Robotics Industries (TRI) unveiled it back in 2015. The phone packed powerful hardware, a modern build of Android, and it was fully encrypted. This was back when most phones were not encrypted — it didn’t even have a data port. …

The value of cryptocurrency is down right now, but online criminals are still happy to generate coins using your hardware. Usually, this comes in the form of crypto mining plugins running on websites, but there’s a new form of Android malware spreading online that mines coins on your phone. The …

Over the past two weeks, a new Reddit community for creating fake porn videos took off, courtesy of new machine learning algorithms and editing tools. It’s an alarming concept for multiple reasons, given the way revenge porn has been used to target individuals. A user community focused on the creation …