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Another automaker fell victim to the WannaCry worm. Honda this week said it was forced to stop production for a day after finding some of its older production line computers infected at the Honda Sayama plant near Tokyo. Honda lost production of about 1,000 vehicles Monday. Production resumed the next …

For as long as we’ve had benchmarks, we’ve had companies willing to cheat on those benchmarks to make themselves look good. It’s a never-ending cycle to identify what companies do and how they do it, and we don’t often get a clear window into the process. XDA-Developers managed to get …

AMD has officially launched its new Epyc server CPU family in a bid to take the fight directly to the top of Intel’s highly profitable Xeon product lines. These chips are built on the same fundamental architecture as the company’s Ryzen CPU cores, and they’re aimed at the incredibly powerful …

In attempt to woo customers away from competitors, Virgin Mobile USA today announced a deal that will see it transitioning to become an iPhone-only carrier. The company is also partnering with Apple to activate Virgin’s services in Apple’s stores. To kick off this change, Virgin introduced a limited time promotion that …

Intel’s Skylake-X platform launched this week, with support for Kaby Lake and Skylake HEDT CPUs ranging from 10-core chips available on June 26 to an 18-core processor that’ll be available in October. We’re still working on our review, but the overall performance level of the new CPUs looks fairly solid. …

Dear folks pitching us crowdfunded hardware all day: There’s a good chance we won’t hear you. Here’s why. At ExtremeTech, we try to spend as little time as possible on Kickstarters. We think crowdfunding in general is a great idea for creative and art projects, as well as niche interests …

Chinese smartphone startup OnePlus has made its name over the last few years by offering high-end specs for a much lower price than more established smartphone makers. It’d developed something of a cult following, too. The run-up to the OnePlus 5 announcement was filled with rumors and leaks, and now …

Getting deep into custom mechanical keyboards can be a costly hobby as you search for the right combination of switches, keycaps, and features. Even more annoying than the cost is the arduous process of simply finding those keyboards. One of the best custom keyboards out there is now available in …

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop isn’t just a laptop, it’s also a demonstration platform for Microsoft’s new, locked down variant of Windows, dubbed Windows 10 S. This version of the OS heavily restricts the applications you can run, limiting users to products downloaded from the Windows Store. It also prevents users from …

Last year, Wells Fargo was caught in a major scandal when it came to light that employees had been signing consumers up for fraudulent bank accounts by the millions. The employees did this to hit quotas and cross-selling targets, but often forgot to cancel the fake accounts, which resulted in …