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Thermaltake Core P3 TG Pro Snow Review (Page 1 of 4)

One thing that is interesting to me is to see the shift in home design, at least in terms of its layout. The first home I lived in was a split level with a large living room that lead to our outer dining room. The kitchen was separated off with walls but accessible through two arched doorways. Our family would often eat inside the kitchen, as there was a smaller table, while the dining area was reserved for guests. The second home we lived in was...

Yeyian Links 3000 Review (Page 1 of 4)

It is the winter break and I have fallen back into my rhythm of rewatching random shows on Netflix. This brings me to my go-to rewatch title, Brooklyn Nine-Nine. The number of times I have rewatched it in the background of other activities has reached the double digits, and I have wasted so much time with it to the point where I have the majority of the scripts of some episodes memorized. With that, Easter eggs in episodes have become more...

LastPass says hackers stole customers’ password vaults

From TechCrunch: Password manager giant LastPass has confirmed that cybercriminals stole its customers’ encrypted password vaults, which store its customers’ passwords and other secrets, in a data breach earlier this year.

In an updated blog post on its disclosure, LastPass CEO Karim Toubba said...

Microsoft Tells FTC Its $69B Activision Deal Won't Harm Competition

From CNET: Microsoft on Thursday filed a response to a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit aiming to block its $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard, arguing that it won't hurt competition in the video game industry.

The FTC said earlier this month in its lawsuit challenging the acquisition...

ElonJet is back on Twitter, but with a 24-hour delay

From The Verge: The college student who ran the now-banned @ElonJet Twitter account that used public information to track Elon Musk’s private jet has resumed his activities on Twitter under a new username. As noted by Insider, Jack Sweeney, 20, has created a new account called @ElonJetNextDay —...

Meta Settles Cambridge Analytica Scandal Lawsuit for $725M

From CNET: Back in 2018, when Meta was still known as Facebook, a scandal hit the company unlike any that we'd seen before or have seen since. It turned out that Meta had allowed access to user data to a number of third parties, including a British political consultancy called Cambridge Analytica...

TikTok’s parent company accessed the data of US journalists

From The Verge: An internal investigation at TikTok parent company ByteDance found that several employees accessed the TikTok data of at least two US journalists and a “small number” of other people connected to them, according to internal emails obtained by The Verge that were first reported by The...

Twitter Rolls Out 'View Count' Feature

From PC Mag: It’s now possible for anyone on Twitter to see how many users viewed your tweets, as the platform rolls out its new “View Count” feature.

In a tweet(Opens in a new window), Elon Musk said, “Twitter is rolling out View Count, so you can see how many times a tweet has been seen! This is...

TikTok Also Banned by Some US Universities

From CNET: After several US states moved to ban TikTok, some universities have followed suit, preventing access to the social media app on computers and Wi-Fi networks out of concern that the app reports user data to the Chinese government.

Thus far, several universities in Alabama, Georgia and...

FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried is back in the US, released on $250 million bail

From The Verge: Now that Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is back in the US, he has been released from federal custody. The New York Times and CNBC report the co-founder of the failed and allegedly fraudulent cryptocurrency exchange FTX was released on $250 million bail, secured by his parent’s home, ahead...