Skull and Bones breaks down how October 21’s faction war activity works
Apparently, taking part in the faction war activity that will headline Skull and Bones’ October 21st Guts and Glory season isn’t as simple as hopping...
Windows 11’s October update just broke the Windows Recovery Environment — USB keyboards and mice unusable in Windows RE after latest bug hits
Like a moth to a flame, Windows has attracted yet another bug. In the latest October update, the recovery environment renders your USB keyboard and mouse unresponsive, making it impossible to interact with your PC. Microsoft has already taken note of the issue and plans to fix it in a future update.
Palantir chief takes a jab at Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, says people decrying ‘China hawks’ are ‘useful idiots’ — ‘The first step to ending our dependence on China is admitting we have a problem’
The Palantir CTO called out Jensen Huang’s ‘China hawk’ comments.
The Intel i386 turns 40 years old — 275,000 transistors running at 16MHz changed personal computing forever
Introduced in October 1985, the third-generation x86 processor was the first 32-bit chip in Intel’s PC line, the origin point for the IA-32 instruction set, and the architectural turning point that transformed personal computing.
The $150 external HyperSpace Trackpad Pro is an Apple Magic Trackpad alternative for Windows users with haptic feedback and pressure sensitivity — crowdfunded peripheral ships in Q1 2026
The HyperSpace Trackpad Pro packs premium build quality, zero-latency performance, and app-specific customization, all aimed at bringing macOS-style trackpad precision to Windows setups.
WeCreat Lumos review: Premium and portable
The WeCreat Lumos is a fast, portable, capable, laser engraver with great resolution and limited cutting abilities.
The Daily Grind: What MMO system strikes you as unnecessarily complicated?
One of the things I’ve brought up before is that MMOs get complicated for a lot of reasons and usually they’re understandable and good reasons....
OceanGate Titan computers crushed into twisted mass of metal and electronics during catastrophic implosion — investigators find signs of thermal damage, too
Investigators reveal the twisted metal and electronics found at the OceanGate Titan implosion site. However, data recovery efforts have been fruitless.
BitLocker reportedly auto-locks users’ backup drives, causing loss of 3TB of valuable data — Windows automatic disk encryption can permanently lock your drives
An unfortunate Reddit user lost access to 3 terabytes of data stored across two drives when BitLocker automatically encrypted them without the user’s knowledge, within Windows 11. With no keys to unlock the drives, the data is now permanently gone with no hopes for conventional recovery.
Stinky thermal paste emits acidic vapors, corrodes copper, ‘glues’ heatsinks to processors, and permanently damages coolers – SGT-4 TIM is a chemically reactive blend, finds investigation
An investigation revealed that the popular low-cost Amech SGT-4 thermal paste is a chemically reactive PDMS-based compound containing that releases acetic acid, produces a vinegar odor, corrodes copper surfaces, and even creates ant holes on surfaces.