New Android malware can hijack bank calls and reroute you to hackers
Your bank is one of the last places left where you can call up the company and expect to get a human being on the other end, even if you have to wait on hold…
Michael Crider
Michael Crider
Razer BlackWidow V4 Pro 75% review: Keyboards don’t need screens
At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Excellent typing Incredible battery saver mode PBT keycaps (finally!) Cons Screen is unnecessary Single-day battery with lights on Huge price increase Our Verdict The wireless upgrade for one of…
Steam will show when games use kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
Kernel-level anti-cheat software is a contentious issue among gamers. It’s a solution for rampant cheating in online games, but some players see the powerful software as a huge overstep on the PCs they own. Steam…
Get this upgradeable Asus laptop for just $210 and soup it up for cheap
On the whole, I don’t think you should buy a Windows laptop with less than 16GB of RAM — but I do think you should buy a dirt-cheap laptop if you can make some easy…
Russia fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 | PCWorld
As any lawyer will tell you, a law doesn’t necessarily have to make sense, or be in any way enforceable, to be on the books. Following some legal back-and-forth resulting from the restrictions of Russian…
Chrome’s new features will get memory-hogging tabs under control
Chrome is the most popular browser on the planet, but even its most ardent fans will admit that this thing gobbles up memory like an Olympic swimmer chomping down protein bars. Google has tried various…
Take 20% off Office 2024, no subscription needed
The latest version of Microsoft Office is here, and you can get it without a recurring subscription payment. Normally, Microsoft charges $150 for the base version of Office Home 2024, which is pretty hefty for…
Opera commits to supporting uBlock Origin ad blocker extension
Chrome is the undisputed king of the browser space, but the peasants are revolting over its shift to a new browser extension standard. Manifest V3 has left popular ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin in the dust.…
A modder built her own ‘Steam Deck’ with Framework parts, and so can you
Valve’s Steam Deck has been a phenomenon for PC gamers, but there’s just one problem: You can’t pick the parts and assemble it yourself. That’s half the fun of PC gaming! (The other half is…
Microsoft accuses Google of ‘shadow campaigns’ in the EU
The European Union can be a tough regulatory arena, especially for American tech megacorps. But according to a Microsoft lawyer, Google has been manipulating regulators by creating an “astroturf” group of cloud providers to lobby…