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A free VPN allegedly takes screenshots of Chrome users

August 26, 2025
“If the product is free, you are the product.” You can apply that thinking to pretty much anything supported by advertising or data collection, including tools like Chrome and Gmail. (And you’re not paying to read these words, are you? Food for thought.) But one VPN tool, claiming to increase user privacy and security, might be snooping on the people it’s claiming to protect. That’s…
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It’s official: The U.S. owns 9.9 percent of Intel

August 25, 2025
On Friday afternoon, Intel confirmed what everyone already knew: that the U.S. government is taking the unprecedented step of investing $8.9 billion into the company. On Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that the United States was pushing Intel to accept its $10.9 billion CHIPS Act funding as an equity deal instead. On Friday, President Trump confirmed that deal in a White House…
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Newegg has RTX 5090 cards in stock at base price right now

August 22, 2025
It’s been seven months since Nvidia launched its flagship RTX 5090 card to a hungry audience of PC gamers… and people building AI data centers… and a bunch of scalpers trying to bilk them all. In that time, I’ve yet to see one actually available to purchase at the…
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Best 4K monitors: HDR, gaming, budget, and best overall

August 22, 2025
4K resolution is now within reach of everyday PC users, promising a massive improvement to image quality, with four times the pixels of a 1080p display. A 4K monitor is useful not only in games and movies but also when editing documents or browsing web pages. The extra pixels make text look clear and crisp. After extensive testing, I’ve determined that the recommendations listed below are the…
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Microsoft wants to soothe a big pain for PC gamers: Shaders

August 21, 2025
Microsoft said Wednesday that it’s working to remove one of the frustrating headaches for PC gamers: the need to compile shaders. Microsoft said that it will release an AgilitySDK in September to solve this problem, speeding up your time from downloading a game to playing it by as much as 85 percent. If you play games on the Xbox or other consoles, you probably have no idea what we’re talking…
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