On Wednesday night, a serious incident involving an undersea cable in the south of France caused widespread internet connectivity issues. At least three fiber cables were severed at 20:30 (UTC), making Internet access slower for users in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Cloud companies quickly worked to fix the backbone. According to a report by cloud security company Zscaler, the unexpected cable damage resulted in packet loss and a latency increase for websites and applications traversing the impacted paths....

On Wednesday, the official Dark Souls Twitter account announced that the PvP servers for all three Dark Souls games on PC won’t come back online until after its upcoming follow-up, Elden Ring. The developer doesn’t yet have a schedule for when Dark Souls will be back online. The announcement also says Elden Ring may also have the same vulnerability that led to the Dark Souls server shutdown. The developers are currently investigating the matter, but so far, Bandai Namco is still committed to launching Elden Ring on February 25....

With the ultra-quality settings enabled, high-end GPUs such as the GTX 980 and R9 290X had no trouble breaking 60fps at 1680x1050. Interestingly, the GTX 980 was just 7% faster than the R9 290X. For an average of 60fps, the GTX Titan, GTX 970 or HD 7970 GHz, R9 280X are required and if you can settle for just under that, the GTX 780 and HD 7970 will do the trick....

DuckDuckGo announced this week that Email Protection is available to everyone. This free email forwarding service will block hidden trackers and help users hide their email addresses. The closed Email Protection Beta launched last year and found that approximately 85% of beta testers’ emails contained hidden trackers. Trackers allow companies to collect sensitive information such as your location, what time the email was opened and what device was used. This information is then used for things like targeted ads or shared with a third party....

The incident began with an interview Palmer gave to Australian news site Crikey that covered a wide range of topics. One of those was Musk, with whom Palmer said he has an “interesting past.” “I had written a bot, a script that would automatically detect if there was a cryptocurrency scam in your Twitter mentions and would automatically report them to the platform,” he explained. Musk contacted Palmer asking if he could have the script....

At 1920x1200, Far Cry 3 demands quite a bit of horsepower, requiring the HD 7950 Boost to reach an average of 60fps. We’re impressed with the GTX 660 Ti, which averaged 61fps, while the GTX 680 matched the HD 7970 GHz Edition at 70fps and the standard 7970 stood at 67fps, just 2fps faster than the GTX 670. Below 60fps are the HD 7950 with 54fps and the 7870 with 53fps, after which there is a large drop in performance with the GTX 580 rendering 46fps and the GTX 660 offering 45fps....

Far Cry 6 arrived on October 7, 2021, following multiple delays related to the pandemic. Players battle enemy soldiers and wildlife in their attempt to topple dictator “El Presidente” Antón Castillo, who is portrayed by Giancarlo Esposito of Breaking Bad fame. The game received mixed reviews from critics, earning a score of 73 on Metacritic. Far Cry 6 has been discounted before but this is the first time we are aware of that it has been completely free to try....

This week, a federal grand jury indicted a Florida man for allegedly selling more than $1 billion of counterfeit Cisco networking equipment to several individuals, hospitals, schools, government agencies, and even the military. According to the Justice Department, 38-year-old Our “Ron” Aksoy was selling fake equipment from suppliers in China and Hong Kong. More specifically, he imported tens of thousands of devices through no less than 19 entities registered in New Jersey and Florida, collectively dubbed the “Pro Network....

If the KM780 RGB was like the Cougar 700K then the MX780 RGB is much like the Cougar 700M. The design of these two mice is again very similar. The basic structure of the mouse is almost identical and it seems obvious that the MX780 RGB is a modified/upgraded 700M. Measuring 130mm long, 70-93mm wide and 38mm tall it is quite a bit larger than the claw grip Aorus Thunder M7....

Galaxy’s card matched the HD 6450 for the first time with a mere 5.6fps in PCMark7’s DX10 fill rate test. The HD 6570 was almost three times faster, rendering 14.3fps. The last PCmark7 results we’re including are from the DX10 GPU cloth test, in which the MDT GT 520 managed just 10.1fps, while the HD 6450 was more than twice as fast with 23.5fps.

GameStop is getting sued over privacy violations in California. According to a lawsuit filed Tuesday with the US Central District Court of California, the company has been “wiretapping” online customer service chats and selling the transcripts to a third-party marketing firm. This practice is not uncommon, but most companies make it clear that they are recording calls or chats, something GameStop failed to do. The filing, obtained by Bloomberg, lists Miguel A....

Interestingly once again we see that the R9 Fury X Crossfire cards are no faster than the R9 295X2, this time when testing with Grand Theft Auto V. The overclocked GTX 980 Ti SLI cards were 10% faster than their non-overclocked configuration and 67% faster than the Fury X cards. Interestingly, the R9 Fury X cards fall behind the R9 295X2 when looking at frame time performance in Grand Theft Auto V....

Core i7 Test System Specs - Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition (3.30GHz) - x4 2GB G.Skill DDR3-1600(CAS 8-8-8-20) - Gigabyte G1.Assassin2 (Intel X79) - OCZ ZX Series (1250w) - Crucial m4 512GB (SATA 6Gb/s) - AMD Radeon HD 7970 (3072MB) - Gigabyte Radeon HD 7950 (3072MB) - Gigabyte Radeon HD 6970 (2048MB) Crossfire - Gigabyte Radeon HD 6990 (4096MB) - Gigabyte Radeon HD 6970 (2048MB) - VisionTek Radeon HD 6950 (2048MB) - Asus Radeon HD 6870 (1024MB) - HIS Radeon HD 5870 (1024MB) - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 (3072MB) SLI - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 590 (3072MB) - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 580 (1536MB) - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 570 (1280MB) - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 560 Ti (1024MB) - Inno3D GeForce GTX 480 (1536MB) - Palit GeForce GTX 470 (1280MB) - Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit - Nvidia Forceware 285....

When Google announced it was winding down Stadia last month, it felt like the end of the search giant’s cloud gaming push. As it turns out, the Mountain View-based tech titan is still very much interested in cloud gaming albeit via a different avenue. The Acer Chromebook 516 GE retails for $649 and packs a 12th gen Intel Core i5-1240P CPU alongside 8GB of RAM, Intel Iris Xe graphics, a 256GB SSD and a 16-inch display with a resolution of 2,560 x 1,600 and a 120Hz refresh rate....

The included 5-megapixel camera isn’t the most amazing I’ve seen, but I’ve also seen far, far worse on tablets, so it fits somewhere in the middle. I was surprised by its sharpness and clarity in nearly all shooting situations, including low-light, although sometimes images can look overly post-processed from software trying to achieve this. Images can also appear a little grainy in dark conditions, with the software preferring a high ISO to long shutter speeds to gather more light....

The Pixel Watch features a 41mm case made of 80 percent recycled stainless steel that measures 12.3mm tall and weighs 36 grams without a band. The 320 PPI AMOLED, always-on display boasts up to 1000 nits of peak brightness and is coated in custom 3D Corning Gorilla Glass. Under the attractive exterior is a Samsung Exynos 9110, a dual-core SoC with Mali-T720 MP1 graphics, alongside a Cortex M33 co-processor, 2GB of SDRAM and 32GB of eMMC flash....

There are plenty of reasons to be fed up with corporate America, from excessive job demands to companies paying people to extoll their virtues online. Fortunately, people have wisened up. Side hustles are booming and more workers than ever are finding ways to earn some extra cash on the side. But whether you’re starting a brand new business or scaling up your side gig, you need technology that will keep up with your at-home job....

In contrast, nowadays processor and graphics cards manufacturers have embraced the practice, touting high ‘overclockability’ as a feature and in the process using it to sell enthusiast oriented products at a premium. Take the popular mid-range GeForce GTX 560 Ti as an example. Base model non-overclocked cards start at ~$229, but finding them isn’t so plain and easy as most manufacturers prefer to push their overclocked counterparts. While the Nvidia specification calls for a 822MHz core clock speed, you shouldn’t be surprised to see outgoing models running at 900MHz or more for this particular GPU series....