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EVGA CEO Andrew Han disclosed the conflict with Nvidia through YouTube channels JayZTwoCents and GamersNexus , announcing the termination of cooperation with Nvidia and a complete withdrawal from the graphics card market . EVGA is the largest supplier of NVIDIA graphics cards in North America and has a 22-year cooperation with NVIDIA. Andrew Han said […]

Intel announced that it will replace the Pentium and Celeron brands with Intel processors in the laptop market starting in 2023, simplifying consumers’ choice of low-end products. Intel’s flagship product brands are concentrated in three: Core, Evo and vPro, and entry-level products will use the Intel processor name. The earliest product of the Pentium brand

Telegram Chinese channel White Shark has a lot of information on buying and selling, but what you buy is not goods but people. An advertisement posted on the channel said, “A 22-year-old Chinese man who has just smuggled in from Westport has an ID card and is slow to type…” 22-year-old Fan (Fan) worked as

Uber’s network systems were hacked. The attackers also sent screenshots of emails, cloud storage and code repositories to The New York Times. Uber employees received a message from the hacker via work messaging app Slack: “I announce I am a hacker and Uber has suffered a data breach.” Uber ordered employees to disable Slack. The

Security firm Mandiant reports that North Korean hacker group NC4034 (aka Temp.Hermit or Labyrinth Chollima) used Trojanized PuTTY and KiTTY SSH clients in a phishing attack targeting media companies. PuTTY and its fork KiTTY are popular open source SSH clients. The attackers first emailed the target with an Amazon job offer, and then followed up

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday announced plans to crack down on the exploitation of gig workers . The FTC adopted a policy statement detailing issues facing gig workers, including deceptive claims about their wages and hours, unfair contract terms, and more, and details the steps the FTC plans to take. Gig companies consider

Data from backup and cloud storage company Backblaze over the past five years shows that solid-state drives (SSDs) are more reliable than mechanical hard drives (HDDs), and SSDs have far lower failure rates than HDDs. Backblaze compared SSDs and HDDs as boot disks rather than storage disks, which are used to store logs, temporary files,

Half a century after starting outdoor clothing company Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard, the reluctant billionaire founder, has donated his company . Instead of selling or taking the company public, the Chouinards and their two adult children transferred ownership to a purpose-built trust and a newly formed nonprofit, Patagonia, worth about $3 billion. They will maintain the

TikTok Chief Operating Officer Vanessa Pappas was questioned by lawmakers on Wednesday before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. U.S. senators and regulators are concerned that TikTok will hand over U.S. user data to the Chinese government, which Pappas vehemently denies, saying it has never provided data to the Chinese government and

The collapse of the cryptocurrency Luna and the algorithmic stablecoin terraUSD in May made Luna founder Do Kwon the most hated person in South Korea. South Korean prosecutors have launched an investigation into Do Kwon’s Terraform Labs following complaints from investors that lost a lot of money. On Wednesday, the Southern Seoul District Attorney’s Office

Tencent and NetEase, the two highest-grossing game companies in China, have received new game licenses for the first time in more than a year. The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, the regulatory agency responsible for game version number approval, announced on September 13 the “ approval information for domestic online games

Google and Meta were fined 69.2 billion won and 30.8 billion won, respectively, for collecting personal information in South Korea without users’ consent and using it to deliver personalized ads online . The Korean Personal Information Protection Committee met on the 14th and made the above decision. The committee also ordered the two companies to

The 23rd launch of the New Shepard rocket of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin company failed . The rocket crashed and the capsule was unmanned. Its escape system was successfully activated and separated from the rocket, and it landed safely using a parachute. The accident did not cause any casualties. Blue Origin has been