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Whoa! Running into Freddy Krueger in your nightmares can be pretty scary,

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and running into Chad Krueger isn't great either.

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But the worst nightmare of all is a Monday without the tech news.

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Thankfully, we're all awake right now.

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AMD is once again reshuffling its chip lineup,

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but instead of launching new laptop processors, it's just renaming old ones.

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AMD's older Zen 2 or Mendochino chips are getting rebranded as the Ryzen 10 series,

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and the Zen 3 Plus or Rembrandt chips are now called the Ryzen 100 series.

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Despite the fresh names, the hardware underneath is basically unchanged.

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Same cores, same performance, just new labels.

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The move seems aimed at simplifying marketing, but it could easily confuse buyers who might think they're getting brand new tech

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when it's really the same stuff with a new name. None of this is surprising as we've seen similar moves from Intel lately,

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renaming the Core i5-10400 as the Core i5-110.

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Rebadging is a scourge, but I won't get got for a second time.

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Ordering a Volkswagen Rutan, only to discover a Dodge Grand Caravan sitting in your driveway changes a man.

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Never again. Discord user data is being swiped by hackers using a fork of Red Tiger,

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an open-source red-teaming tool. The campaign was first discovered by cybersecurity firm Netscope with a K.

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After spotting the malware spreading through gaming communities earlier this month,

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attackers are disguising Red Tiger as game mods, cheat tools,

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or other utilities to harvest browser data, discord tokens, and crypto wallet info.

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The tool then takes this information and uploads everything to remote servers via webhooks.

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Victims have been reporting stolen accounts and lost nitro subscriptions,

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while early analysis shows that the malware's many discord-specific hooks

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make it a highly effective tool for taking over accounts entirely.

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Researchers at Clearfish have also been able to link infections

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to phishing links shared across discord servers,

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proving yet again that those advertisements you see for free FBS boosts are almost never actually

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free.

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Microsoft is in hot water down under.

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Having just been slapped with a new lawsuit by the Australian Competition and Consumer

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Commission, aka the ACK, for allegedly duping 2.7 million customers into thinking they had to

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pay for co-pilot and actually that's a good thing. The company quietly bundled the AI Assistant into its Microsoft 365 plans,

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selling the change as an unavoidable upgrade alongside a new subscription price.

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Yeah, you pay more, but look at all this great stuff you get.

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Apparently, a cheaper, non-AI version of the service was available,

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but it was hidden in the labyrinth of cancellation menus.

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A secret level. Customers were never meant to find. We need a hyper-focused YouTuber to get in here and take apart the code.

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The ACC is calling this a clear breach of Australian consumer law,

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arguing that Microsoft weren't upfront with their users' purchase options.

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With potential penalties reaching 33 million USD,

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Microsoft is sure to probably try something like this again,

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because that's like a slap on the wrist to Microsoft.

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Freddie Kruger can't even dream up a way of catching the quick bits there so fast.

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The quick bits only have lucid dreams also. They're very active on the subreddit.

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Fujitsu is proudly keeping the dream of physical media alive by continuing to ship new laptops

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with built-in Blu-ray drives. While being slightly outdated in specs, their new FMV Note A comes equipped with a Ryzen 7,

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7735U, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD in its top configuration.

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But listen, does old specs really matter when you can ask if the boys want to come over and pop in

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Hannah Montana the movie? That's not even a compromise. Apparently, movie discs are all the rage still in Japan,

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with the Akihabara region experiencing a huge Ryzen Blu-ray player demand.

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Say what you want about old tech, but at least the next time AWS goes down,

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they'll be able to enjoy the little mermaid 2 DVD in glorious 480p.

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Cooler Master has apologized for advising customers to modify the 16-pin power connectors

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on some of the company's power supplies by dismantling them.

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A risky fix that could have caused overheating or even fires.

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This advice came after users reported compatibility issues with their GPUs

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because of Cooler Master's right-angled connector design.

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More like wrong-angled connector design.

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You know what I'm saying? I do. Cause it's...

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In response, the company has discontinued the problematic connector and told their

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support teams to stop recommending such modifications.

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Please. I know you're just trying to help. Moving forward, Cooler Master plans to include straight 16-pin connectors in new power supplies

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and add visual indicators to make sure the connection is snug as a bug in a rug.

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Except this bug could burn down your damn house. Anyway, Tesla's newly released Mad Max Automated Driving Mode has caught the eye of the U.S.

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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Some Tesla owners are claiming their cars are exceeding speed limits when the

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Mel Gibson-inspired mode is active, which makes a lot of sense.

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The NHTSA has started probing reaching out to Tesla for more info and reminding drivers that

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the human behind the wheel is still fully responsible for safe driving.

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Apparently, Mad Max Mode comes with higher speeds and more frequent lane changes.

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As Gizmodo opined, it's pretty obvious naming this mode after a vengeful dystopian drifter

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with a lead foot might someday catch the eye of federal regulators.

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We couldn't have put it better ourselves. Plus, I just don't think you'll ride a turnal, shiny and chrome.

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If you're letting your Tesla drive for you, that's kind of... There's no honor.

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Microsoft's financial filings show a whopping $4.7 billion in losses tied to its stake in OpenAI,

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which, on paper, is listed simply under Other.

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However, Microsoft doesn't mention exactly how much is invested in OpenAI,

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how much OpenAI is losing, and they don't even have it labeled as a related party.

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Microsoft is releasing its Q1 earnings on Wednesday, and if it still does not disclose

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OpenAI as a related party, with the vague other line as the only clue to how much money it is

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bleeding to stay at in the AI race, investors will have to figure things out on their own,

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testing the partnership's ethics and transparency. Sweeping losses under the rug as other expenses,

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honestly seems like the kind of quick and dirty financial solutions you'd expect punching your banking queries into Chatchi B.T.

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I don't know. Chatchi B.T., what do you think?

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I don't know. That's what it was.

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And researchers at Ohio State University have discovered that everyday mushroom tissues

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can function as living memory chips. The research found that mushrooms like shiitake and button mushrooms,

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when engineered into memorysters, can store and switch electrical signals.

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And these fungal materials could be greener alternatives to traditional silicon microchips

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because they don't need rare metals. They're easier to produce and they're biodegradable.

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The mushy microchips aren't ready to replace your laptop's RAM yet,

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but they could pave the way for a low power or specialized computing devices down the line,

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made of fungi. It's incredible what people are doing in the kitchen these days.

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And it's incredible what we'll be doing with the tech news on Wednesday.

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Ooh, so you better come back. Fun Freddy fact,

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Freddy's sweater is subliminally frightening because of its abrasive red and green color combination.