Month: September 2024

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, which means MSI must really like Nvidia’s Founders Edition design. It’s taken the core concept of Nvidia’s RTX 30- and 40-series FE cards, the push/pull fan concept, and reimagined it with its own RTX 4080 Super 16G Expert.

MSI tells me it liked how Nvidia’s Founders cards efficiently shift air from one side of a chassis, over the GPU, and out the other. This has been Nvidia’s approach ever since the RTX 30-series, and though it’s massively engorged the design with the 40-series, it’s proven a popular pick.

Though MSI is borrowing the FE’s core concept, it’s offering a completely different look. Nvidia’s opted for that sleek stealth black design for its new Super cards that seemed to be all anyone could talk about at CES,…

Earlier this week, police in Spain arrested 19-year-old José Luis Huertas, one of the country’s most prolific hackers, after a nearly two-year investigation. One of the ways police say they were able to track him down was that he lived a “life of luxury inappropriate for someone his age and without work activity.”

Bleeping Computer reports that the hacker, known as “Alcasec,” was responsible for several cyberattacks in Spain, such as breaching government networks, stealing the data of 575,000 taxpayers, and creating a search engine called “Udyat” to sell the data to other hackers. 

Spanish police say they were able to track Huertas with the help of the National Cryptological Center to link him to transactions despite his use of cryptocurrency mixing services to h…

April Fools’ is a weird day for anyone who covers PC gaming hardware. We get slammed with press releases and trailers for joke products and games. The strangest thing is that sometimes I’ll see a joke product and think, “Damnit, I’d actually buy that.” Well, Corsair decided to send over its April Fools joke to me, and I’m a little relieved that no one actually sells these things.

Corsair calls the FT 100 Keycaps ‘elite tactile distractors,’ which will replace your more useless keys (looking at you, SCRLK) with something more practical like a full-sized fidget spinner, a knob, or a dial. 

Inside the package are five fidget-friendly keycaps, which include a fidget spinner, a small dial, an on/off switch, a trackball, and a very clicky button. So, of course, I wouldn’t be …