Recently, Razer has decided to stray from this form factor and begin moving towards designs with smaller, oval earcups. At the top end of this wave of headsets sits the Blackshark V2 Pro. This wireless gaming audio solution attempts to provide top-end sound output, a flexible and removable microphone, and long-wearing comfort in a package that, especially for Razer, looks unusually understated on the outside. Let’s take a look at how Razer’s decision to stray from its typical path performs at the job it was built for, and at all of the other PC audio tasks users are likely to throw at it....

Regulations that compelled victims not to pay up could put these businesses in a precarious position, said Steve Turner, a New York-based Forrester analyst who focuses on security and risk. For one, any debate over whether to pay up would be muted when physical lives were at stake. Turner pointed to ransomware attacks that brought down critical infrastructure systems such as power and healthcare, impacting the likes of US Colonial Pipeline, Ireland’s Health Service Executive, and Germany’s Duesseldorf University Hospital....

No, there aren’t many of those, are there? But employees understand, especially after working in several companies, that bosses can have varying styles and varying personality types. The suspicion often remains, however, that the boss is up to something and the employees haven’t quite found out what it is. This suspicion has been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bosses are spying on employees, but no one is spying on the bosses....

It is still unclear what caused the outages but dozens of theories were floated online. On Friday, US President Joe Biden made news when he said he spoke directly to Russian President Vladmir Putin following REvil’s massive ransomware attack on Kaseya that affected almost 1,500 organizations. “I made it very clear to him that the United States expects when a ransomware operation is coming from his soil, even though it’s not sponsored by the state, we expect them to act if we give them enough information to act on who that is,” Biden said....

Revolut said its new service would allow customers in Singapore to buy, hold, and sell cryptocurrencies via its mobile app. Its platform offers more than 80 tokens for trade, with a 2.5% transaction fee for “standard” customers and 1.5% fee for “premium” and “metal” customers. An additional 0.5% exchange fee will apply when standard and premium customers exceed SG$5,000 and S$15,000, respectively, worth of transactions a month. Metal customers are able to make unlimited exchanges without forking out the additional fee....

A good chunk of the market is dominated by Samsung, whether it’s the company’s latest Z Fold 4 or Z Flip 4, or one of its now-discounted but older models that are just as enticing to upgrade to. Then there are players like Oppo, Xiaomi, and Huawei, all of which are by no means new to the folding display market but may as well be unknown if you don’t live in China....

Right now, if you’re in the market for a new VPS hosting or even just a website hosting service, Scalahosting dropped the price by 10% – but only if you use a special discount code. The code is good for some time, and you can use it on other Scalahosting deals as a stacking tool, so whether you’re just using one code or want to add the extra 10% off, you can....

Clarkesworld founder Neil Clarke details the site’s plight around detecting plagiarism and AI-generated stories, with issues starting around the beginning of the pandemic. Through 2020, he’d consistently detected less than 25 mostly computer-assisted submissions each month. In Depth: These experts are racing to protect AI from hackers. Time is running out A small surge happened when OpenAI released ChatGPT in late November. Plagiarized or AI-generated submissions rose to 50 a month in December, and then doubled to over 100 in January, and then more than tripled to over 350 by mid-February....

Called Lyve Cloud for Startups, the scheme provides 1 petabyte (PB) worth of cloud storage at no charge, for up to a year, according to the storage vendor. To qualify, applicants must be a locally registered entity and no older than five years. The service is offered via Seagate’s Lyve Labs, an initiative set up to facilitate collaboration between the vendor and enterprises, with the aim to create data-driven products and services....

But encrypting data on external drives used to be a pain. You had to run an application and sometimes that wouldn’t work on certain platforms, and it all would quickly turn into a big hassle. But those days are over. A drive like the new Kingston IronKey Vault Privacy 80 SSD makes encrypting your data super easy. The SSD looks like any regular SSD, expect it has a screen. Actually, it’s a touchscreen, and you use this to input your passcode and also change the settings in the drive....

Also: CES 2023 was huge for AR and VR. Here’s everything important that was announced The company made its bid to once again dominate consumer VR by coming in $400 below the cost of the Meta Quest Pro. HTC also made it clear that, unlike its aforementioned competitor, it is very much designed for you and all consumers interested in premium XR experiences. But, at $1,100, it’s no small purchase for the vast majority of us....

The proposal is the work of the South Korean Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST). In a paper, “Revisiting silk: a lens-free optical physical unclonable function,” published in the academic journal Nature Communications, the researchers argue that the properties of silk could be harnessed to create physical unclonable functions (PUFs). According to the team, made up of Min Seok Kim, Gil Ju Lee, Jung Woo Leem, Seungho Choi, Young L....

That’s the word from R. “Ray” Wang who provides a roadmap for AI success in his latest book, Everybody Wants to Rule the World. Wang calls the capability needed to move forward “AI Smart Services” that help automate precision decisions. “To fine-tune precision decisions at scale-that is, to develop decision velocity, [data-driven enterprises] must automate the process of turning signal intelligence into a decision or action. And the way to do this is by creating AI smart services-automated processes powered by AI....

According to Slack product VP Noah Weiss, there has been “overwhelming” customer feedback about needing to recreate an office environment in a hybrid world. “What everyone is looking for when I talk to customers is how do I go from a world where my headquarters used to be on Wall Street, or Howard Street if I was Slack, or Mission Street if it was Salesforce,” he told ZDNet. “I need a new street, and that street has to be virtual, and it has to be this digital HQ, where I can bring my employees, my customers, my partners [into] all this shared digital space, so they can work together....

Cybersecurity researchers at Proofpoint say they detected a 500% jump in attempted mobile malware attacks during the first few months of 2022, with significant peaks at the beginning and end of February. The main aim of a substantial proportion of mobile malware is to steal usernames and passwords for email or bank accounts, but many forms of mobile malware are also equipped with invasive snooping capabilities to record audio and video, track your location, or even wipe your content and data....

In the Samsung outlet, for example, the tech giant is offering a 24-inch version of the Samsung Odyssey gaming monitor with a 40% discount. While you would typically pay just under $250 for the monitor, you can currently enjoy a discount of $100. The Samsung Odyssey gaming monitor has a 1800R curvature for a more immersive gaming experience – and one that can be kinder on your eyes for long periods of time....

The report sent Snowflake shares fractionally higher in late trading. CEO Frank Slootman remarked that “Snowflake saw continued momentum in Q2 with triple-digit growth in product revenue, reflecting strength in customer consumption.” Added Slootman, “While increasing net revenue retention rate to 169%, we also boosted gross margin and operating margin efficiency while our adjusted free cash flow was positive for the third quarter in a row.” Revenue in the three months ended in July more than doubled, year over year, to $272....

According to the company’s press release, Solana Pay enables merchants to accept and move any amount of stablecoin currencies, compatible with the Solana blockchain, at any time of the day, anywhere in the world but with very low transaction fees – measured in fractions of a cent. The company said that merchants can get real-time access to their money with increased ability to manage working capital, liquidity and liability protection, and direct access to their money in seconds, with no middlemen and no holding periods or bank transfer fees....

Global mean mobile speeds have reached 55.07Mbps and 107.50Mbps for fixed broadband, representing 59.5% and 31.9% increases, respectively. Mean download speeds over mobile are nearly 100% faster than they were in 2019 and almost 200% compared to 2017 when the Speedtest Global Index was first created. There were similar increases with mean download speeds over broadband, with data showing it was nearly 200% faster this year than it was in 2017....

Cruise operator Royal Caribbean will deploy Starlink across its entire fleet to improve connectivity for guests and crew. Cruise ships have in the past had to rely on expensive satellite internet services that rarely offer enough bandwidth to do a Zoom meeting. Royal Caribbean promises Starlink will be a game-changer for passengers. “Kickass Internet connection coming Royal Caribbean ships soon!”, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Twitter. Royal Caribbean tweeted that the fleet-wide Starlink deployment will deliver “game-changing, high-speed internet”....