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NEW Strand’s Hints and Answers for Wednesday, December 17 (Game #654)

Looking for a different day? A new NEW Strands puzzle pops up at midnight every day for your time zone – meaning some people always play ‘today’s game’ while others play ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for the Tuesday puzzle instead then click here: NEW Strand’s Hints and Answers for Tuesday, December 16 (Game #653). Strands […]

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Fresh RAM issues are emerging in the form of a rumor that Samsung has doubled the price of DDR5

Samsung has reportedly doubled the price of DDR5 RAM This is the contract price for DDR5 charged by RAM manufacturers As always, price increases in the supply chain will be passed on to consumers – if this rumor is correct, of course There’s even more worrying news about the cost of RAM, as Samsung is

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Did novelty camera maker Lomography just get serious? I held the MC-A – and it’s finally a proper 35mm film camera

Lomography announced the Lomo MC-A in October It has a glass lens with autofocus and a metal body Available for pre-order and priced at $549 / £449 / AU$799 I’ve tried my fair share of Lomography cameras over the years, and it’s fair to say that the film camera maker emphasizes character over outright quality.

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The ACCC’s latest quarterly broadband report confirms what I already suspected: NBN Co’s fast new levels are absolutely smashing it

Ever since the NBN speed upgrades arrived in September this year, I’ve been quite vocal in my opinion about the value offered by the NBN 500 tier. Although until now that statement has been largely speculative, due to the fact that all claims of real-world speeds have come from the providers themselves. That’s all changed

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This Google Chrome extension has been silently stealing every AI prompt that its users enter

Urban VPN Proxy started harvesting AI chatbot prompts and responses after a July 2025 update Collected data, including metadata and conversation IDs, is shared with BIScience for ad analysis Several related urban extensions perform the same data collection on a large scale A popular Google Chrome browser extension has been found to harvest everything its

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Microsoft’s latest desperate attempt to stop people using Edge to download Google Chrome focuses on internet security

Microsoft is testing a new banner notification in Edge Its purpose is to stop people from downloading Google Chrome The announcement highlights Edge’s security features Microsoft appears to be getting even tougher in its attempts to stop Windows 11 users from downloading Google Chrome, with a new pop-up appearing for some people in Edge, Microsoft’s

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Baldur’s Gate 3 director says the game’s cinematics and how choices were portrayed are one of the ‘biggest lessons’ Larian brings to Divinity – ‘I think that was probably my biggest takeaway from everything’

Baldur’s Gate 3 director Swen Vincke has said Divinity will contain movies as opposed to Divinity: Original Sin and Original Sin 2 says the director Baldur’s Gate 3“filmmaking success” was “probably my biggest takeaway from everything” He also confirmed that the game has been in development for two years and is now in full production

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Amazon says Russian hackers are behind a major cyber campaign to target Western energy sector

AWS says Russian GRU-affiliated groups spent years exploiting misconfigured edge devices to persist in Western critical infrastructure Activity overlaps with Curly COMrades, whose tool abuses Hyper-V and Linux VMs for stealth persistence Amazon Urges Edge Auditing, Credential Checking, and Suspicious Admin Portal Access Monitoring For nearly half a decade, Russian state-sponsored threat actors have exploited

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