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Roblox, FaceTime become the latest targets of Russia’s censorship

Russia blocks access to FaceTime and Roblox This comes a few days after threatening a complete ban on WhatsApp Russia is also escalating efforts to detect and restrict VPNs Russia continues to expand its crackdown on digital freedom, this time blocking two more major Western platforms: FaceTime and Roblox. The move is already a major […]

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Arm64 crushes x86 in 2025 AWS Lambda benchmarks, delivering massive performance gains and reducing compute costs

Rust on arm64 completed CPU-intensive tasks up to 5 times faster than x86 Arm64 reduces cold start latency across all runtimes by up to 24% Python 3.11 on arm64 outperforms newer versions in memory intensive workloads Benchmarking AWS Lambda this year shows that the arm64 architecture consistently outperforms x86 across most workloads. Tests covered CPU-intensive,

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This amazing landscape shot was taken with a five-year-old Canon camera and it just won the top prize at the big photography competition

The winners of the International Landscape Photographer of The Year 2025 have been announced The stunning winning image by Austrian photographer Lukas Trixl was taken in New Plymouth, North Island, New Zealand Lukas’ camera of choice was the Canon EOS R5 The winners of the International Landscape Photographer of The Year 2025 competition were announced

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The PC component crisis just got worse as major RAM makers give up on consumers and rumors of CPU price hikes

Micron has pulled the plug on its Crucial consumer RAM It focuses on making RAM modules for data centers instead There are further stories of problems in the memory world on top of this, and also rumors of AMD Ryzen CPU price increases PC component pricing predictions are getting grim by the day, and now

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Microsoft denies reports of lower AI sales targets as customers resist new tools

Reports that Microsoft lowered AI sales quotas have been denied The company declined to adjust growth expectations Quarterly Azure revenue is still up 40% year over year Microsoft has reportedly reduced its sales targets for some AI products after struggling to meet them, according to The information. The company’s Azure AI agent-building platform was highlighted

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NEW Strand’s Hints and Answers for Friday, December 5 (Game #642)

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 Thursday puzzle instead then click here: NEW Strand’s Hints and Answers for Thursday, December 4 (Game #641). Strands

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Microsoft is quietly patching LNK vulnerability that has been weaponized for years

Microsoft’s November 2025 Patch Tuesday fixed 63 bugs, including CVE-2025-9491 in Windows LNK files The flaw allowed attackers to hide malicious commands in shortcut files, enabling RCE attacks Exploited since 2017 by state-sponsored groups from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia; difficulty rated at 7.8/10 The November 2025 Patch Tuesday cumulative update fixed a vulnerability

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This DDoS group just broke the previous record with an attack of 29.7 Tbps

Aisuru botnet, with up to 4M IoT devices, launched a record 29.7 Tbps DDoS attack Cloudflare mitigated 1,304 hypervolumetric attacks in Q3; targets included telecom, gaming, hosting and finance Recent victims include Gcore (6 Tbps flood) and Microsoft (largest cloud DDoS at 15.72 Tbps) The Aisuru botnet, a network of compromised and malicious Internet of

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Sony is unveiling new steampunk fantasy RPG The God Slayer for PS5, Xbox and PC as part of the company’s China Hero Project

The Godslayer has been announced, a new steampunk fantasy RPG from My time in Portia studio, Pathea Games The game will feature a 40-hour campaign, customizable elemental combat, and an open world It’s coming to PS5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S and PC Sony has announced The Godslayera new steampunk fantasy role-playing game (RPG)

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Google wants to help companies build AI agents with no prior experience

Google Workspace Studio is now generally available to all businesses You can create agents using natural language prompts and Gemini 3 They work across Workspace and select third-party apps Google’s Workspace Studio is now generally available to business and enterprise customers and serves as a code-free platform for creating, managing and sharing AI agents. Powered

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