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Intel finally notches a GPU win, confirms Arc B580 is selling out after stellar reviews
Intel is having an incredibly rough year — but at long last, the company’s discrete graphics card initiative has produced a card worth celebrating. While we haven’t managed to review it ourselves due to a fluke issue, the $250 Arc B580 “Battlemage” GPU launched to nigh-universal praise, has already sold out most everywhere, and Intel tells The Verge it’s working…
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How to Spot Fake Reviews on Black Friday Deals
Key Takeaways Fake reviews are often used to manipulate you into either mistakenly trusting a poorly-received product, or avoiding good products from a competitor. Look out for anything suspicious, like a cluster of overly-positive reviews from around the same time, vague wording, repetition of phrases, and accounts with strange review history. Tools like Fakespot can help identify fake reviews as…
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Top Vulnerability Management Tools: Reviews & Comparisons 2024
There are more vulnerabilities around than ever. The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report highlighted an almost 200% growth in the exploitation of vulnerabilities in 2023. In the first seven months of 2024, new vulnerabilities rose by another 30% compared to the previous year. No wonder vulnerability management tools are becoming a staple of the enterprise cybersecurity arsenal. “Vulnerability management is…
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The FTC orders Sitejabber to stop faking product reviews
The Federal Trade Commission has charged Sitejabber, an online review platform, with violating its new fake reviews rules by using point-of-sale reviews to misrepresent what customers think about products. In one of its first enforcement actions under new rules banning companies from making or selling fake reviews, the FTC is ordering the company to stop. The FTC says Sitejabber “deceptively”…
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You Can Now Write Reviews in Plex (and Silence Critic Reviews)
You can now write reviews for movies, shows, seasons, and individual episodes in Plex. However, review visibility is currently limited to friends and mutuals. Community reviews show up alongside critic reviews on movie and show landing pages. They also appear on user profiles and in the activity feed. Reviews that contain spoilers can be marked as such by the reviewer,…
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Google Maps is cracking down on fake reviews
Google Maps is reeling in business pages engaging in fake reviews, and highlighting such activity to its users. Google will now impose restrictions against business profiles that violate the search giant’s Fake Engagement policy, such as temporarily removing reviews, blocking new reviews or ratings, and displaying a warning message on profiles that have had fake reviews deleted. Google’s prohibited and…
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Early Reviews of The Penguin Claim It to Be the Best Adaption of the DC Villain
After witnessing Heath Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight, we never thought anyone would ever surpass that level. When Collin Farrell’s The Penguin was announced, fans were excited, but they weren’t hoping the performance would be that good. The Irish actor has blessed the industry with some phenomenal performances since 2000, but still, fans were skeptical about his role as…
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The bad movie reviews quoted in Lionsgate’s Megalopolis trailer were mostly made up
Hours after it was released, Lionsgate pulled a trailer for Megalopolis that was clearly “gunning for the haters” with a selection of negative quotes about director Francis Ford Coppola’s previous works. That’s because reports like this one from Vulture’s Bilge Ebiri showed that critic quotes in the trailer lambasting films like The Godfather and Apocalypse Now were fabricated. “Lionsgate is…
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Steam User Reviews Might Actually Be Useful Now
“Good.” “I found a team and a fortress too.” And one review that’s just a full transcript of Valve’s Meet the Heavy video. These were the top user reviews Steam showed me for the popular game Team Fortress 2, at least until I turned on the “Use new helpfulness system” filter. Steam, the popular PC games storefront, has a bit…
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