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Kingston FURY Renegade G5 SSD review: Fast and surprisingly cool!
Kingston has built a solid reputation in the storage world by delivering high-performance SSDs that do what they promise. With the FURY Renegade G5, Kingston steps into the new generation of PCI Express Gen5 storage, offering speeds that push the limits yet still keep temperatures under control. This drive is not just about headline numbers. It’s designed for gamers, content…
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6 Surprisingly Useful macOS Trash Tips You’ve Definitely Never Thought About
It’s probably fair to say that the Trash is one of the most overlooked features in macOS. You use it every day, but do you ever think about whether it can do anything more? It turns out there are quite a few handy little tweaks you can make to get it working even better. 1 Bypass the Trash When Deleting…
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Surprisingly Dirty Places in Your Home
Shower DrainIt can get clogged by hair and soap. And if you use your shower infrequently, larvae can develop in the drain, which can lead to flies in your bathroom, says CR home writer Keith Flamer, who dealt with this mysterious insect phenomenon while awaiting a shower renovation. What to do: For clogs, you can try using a plunger first,…
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15 Popular Games You Can Surprisingly Play on Linux
Gone are the days when Linux gamers had to jump through hoops to make their favorite games work on their favorite distro. Thanks to Valve and Proton, freshest releases work day one on Linux gaming machines with little to no tinkering. Even massive, triple-A blockbusters often work day and date on Linux, something that was considered nigh impossible just a…
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This Budget Outdoor Speaker Is Surprisingly Good, and It’s Only $56 Right Now
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. The gold standard for a bang-for-your-buck portable speaker is the Beats Pill, which you can easily find for $100. But if you’re looking for an even more affordable equivalent, it is the Tribit StormBox Flow, which you can currently…
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Gemini’s ‘Canvas’ Feature Is Surprisingly Great for Word Processing and Coding
AI isn’t coming for your job. Probably? Look, it’s complicated. And anyone who has ever played around with a chatbot has likely asked themselves, “This is what they want to replace a human with?” It’s a valid concern, because generative AI chatbots like Google’s Gemini aren’t super useful. To my surprise, though, Gemini’s Canvas feature can be. I will say…
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The Real History of Mother’s Day Is Surprisingly Dark
Mother’s Day is supposed to be wholesome and sort of boring: some flowers, a Hallmark card, maybe doing some chores around the house for once. But the American version of Mother’s Day wasn’t born in a garden. It was forged in the smoke and death of the Civil War, shaped by radical women, and became a battleground between profit and…
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GPD Win Max 2 review: a surprisingly competent tiny laptop that doubles as a gaming handheld
Since Neuromancer took the sci-fi world by storm in 1984, computing nerds have pined for a “cyberdeck” — the ultimate in personal, portable PCs for surfing and hacking the world. Usually, they’re DIY affairs. But the 10-inch GPD Win Max 2 is the closest I’ve seen to an off-the-shelf cyberdeck worth buying. It’s far from the best laptop or gaming…
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Critical Erlang/OTP SSH pre-auth RCE is ‘Surprisingly Easy’ to exploit, patch now
A critical vulnerability in the Erlang/OTP SSH, tracked as CVE-2025-32433, has been disclosed that allows for unauthenticated remote code execution on vulnerable devices. The flaw was discovered by Fabian Bäumer, Marcus Brinkmann, Marcel Maehren, and Jörg Schwenk of the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany and given a maximum severity score of 10.0. All devices running the Erlang/OTP SSH daemon are impacted by the…
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10 Used German Luxury Cars That Are Surprisingly Affordable
Germany makes some of the finest premium vehicles in the world. In particular, their sedans and coupes have set benchmarks that the rest of the world constantly aim to meet. New German cars, however, can be expensive, making the used market your friend if you’re on a budget. Some of the most iconic sports sedans and premium saloons have come…
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