7 clever ways to use your old USB flash drives

With a few simple steps you can turn a USB flash drive into a portable retro gaming console that you can carry around with ...
CNX Software

$2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer

WeAct Display FS is an inexpensive 0.96-inch USB display dongle designed to add an information display or a tiny secondary ...
XDA Developers on MSN

6 USB devices worth adding to your Proxmox server

If you’re daring enough, you can configure Whisper, openWakeWord, and Piper to control your smart home peripherals with just ...
ZDNet

How to undo OneDrive Backup and restore your personal files to your Windows 11 PC

Microsoft is automatically turning on OneDrive Backup in new Windows 11 installations. Your files aren't stolen -- they've just been moved to a new folder and synced to the cloud. This article ...
Computer Weekly

Lloyds Bank to use Workday software to help select staff for redundancy

Lloyds Banking Group will monitor its Workday HR software to help it identify the lowest-performing staff, who could be cut as part of its latest cull, according to the union. A Financial Times report ...
PC World

AI chatbots can be persuaded to break rules using basic psych tricks

A new study from researchers at University of Pennsylvania shows that AI models can be persuaded to break their own rules using several classic psychological tricks, reports The Verge. In the study, ...
PC Gamer

Gearbox responds to worries about Borderlands 4's terms of service: 'Take-Two does not use spyware in its games'

Games Borderlands 4 takes a shot at Embracer Group by naming a town filled with trash and an AI talking toilet after it Hardware 'Even with a 9800X3D and a 5090 it runs like absolute buttcheeks': 2K ...
Bleeping Computer

Threat actors abuse X’s Grok AI to spread malicious links

Threat actors are using Grok, X's built-in AI assistant, to bypass link posting restrictions that the platform introduced to reduce malicious advertising. As discovered by Guardio Labs' researcher ...
Hosted on MSN

I turned my old PC into a router using this neat USB adapter (and a lot of patience)

If there’s one thing I’ve learned after building a self-hosted network stack, it’s that DIY routers tend to pack extra features, better web UIs, and superior security provisions than the ones shipped ...
PC Gamer

Valve applies to use 'Steam Frame' as a trademark for a new console as speculation over a mythical next-gen Half-Life game continues

Remember Fremont, that supposed SteamOS device from Valve that popped up in Geekbench's CPU results and according to some sources is a new console designed to connect to TV sets and running AMD CPU ...
Scientific American

The New Frontier of AI Hacking—Could Online Images Hijack Your Computer?

A website announces, “Free celebrity wallpaper!” You browse the images. There’s Selena Gomez, Rihanna and Timothée Chalamet—but you settle on Taylor Swift. Her hair is doing that wind-machine thing ...
Bleeping Computer

TamperedChef infostealer delivered through fraudulent PDF Editor

Threat actors have been using multiple websites promoted through Google ads to distribute a convincing PDF editing app that delivers an info-stealing malware called TamperedChef. The campaign is part ...