The UK Foreign Office has implemented a ban on game controller exports to Russia, reportsBBC News. We hope that the ban will at least narrow the options available to Russian drone pilots attacking Ukraine and its people. The game controller ban isn’t a piece of standalone legislation, rather it is part of a package of 150 or so new trade sanctions that the UK announced earlier this week. Among the freshly banned items are other electronic products and components that might also be repurposed by the Russian military, as well as a broad range of chemicals, machinery, and metals....

GoogleDeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, has published new research on training AI models that claims to greatly accelerate both training speed and energy efficiency by an order of magnitude, yielding 13 times more performance and ten times higher power efficiency than other methods. The new JEST training method comes in a timely fashion as conversations about the environmental impact of AI data centers are heating up. DeepMind’s method, dubbed JEST or joint example selection, breaks apart from traditional AI model training techniques in a simple fashion....

Gaming laptops can be pricey: even low-end machines now often cross the $1,000 barrier. That’s why any deal on a machine is great, leaving more room for peripherals and games.Over at Best Buy, the Alienware 16 Aurora is now available for $1,099.99, a $400 drop as it competes withAmazon Prime Day. That doesn’t bring this system budget territory, but it’s significant savings from a premium laptop brand that should let you play most games at decent settings....

Hungry hackers have demanded that France’s Schneider Electric pay a $125,000 ransom in baguettes. Bleeping Computer’s report indicates that a hacker group may havestolen 40GB of datafrom the major French energy management and automation engineering group, after successfully penetrating the firm’s JIRA system. Hey @SchneiderElec how was your week?Did someone accidentally steal your data and you noticed, shut down the services and restarted without finding them? Now you shut down again but the criminals seem to have taken more juicy data >_<July 15, 2025...

The performance of a computer starts to degrade when the storage device begins to fill up. So, it is always a good idea to periodically clean up your storage device. Furthermore, your system’s performance will decrease significantly if the primary drive is full. Sometimes when clearing storage, File Explorer may indicate that the hard drive is full even when you don’t have files and folders taking up as much storage space....

5GHz supports blazing speeds over 1Gbps, thanks to more channels and minimal interference. Changing your Wi-Fi from 2.4GHz to 5GHz is quite straightforward; simply broadcast 5GHz from your Router Configuration page. Before getting into the details, you should first check if your router is single-band (supportsonly2.4GHz) or dual-band (supportsboth2.4GHz and 5GHz). A quick Google search of the router’s model number should do the trick. You can also refer to the router’s manual if you prefer....

Every time you open an application or visit a browser, your device stores your data, known as a cache. Doing this allows the device to process faster the next time you visit the same browser or application. A lot of cache files get accumulated over time. When left uncleared, it can get corrupted and cause devices to slow down or applications to crash. Windows stores various different caches under different locations....

Modern computers have a dedicated print spooler service that temporarily holds the print jobs in the queue. It then sends them to the printer to get printed. However, sometimes the print jobs may get stuck in the queue, and simply right-clicking the print job and selecting cancel won’t delete it. In such a case, you should force delete the print jobs from the spooler cache to allow new jobs to be executed again....

The web works in the form of a transaction. Whenever you visit any website, you make a request to the site’s server, and in return, it will send you the necessary data to consume. But sometimes, this same request can get overloaded. As a result, you’ll see an error code like429 “Too many requests.” But instead of an error, it’s particularly an HTTP status code. As the name suggests, it simply means that there are a lot of requests from the user’s end....

The E_FAIL (0x80004005) error on the Oracle VM VirtualBox prevents you from starting a Virtual Machine session. There are several types of these errors, and you’ll see different messages accompany the error code in separate cases. So, naturally, there are various possible causes and corresponding fixes. Depending on the nature of your error, you can use the appropriate steps from the guide below. Reasons for Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005) Here are some of the probable reasons for Result Code: E_fail (0x80004005) error:...

Minecraft is a fun game in itself. But you can take it a step further by adding mods to it. Minecraft has hundreds of mods that can turn your vanilla gameplay into a full horror experience or fun creative building moments. You can also use mods to add various elements to the game. There are a few steps to playing Minecraft with mods. Firstly, you will need to install theForge Mod Installer....

Installing Windows to an external hard drive is a bit different from installing it to an internal one. If you follow the conventional steps, you’ll encounter the error “You can’t install Windows on a USB Flash Drive using Setup.” Microsoft did have a tool called Windows To Go (WTG) for creating portable workspaces, but it had a lot of limitations. For instance, it only supported USB drives certified for Windows To Go, external USB Hubs were not supported, and Windows To Go installations didn’t support feature updates either....

To turn off a desktop’s screen, all you have to do is press its power button. But did you know you can also switch off a laptop’s monitor? Basically, you need to tweak a few settings on Windows to keep the system running despite having the laptop’s screen turned off. This way, yourlaptop battery is savedto some extent, and your system keeps operating at the back. Moreover, this option helps keep privacy....