Zotac server misconfig exposed customer info to Google searches — customer RMA documents are available on the open web

The investigative journalists at Gamers Nexus uncovered a serious and troubling data leak at Zotac, a company already inFTC crosshairs for its warrantypractices. Tipped off by a viewer, the team learned that documents related to Return Material Authorization (RMA) requests were publicly available on the web and had even been indexed byGoogle. These documents contained full names, telephone numbers, email and mailing addresses, and more. The viewer discovered this leak when doing his own due diligence to see what information came up when he Googled his name....

May 25, 2025 · 3 min · 523 words · Dustin Mcdowell

5 Ways to Fix Error Printing on Epson Printer

You generally encounter the “Error Printing on Epson Printer” message if you are trying to print wirelessly on your Epson printer. This notification pops up on the screen immediately after sending a print request. While there can be multiple causes behind this error, it generally happens when the printer can not establish the Wi-Fi connection correctly—mostly due to poor signal strength. Similarly, an IP address conflict between your computer and printer might also sometimes give rise to the issue....

May 24, 2025 · 3 min · 601 words · Michael Ho

8 Ways to Fix Lightning Digital AV Adapter Not Working

The Lightning Digital AV adapter is a great way to mirror what’s playing on your iOS device to a bigger screen, like a television. However, some incorrect settings configuration or device incompatibility issues have been known to bring problems to this device’s overall performance, and sometimes, it fails to even work at all. Whether you plan to stream your favorite movie or give a presentation in front of a group of people, a lightning digital AV adapter can capture what’s showing on your device and stream it simultaneously on a TV or a projector....

May 24, 2025 · 6 min · 1074 words · Kenneth Soto

Acer Predator Helios Neo 14 Review: Slim, powerful, but needs refinement

Tom’s Hardware Verdict This 14.5-inch Predator gaming laptop delivers good 1600p gaming performance and plentiful features, including Thunderbolt 4 and RGB backlighting. Solid 1600p gaming performance Fairly priced Quiet fans Decent battery life and connectivity RGB keyboard backlighting Keyboard lacks tactile feedback RAM isn’t upgradeable Weak speakers No biometric features Dimmest display of the competition Why you’re able to trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....

May 24, 2025 · 12 min · 2472 words · Benjamin Fritz

Alibaba claims it will launch a server-grade RISC-V processor this year

Alibaba’s research division, the Damo Academy, recently announced expansion of its RISC-V efforts, which includes the Xuantie C907 matrix compute core and the Xuantie C930 datacenter-oriented processor, according toSohu. The server-grade CPU is expected to be launched this year, reportsThe Register. One of the ways for Chinese companies to sidestepU.S. export curbs regarding high-performance computing and artificial intelligence technologiesis by developing their own processors for AI and HPC based on their own cores (based on the RISC-V instruction set architecture, or ISA)....

May 24, 2025 · 2 min · 418 words · Jennifer Myers

Alienware AW2725QF 4K dual-mode gaming monitor review: Two displays in one

Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you.Find out more about how we test. HDR Performance Our HDR benchmarking usesPortrait Displays’Calman software. To learn about our HDR testing, see our breakdown ofhow we test PC monitors. The AW2725QF has comprehensive HDR support with five modes for HDR10 and three more for Dolby Vision. The latter standard is rarely seen in the computer monitor genre and I’m glad to see it included here....

May 24, 2025 · 3 min · 556 words · Elizabeth Chase

All Doom Games in Order of Release Date

Doom Eternal is first-person-shooter perfection. The 2020 title came from somewhere, though: one of the most important FPS series in the industry. The Video-game series Doom started in 1993.The original title defined the FPS genre and inspired numerous studios, clones, and sub-genres. Ever since, the saga has kept moving forward, pushing the genre’s envelope to deliver the best possible demon-slayer product. So far, we’ve seenfive main Doom games, which are the ones iD Software created....

May 24, 2025 · 12 min · 2420 words · Karen Oneill

AMD Announces Threadripper HEDT and Pro 9000-Series CPUs: 96 cores and 192 threads for Desktops and Workstations

AMD announced its new Zen 5-powered Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9000 WX-series and non-Pro processors here atComputex 2025in Taipei, Taiwan, touting up to 96 cores and 192 threads in the flagship 9995WX. AMD’s newest ‘Shamida Peak’ Threadrippers bring the benefits of the Zen 5 architecture to AMD’s premier WX-Series workstation and non-Pro processors, saying they deliver up to 2.2X the performance in rendering than Intel’s fastest competing Xeon-W chips. AMD also revamped its non-Pro Ryzen Threadripper 9000-series chips, with the flagship 9980X HEDT chip wielding 64 cores and 128 threads....

May 24, 2025 · 4 min · 727 words · Michelle Reilly

AMD introduces a free Frame Latency Meter tool to measure mouse response time — works with all GPUs, no high-speed camera or manual frame-counting needed

AMD just released itsFrame Latency Meter (FLM)via GPUOpen. It’s a software utility for Windows 10 and later that allows for users to measure mouse button to pixel latency without the need for any specialized sensors, high-speed cameras, or frame-counting based on muzzle flash. The utility apparently works on any AMD, Nvidia, or Intel GPU that supportsDirectX11 or newer and DXGI codec capturing, though AMD GPUs will instead use the hardware-native AMF capture codec....

May 24, 2025 · 4 min · 641 words · Matthew Warren

AMD pushes forward with its Radeon stack open-sourcing plans — after being prodded by Tiny Corp

AMD has stated that it’s on track to release its Micro Engine Scheduler (MES) documentation in late May, followed by source code. Then it will follow through with releases of additional parts of theRadeonstack as open-source. The statement was seeminglymade in responseto a Tweet/X by Tiny Corp, which has been publicly corresponding with (and often criticizing) AMD on social media for several months. The discourse between Tiny Corp and AMD has made more than a few headlines in recent months....

May 24, 2025 · 3 min · 486 words · Summer Meadows

AMD RX 9060 XT leaked specs allege speedy 3.3 GHz GPU clock

With its expectedComputexunveiling just a week away, the key specifications ofAMD’s Radeon RX 9600 XTappear to have spilled forth onto the internet. The tip comes from prolific leakster momomo_us, but we had to double-take as the otherwise detailed post doesn’t mention the assumed subject of the leak. However, any kind of leak requires a pinch of salt, and this aligns roughly with expectations of the aforementioned 9600 XT, so let’s just add a few more grains and take a closer look....

May 24, 2025 · 3 min · 566 words · Nathan Foster

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Faceoff — Battle of the Gaming Flagships

Today, we pit Intel’s current-gen flagshipCore Ultra 9 285KvsRyzen 7 9800X3D, the hands-downbest CPU for gamingon the market, in a heated six-round match to find the winner. The flagship of Intel’s Arrow Lake-S lineup, the $590 Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, represents the best of the best that Team Blue currently has on offer. As a successor to the powerful Core i9-14900K, the Core Ultra 9 285K ushers in an entirely new platform as well as a brand new naming scheme, for better or for worse....

May 24, 2025 · 18 min · 3693 words · Fernando Williams

AMD's Strix Halo being tested with 128GB RAM — shipping records reveal more about extreme 120W APU

Another shipping manifest containing information on printed circuit boards reveals an even more extreme variant of the rumored AMDStrix Halo APUin the wild. The mobile processor is already threatening to be the beefiest APUs AMD has ever produced, mobile or otherwise, and has now been spotted paired with 128GB of onboard RAM. Customs data tracking site NewBid Data revealed a new shipment of Maple Rev.B PCBs shipped on May 27, though tech news outlets have only spotted the manifest today....

May 24, 2025 · 3 min · 541 words · Caleb Robertson MD