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In a significant cybersecurity breach, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has reported unauthorized access to its systems, with officials attributing the intrusion to hackers linked to the Chinese government. The attackersreportedlyaccessed employee workstations and unclassified documents, marking what the department describes as a “major incident.” According to aBBC report, the cyberattacks targeted high-profile individuals, including President-elect Donald Trump and Vice-President-elect JD Vance, while also breaching a law enforcement wiretap database, potentially exposing surveillance on foreign spies....

Leading memory maker SK hynix today announced it has developed aUFS 4.1 storage solutionbuilt upon its 321-layer 4D NAND flash. The super dense NAND chips which will power these UFS 4.1 ICs are expected to facilitate both 512GB and 1TB capacities, and arrive in Q1 2026 in smartphones. Moreover, the new NAND chips are said to be 15% thinner than the previous generation, yet deliver “best-in-class consecutive reading performance” at low power....

Team Group showcased many of its new memory and storage devices duringComputex2024. The company introduced two M.2 SSDs- the T-Force GE Pro Gen 5 and the T-Create I54 Ai Gen 5 M.2 PCIe SSDs. It also showcased the Dark AirFlow 05 SSD cooler and a few external SSDs made for specific devices. This new series of SSDs are aimed towards content creators such as photographers and videographers, but Team Group have also begun catering to AI content generation, as many others have....

Teamgrouphas unveiled its latest CAMM2 (Compression Attached Memory Module 2) memory targeted at both mainstream and industrial consumers. Under the T-Create lineup, these modules operate at remarkable speeds while offering all the bells and whistles of the compact CAMM2 form factor. The memory designed for the mainstream segment operates at DDR5-7200 CL32-42-42-48 specifications, partly due to the factory overclock. Nonetheless, Teamgroup boasts read, write, and copy speeds of 113GB/s, 108GB/s, and 106GB/s, respectively, around 10-20% higher than JEDEC specs....

J5Create unveiled an upcoming Thunderbolt 5 dock atCES. This particular product stood apart by offering both an MXM graphics card built into it and an M.2 slot for an SSD, plus a good selection of high-speed I/O (viaTweakers). The JTD5174 dock has two variants: one fitted with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 laptop card, and the other with an AMDRadeonRX 7600M. These GPUs use the MXM form factor, which was introduced just over a decade ago to provide laptops with a standard for modular graphics cards....

U.S. President Donald Trump has posted on Truth Social, stating that he has reached a deal with Vietnam to allow U.S. goods to enter the country without a tariff. In exchange, Washington will reduce tariffs on Vietnamese goods from the initial figure of 46%, down to 20% — but the agreement includes a provision stating that transshipped goods (a method used by Chinese companies to circumvent tariffs) will still be subject to a 40% import tariff....

A Raspberry Pi Pico, a knob, and a wire are all you need to install a frequency-controlling dial on an old PC, asScrap Computing has demonstrated. The device is called the Throttle Blaster and allows users to adjust the clock speed of old CPUs from the Pentium and Athlon days by the megahertz. It essentially brings back an even better version of the turbo button to the classic CPUs that ditched it....

Tom’s Hardware Verdict WD’s latest portable hard drive lets you carry around 6TB of hardware-encrypted data for less than $200. Just don’t expect a svelte drive or fast speeds. 6TB for less than $200 256-bit AES hardware encryption Big, even for an external hard drive Why does Micro-B USB still exist? 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....

Have you ever had a computer turn on automatically even after you put it to sleep? If yes, it probably is due to theMoUSO Core Worker Process. It is a process that runs automatically in the background whenever we check or install aWindows update. The MoUSO Core Worker Process also has the ability to turn on a computer from sleep if it detects any issues while downloading or installing an update....

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5080 graphics card was launched on January 30th, 2025, and the demand for the latest 50-series cards was through the roof - even with the attached high price tag. We’ve seen that stock levels were very low, and evenNvidiaannounced possible stock-outswith insufficient units to meet the expected demand for these new cards. When new stock repopulates retailer shelves is the question, but we have you covered with this handy list....

Yesterday, the beloved legacy media player application Winamp released its source code onGitHub. Winamp isn’t as popular in today’s era of apps that stream music with licensing built in (a la Spotify and Apple Music), but back in the late 90s and early 2000s, it was by far the most popular third-party media player on PC. That should make this a momentous occasion— however, as many members of the FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) community have quickly pointed out, its highly restrictive license prevents a lot of what we’d usually expect from releases like this....

We recently reported thatMicrosoftisstifling third-party customization apps in its next Windows 11 build, 24H2, preventing outgoing iterations of Windows 11 from upgrading to the new build unless the flagged apps are deleted. However,Deskmodder.de reportsthat these blockages don’t stop with just 3rd party customization apps. Several drivers, apps, and hardware IDs have also been discovered that can trigger an update hold on 24H2, preventing Windows 11 from upgrading to the future Windows 11 build....

A young child in Taiwan was spotted wearing an unusual Halloween costume. A well-made replica of the ‘world’s largest graphics card’ that Juang pulled out of his oven whenNvidia unveiled the Ampere graphics architecturein 2020. This costume, which Nvidia shared on itsXaccount, shows theNvidia CEO’s continued popularity, especially on the island country. We spotted mini-Jensen in Taiwan, well-crafted GPUs in hand! In the spirit of the season, tag your costumes #NVIDIAHalloween for the chance to be featured on our Threads channel (https://t....