Maker builds Raspberry Pi ASCII camera, turning video frames into text-based imagery

There are someRaspberry Piprojects that are just so cool, you don’t have to bother to ask why someone would ever create them. In our opinion, some of the best Pi projects come from makers who ask, “Why not?” and that’s exactly what maker and developer André Esser has done with his latest creation. Using our favorite SBC, he’s put together anASCII video cameraproject and showed it off at the latest Pi Jam conference....

July 18, 2025 · 3 min · 480 words · Michael Simpson

Malware found embedded in DNS, the system that makes the internet usable, except when it doesn't

DomainToolsreportedthat someone found a way to embed malware in Domain Name System (DNS) records, which means we have something new to blame on the system responsible for pretty much every networking problem most people may have. For anyone fortunate enough not to know already, DNS is the system that enables you to enter something like “tomshardware.com” in your browser’s address bar and, ideally, be taken to the IP address associated with our site....

July 18, 2025 · 4 min · 645 words · Jeremy Chang

Man who sold counterfeit Cisco networking gear on eBay and Amazon sentenced to six years in jail – Military, school and government agencies were victims of fraud scheme

Florida-based Onur Aksoy, who owns a group of companies that operated several online stores, was sentenced to six and a half years in prison after being proven guilty of selling $100 million worth of counterfeit Cisco network devices to several government, school, and military organizations. He also sold these products as new viaAmazonand eBay customers in the U.S. and internationally. According to court documents, Aksoy, who also held dual citizenship with Turkey, imported many modified network products via China and Hong Kong....

July 18, 2025 · 3 min · 608 words · Steven Reed

Meta is using more than 100,000 Nvidia H100 AI GPUs to train Llama-4 — Mark Zuckerberg says that Llama 4 is being trained on a cluster “bigger than anything that I’ve seen”

Mark Zuckerberg said on a Meta earnings call earlier this week that the company is training Llama 4 models “on a cluster that is bigger than 100,000H100AI GPUs, or bigger than anything that I’ve seen reported for what others are doing.” While the Facebook founder didn’t give any details on what Llama 4 could do,Wiredquoted Zuckerberg referring to Llama 4 as having “new modalities,” “stronger reasoning,” and “much faster.” This is a crucial development as Meta competes against other tech giants likeMicrosoft,Google, and Musk’s xAI to develop the next generation of AI LLMs....

July 18, 2025 · 3 min · 557 words · Paul Horne

Microsoft Teams Stuck on Loading? Here’s How to Fix it

Many users have reported Microsoft Teams being stuck on what seems like an infinite loop while trying to log into their accounts. This situation can be understandably frustrating as MS Teams show no error message that might help users to get back to using their accounts. As this problem is extremely generic by nature, users might have to test multiple solutions to fix this issue. In this article, we have listed the causes behind this issue with detailed solutions....

July 18, 2025 · 4 min · 812 words · Nicholas Marshall

Microsoft will soon implement Nvidia GeForce Now alongside Xbox Cloud Gaming for its first-party titles listed on Xbox.com

Just yesterday,Microsoftannounced through the Twitter Xbox account that GeForce Now was being added to Xbox.com’s “Play With Cloud” dialog, providing an option besides Xbox Cloud Gaming for Xbox’s first-party published games. Since this has yet to be fully implemented, the full extent of this change can’t yet be tested. However, from what we know about both services, Xbox Cloud Gaming (formerly Project xCloud) can’t provide image quality or input responsiveness on par with GeForce Now, so this is a better choice for cloud PC gamers who own Xbox games....

July 18, 2025 · 3 min · 530 words · John Lewis

Microsoft's redesign of the Windows 11's Weather app shoves in yet more ads

Microsoft has begun rolling out a major update to the Weather app. Don’t worry, your favorite ads are still there! Better yet, you’ll now get even more! pic.twitter.com/lJtsFyDLSmJune 29, 2024 Fortunately, we don’t live in a world without recourse for these things. While the staple Windows 11 app for removing built-in ads has yet to be updated for these in particular, most of Windows 11’s ads, including the infamous Start Menu ads, can already be disabled with the appropriately-named"Oh F*ck Go Back" utility....

July 18, 2025 · 2 min · 272 words · Benjamin Ramirez

MSI skips RDNA 4 and will not manufacture AMD Radeon 9000-series GPUs

TheRadeonRX 9070andRX 9070 XTare among thebest graphics cards. However, not all the usual vendors have embraced AMD’sRadeon RX 9000-series(RDNA 4) lineup. MSI has confirmed that it chose to forgo this generation of AMD Radeon graphics cards.We contacted MSI to determine if the company had plans to release any Radeon 9000-series graphics cards utilizing the RDNA 4 architecture. A company representative responded toTom’s Hardware, saying, “Regarding your question, MSI is not manufacturing AMD GPUs this generation....

July 18, 2025 · 4 min · 823 words · Taylor Cooley

Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more

Despite its 1996 release, theNintendo 64’s original hardware and games have both remained relatively hot-button in enthusiast circles here into 2024. Now, the next frontier of high-end N64 gameplay may be through recompiled PC ports instead of emulation, courtesy of Mr-Wiseguy on GitHub. Wiseguy is responsible for the release of bothN64RecompandZelda64Recomp, a project that portsThe Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Maskto PC with N64Recomp’s graphical and QoL improvements, as screenshotted above and highlighted by YouTuber Nerrel below....

July 18, 2025 · 3 min · 479 words · Anthony Li

Netflix ‘Cannot Play Title Error’? Here’s How to Fix it

Are you seeing an error like, ‘Cannot Play Title Please try again later.’ when you’re trying to watch a show on Netflix? Such an error is usually due to a problem with the internet connection or an error with the title itself. You might also encounter such an issue after a show on Netflix becomes frozen. So, without further ado, let’s check out some of the ways you’re able to fix the Netflix cannot play title error....

July 18, 2025 · 4 min · 725 words · Stephanie Hatfield

New adapters offer substantial industrial PCIe expansion — HighPoint's Rocket 1628A and 1528D support deploying up to 32 NVMe drives and 8 PCIe devices in a single slot

HighPoint Technologies, which specializes in storage solutions, just introduced two adapters that massively expand your system’s storage capacity through a single PCIe slot. According to the company’spress release, the Rocket 1628A and 1528D NVMe Switch Adapters let you directly plug up to eight PCIe devices into one PCIe 5.0 x16 or PCIe 4.0 x16 slot, or up to 32 NVMe drives via a UBM-compliant backplane. These adapters are primarily designed to give systems with limited space and PCIe/NVMe slots more connectivity options....

July 18, 2025 · 3 min · 491 words · Jamie Washington MD

New PlayStation 4 jailbreak accomplished using select LG Smart TVs running webOS

A new rooting method shows a jailbreak for the PlayStation 4 game console using anLGSmart TV. This method is unique, as it highlights the possibility of jailbreaking a device with nothing more than a smart TV, further increasing the accessibility of using homebrewed options. Several other methods have been used to root the PlayStation 4, such as theESP32or aRaspberry Pi. The process requires an LG Smart TV rooted with theWebOS Homebrew Channel....

July 18, 2025 · 2 min · 426 words · Mason Ortiz

Nvidia's RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti rumored launch in 'ten days' — but don't expect any stock until April

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 TiBlackwell GPUsare rumored to be releasing in just 10 days, according to hardware leaker@Zed__Wang. The RTX 5060 family of cards were previouslyrumored to launch in March, alongside a higher asking price than previous generation 60-class GPUs.Most likely, this is a guess based onNvidia’s GPU Technology Conference(GTC) that takes place from March 17–21 in San Jose, CA. It would be a prime showcase toannouncethe RTX 5060 class GPUs, which of course is an entirely different story than “launching” said GPUs....

July 18, 2025 · 4 min · 820 words · Lynn Sims