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Former billionaire Sam Bankman-fried’s fall from grace continued today as a U.S. court in New York granted him bail. Bankman-fried, who had been in the Bahamas ever since the collapse of his exchange that caused billions of losses all over, decided to return to the U.S. to face the charges against him in court. He is being accused of fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after making a software change to FTX’s trading algorithm that prevented it from automatically selling assets....

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Graphics Cards With Defective Memory Modules Enter The Reseller Market, Being Sold After Getting Abused In Crypto Mining Well, this was to be expected, the GPU mining flood is already here and there are several resale sites that have currently listed the entire range of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards well below their MSRPs. Chinese miners and South Asian ecafes now dismantling their mining rigs and putting cards up for auction on livestreams....

Self-judgment aside, Microsoft is offering quite a nice discount on its Surface Pro 8, helping you save $400 on the 256GB SSD/8GB RAM model (and other configs too). Surface Pro 8 is a brilliant device that the Windows maker says is designed to “light up the best of Windows 11, enabling you to work, play, and create in ways most natural to you.” That’s some solid copywriting right there… but we aren’t here to judge!...

The latest Blue Protocol Developer Stream also revealed new details on some of the game’s previously unknown features, such as a fishing minigame, a camping feature, beauty salons and dye shops that can be used to customize a character further, photo mode, and more. You can learn more about them in the English subtitled Developer Stream below, courtesy of Zakum. Blue Protocol launches on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S in the second half of 2023....

Aiming to ease the rising electricity tension this summer and optimize how people access to power, BLUETTI will have a Power Week from August 18 to August 28. As a market leader in the industry of portable power stations, BLUETTI firstly introduced the flagship models AC200MAX and AC300 in 2021, accompanied by the expansion battery packs B230 and B300. Before purchasing these units, scroll down to learn more about them....

This comes in the form of a $7.6 Million USD lawsuit filed against the individual known as Lord Nazo, or rather Nicholas Minor as he is known IRL. Minor is a disgruntled YouTube user who filed spurious claims against several Destiny 2 content creators. Why? Because his channel was hit by a series of takedowns from Bungie’s brand protection vendor, CSC Global, for uploading Destiny’s original soundtracks in December 2021....

Here’s the full rundown of everything included in Call of Duty: Vanguard/Warzone Season 2: Not a bad collection of new stuff, particularly given the somewhat anemic updates Call of Duty: Vanguard has received so far. Here’s a handy-dandy graphic for all the stuff coming (click on the image for full resolution). Prove yourself in Ranked Play. Launching alongside the 2022 Call of Duty League season, expect to begin your Ranked journey and play like the pros....

CapFrameX updates to add new support for AMD Zen 4 and Intel Sapphire Rapids, along with the latest Intel Raptor Lake and Arc-A graphics The PresentMon update to CapFrameX recently saw an update to add support for Windows 11 PCs. However, due to the operating system altering some of the few ETW events, the application was causing failures in detecting applications not utilizing DirectX 12. CapFrameX’s sensor readings submitted the product IDs for AMD Zen4 and Intel Sapphire Rapids processors to the software....

In this Keysfan’s Chinese New Year sale, Microsoft’s operating systems and office software are reduced to rock-bottom prices. Among them, the classic Windows 10 can be bought for only $7.43. And the latest Microsoft Office 2021 only $31.01. You don’t need to enter any discount code to get it! If you want to better handle your work from home with the latest operating system and office software. Bundle! 62% OFF, Windows OS and MS Office!...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Mobility GPUs Now Ending Up In Crypto Mining Market As Desktop-Grade Graphics Cards Pictures and retail listings of several repurposed graphics cards were posted by I_LEAK_VN. Asian OEMs are repurposing several NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series mobility GPUs, primarily the NVIDIA RTX 3070M & RTX 3060M, to meet the demand of the crypto segment. Although the demand has died down quite significantly, there are still some people who are investing in the ecosystem and expanding their existing setups....

When you have Incognito tabs open and you exit Chrome, the app will instantly lock those pages and you will require fingerprint authentication to get things working again. Chrome Will Soon Let You Lock Your Incognito Tabs Using Fingerprint Scanner on Android Launching the browser to return to those tabs will bring you to a grey screen with the Incognito logo in the center. There will also be text reading “Unlock Incognito” and tapping on it will open the system fingerprint unlocking page that will ask you to verify your fingerprint sensor....

Google Chrome Has Managed to Become Faster Than Safari Google has decided to make a post on the Chromium blog and explained the technological improvements that have been introduced over the past months to make Google Chrome the “fastest possible browser.” Google has said it in the M99 release of the browser, which is the newest version. Google also stated that it was able to “substantially” increase browser speeds across all major platforms....

Studio Logic shared on their YouTube channel a new video showcasing a stunning recreation of Arni Village powered by the Unreal Engine 5, showing how good a proper remake of the classic JRPG by Square Enix would look. A few months ago, Studio Logic also shared a recreation of another of Chrono Cross’ iconic locations, Opassa Beach. You can check out this other video below. As already mentioned, the classic PlayStation JRPG by Square Enix has been remastered with the Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition....

Earlier this week, the open-world role-playing game by the Polish studio has been expanded with The Quest - The Lower Market Rewards mod, which introduces a new explorable area, V’s megablock lower market, featuring repeating quests. These quests will not be available, however, if the player changed character levels and attributes beyond the game’s limits. The mod adds The Lower Market Rewards quest that activates automatically when the quest conditions are met ....

Today, at Future Game Show 2022, though, a surprise was in store for Deadly Premonition fans. Out of nowhere, a port for Steam was announced and its release date was included as well. You can watch the brand-new trailer for the PC launch below. The news of Deadly Premonition 2 coming to Steam is quite the surprise, given where the first version of the game was, and on that note, everything looks to be upscaled to work on computers....

A few hours ago, the profile picture of the Xbox Game Pass official Twitter profile has been changed to that of a landscape that looks quite a bit like the desolate Icelandic landscapes of Kojima Production’s unique open-world game. Some users have found what seems to be the same location, so it definitely feels like the game’s future addition to Xbox Game Pass is being teased. — NV (@naven0m) August 16, 2022 While Death Stranding originally launched as a PlayStation 4 exclusive, the PC version hasn’t been published by Sony, so the game coming to Xbox Game Pass PC isn’t that unlikely....

Looking pretty stylish! Certainly better than the embarassing-looking mishmash of clothes I’ve been running around the game in. Techland is promising 5 years of post-launch Dying Light 2 content, and have outlined the next six-months-or-so via a roadmap. Following this month’s free outfits, you can expect new challenges in March, and a series of mutated infected events in April. The game’s first paid story DLC will arrive sometime in June....

The 1.02 patch fixes, among other things, frame rate drops under certain conditions. As I highlighted in my review, the PC version does suffer from performance drops in the open-world in version 1.01, so this is a very welcome fix. I had the chance to try out the new update, and it indeed does improve performance. Catch the full Elden Ring 1.02 patch notes below. The launch of the Elden Ring 1....

Created by drs32 and uploaded to Nexus Mods by Xelerate, it replaces the in-game Confessor set with a wonderfully recreated Darth Vader suit. That said, to get the full effect you will also need to install a lightsaber mod such as the one created by KeyGerStrike and uploaded to Nexus Mods by riosep2039, which replaces the in-game Warhawk’s Talon weapon with a lightsaber. It’s certainly a great way to get in the mood for his return due later this month in the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi, where actor Hayden Christensen is set to reprise his role as the former Chosen One....

A new video shared by MxBenchmarkPC reveals that the latest patch for From Software’s latest game brings small performance improvements, at least at 1080p resolution. The Elden Ring patch 1.06 brought some important balance changes, such as tweaks to the Great Axe attack speed and changes to the Bloodhound Step and Quickstep Ashes of War and the Rivers of Blood katana. Videos shared by WaZeus, Gamers Cathedral, and Prizaa Gaming Channel highlight these changes by comparing the weapons and Ashes of War between different game versions....