A U.S. district judge “sentenced a Nintendo Switch hacker to 40 months in federal prison,” Gary Bowser, 52, is one of the leaders of the “Team Xecuter” hacker criminal enterprise, a notorious video game piracy gang, authorities said. The gang sold software to hack and download stolen games to various Read more…
Network gear maker Cisco Systems has made a takeover offer worth more than $20 billion for software maker Splunk, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The offer was made recently and the companies are not in active talks, the newspaper said, citing some of the sources. In November last Read more…
Playboy has plans to reboot its brand in the digital world through NFTs, digital subscriptions and a new mansion in the metaverse. The company has dropped thousands of Playboy NFTs featuring bunny avatars, launched a digital social platform called Centerfold and has plans to build a new Playboy Mansion in Read more…
Intel is entering the blockchain mining market with an upcoming GPU capable of mining Bitcoin. Intel insists the effort won’t put a strain energy supplies or deprive consumers of chips. The goal is to create the most energy-efficient blockchain mining equipment on the planet, it says. “We expect that our Read more…
Apple faces competition from many different brands all offering Android alternatives, but Xiaomi looks to be the most determined to beat it in the high-end phone market. As the South China Morning Post reports, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun posted on the microblogging platform Weibo on Tuesday, stating, “[We aim to] Read more…
Salesforce told employees at a sales kickoff on Wednesday that the company plans to release an NFT Cloud. Salesforce co-CEOs Marc Benioff and Bret Taylor both talked about the strategy at the online event, said one person who attended. The person asked not to be named because the event was Read more…
Nvidia is now a larger company than social media giant Meta. PC Gamer reports: In a meteoric turn of events, Nvidia has surged to become the 7th largest company in the US, despite being nowhere close only a few years ago, and helped along by Meta’s recent share price collapse. Read more…