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Backblaze 2025 year-end drive stats. Backblaze has now published 13 years of Drive Stats data, one of the most extensive longitudinal datasets on hard drive reliability in production environments. Over time, this dataset has become a valuable reference for understanding drive performance trends across models, capacities, and deployment conditions. Today, they released the 2025 year-end Drive Stats report, which examines hard drive reliability from three perspectives: Q4 2025 performance, full-year 2025 annualized failure rates, and lifetime failure trends across qualifying drive models.
Study finds avid gamers have poor diets and sleep deprivation. The study split the participants into three groups: low gamers (0-5 hours per week), moderate gamers (5-10 hours per week), and high gamers (10+ hours per week). What the study found was that gaming for more than 10 hours per week is enough to have a significant negative impact on a person's overall health.
Study say video games can boost brain power and fight burnout. Compulsive video gameplay or excessive escapism used solely to avoid real problems can be maladaptive and undermine optimism by neglecting real-world agency. Moreover, playing [...] games can help mitigate individual experiences of burnout, but does not address systemic causes (eg, excessive workload, unfair practices). This, it may complement, not replace, organizational interventions."
Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful. "Hello, we're Firefox, the only browser that hasn't hit itself in the d1ck with a hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered d1ck. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our d1ck. Well I'm glad you asked–"
Fake windows BSOD is actually a malware trap. The next step of the attack is particularly devious, as the web page contains an error message that instructs users to refresh the page. However, performing the page refresh causes the browser to display a full screen message that mirrors a Windows BSOD (you know, those cryptic error messages that Microsoft's trying to make less cryptic). This fake blue screen contains steps that claim to "fix” the supposed error, when in reality they trick users into running a command that installs the malicious software.
Telcos, NBN Co face collective $7.3bn bill to renew wireless spectrum. ACMA chair Nerida O’Loughlin said the new total cost estimate reflected “market value”, with new benchmarking data impacting the regulator’s calculations. “Some of the current licensees sought to pay less than our estimations of the market value of the spectrum,” O’Loughlin said. “We considered all of the evidence and arguments, but our preferred position is that using the current market value is a fair price to pay for a public asset.”
Sony faces unpatchable PS5 jailbreak threat after ROM keys leak. TheCyberSecGuru anticipates that "we will see more sophisticated game backups and loaders appearing in 2026", and that "this leak significantly shortens the timeline for mass piracy". The route to (legitimate and illegitimate) emulation has also become a lot shorter, since leaked PS5 BootROM keys will make it easier for emulators to replicate booting and decrypting game loaders.
Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored hackers. According to the analysis provided by the security experts, the attack involved infrastructure-level compromise that allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic destined for notepad-plus-plus.org. The exact technical mechanism remains under investigation, though the compromise occurred at the hosting provider level rather than through vulnerabilities in Notepad++ code itself.
AirSnitch attack shows hackers can easily intercept encrypted Wi?Fi traffic. It's not all doom and gloom, thankfully. Co-author of the research paper Mathy Vanhoef also stated that AirSnitch is better described as an encryption bypass "in the sense that we can bypass client isolation. We don't break Wi-Fi authentication or encryption. Crypto is often bypassed instead of broken, and we bypass it. People who don't rely on client or network isolation are safe."
Toilet maker scores a royal flush as share price rises due to AI demand in chipmaking side-gig. Toto’s chucks are used to hold silicon wafers in place during chipmaking, while minimizing contamination. Over the years, analysts have charted this once side-gig for Toto ramping up to contribute over two-fifths of its operating income, based on March 2025 figures compiled by Bloomberg. It looks like investors are positive and eager to see an update to these figures, as everything the AI industry touches turns to gold, for now.
Webb creates auroras on Uranus. By utilizing Webb’s Near-Infrared Spectrograph, a global team of astronomers have successfully peered into Uranus' ignosphere, a region of the upper atmosphere loaded with charged particles. Unlike Earth’s auroras, which are primarily driven by solar winds, the auroras on Uranus are far more mysterious.
Keyboard, Mouse:
AQIRYS NOVA Gaming Mouse @ Madshrimps
G-Wolves HTM Plus @ TechPowerUp
Corsair GALLEON 100 SD Mechanical Keyboard @ TweakTown
Logitech Alto Keys K98M Wireless Mechanical Keyboard @ TweakTown
Cases, Cooling:
ID-Cooling FX360 LCD PE @ TechPowerUp
Cooler Master Cosmos Alpha @ TechPowerUp
Formula V Line Crystal U9 PA Mid Tower @ NikKTech
Storage:
Netac ZX20 II Portable SSD 2TB @ guru3D
TERRAMASTER D4 SSD 4-Bay NVMe DAS Enclosure @ TweakTown
Motherboard:
ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Dark Hero @ TechPowerUp
Video Card
MSI GeForce RTX 5070 12G Graphics Card @ TechPowerUp
This month's "Retro Let's Play" for March is Evil Dead; A Fist Full Of Boomstick from 2003
Developed with the full support of creators Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert and Bruce Campbell, Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick allows players to assume the role of Ash, the chainsaw-armed hero from the Evil Dead trilogy. Players will fend off hordes of Deadites with several weapons including the shovel, gatling gun, shotgun and chainsaw. Massive game environments include all new Evil Dead locations as players attempt to save the town of Dearborn from the influence of the Necromonicon ex Mortis--the Book of the Dead.
After a television station broadcasts the Book of the Dead tape live on air, the town of Dearborn is taken over by Deadites. You play as Ash, armed with his chainsaw, trusty boom stick and other weapons such as shovels, flamethrowers and guns, you must search the town to save the citizens from being infected by the Deadites and to save the town from being overrun by the unspeakable horrors which have spawned from the Necronomicon.
Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick mixes the comedy and fun of a campy horror movie with intense combat missions for the most complete Evil Dead game yet.
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