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Friday Afternoon
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Friday, 20-March-2026 13:54:48 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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StorageReview set a new record by calculating 314 trilling digits of pi. The calculation ran for months on a single Dell PowerEdge R7725, pushing modern CPU and storage infrastructure to the limit while demonstrating just how far enterprise hardware has come. When the run finally finished, however, the record itself turned out to be only part of the story. The computation produced a massive dataset comprising 628 files, each roughly 206 GB, totaling over 130 TB.
This from metamorphosis: Single Ram stick with fake dual for ram users who want to make their setup look like it's dual. Because clearly there is nothing more important happening in the world right now. As the article notes, fake RAM for glowing bling for empty slots isn't new, but maybe they're making a resurgence due to the AI-driven RAM pricing issue.
You should update your iPhone to avoid a serious exploit. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a new iOS full-chain exploit that leveraged multiple zero-day vulnerabilities to fully compromise devices. Based on toolmarks in recovered payloads, we believe the exploit chain to be called DarkSword. Since at least November 2025, GTIG has observed multiple commercial surveillance vendors and suspected state-sponsored actors utilizing DarkSword in distinct campaigns.
The laws around deepfakes became more strict in NSW last month. In 2025, the NSW Government strengthened protections against the non-consensual recording or sharing of sexual content by amending the Crimes Act 1900. The Act already covered sexually explicit image material but now includes digitally-generated deepfakes. This means that it is a crime in NSW to create or share sexual images or audio without consent – regardless of how they were made. It is also a crime to threaten to make such material.
Thursday Night Reviews
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Thursday, 19-March-2026 23:20:17 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Motherboard & CPU:
BIOSTAR Z890 Valkyrie Motherboard on NikKTech.
ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Dark Hero motherboard on Guru3D.
MSI MAG X870E Tomahawk Max Wi-Fi on TechPowerUp.
MSI MPG X870I Edge Ti Evo Wi-Fi on TechPowerUp.
Portable & Prebuilt:
ACEMAGIC K1 mini-PC on TechPowerUp.
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Review: Powerful, Familiar Flagship phone on HotHardware.
Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Gen 3 Review: RTX PRO 5000 Power in a True Workstation Laptop on StorageReview.
Lenovo ThinkPad P16s Gen 4 Review: RTX PRO 500 GPU With a CPU That Punches Above Its Tier on StorageReview.
Lenovo ThinkPad P16v Gen 3 Review: RTX PRO 2000 Benchmarked in a 4.6 lb Workstation on StorageReview.
Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 6 Review: Big Workstation Capability in a 14-Inch Design on StorageReview.
Audio Visual:
Dangbei Freedo Portable 1080p Projector on NeoSeeker.
SOUNDPEATS Cove Pro Bluetooth Headset on APHNetworks.
TP-Link Tapo C660 Kit Solar-Powered Pan/Tilt Security Camera Kit on Tweaktown.
aune SR7000 Closed Back Hi-Res Headphones on NikKTech.
Cases:
Antec Flux Pro Noctua Edition case on TechPowerUp.
MSI MAG Pano 120R PZ Case on ThinkComputers.
Antec FLUX Pro Noctua Edition Full-Tower Chassis on Tweaktown.
Cooler Master MasterFrame 360 Panorama on TechPowerUp.
Cooler Master COSMOS ALPHA Computer Case on APHNetworks.
CORSAIR 3200D RS ARGB on Vortez.
Storage:
ASUS ROG Strix Aiolos SSD Enclosure on TechPowerUp.
Corsair MP700 MICRO 4TB Review: PCIe Gen5 Performance in a Compact 2242 SSD on StorageReview.
Misc:
MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16G GAMING OC video card on NeoSeeker.
NETGEAR Orbi Wi-Fi 7 370 Dual Band Mesh System Review - Mid-Range Value on Tweaktown.
G.Skill Trident Z5 Royal Neo DDR5-6000 CL28 memory on ThePCEnthusiast.
CORSAIR VANGUARD AIR 99 WIRELESS Mechanical Keyboard on FunkyKit.
TRYX STAGE Liquid CPU Cooler on ThinkComputers.
FSP MEGA GM 1000W ATX3.1/PCIe 5.1 PSU on FunkyKit.
Epomaker Magcore 87 Gaming KeyboardEpomaker Magcore 87 Gaming Keyboard on MadShrimps.
Simagic Alpha EVO Ultra 28Nm Wheelbase for sim racing on Tweaktown.
Frontier AI Models Face Off: GPT-5.4 vs. Gemini 3.1 Pro vs. Claude Opus 4.6 vs. Grok 4.20 on Tweaktown.
Ubiquiti 10.0 CVE - Networking Security Concerns
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Thursday, 19-March-2026 20:57:49 (GMT +10) - by MUTMAN
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This news just in from DJ_Hippster
Ubiquiti just announced a CVE on their networking line which I'm sure plenty of you are using for home setups.
Base Score: 10.0 (Critical)
More info at this link
Please go and update your Cloud Keys, Unifi and On-Prem installations to ensure you are not exposed.
Further discussion in the thread
Away from my desk yet again, so here's Retro Misc Pics from September 2013:
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Audio Visual:
Razer BlackShark V3 Pro White Gaming Headset @ TechPowerUp
beyerdynamic DT 1990 PRO MKII Studio Headphones @ NikKTech
Keyboard, Mouse:
EPOMAKER TH80 V2 Mechanical Keyboard @ FunkyKit
Epomaker Galaxy100 Lite @ HotHardware
Turtle Beach Burst II Pro @ TechPowerUp
Turtle Beach Burst II Pro @ TweakTown
Corsair SABRE v2 PRO Wireless MG Gaming Mouse @ Madshrimps
Cases, Cooling:
Valkyrie Surge SL125 @ TechPowerUp
Montech Sky 3 @ TechPowerUp
Montech Sky 3 Mid-Tower Chassis @ TweakTown
Noctua NH-D15 G2 chromax.black @ Vortez
SAMA L70 360WH All-in-One Liquid Cooler @ APHnetworks
TRYX STAGE ARGB 360 AIO @ FunkyKit
Storage:
Asustor Drivestor 2 Gen2 AS1202T @ TechPowerUp
Orico K20 Mini 2TB Magnetic Portable SSD @ TweakTown
PSU:
be quiet! Dark Power 14 1000W Power Supply @ APHnetworks
MONTECH BETA 2 850W PSU @ Vortez
SAMA B850 PSU Review @ Vortez
ENERMAX PlatimaxII 1200DF ATX 3.1 Power Supply Unit @ NikKTech
Portable, Prebuilt:
Origimagic C2 Neo Mini PC (Intel N95) @ FunkyKit
Google Pixel 10a @ HotHardware
GEEKOM IT15 AI (Intel Core Ultra 9 285H) @ TweakTown
Misc:
NETGEAR Nighthawk 5G M7 Mobile WiFi 7 Router with eSIM @ TweakTown
Patriot MD330 Storage Hub @ ThinkComputers
GIGABYTE X870E AORUS Elite X3D Motherboard @ TweakTown
Busy busy busy. Happy birthday to my wife and my Dad for yesterday!
     
     
     
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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Ugh, feeling crappy the last couple of days. It's either jetlag or existential dread, I can't be sure. Anyhoo, thanks to Scott and metamorphosis this week!
     
     
     
     
Friday Afternoon Reviews
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Friday, 27-February-2026 13:37:06 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Motherboard & CPU:
ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial on TechPowerUp.
Gigabyte X870E AORUS PRO X3D ICE Motherboard on FunkyKit.
Sapphire PURE X870E WIFI 7 on Guru3D.
ASRock B850 Challenger WiFi Gaming Motherboard on FunkyKit.
ASRock Z890 Steel Legend Wi-Fi on TechPowerUp.
MSI MEG X870E ACE Max Motherboard on HWAsylum.
MSI MEG X870E Ace Max Review - A baby Godlike on Tweaktown.
Audio Visual:
Creative Zen Hybrid SXFI Headset on MadShrimps.
AVerMedia CamStream 4K Review - Turn That Pro Camera Into a Plug-and-Play Broadcast Studio on Tweaktown.
Cases:
Thermaltake View 380 WS ARGB Snow Mid Tower Chassis on FunkyKit.
Formula V Line Crystal U9 PA on TechPowerUp.
Storage:
KLEVV CRAS C925G Gen4 Solid State Drive on ThinkComputers.
Phison Pascari X200P 7.68TB Enterprise SSD Review - Sequential Read Champion on Tweaktown.
Micron 9550 Pro E1.S 15mm 7.68TB SSD on Tweaktown.
Cooling:
Noctua NH-D15 G2 chromax.black CPU Cooler on APHNetworks.
Montech NX600 ARGB CPU Cooler on Tweaktown.
ASRock Phantom Gaming 360 LCD Liquid CPU Cooler on ThinkComputers.
be quiet! PURE LOOP 3 LX 360mm AIO on MadShrimps.
ASRock Phantom Gaming 360 LCD AIO cooler on Vortez.
Thermaltake TH360 V3 Ultra ARGB Sync AIO Liquid Cooler on FunkyKit.
Portable & Prebuilt:
Acer Predator Orion 7000 (Core Ultra 9 285K + RTX 5090) Desktop Gaming PC on Tweaktown.
Samsung Galaxy S26 Series Hands-On With Buds 4 Live At Unpacked 2026 on HotHardware.
Razer Handheld Dock Chroma Review: Universal Gaming Dock With Classy RGB on HotHardware.
Dell XPS 14 (2026) Laptop Review: A Great Return To Form on HotHardware.
Ninkear S14 Review - A Featherweight Laptop for a Budget Price on TechPowerUp.
Input Etc:
be quiet! Dark Perk Ergo & Sym Gaming Mice on NikKTech.
Logitech G PRO X2 SUPERSTRIKE Wireless Gaming Mouse Review - Competitive Gaming Perfected on Tweaktown.
ARYE RCC-1 mouse on TechPowerUp.
Epomaker Luma40 Wireless Mechanical Keyboard on APHNetworks.
Software:
Resident Evil Requiem Performance Benchmark on TechPowerUp.
Resident Evil Requiem Handheld Performance on TechPowerUp.
Styx Blades of Greed Performance Benchmark on TechPowerUp.
Misc:
Thermal Grizzly WireView Pro II Monitoring Device on NikKTech.
Creality K2 Pro Combo 3D Printer on NikKTech.
DJI Power 2000 Power Station video review on Funkyhome.
ORIGIN CODE Vortex DDR5-6000 192 GB CL26 memory on TechPowerUp.
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