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  • Alphacool shows modular Apex Pro Skeleton case with target price around 800 euros

    Water cooling manufacturer Alphacool will show its modular Apex Pro Skeleton housing during Computex 2024. This is partly made of carbon fiber and has an open design. The company is also showing a DDC pump that should perform comparable to a larger D5 model. The Apex Pro Skeleton is, according to Alphacool, a modular housing…

  • TRYX Demonstrates Lower Cost Version of Panorama Cooler

    The Panorama cooler from the relatively unknown TRYX has been for sale in China for some time, but will also come to Europe at the end of July. TRYX is working on a cheaper successor, the Panorama SE, for introduction after CES. At a price of approximately 250 euros, it would be cheaper than the…

  • LinkedIn restricts targeted advertisements after complaints from privacy organizations

    LinkedIn will no longer allow targeted advertisements based on sensitive data on its platform, Bits of Freedom reported on Friday. Earlier this year, the civil rights movement filed a complaint about this with the European Commission. The social media platform no longer allows advertisers worldwide to target users in the EEA with advertisements based on…

  • Seasonic is working on 'solid state heatsinks' for power supplies

    Seasonic wants to equip its power supplies with heatsinks, which the company calls OptiSink Design. These should replace traditional heatsinks, to which Mosfets are screwed, and should cool those Mosfets better. The first power supplies with this technology should be models from the cheaper Focus and Core series. With the OptiSink Design heatsinks, Seasonic wants…

  • Sedition lawsuit against government after illegal immigrant kills Polish soldier

    Published 9 June 2024 at 09.33 Foreign. On May 28, disgruntled illegal immigrants stabbed a Polish soldier through the fence between Belarus and Poland. Now the soldier has died of his injuries – and within the Polish Armed Forces there is a mood of rebellion against the liberal Donald Tusk and his government. Share the…

  • All parties above the barrier – SD decreases

    Published 9 June 2024 at 23.54 Domestic. With 86 percent of the votes counted, the EU election appears to be a sleepy story, with a lower turnout than in 2019. SD backs off by 2 percentage points to 13.3 percent and all parties – including the Liberals – pass the hurdle and remain in the…

  • Media Player Classic – Black Edition 1.7.2

    Media Player Classic is a small no-nonsense media player with the appearance of Windows Media Player 6.4. After Gabest, the original creator of MPC, ceased development, several projects emerged based on the open source code. Home Cinema and Black Edition are the best known. MPC – BE can handle the most commonly used media formats,…

  • XMG will release AMD and Intel Ultrabooks without separate GPUs in July

    XMG has presented two new EVO Ultrabook laptops that do not contain a separate video card. The EVO 14 and 15 are supplied with an Intel Core or AMD Ryzen SoC with an IGPU, where previous EVO models still had a dedicated GPU. XMG is showing the two new models at the Computex fair in…

  • Netflix is ​​testing new design of Apple TV app

    Netflix is ​​testing a new version of its app for Apple TV. The appearance of the app has changed and should make it easier for the user to request information about programs and films. The new UI will first be tested among a small group of subscribers before it is rolled out to all Apple…

  • Meta rolls out AI tools for customer contact to the business version of WhatsApp

    Meta will roll out new AI tools for WhatsApp Business. One of the AI ​​tools creates advertisements for Facebook and Instagram, where customers are immediately redirected to the company's WhatsApp channel when they click. The advertising tool will first be released in Singapore and the US, reports Meta . In addition to the ad creation…

  • UWV has purchased an AI tool that may not comply with GDPR

    The Dutch Employee Insurance Agency has purchased an AI system that may not comply with the GDPR. The system does not work with data from citizens who are in a process with the UWV, but the AI ​​may incorrectly collect data from the internet. The UWV writes in an annual evaluation of the new AI…

  • Large cordons after suspected rape in Västerås

    Published 9 June 2024 at 11.09 Domestic. The entire Västerås city park is cordoned off by police since a woman has stated that she was raped in the park during the night. Share the article TwittraShare – We are investigating a rape which must have taken place outdoors. The plaintiff is a woman. We received…

  • Ukrainian attack inside Russia

    Published 9 June 2024 at 12.01 Foreign. For the first time since the outbreak of war in 2022, Ukraine has attacked North Ossetia in southern Russia, according to local authorities in the Russian republic. Share the article TwitterShare The drones are believed to have a military airfield as a target, the Russian air base in…

  • Another three battery factories are put on hold

    Published 9 June 2024 at 14.33 Economics. A further three car battery factories in German Kaiserslautern and Italian Termoli are put on hold after a decline in sales of electric cars, writes Ny Teknik. This means that the EU's plans to become a “superpower” in electric car batteries are definitely in tatters. Share the article…

  • High chance that the Liberals will leave the EU Parliament tonight

    Published 9 June 2024 at 17.34 Domestic. There are many indications that the Liberals are leaving the EU Parliament and that the party is thus forced to arrange a new livelihood for its only member, Karin Karlsbro. But this year's polling station survey – which SVT releases shortly after the polling stations close – is…

  • Forecast: AFD second largest in the German election

    Published 9 June 2024 at 18.10 Foreign. It looks tricky for the ruling left in the German EU elections, a polling station survey shows. Share the article TwittraShare Christian Democratic CDU looks set to become largest party in Germany with 23.5 percent of the vote, according to a first polling station survey from the state-run…

  • DuckDuckGo lets users chat anonymously with AI chatbots

    Search engine DuckDuckGo has added a feature that lets users chat anonymously with AI chatbots like ChatGPT 3.5 and Claude 3. The conversations are anonymous and the data is not used to train LLMs. < p>The chatbots currently available through the feature are GPT 3.5 Turbo, Claude 3 Haiku, Meta Llama 3 and Mixtral 8x7B,…

  • Lian Li unveils AIO water cooler with hidden hoses and screen

    Lian Li has presented a new AIO water cooler with a 'cableless' design. The hoses can be concealed with an attachment. The HydroShift has a display that shows information and is optionally available as an RGB version. The cooler is called HydroShift LCD. It is an all-in-one CPU cooler with a design in which the…

  • Bioware renames Dragon Age: Dreadwolf and broadcasts livestream on June 11

    Bioware has changed the name of the unreleased RPG Dragon Age: Dreadwolf to Dragon Age: The Veilguard. In addition, the developer reports that a live stream of the game will be broadcast on June 11 at 5:00 PM Dutch time. The name was changed because Bioware did not think the old title fit well with…

  • US to investigate AI market power of Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI

    US authorities are allowed to investigate Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia to see whether these companies have abused their market power in the artificial intelligence market. The companies are said to maintain a vendor lock-in and unfairly bundle products. The US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have been given permission to launch an…

  • Bunq will detect remote access tools to stop phishing attacks

    Bunq will apply various security measures to prevent phishing attacks. The bank is doing this after it previously emerged that relatively many customers became victims. The measures include detection for rats, the ability to recover 2fa codes and warnings. Bunq writes on its forum that it has implemented several new security measures. The company already…

  • Q Dir 11.67

    Software OK has released version 11.67 of Q-Dir. Q-Dir is a free file manager. It looks a bit like Windows Explorer, but with four screens, making it easy to move, manage or view files. This also explains the name: the Q stands for quad. The download is approximately one megabyte in size and the program…

  • Adesso shows the first separate keyboards with a separate Copilot button

    The first separate keyboards with a separate Copilot button seem to be going on sale quickly. Adesso will be showing a number of stand-alone models in different shapes and versions at the Computex. Tweakers spotted the keyboards on the stand of Adesso, a manufacturer of peripherals that also supplies products in the Netherlands. Adesso also…

  • Minisforum shows AtomMan mini PC with water cooler and narrow, tall shape model

    Minisforum announced a new mini-PC with a water cooler at Computex. The AtomMan X7 Pt does not have a built-in GPU, but does contain a Ryzen 8 SoC. The manufacturer also comes with a mini-PC with a narrow, but high form factor with a built-in RTX 4070. Minisforum shows the products during Computex. These are…