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Since the unexpected wealth cannot be easily reclaimed by the crypto company, the world now apparently has a few more crypto millionaires who will probably have to pay lots of taxes on their huge prize.

Facebook users are complaining of outages in their thousands. The social media giant reportedly developed these problems today (October 4, 2021), causing a loss of service on its main site, not to mention other popular apps such as Instagram and WhatsApp. A representative has acknowledged the apparently global issue.

POCO has opened a public bug report in regard to the widely reported ghost screen issue that has affected many owners of the company’s smartphones. Although the report specifically mentions the POCO X3 Pro, many other Global devices have suffered from ghost touch problems. A user has offered up a fix for PUBG Mobile that might work for some.

2020's iPhone 12 had been found to be very independent repair-unfriendly by a prominent Australia-based vlogger. Now, a follow-up video asserts that this situation has gotten even worse in 2021. Replacing some components apparently causes more iPhone functions to break, some of the 13 series' newest features included.

Konami released eFootball 2022 yesterday, its replacement for the Pro Evolution Soccer franchise. The company has already apologised for the state in which the game shipped though, with the volume of bugs present overshadowing any changes that Konami has made. eFootball 2022 will receive an update later this month across all platforms.

Mobvoi has changed its tune about the TicWatch E3 and TicWatch Pro 3 again, confirming that the company never sold either smartwatch with the Snapdragon Wear 4100+. The company is yet to explain why it thought it could get away with claiming that it was shipping the pair with a more capable SoC.

A Twitter user claims that his OnePlus Nord 2's charger spontaneously exploded when it was connected to the wall. The actual smartphone was unplugged and did not sustain any damage. OnePlus investigated the issue and determined its cause to be voltage fluctuations.

An Intel Core i9-12900 Alder Lake chip has been spotted being tested on an Asus ROG Maximus Z690 Extreme motherboard. The upcoming 16-core, 24-thread processor somehow managed to obliterate performance records on UserBenchmark, easily surpassing the average bench and 1-core scores of the Intel Core i9-11900K.

According to GoPro, the Hero 10 Black is unable to record videos at high resolutions and framerates for extended periods. The company claims that these resolutions, framerates and video lengths are way beyond what most people use their GoPro for. The reality is that the GoPro Hero 10 Black cannot record at 2.7K and 60 FPS for more than 20 minutes in a room without overheating and shutting down.

Mobvoi is now advertising the TicWatch E3 and TicWatch Pro 3 as featuring the Snapdragon Wear 4100+, an SoC also found in the Fossil Gen 6. All evidence points to Mobvoi pulling the wool over people's eyes, unfortunately.

Many users have complained about degraded performance on their consoles after installing the latest PS4 System Software Update 9.00. While many consoles are unaffected, a few have been rendered unusable. Sony is yet to issue a statement on the matter.

The NVIDIA RTX 3080 and RTX 3080 Ti are some of the most expensive graphics cards on the market right now, even if they are perennially out of stock. Unfortunately, there are no guarantees that your graphics card will be built correctly, as some people recently discovered with their Founders Edition and custom cards.

Xiaomi has reportedly stated that users affected by the recent bout of remote phone locking can now start using their devices again. Apparently, the locking of Xiaomi, Redmi, and POCO phones out of the blue in prohibited countries such as Cuba and Iran was carried out as part of an investigation into grey market practices.

Eight copper tubes for a laptop with a Core i5 U-series CPU? 1920 x 1200 native resolution for a 16:9 form factor? Chuwi may need to make some specification corrections to its latest 15.6-inch laptop.

Two alleged Google Pixel 6 Pro records on Geekbench have revealed different configurations for the Tensor SoC that subsequently results in a substantial performance difference. While the newer record shows the supposed Pixel 6 Pro benching with two X1 cores, the one-day older appearance depicts a single X1 core with faster support cores.

Yet another OnePlus Nord 2 has gone up in flames. The phone reportedly exploded spontaneously even though it wasn't charging or in use at all. Unlike the previous case, however, OnePlus may find this incident difficult to sweep under the carpet, as the owner of the exploded Nord 2 is a lawyer who looks set file a charge that could see Nord 2 sales discontinued entirely in India.

Fossil has done some optimising of its Gen 5 smartwatches, apparently. In an attempt to free-up memory and improve performance, the company has deleted about two-thirds of the watch faces that were previously available. To its credit, Fossil has added two watch faces in place of those that it has removed.

Reports of Pixel 3 or 3 XL device that enter a state in which they become irretrievably unresponsive out of nowhere in the exact same way are growing in number. Such complaints from their phones' users have arisen as early as December 2020, and have now accumulated in number. To date, there is no solution reported to work for all of them.

The game will be released in two separate versions for Sony's last and current-gen console, and only the more expensive special editions for the PlayStation 4 will receive a free upgrade to the PS5 version. For many fans of the game who are affected by the current shortage of PS5 consoles, this means that they would have to buy the game twice should they finally snatch a PlayStation 5.

Scalpers have started raising the prices of PlayStation 5 consoles following a controversial PS5 teardown video. Two models of the Sony machine, the original 1015B and revised 1100B, have been differentiated by their heat sinks, with scalpers reckoning desperate shoppers will be willing to pay more for the launch PS5.

The Windows 11 Insider Preview Programme channels have parted ways this week, with the Dev Channel moving onto the next version of the OS. However, the two channels may be running different versions of Windows 11 now, but Microsoft managed to break both builds with a poorly implemented advert built right into the taskbar.

A few weeks ago, some EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 started dying after running Amazon's new game New World. It turns out that Amazon is not to blame, nor is a faulty fan controller.

If you are running Windows 11 on an incompatible machine, then you are at the end of the road as far as the Insider Preview Programme goes. For some reason, Microsoft is informing people that they must revert their devices to Windows 10. There is a workaround, albeit with limitations.

Samsung has released the second firmware update to its two new smartwatches, the Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch4 Classic. The update brings with it a few handy new features, but owners are already complaining about overheating issues and short battery life with LTE models.

An apparent fan-made concept design of the Xiaomi 12 has started appearing on social media, with some sites reporting it as a first look at a live image of the upcoming flagship. However, this particular “Xiaomi 12” has a fatal flaw in the design for the main camera arrangement.

A revealing PlayStation 5 teardown video has compared the launch PS5 against the new revised PS5. It appears Sony has cut a crucial corner to help turn the popular console from a loss-making product into profit-providing hardware. The thorough teardown uncovered exactly how the new PS5 manages to be 300 g/0.66 lb lighter.

The Redmi Note 10 has been given another price hike in India. The popular smartphone from Xiaomi was officially launched in March of this year at the highly attractive price of ₹11,999 (US$162) for the 4/64 GB model. The Redmi Note 10 received a hefty price hike in early August and now the base model price tag has been upped again.

Smartphone fires can be deadly, but especially when they occur on an aircraft. Unfortunately for Samsung, one of its smartphones was involved in such an incident on an Alaska Airlines flight, resulting in an evacuation of all passengers and crew members.

Samsung really does not want people unlocking their devices. With the Galaxy Z Fold 3, unlocking the bootloader disables the device's cameras. While seemingly a software lock, it is not a good look for the South Korean company.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 struggles to keep its VRAM temperatures in check anyway, with the GA102-based card shown to exceed temperature thresholds in stress tests. However, NVIDIA left a finger glove inside a Founders Edition card during assembly, much to the surprise of its owner.

Samsung and Apple have been known to sneak-diss each other regularly as befitting of their rivalry. Samsung's latest attempt may be considered by some to be a low blow, however, with the company appearing to make a reference to late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in a theme description.

The AMD Ryzen 5 5600X has taken over as a firm fan favorite with DIY PC builders judging by the latest CPU sales data taken from Mindfactory, a huge German retailer that specializes in consumer electronics. Strong sales of both Zen 2 and Zen 3 desktop chips have left AMD far ahead of Intel in this interesting snapshot of the semiconductor market.

Google's new Pixel 5a 5G has been hailed for being a solid device for the money. It appears that the phone, or some specific units anyway, has a rather annoying issue: a tendency to overheat while recording 4K60 FPS video.

At a time when companies like Remedy have received flak for how they handle cross-gen game upgrades, EA has decided on a $40 asking price for NHL 22 cross-gen compatibility. Gamers will need to shell out $100 for what’s described as “cross-gen entitlement,” nearly double the cost of the base game.

A Redmi executive has accused Realme of being copycats after the latter company supposedly and blatantly copied some of Xiaomi’s recent initiatives. Ironically, Xiaomi has frequently been accused of copying Apple, especially in terms of actual product design. Realme and Xiaomi/Redmi are fierce competitors in many markets.

The hacker who found the critical security flaw in Steam's payment process promptly reported the exploit to Valve and has since been rewarded for his honesty.

A young Indian man has died from a suspected cardiac arrest following a device explosion while using his Bluetooth earphones. Conflicting reports about the incident have started appearing; however, it seems the fatal earphones blast could have been down to a devastating combination of shoddy manufacturing and a possible power surge.

Recent Weibo posts showing a OnePlus 9 Pro in a new and heretofore unavailable color option have led to confusion on the point of whether the OEM actually intends to release the variant as a limited edition or not. The OEM has had to clarify its status in a new statement.

Fast-food behemoth McDonald's has developed a curious DualSense controller covered in a Big Mac and fries livery. Apparently, Sony was unimpressed by the custom PlayStation 5 controller, because it has prevented the controller from being released.

A new device has gone up in flames, this time the recently launched OnePlus Nord 2. A user has now reported that their wife's Nord 2 "spontaneously" went up in flames while cycling, with OnePlus reaching out a while ago.

Following The Ascent’s simultaneous launch on Steam and Xbox Game Pass, gamers noticed that the Xbox version broke support for both DLSS upscaling and ray-traced visuals. After a few days of uncertainty, Neon Giant cleared things up by promising a patch, fixing these features in the Game Pass version.

The incident supposedly did not have a noticeable negative effect on the production of the microchips for the upcoming generation of iPhones, but considering the tense situation on the semiconductor market, even small delays could eventually have major repercussions.

The California-based computer hardware company promises to replace the ultra-expensive graphics cards that have been damaged beyond repair by Amazon's New World MMORPG. Meanwhile, it remains unclear what is going to happen with other GPU models that have also been bricked by the game.

Google has revealed that upcoming Wear OS smartwatches from Mobvoi, Fossil and its subsidiaries will not launch with its 'new unified platform'. Instead, new models will only receive Wear OS 3 next year, unlike those released by Fitbit and Samsung.

Police in the Malaysian city of Miri busted a Bitcoin mining operation that used over 1,000 ASICs. The authorities then proceeded to run a steamroller over the equipment and captured it on video. Bitcoin mining isn't illegal in Malaysia, but the perpetrators were charged with stealing RM8.4 million (US$1.9 million) worth of power from the city grid.

Crescendo, a Super Mario Bros speedrunner, recently posted a video showcasing a world record, beating the Nintendo classic in less than 12 minutes, while blindfolded.

It seems that the Ukrainian crypto mining setup that used PS4 Slims for the task was something less sinister. An investigation by a local news agency revealed that it was little more than a network to grind FIFA Ultimate Team coins, which would subsequently end up being sold on third-party websites.

In a perfect world, honest customers should not be bothered by DRM mechanisms that silently run in the background while playing a game. However, a cracked version of CAPCOM's new Triple-A title Resident Evil Village has now unveiled that the integrated copy protection may be the root cause for the poor performance that is plaguing the PC version of the highly-anticipated horror game.

The Twitter handle that deals with Bethesda merchandise inadvertently Tweeted about some new Mass Effect goodies two times within an hour. Bioware and Bethesda use the same company (Dpipromo) for merch-related things, meaning an employee likely forgot to switch handles.

Many users on Lenovo's forums are reporting missing encoding codecs on their Legion laptops after a recent BIOS update. This issue appears to exclusively affect Legion units sold in Germany, potentially due to now-settled litigation with Nokia.