Dell has one of the best prices on an RTX 5080 equipped prebuilt desktop computer. Right now you can pick up an Alienware Aurora R16 RTX 5080 gaming PC from $2,349.99 shipped. This is a good price for a well-engineered (and warrantied) rig that can handle 4K gaming at high frame rates. In the current market, buying a prebuilt gaming PC is the only way to score an RTX 5080 GPU without paying an exorbitant markup. If you were to try to find a 5080 GPU for your diy PC build, you'll probably spend nearly as much for the GPU as you would for an entire system.Alienware Aurora R16 RTX 5080 Gaming PC for $2,350Alienware Aurora R16 Intel Core Ultra 7 265F RTX 5080 Gaming PC (16GB/1TB)$2,349.99 at AlienwareThis Alienware Aurora R16 gaming PC is equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 7 265F CPU, GeForce RTX 5080 GPU, 16GB of DDR5-5200MHz RAM, and a 1TB NVMe SSD. The current-gen Intel Core Ultra 7 265F Meteor Lake CPU boasts a max turbo frequency of 5.3GHz with 20 cores and a 30MB cache. It's cooled by a robust 240mm all-in-one liquid cooler and the entire system is powered by a generously equipped 1,000W 80PLUS Platinum power supply.Upgrade to an Intel Core Ultra 9 processor for $100 moreAlienware Aurora R16 Intel Core Ultra 9 285 RTX 5080 Gaming PC (32GB/1TB)Starting this week, Dell is offering a second RTX 5080 configuration for sale. This one's equipped with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285 processor with a max turbo frequency of 5.6GHz and 24 cores. It will perform about the same as the Ultra 7 in terms of gaming, but it will be better for rendering and productivity apps that can make use of the extra cores.The GeForce RTX 5080 GPU will run any game in 4KThe RTX 5080 is the second best Blackwell graphics card, surpassed only by the $2,000 RTX 5090. It's about 5%-10% faster than the previous generation RTX 4080 Super, which is discontinued and no longer available. In games that support the new DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation exclusive to Blackwell cards, the gap widens.Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 FE Review, by Jacqueline Thomas"If you already have a high-end graphics card from the last couple of years, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 doesn’t make a lot of sense – it just doesn’t have much of a performance lead over the RTX 4080, though the extra frames from DLSS 4 Multi-Frame Generation do make things look better in games that support it. However, for gamers with an older graphics card who want a significant performance boost, the RTX 5080 absolutely provides – doubly so if you’re comfortable with Nvidia’s AI goodies."More Alienware Prebuilt Gaming PC DealsLooking for gaming laptops and monitors too? Check out all of the best Alienware deals of 2025.Alienware Aurora R16 Intel Core Ultra 7 265F RTX 5080 Gaming PC (16GB/1TB)$2,349.99 at AlienwareAlienware Aurora R16 Intel Core Ultra 9 285 RTX 5080 Gaming PC (32GB/1TB)New ReleaseAlienware Area-51 Intel Core Ultra 9 285K RTX 5090 Gaming PC (32GB/2TB)Alienware Aurora R16 Intel Core Ultra 7 265F RTX 5070 Gaming PC$1,849.99 at AlienwareNew for 2025Alienware Area-51 Intel Core Ultra 7 265 RTX 5080 Gaming PC (32GB/1TB)$3,749.99 at AlienwareWhy Should You Trust IGN's Deals Team?IGN's deals team has a combined 30+ years of experience finding the best discounts in gaming, tech, and just about every other category. We don't try to trick our readers into buying things they don't need at prices that aren't worth buying something at. Our ultimate goal is to surface the best possible deals from brands we trust and our editorial team has personal experience with. You can check out our deals standards here for more information on our process, or keep up with the latest deals we find on IGN's Deals account on Twitter.Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn't hunting for deals for other people at work, he's hunting for deals for himself during his free time. Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/alienware-aurora-r16-rtx-5080-gaming-pc-deal-6 #the #alienware #aurora #r16 #prebuilt #gaming #with #geforce #rtx #gpu #available #from

The failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 has finally met its end after a remarkable 53-year journey in Earth orbit. Launched in 1972 under USSR's Venera programme, the probe re-entered Earth's atmosphere on May 10 at 2:24 a.m. ET (0624 GMT), with Russia's space agency Roscosmos confirming its descent over the Indian Ocean, west of Jakarta, Indonesia. Although the debris was thought to have safely splashed down, other international space tracking organisations had pinpointed possible reentry sites as far afield as South Asia and the eastern Pacific, making the final impact location at least somewhat even hours after the event.Kosmos 482's Fiery Fall Captured Before Impact, Sparking Concerns Over Space Junk ThreatAs per reports by Roscosmos and astronomer Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project, the spacecraft was captured in a striking image during one of its final orbits over Rome. In the picture, Kosmos 482 appears as a dashed trail — a result of the probe streaking across a composite of four images. Originally intended to land on Venus, the lander had failed to leave Earth's orbit due to a launch malfunction, leading it into an elongated Earth-bound trajectory for over five decades. Its descent was guided slowly by atmospheric drag.The 495-kilogram probe may have remained intact during reentry, as it was engineered to survive Venus's dense atmosphere. Marco Langbroek, a Dutch satellite tracker, mentioned that if Kosmos 482 had impacted the surface as one piece, it would have had an impact velocity of about 150 mph and the energy of a small to mid-size meteorite. This fall has led to discussion over growing space debris risks.ESA data shows that, on average, three significant pieces of debris land on Earth daily. With mega constellations like SpaceX's Starlink and Amazon's Kuiper set to launch thousands of satellites, experts warn that uncontrolled reentries will likely happen with greater frequency.ESA officials have pointed out that although the threat to people is low, repeated strikes could become a hazard over time, not just from crashes but also from pollutants that are purged at reentry and may damage the ozone layer or shift climate trends. Source: https://www.gadgets360.com/science/news/soviet-venus-lander-kosmos-482-falls-to-earth-after-53-years-in-orbit-8395425#rss-gadgets-news #soviet #venus #lander #kosmos #crashes #earth #after #years #orbit

Nature, Published online: 07 May 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08947-7A synthetic biology approach was used to engineer Vibrio natriegens into a strain capable of bioremediating complex organic pollutants in saline wastewater and soils, thereby addressing notable threats to marine biosecurity. المصدر: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08947-7 #Bioremediation #complex #organic #pollutants #engineered #ampltiampgtVibrio #natriegensampltiampgt

May 13, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Konni APT has been attributed to a phishing campaign targeting government entities in Ukraine, indicating the threat actor's targeting beyond Russia. Enterprise security firm Proofpoint said the end goal of the campaign is to collect intelligence on the "trajectory of the Russian invasion." "The group's interest in Ukraine follows historical targeting of government entities in Russia for strategic intelligence gathering purposes," security researchers Greg Lesnewich, Saher Naumaan, and Mark Kelly said in a report shared with The Hacker News. Konni APT, also known as Opal Sleet, Osmium, TA406, and Vedalia, is a cyber espionage group that has a history of targeting entities in South Korea, the United States, and Russia. It's operational since at least 2014. Attack chains mounted by the threat actor often involve the use of phishing emails to distribute malware called Konni RAT (aka UpDog) and redirect recipients to credential harvesting pages. Proofpoint, in an analysis of the threat group published in November 2021, assessed TA406 to be one of several actors that make up the activity publicly tracked as Kimsuky, Thallium, and Konni Group. The latest set of attacks documented by the cybersecurity company entails the use of phishing emails that impersonate a fictitious senior fellow at a think tank called the Royal Institute of Strategic Studies, which is also a non-existent organization. The email messages contain a link to a password-protected RAR archive that's hosted on the MEGA cloud service. Opening the RAR archive using a password mentioned in the message body launches an infection sequence that's engineered to conduct extensive reconnaissance of the compromised machines. Specifically, present within the RAR archive is a CHM file that displays decoy content related to former Ukrainian military leader Valeriy Zaluzhnyi. Should the victim click anywhere on the page, a PowerShell command embedded within the HTML is executed to reach out to an external server and download a next-stage PowerShell payload. The newly launched PowerShell script is capable of executing various commands to gather information about the system, encode it using Base64-encoding, and send it to the same server. "The actor sent multiple phishing emails on consecutive days when the target did not click the link, asking the target if they had received the prior emails and if they would download the files," the researchers said. Proofpoint said it also observed an HTML file being directly distributed as an attachment to the phishing messages. In this variation of the attack, the victim is instructed to click on an embedded link in the HTML file, resulting in the download of a ZIP archive that includes a benign PDF and a Windows shortcut (LNK) file. When the LNK is run, it executes Base64-encoded PowerShell to drop a Javascript Encoded file called "Themes.jse" using a Visual Basic Script. The JSE malware, in turn, contacts an attacker-controlled URL and runs the response from the server via PowerShell. The exact nature of the payload is currently not known. Furthermore, TA406 has been spotted attempting to harvest credentials by sending fake Microsoft security alert messages to Ukrainian government entities from ProtonMail accounts, warning them of suspicious sign-in activity from IP addresses located in the United States and urging them to verify the login by visiting a link. While the credential harvesting page has not been recovered, the same compromised domain is said to have been used in the past to collect Naver login information. "These credential harvesting campaigns took place prior to the attempted malware deployments and targeted some of the same users later targeted with the HTML delivery campaign," Proofpoint said. "TA406 is very likely gathering intelligence to help North Korean leadership determine the current risk to its forces already in the theatre, as well as the likelihood that Russia will request more troops or armaments." "Unlike Russian groups who have likely been tasked with gathering tactical battlefield information and targeting of Ukrainian forces in situ, TA406 has typically focused on more strategic, political intelligence collection efforts." The disclosure comes as the Konni group has been linked to a sophisticated multi-stage malware campaign targeting entities in South Korea with ZIP archives containing LNK files, which run PowerShell scripts to extract a CAB archive and ultimately deliver batch script malware capable of collecting sensitive data and exfiltrating it to a remote server. The findings also dovetail with spear-phishing campaigns orchestrated by Kimsuky to target government agencies in South Korea by delivering a stealer malware capable of establishing command-and-control (C2 or C&C) communications and exfiltrating files, web browser data, and cryptocurrency wallet information. According to South Korean cybersecurity company AhnLab, Kimsuky has also been observed propagating PEBBLEDASH as part of a multi-stage infection sequence initiated via spear-phishing. The trojan was attributed by the U.S. government to the Lazarus Group in May 2020. "While the Kimsuky group uses various types of malware, in the case of PEBBLEDASH, they execute malware based on an LNK file by spear-phishing in the initial access stage to launch their attacks," it said. "They then utilize a PowerShell script to create a task scheduler and register it for automatic execution. Through communication with a Dropbox and TCP socket-based C&C server, the group installs multiple malware and tools including PEBBLEDASH." Konni and Kimsuky are far from the only North Korean threat actors to focus on Seoul. As recently as March 2025, South Korean entities have been found to be at the receiving end of another campaign carried out by APT37, which is also referred to as ScarCruft. Dubbed Operation ToyBox Story, the spear-phishing attacks singled out several activists focused on North Korea, per the Genians Security Center (GSC). The first observed spear phishing attack occurred on March 8, 2025. "The email contained a Dropbox link leading to a compressed archive that included a malicious shortcut (LNK) file," the South Korean company said. "When extracted and executed, the LNK file activated additional malware containing the keyword 'toy.'" The LNK files are configured to launch a decoy HWP file and run PowerShell commands, leading to the execution of files named toy03.bat, toy02.bat, and toy01.bat (in that order), the last of which contains shellcode to launch RoKRAT, a staple malware associated with APT37. RokRAT is equipped to collect system information, capture screenshots, and use three different cloud services, including pCloud, Yandex, and Dropbox for C2. "The threat actors exploited legitimate cloud services as C2 infrastructure and continued to modify shortcut (LNK) files while focusing on fileless attack techniques to evade detection by antivirus software installed on target endpoints," Genians said. Found this article interesting? 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Samsung’s long-teased Galaxy S25 Edge has arrived, way ahead of the rumored iPhone Air. It’s a very S25-looking device, but the company is pitching it as a design-centric addition to its, let’s admit, bulging S25 family. The S25 Edge’s body is 5.8 millimeters (0.22 inches) thick if we ignore the camera bump like everyone else does. Granted, it’s not a huge bump. Samsung says it engineered the lenses to be substantially thinner than those on the S25 Ultra while keeping the same 200-megapixel camera sensor. And there are only two cameras on the back this time. Gasp! Unfortunately, Samsung has gone for an ultrawide secondary shooter rather than a telephoto, likely due to the handset's size constraints. Image by Mat Smith for Engadget This makes the S25 Edge the latest addition to the trend of fewer cameras, joining the Pixel 9a, but for a very different $1,100. You can check out my first impressions and all the crucial specs in my hands-on. Are you willing to handle possible battery life decreases and less zoom on your smartphone camera? — Mat Smith Get Engadget's newsletter delivered direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here! Even more Switch 2 stuff Ticketmaster proudly announces it will follow the law and show prices up-front Jamie Lee Curtis publicly shamed Mark Zuckerberg to remove a deepfaked ad How to pre-order the Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge Philips Fixables will let you 3D print replacement parts for your electric razors and trimmers iOS 18.5 arrives with a new wallpaper for Pride Month And not much else. Apple pushed iOS 18.5 to devices on Monday, and the biggest visual change is a new rainbow-shaded wallpaper in honor of Pride Month. I’m honored. Otherwise, it’s a few minor tweaks and bug fixes. Continue reading. You can actually turn lead into gold All you need is a Large Hadron Collider. Bones Scientists with the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, have converted lead into gold using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Unlike the examples of transmutation we see in anime pop culture, scientists smashed subatomic particles together at ridiculously high speeds to manipulate lead’s physical properties to become gold. Briefly. Lead atoms only have three more protons than gold atoms. The LHC causes the lead atoms to drop just enough protons to become a gold atom for a fraction of a second — before immediately fragmenting into a bunch of particles. Continue reading. The only thing I want from Apple’s big 2025 redesign is a That’s a, not α. Apple This is where Deputy Editor Nathan Ingraham decries one of Apple’s latest design quirks. For over 600 words. Apple’s decision to use α instead of a in its Note App has got him mad.  We’ve reached out to check if he’s OK. Continue reading.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/general/the-morning-after-engadget-newsletter-111526456.html?src=rss Source: https://www.engadget.com/general/the-morning-after-engadget-newsletter-111526456.html?src=rss #morning #samsungs #galaxy #s25 #edge #thin

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