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The most recognizable name in PC benchmarking is building something new, and it is betting the whole thing on path tracing. UL Solutions has confirmed that its next 3DMark GPU benchmark will be fully path-traced, a step up from the hybrid ray-tracing tests that define the current generation of graphics workloads. To mark the occasion, the company has landed a sponsor with skin in the PC game: power-supply maker Seasonic.

CYBERSECURITYCLOUDSEKFrance Threat ReportTECHPLUGGED.COM France has become one of the busiest hunting grounds on the cybercriminal underground. A new report from threat-intelligence firm CloudSEK finds that France-linked activity across dark web forums, ransomware channels, and hacktivist groups has more than quadrupled over the past two years — and it is not slowing down. The numbers are stark. CloudSEK analyzed roughly 17,800 France-related threat intelligence items over 24 months.