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TrendTechie
July 23, 2025
The author began using personal computers in the early 2000s, starting with a 4.3 GB hard drive and upgrading to larger capacities over time, including a 20 GB, 80 GB, and a 320 GB drive in 2007. By 2009, they acquired a 1 TB Western Digital Caviar Green drive and subsequently added more drives. Data loss incidents, including one involving a 3 TB Western Digital Red drive, emphasized the importance of backing up critical information. Managing multiple hard drives in a gaming PC introduced challenges such as noise, vibration, and cable management, particularly with a maximum of seven hard drives and an SSD. Heat generation from multiple drives raised concerns about optimal operating temperatures, leading the author to prefer lower RPM models for long-term storage. The market for reliable hard drives has become complicated due to rebranded drives, making replacements harder to find. Attempts to transition to a dedicated file server faced difficulties due to rapid drive failures in a standard case without proper dampening.
TrendTechie
July 23, 2025
On August 8, 2025, Mafia: The Old Country, a prequel in the mafia franchise developed by Hangar 13, will be released. The game is set in early 20th-century Sicily and follows Enzo Favara, a young Sicilian orphan and miner. It features a linear narrative focusing on deep storytelling and atmospheric immersion, departing from the open-world format of previous titles. Mafia: The Old Country will not be officially available for sale in Russia due to publisher Take-Two's policies, but players can use workarounds to acquire it. The game will include Denuvo anti-piracy protection, and it is unlikely to appear on torrent sites before summer 2026. Previous Mafia games were quickly pirated, but current Denuvo protections present a greater challenge, with cracking timelines for Denuvo-protected games averaging between two months to two years.
TrendTechie
July 23, 2025
On June 27, Netflix released the third and final season of "Squid Game," consisting of six episodes that quickly appeared on torrent sites. The episodes are available with Russian subtitles and official dubbing from Videofilm Int, with alternative translations expected soon. A spin-off project directed by David Fincher is also in development, aiming to expand the "Squid Game" universe.
TrendTechie
July 19, 2025
A 59-year-old Greek national was sentenced to five years in prison and fined €10,000, along with court costs of €1,800, for operating the torrent site P2Planet from 2011 to 2014, which hosted over 14,000 torrent links. His case is the second of its kind in Greece's legal history. The final verdict was delivered on May 29, and he had been awaiting sentencing since his arrest in 2014. The site experienced a DDoS attack that led to a database breach, which likely aided law enforcement in his apprehension. A similar case in the past resulted in a five-year prison sentence for another torrent site owner, but without a financial penalty.
TrendTechie
July 18, 2025
Torrent Pharmaceuticals Ltd. has secured a credit line of .3 billion to acquire a controlling stake in JB Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd. The credit facility is supported by banks including Barclays Plc, HSBC Holdings Plc, and Standard Chartered Plc, with a maturity period of up to four years. Torrent plans to purchase 53.8% of JB Chemicals from KKR & Co. for approximately .4 billion and has made a mandatory offer for an additional 26% of shares at 1,639 rupees per share. JB Chemicals' market valuation reached .6 billion in 2024, with a 20% increase in stock price. The Indian M&A landscape has seen an 18% increase in activity in 2025, despite an 8% decline in the Asia-Pacific region. JB Chemicals focuses on pharmaceutical products for various disorders and is headquartered in Mumbai, while Torrent Pharmaceuticals is based in Ahmedabad.
TrendTechie
July 13, 2025
Radio stations from Bashkortostan, Mari El, Mordovia, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Chuvashia, Perm Krai, Kirov, Nizhny Novgorod, Orenburg, Penza, Samara, Saratov, and Ulyanovsk are invited to participate in a competition. The categories are Online and Radio. The deadline for submissions is December 18, 2018. The finals will occur during the "Together Media. Volga" festival in Ufa from January 25 to 27, 2019, which will include discussions and jury voting to determine winners. A ceremony for the winners will be held at the end of the second day of the educational program. More information can be found at www.radiofestival.ru. The "Together Media" festival has been held annually since 2002 and has evolved from a forum for radio journalists to a festival for the entire media industry. The organizing committee can be contacted at +74995515700.
TrendTechie
July 12, 2025
On July 1st, "Thunderbolts" and "Ballerina" were released simultaneously on streaming platforms. Within 24 hours, both films appeared on torrent sites with high-quality versions and Russian dubbing. "Thunderbolts" is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, featuring anti-heroes like Red Guardian and Yelena Belova, and has received positive critical reception. "Ballerina" is a spin-off from the John Wick series, following Eva Macaro, a ballerina turned assassin, with a cameo by Keanu Reeves.
TrendTechie
July 11, 2025
Users of major mobile operators in Russia, including T2, MTS, MegaFon, and Beeline, are experiencing significant mobile internet connectivity issues, particularly in Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad region, with complaints also reported from Moscow, Tula, and Tver. Additionally, popular online services such as Steam, RuTracker, and Zen are facing connectivity problems, affecting users both domestically and internationally.
TrendTechie
July 3, 2025
qBittorrent 5.1.2 was released on July 2, 2025. It is an open-source torrent client developed with the Qt toolkit, available for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The source code is on GitHub under the GPLv2+ license. The update focuses on bug fixes, including improvements to the WEBUI, a backup update mechanism, and a resolution for an issue in the WEBAPI related to trimming leading spaces in the "Run external program" fields. A fix for macOS prevents the application from blocking exit when the main window is closed.
TrendTechie
July 1, 2025
A new method for downloading torrent files using Google Colab has been developed to avoid notifications from internet service providers and copyright infringement penalties. This method uses the aria2 utility to mask the user's IP address by executing scripts in Google Colaboratory, which runs aria2 on a Google-hosted virtual machine. Users can download files via magnet links while their IP address remains hidden, displaying the Google server's IP instead. Downloaded files are stored in Google Drive for later access, enhancing privacy and simplifying file retrieval.
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