Category: Technology

I dearly love a paperback book that I can bend, touch, smell, and display on my bookshelf when I’m done. But there’s no doubt that ebook readers (also called e-readers) make life easier—they might just make you read more too. E-readers let you carry thousands of books or dozens of audiobooks in a single, slim, […]

After years of saying it wouldn’t ever slap a touchscreen on a laptop, Apple may now be planning to do just that. A report by Mark Gurman at Bloomberg asserts that Apple is testing touchscreen tech on some of its MacBooks. The info is based on leaks from the company, so touchsreen Macs are not a sure thing, and […]

In the digital and cloud era, there are countless software-as-a-service applications and many ways you can integrate, customize, and configure them for your business processes. Yet, before any organization — be it a government entity, oil refinery, or third-party logistics firm — starts evaluating online business applications, they should have a SaaS plan in place and […]

Enlarge / An air traffic control tower is seen at JFK airport on January 11 in New York City. Late in the evening of Jan. 10, 2023, an important digital system known as NOTAM run by the Federal Aviation Administration went offline. The FAA was able to continue getting necessary information to pilots overnight using […]

A WIRED investigation this week found that the app SweepWizard, which some US law enforcement agencies use to coordinate raids, was publicly exposing sensitive data about hundreds of police operations until WIRED disclosed the flaw. The exposed data included personally identifying information about hundreds of officers and thousands of suspects, including geographic coordinates of suspects’ […]

If you didn’t spend all your time over the holidays hunting for deals (like we do), you’re in luck. Plenty of gadgets that normally go on sale later in the year—including headphones and video games—are already dropping in price again. The deals just can’t hide for long. Be sure to check out our deals on […]

Vulnerabilities and undiscovered flaws are abundant on open source GitHub repositories, hoisting risk and potential exposure upon the organizations that rely on these code bases, according to Veracode research published Tuesday. Inconsistent or delayed code commits and improper scanning create risk as repositories age, the application security company said in its annual State of Software […]

Getty Images Meta said it’s suing “scraping-for-hire” service Voyager Labs for allegedly using fake accounts, proprietary software, and a sprawling network of IP addresses to surreptitiously collect massive amounts of personal data from users of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social networking sites. “Defendant created and used over 38,000 fake Facebook user accounts and its […]

CircleCI said an unauthorized third-party leveraged malware on the laptop of one of its engineers to steal a valid 2FA-backed single-sign-on session, according to highly anticipated report stemming from a security incident disclosed earlier this month.  The engineer’s laptop was compromised on Dec. 16, but the company’s antivirus software failed to detect the malware, the […]

Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. OpenAI is piloting a premium version of its service that will be free of throttling, blackout windows and have at least double the regular daily message limit, according to a Jan. 9 post on Discord. The company […]