Warning: Add These 6 Characters to Your Wi-Fi Network Name Immediately
Your phone is secretly broadcasting your network’s unique ID. Type these six characters into your router settings to go off the grid…
Gmail’s Verified Sender Program Lets Political Committees Bypass Spam Filters
Gmail users will still be able to mark these messages as spam. If users mark more than 0.3% messages as spam, the political committee will be removed from the program…
Public Wi-Fi just got riskier. Follow these 4 security tips
Hackers are targeting Wi-Fi networks at hotels and other locales in ever sneakier ways…
Apple Accidentally Confirms Camera-Equipped AirPods Are Coming
A video found in the latest macOS 26.7 reveals how Visual Intelligence features would work with Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods…
Starlink’s New Gigabit Gateways Face Interference Complaint From Iridium
‘A fair number of SpaceX’s gateways would cause unacceptable interference,’ Iridium tells the FCC, citing the company’s ongoing tests…
Intel says it will launch new core with Nova Lake on desktop first, not in data center — VP Robert Hallock hopes enthusiasts ‘do the math’ compared to AMD
A (very diplomatic) shot across the bow at Robert Hallock’s former employer…
Excel’s Copilot function is headed for the Recycle Bin
Microsoft realizes the side pane should be enough for anyone…
Linux 7.2 debuts, Linus Torvalds says ‘new normal’ means he had to do it now … or never?
Say hello to smarter use of caches to speed things up, and a very odd gaming controller. Say goodbye to some PCMCIA support…
Benchmarking AMD’s BC-250, offering Steam Machine-like performance at half the price
Unlocking 40 CUs, eight Zen 2 cores on the repurposed PS5 APU…
Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package…
USB connector types: The tier list
Adam and Alex let loose some magma-hot takes on the little metal bits that connect and power all our gadgets…
Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password…