New FCC ruling sends mobile carriers a very real message about stopping robospam texts
Carriers are now required to block messages from illegitimate numbers
Donald Trump completes social media return after YouTube ends ban
In preparation for his 2024 Presidential campaign
Second Life, the original metaverse app, is getting a mobile release
After two decades, Linden Lab is bringing its virtual world to mobile devices
Mozilla wants to put ethics back into AI with the "Responsible AI Challenge"
The future of AI is now, and it needs a more responsible approach towards society
Bitwarden's password manager browser extension has a known exploit it hasn't addressed in five years (Update: fix coming)
PSA: Hackers can steal your username and password for a website using an embedded iframe. It's a weakness for all password managers, and most have addressed the flaw in various ways, including issuing warnings when users are on a login page with an iframe or not trusting subdomains. Bitwarden is the sole exception, having determined in 2018 that the threat was not significant enough to address.
Americans lost $10.3 billion to online scams in 2022
The largest financial hit since the FBI started tracking losses in 2000
UK intelligence agency warns of dangers posed by AI chatbots
Be careful what you reveal
Meta lays off another 13 percent of its workforce in second round of 'restructuring' cuts
Company has trimmed nearly a quarter of its staff since November
FBI admits to buying location data of US citizens without a warrant
Privacy advocates are outraged, and for good reason
Microsoft says Bing has passed 100 million users for the first time, thanks to its chatbot AI
"It feels good to be at the dance"
Google One expands VPN service to all subscribers, adds dark web monitoring
New privacy and security features coming to Google One
Trivia: How many websites are on the Internet?
And more internet facts: the number of connected devices is expected to triple the global population this year
Meta is suing Freenom, cybercriminals' favorite domain registrar
The TLD service provider is not accepting free domain registrations anymore
White House supports Senate bill that would enable US to ban TikTok
TikTok has almost 100 million active users in the US
The FTC is probing Twitter's layoffs, its subscription service, and the Twitter Files
It also wants to depose Elon Musk
Microsoft Edge browser adds web video upscaler that works on AMD and Nvidia GPUs
Microsoft's solution works on Nvidia and AMD graphics cards
Illicit marketplace BidenCash releases over 2 million stolen card details in birthday promotion
Most of the records are from the US
What just happened? There are plenty of illicit websites trading in stolen financial data, including one called BidenCash, which uses the president's name and his image. To celebrate its first birthday, the site has published a database filled with over 2 million credit and debit card details so anyone can look them up free of charge.
Intel is developing web video upscaling like Nvidia's, here's how to try it now
Upscale web video using Intel iGPUs and all Arc Alchemist cards
Reddit lawyers tell movie studios to take a hike after they demanded to identify users
A hot potato: Lawyers litigating a movie piracy case have demanded the identities of nine Reddit users who "might" have discussed piracy on the platform. Reddit turned over some of the information on one (or two) of the users that seemed to be engaging in a "how-to" discussion on bootlegging movies; the plaintiffs want all of the users exposed. Reddit says, "No. We'll see you in court."
DuckDuckGo browser comes to Windows with closed beta
Beta runs on WebView2 engine and includes cookie permissions skip function
Bitdefender defeats Mortal Kombat ransomware with free decryptor
Unencrypt your files silently, with additional arguments and commands for automation
Nvidia launches RTX Video Super Resolution to boost streaming video quality
Works with RTX 40 and 30 Series GPUs
NCMEC unveils tool to help minors fight online spread of explicit images
Service lets minors assign hashes to automatically and proactively take down images on participating platforms