iPhone Lockdown Mode: The pros and cons of enabling Apple's security feature
Lockdown Mode enables extreme protections for those most at risk, but it's overkill for most people.
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Read more Technology →The most popular streaming platforms in the US might not be what you think
You might be surprised at the rankings of some streaming services when it comes to what Americans watch on their TVs.
Read story →6+ ways you can use your PlayStation 5's USB ports
You can do more than charge your controllers with the USB ports on your PS5. Here are some of the possibilities.
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Read more Cybersecurity →Hackers Infect 953 Online Stores With Scanner-Evading JavaScript, Mostly on Magento
An unknown threat actor has infected 953 online stores, most of them running Magento, as part of a long-running campaign active since July 2025. According to Dutch e-commerce security company Sansec, the activity is designed to add a small…
Read story →PHP Issues Second Windows Security Update in Five Days to Fix Brotli Code Execution Flaw
PHP has rebuilt its official Windows packages for PHP 8.2 through 8.5 to fix CVE-2026-111497, a flaw in the Brotli compression library that the packages include. The flaw can let an attacker corrupt memory and potentially run code. PHP say…
Read story →Attackers Use Microsoft Teams IT Support Scams to Deploy Malware and Ransomware
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to what they say is a "recurring social engineering pattern" across hundreds of cases in which threat actors use Microsoft Teams' external chat creation feature to conduct impersonation scams…
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Read more Data Breaches →Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today
Expect to see quite a few websites serving "404" or "Page Not Found" errors today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix a pair of vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to seize full control over affected…
Read story →Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site
U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who maintained unusually close relations wit…
Read story →U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering
The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud and cybercrime servi…
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Read more Privacy →Fake TikTok Shops now fuel one in five phishing blocks — and Black Friday could make it worse
Surfshark data shows blocks of one fake TikTok Shop domain rose 638% between May and September, as phishing exposure climbs across Europe and the US ahead of Black Friday.
Read story →Greece passes under-15 social media ban, and every user may soon have to prove their age
Greece has passed a law banning under-15s from social media from January 2027. Here’s how the age checks will work and what it means for Greek teens.
Read story →Faster OpenVPN, P2P on every server, and fewer commands: NordVPN 6.0 lands on Linux
NordVPN 6.0.0 for Linux brings NordWhisper-powered obfuscation, kernel-level OpenVPN acceleration, P2P on every server, and a CLI cleanup that could affect your scripts.
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Read more Science →Exercise doesn't just strengthen your heart. It rewires it
Regular exercise does more than strengthen the heart. New research reveals that it actually reshapes the nerves controlling how the heart functions, and the changes are surprisingly different on the left and right sides of the body.
Read story →A 2,700-year-old solar eclipse just revealed something surprising about Earth
A solar eclipse recorded more than 2,700 years ago is revealing surprising secrets about Earth's rotation and the Sun's ancient behavior. By correcting an eight-kilometer error in the location of an ancient Chinese capital, scientists were…
Read story →Chinese scientists discover “D-rex,” a giant fungus with roots stretching back 65 million years
Scientists have discovered a giant new fungus in China that grows up to 20 inches tall and weighs nearly five pounds, making it the largest known of its kind. Dubbed “D-rex,” its evolutionary lineage appears to have emerged shortly after t…
Read story →How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant
Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.
Read story →Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing
An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Ch…
Read story →Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals its strategy for keeping enterprise customers hooked
Anthropic’s S-1 shows more than half of its $100,000-plus customers now use both the Claude Platform and a first-party app, a cross-selling playbook reminiscent of Amazon that’s making enterprise customers stickier.
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