The best travel gadgets: 23 must-have items for your next trip
Summer vacation seems just around the corner and you have to decide what to pack for the trip. While you may want to limit your tech time, you’ll still need a few things, whether you’re…
May 2025
May 2025
The 10 most significant WWDC software announcements of all time
WWDC 2025 is just around the corner. The event is considered one of the most important in the tech world, as Apple reveals its plans for the future of each of its device platforms. WWDC…
My PC’s water cooler was driving me nuts. Here’s what I did about it
Fan Control is good for more than just fans Over two-plus decades of PC building and tech writing, I’ve used many different fan controllers ranging from classic software like SpeedFan to hardware knobs and dials.…
U.S. Sanctions Funnull for $200M Romance Baiting Scams Tied to Crypto Fraud
May 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Cybercrime The U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has levied sanctions against a Philippines-based company named Funnull Technology Inc. and its administrator Liu Lizhi for providing…
ConnectWise Hit by Cyberattack; Nation-State Actor Suspected in Targeted Breach
May 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Data Breach ConnectWise, the developer of remote access and support software ScreenConnect, has disclosed that it was the victim of a cyber attack that it said was likely perpetrated by…
Meta Disrupts Influence Ops Targeting Romania, Azerbaijan, and Taiwan with Fake Personas
Meta on Thursday revealed that it disrupted three covert influence operations originating from Iran, China, and Romania during the first quarter of 2025. “We detected and removed these campaigns before they were able to build…
Zotac’s Zone gaming handheld switched from Windows to Linux
Handheld gaming PCs are awesome. Handheld gaming PCs running Windows are… measurably less awesome. That’s probably why the launch of SteamOS on multiple devices beyond the Steam Deck is so exciting. But Zotac is going…
AI video just took a startling leap in realism. Are we doomed?
Since 2022, we’ve been using the prompt “a muscular barbarian with weapons beside a CRT television set, cinematic, 8K, studio lighting” to test AI image generators like Midjourney. It’s time to bring that barbarian to…
SSD cooling market heats up as xMEMS enters the fray
SSDs behave like any other silicon component in your PC: The faster they run, the more heat they typically generate. It’s enough that a small ecosystem of SSD coolers has sprung up. Now, another fanless…
Qualcomm-sponsored study shockingly shows Qualcomm’s modems beating Apple’s C1
A new report shows Android phones outfitted with Qualcomm cellular modems outperforming the iPhone 16e with its own Apple C1 modem. Unfortunately, the limited nature of the tests, combined with the fact that it was…