Best laptop power banks for Apple MacBook 2025
Many of us are quite used to carrying around a handy power bank to top up our iPhone batteries during a long day away from a power socket, but these pocketable battery packs are usually…
January 2026
January 2026
Rackspace customers grapple with “devastating” email hosting price hike
Rackspace’s new pricing for its email hosting services is “devastating,” according to a partner that has been using Rackspace as its email provider since 1999. In recent weeks, Rackspace updated its email hosting pricing. Its…
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions
Financial pressures and a changing tune OpenAI’s advertising experiment reflects the enormous financial pressures facing the company. OpenAI does not expect to be profitable until 2030 and has committed to spend about $1.4 trillion on…
Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours
Microsoft released NTLMv1 in the 1980s with the release of OS/2. In 1999, cryptanalyst Bruce Schneier and Mudge published research that exposed key weaknesses in the NTLMv1 underpinnings. At the 2012 Defcon 20 conference, researchers…
Analyst shares expected tech specs for the iPhone Fold
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld reports on analyst Jeff Pu’s expected specifications for Apple’s upcoming iPhone Fold, featuring an A20 Pro processor and 12GB of RAM. The foldable device may include…
Supreme Court hacker posted stolen government data on Instagram
A hacker posted the personal data of several of his hacking victims on his Instagram account named @ihackthegovernment, according to a court document. Last week, Nicholas Moore, 24, a resident of Springfield, Tennessee, pleaded guilty…
This $899 M4 iPad Pro deal is so good, it’s $300 cheaper than a 3-year-old Apple refurb
Here’s the thing about the iPad Pro: the M-series chips Apple uses in them are very powerful, so much so that you’ll be very happy with a model with an older chip while saving money,…
GootLoader Malware Uses 500–1,000 Concatenated ZIP Archives to Evade Detection
Jan 16, 2026Ravie LakshmananMalvertising / Threat Intelligence The JavaScript (aka JScript) malware loader called GootLoader has been observed using a malformed ZIP archive that’s designed to sidestep detection efforts by concatenating anywhere from 500 to…
How a hacking campaign targeted high-profile Gmail and WhatsApp users across the Middle East
On Tuesday, U.K.-based Iranian activist Nariman Gharib tweeted redacted screenshots of a phishing link sent to him via a WhatsApp message. “Do not click on suspicious links,” Gharib warned. The activist, who is following the…
The touchscreen MacBook Pro seems to be on track with a first-of-its-kind display
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld reports that Samsung has begun production of 8.6-generation OLED displays for Apple’s upcoming M6 MacBook Pro with touchscreen capabilities. The new displays feature a dual stack…