This Windows Search revamp could win me over
The future of Windows Search looks a lot closer to what users have been asking for since day one: search. That’s it. No ads, no visual clutter, no promotional links to the Microsoft Store, or…
July 2026
July 2026
Grok Build Uploaded Entire Git Repositories to xAI Storage, Not Just Files It Read
xAI’s Grok Build coding CLI was uploading entire Git repositories, full commit history and all, to a Google Cloud Storage bucket run by xAI, not just the files a coding task needed. A researcher publishing…
U.S. Sanctions First VPN Service and Malware Cryptor Seller Over Ransomware Support
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated two individuals and a VPN service provider for enabling ransomware actors’ and other cybercriminals’ malicious activities, including ransomware attacks against Americans. The VPN,…
Cancel Microsoft 365—Get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more for life for $20
TL;DR: Replace your Microsoft 365 subscription with a lifetime license to Microsoft Office on sale for $20. Renting the same set of office apps year after year quietly drains a budget that could go toward almost anything else. Microsoft…
148 npm Packages Disguised as Student Proxies Turned Browsers Into a DDoS Botnet
A campaign of 148 npm packages disguised as student web proxies turned visitors’ browsers into a distributed denial-of-service botnet for roughly two weeks in May, according to new research from JFrog. The packages did not go…
Microsoft Maps Year-Long ShinyHunters-Linked Salesforce Data Theft Across Three Paths
Attackers whose methods line up with the data-extortion group ShinyHunters have spent the past year walking into corporate Salesforce environments without exploiting a single flaw in the platform. The way in has been the trust the organization…
The OS 27 public betas are out now with Siri AI, platform improvements, and more
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Apple released public betas for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and other OS versions featuring a revolutionary conversational Siri AI that mines iPhone data for enhanced…
The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router
The federal government is warning users of home and small office routers to secure their devices as Russia state hackers continue to mass-compromise them for use in obscuring nefarious actions against sensitive organizations in the…
Apple says former employee exploited ‘rare’ bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI
On Friday, Apple dropped the bombshell news it was suing OpenAI over the alleged theft of trade secrets, claiming that OpenAI stole Apple’s confidential data and engaged in efforts to learn proprietary information while recruiting…
This card-sized MagSafe power bank just hit its lowest price yet: $34
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