Your iPhone’s USB-C port can do a lot more than charge
If you’re upgrading to the iPhone 18 Pro from an iPhonr 14 Pro or earlier, you’ll notice that it has a USB-C port. In fact, all iPhone and iPad models now use USB-C, including the…
September 2026
September 2026
If you multitask on your Apple Watch, don’t upgrade to watchOS 27
If you buy a new Apple Watch, that option is gone. In fact, the App Switcher doesn’t even exist. That also means the option to swipe left to quickly close an app is gone, too.…
WeaselBiscuit Stealer Spreads via 13 npm Packages to Harvest Chrome Extension Storage
Ravie LakshmananSep 18, 2026Malware / Web Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 13 npm packages that have been found to deliver a previously undocumented JavaScript stealer codenamed WeaselBiscuit. The new malware family, per…
This free Photoshop alternative runs right in your browser
It can be tough to justify shelling out for Photoshop if you only need to edit images every now and then. As an alternative, I recommend checking out Photopea. It’s a free image editor that…
iPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone Duo: Go big or go bigger?
Macworld Even though Apple would probably like to see this happen, virtually no one is going to buy both a new iPhone 18 Pro and an iPhone Duo. But is the new, expensive iPhone Duo…
Claimed Bug Bounty Hunter Likely Used LLM to Build PhantomRaven npm Stealer
Ravie LakshmananSep 18, 2026Malware / Cybercrime A financially motivated threat actor has been linked to the development and distribution of a JavaScript (JS)-based information stealer known as PhantomRaven via the npm package registry. “The developer…
Get a lifetime license to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and all the rest for $55
TL;DR: Get Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more with a lifetime license to Microsoft Office 2024, now only $54.99 (reg. $249.99). Microsoft 365 costs $99.99 per year, every year, forever. If you want a better way to…
RatHat Android Malware Abuses ADB to Retain Shell Access After Uninstall
Ravie LakshmananSep 18, 2026Mobile Security / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new Android malware called RatHat that’s assessed to be operated by China-based threat actors and features an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered system to navigate…
LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
Standard versus watermarked text generation. Credit: Lasso Security Standard versus watermarked text generation. Credit: Lasso Security A key feature of SynthID is something known as tournament sampling. Similar to a sports game, SynthID evaluates large…
Critical Check Point Management Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code as Root
A critical vulnerability in Check Point’s Security Management and Log Servers could allow an attacker without login credentials to run code as root on those servers over the network. The Security Management Server is the…