Ravie LakshmananJan 19, 2026Hardware Security / Vulnerability A team of academics from the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany has disclosed the details of a new hardware vulnerability affecting AMD processors. The security…
Call me cynical, but from time to time, I hear about a “leak” that’s so positive I wonder if it’s actually a press release in disguise. In August, for instance, the transcript of an internal…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing campaign dubbed KongTuke that used a malicious Google Chrome extension masquerading as an ad blocker to deliberately crash the web browser and trick victims into running arbitrary…
Ravie LakshmananJan 19, 2026Malware / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the web-based control panel used by operators of the StealC information stealer, allowing them to gather crucial insights…
Ravie LakshmananJan 17, 2026Law Enforcement / Cybercrime Ukrainian and German law enforcement authorities have identified two Ukrainians suspected of working for the Russia-linked ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group Black Basta. In addition, the group’s alleged leader, a…
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld reports that Apple’s upcoming M5 Pro and M5 Max chips are expected to deliver substantial performance improvements, with 13% single-core and 22% multi-core CPU gains. The…
Jan 17, 2026Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Data Privacy OpenAI on Friday said it would start showing ads in ChatGPT to logged-in adult U.S. users in both the free and ChatGPT Go tiers in the coming…
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…
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…
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…