Best Apple Watch for seniors
The Apple Watch may be advertised as a device for virile young twenty-somethings who are always out running or climbing mountains, but that’s not really the profile of most people who wear them. At least,…
The cybsecurity problems and opportunities facing open-source startups
Open-source software is everywhere, and in everything.Many startups are pursuing explicitly open-source business models. But every company out there that builds software has at least some dependency on open-source code. Recent security issues, however, have…
Dropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformed
Dropbox is laying off 528 employees in a move that will reduce its global workforce by 20 percent, CEO Drew Houston announced today. Houston wrote that Dropbox’s core file sync and sharing “business has matured,…
Android Trojan that intercepts voice calls to banks just got more stealthy
Much of the new obfuscation is the result of hiding malicious code in a dynamically decrypted and loaded .dex file of the apps. As a result, Zimperium initially believed the malicious apps they were analyzing…
Downey Jr. plans to fight AI re-creations from beyond the grave
Robert Downey Jr. has declared that he will sue any future Hollywood executives who try to re-create his likeness using AI digital replicas, as reported by Variety. His comments came during an appearance on the…
Mozilla celebrates 20 years with Firefox 132, blocks third-party cookies
Firefox launched long ago on November 9, 2004, which means we’re just over one week out from the browser’s 20th anniversary. Who knew that a spiritual successor to Netscape Navigator would last this long? With…
What you need to know about Thunderbolt 5
Updated October 30, 2024: Apple has released its first Macs to support Thunderbolt 5. This article has been updated to reflect this developmet. In September of 2023, Intel announced Thunderbolt 5, a new update to…
This high-speed 1TB ‘flash drive SSD’ just hits its best price ever
It may look like a flash drive and act like a flash drive, but it’s actually a portable SSD. The SK Hynix Tube T31 is lightweight, compact, and perfect for everyday use — and it’s…
The legendary Logitech G502 wireless gaming mouse is 41% off right now
Do you know how rare it is for us to give any product a clean 5-star rating? It happens maaaaybe twice per year, if that. Well, it certainly happened with the Logitech G502 Lightspeed wireless…
Apple just gave the MacBook Air a huge upgrade you probably didn’t notice
These days you can’t move without getting hit over the head with a Mac product announcement. We got a new M4 iMac on Monday, a new Mac mini on Tuesday, and a new MacBook Pro…