May 15, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious package named “os-info-checker-es6” that disguises itself as an operating system information utility to stealthily drop a next-stage payload onto compromised systems. “This…
Apple automatically performs math and offers suggested results in Messages for iPhone and iPad when you type in patterns it recognizes, such as formulas and units, after you type = (equals sign). These suggestions are…
May 15, 2025Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Web Security Google on Wednesday released updates to address four security issues in its Chrome web browser, including one for which it said there exists an exploit in the…
As a PC gamer, you may have already seen some alarm around the web regarding Steam—headlines saying 89 million Steam accounts hacked. But you shouldn’t panic. The reports stem from a post on the dark…
The release comes just two weeks after OpenAI made GPT-4 unavailable in ChatGPT on April 30. That earlier model, which launched in March 2023, once sparked widespread hype about AI capabilities. Compared to that hyperbolic…
Stop us if you’ve heard this before: You can now talk to your PC’s built-in AI. A few years ago, you’d use the term, “Hey, Cortana” in Windows 10. But in Windows 11, Cortana has…
When WWDC rolls around in June, it’ll be two years since Apple announced visionOS and the Apple Vision Pro. In this episode of the Macworld Podcast, we examine the state of Apple’s spatial computing platform…
Space Marine II now has official mod support baked into the base game, fresh from the devs’ hands to your eyeballs. This is big news, albeit for a very particular kind of fan. Allow me…
A senior Trump administration official has scrapped a plan that would have blocked data brokers from selling Americans’ personal and financial information, including Social Security numbers. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said in December…
In addition to gobbling up most of the internet, ChatGPT now wants access to your OneDrive and SharePoint files, too. It makes sense. One of the earliest uses of AI was to summarize documents and…