I just bought an M4 iPad Pro. Here’s why I’m not tempted by the M5
While the rest of the world was waiting for the M5 iPad Pro earlier this month, I decided to buy an M4 iPad Pro, just days before Apple dropped its big M5 announcement, in fact.…
Why You Should Swap Passwords for Passphrases
Oct 22, 2025The Hacker NewsData Breach / Enterprise Security The advice didn’t change for decades: use complex passwords with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols. The idea is to make passwords harder for hackers to crack…
Researchers Identify PassiveNeuron APT Using Neursite and NeuralExecutor Malware
Oct 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Network Security Government, financial, and industrial organizations located in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are the target of a new campaign dubbed PassiveNeuron, according to findings from Kaspersky. The…
The simplest Office plan is no plan: buy Microsoft Office 2024 Home once for a flat $130
TL;DR: Own Word, Excel, and PowerPoint outright with Microsoft Office 2024 Home for $129.97 (MSRP $149.99) — no ongoing fees, just a clean one-time license for Mac or PC. If you’re tired of juggling subscriptions just to…
Score all-day battery and 512GB storage with this M1 MacBook Air deal for $399.99
TL;DR: Grab this refurbished 13.3-inch M1 MacBook Air with 8GB RAM and 512GB SSD for $399.99 and get fast, quiet performance, a Retina display, and all-day battery in a 2.8 lb package. If your current laptop stutters…
TARmageddon Flaw in Async-Tar Rust Library Could Enable Remote Code Execution
Oct 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Data Protection Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a high-severity flaw impacting the popular async-tar Rust library and its forks, including tokio-tar, that could result in remote code execution under…
TP-Link Patches Four Omada Gateway Flaws, Two Allow Remote Code Execution
Oct 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security TP-Link has released security updates to address four security flaws impacting Omada gateway devices, including two critical bugs that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerabilities in…
The 18-inch folding iPad might not happen for a while—if ever
With all signs pointing to the release of the first folding iPhone next year, the next folding device on Apple’s schedule was expected to be the equally long-rumored folding iPad. However, a new report claims…
These smart beds began roasting their owners during AWS outage
Owners of Eight Sleep smart beds got anything but a good night’s sleep Monday, as the beds began heating up uncontrollably while also getting frozen in position due to Amazon’s worldwide server outage. Eight Sleep…
This super-fast MSI OLED gaming monitor is just $520 today
We’re in the long, dark teatime of technology deals at the moment, between back-to-school and Black Friday. So, it might be another month or so before you see a bunch of great monitor deals. Here’s…