Make your laptop faster for free: 5 performance-tuning apps
It’s not uncommon for a laptop to lose some of its pep over time. The good news is that there is often something you can do about it — whether that means updating drivers, goosing…
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Signal downloads spike in the U.S. and Yemen amid government scandal
The encrypted messaging app Signal is getting some unexpected attention this week. High-ranking officials in the Trump administration, including Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth, communicated the plans for an attack…
Windows Photos adds fancy editing features from other Microsoft apps
Microsoft is adding ways to make the Windows Photos app much more powerful, combining elements of the elegant Designer app and making Photos more of a centerpiece for visual editing. Microsoft is taking optical-character recognition…
Best second-screen apps for watching Major League Baseball
When Major League Baseball starts its 2025 season on March 27, you can enhance your big-screen game-watching experience by enlisting the aid of your small screen; i.e., your smartphone or tablet laptop. A second screen…
Windows 11 bug with Nvidia GPUs prevents apps from launching
Windows 11 appears to be experiencing problems with Nvidia GPUs, according to Neowin. Windows Insiders on the Canary channel are reporting issues launching apps, apparently due to an incompatibility with DirectX 9 and crashing D3D9…
Android apps laced with North Korean spyware found in Google Play
Researchers have discovered multiple Android apps, some that were available in Google Play after passing the company’s security vetting, that surreptitiously uploaded sensitive user information to spies working for the North Korean government. Samples of…
Plex is dropping a popular feature from its new streaming apps
Watching Plex videos with friends is about to get harder, with the company announcing that it will drop its “Watch Together” feature from its redesigned suite of mobile and TV apps. On its community forum,…
Use Windows Pro’s whitelist tools to keep unwanted apps off your PC
Most users are familiar with Windows Defender (the antivirus tool built into Windows Security), which continuously monitors the system for suspicious software activity and also identifies and blocks dangerous intruders based on a database of…
Stalkerware apps Cocospy and Spyic are exposing phone data of millions of people
A security vulnerability in a pair of phone-monitoring apps is exposing the personal data of millions of people who have the apps unwittingly installed on their devices, according to a security researcher who found the…
Spyware maker caught distributing malicious Android apps for years
Italian spyware maker SIO, known to sell its products to government customers, is behind a series of malicious Android apps that masquerade as WhatsApp and other popular apps but steal private data from a target’s…