AMD’s Ryzen X3D processors are some of the hottest on the market, and the newest and hottest of all is the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. The first 9000-series chip with extra V-cache for gaming desktops was…
A few months ago, I shared a story about how I nearly got taken in by a fake online store when I went shoe shopping. (I eventually got the shoes, thanks for coming with me…
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has made some pretty big changes to how companies are allowed to present themselves on the internet, effectively outlawing fake reviews, reviews posted by company employees, fake review sites,…
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is swinging its big, regulatory stick at fake online reviews. Rules announced earlier this year are now in effect, banning reviews by fake people, AI-generated text, and those who…
If you’re trying to scam someone, you want to reach as many people as you can — that’s why you’ve almost certainly received one of the literally billions of scam phone calls made every year.…
In the early hours on January 20, 2023, a doctor’s user account logged onto the Hawaii Electronic Death Registry System from out of state to certify the death of a man named Jesse Kipf. The…
Security researcher ESET has posted a report about a new phishing attempt by hackers to get your login information for your bank. The attack involves a method used to bypass Apple’s App Store and its…
Software developers of all stripes are looking to take advantage of the new AI capabilities of the hardware NPUs found in Copilot+ PCs. McAfee thinks it has one: a deepfake detector. The McAfee Deepfake Detector…
As someone who reviews tech products for a living, I have an entirely justified hatred for fake reviews. And fake reviews are an increasingly serious problem as they imbue product listings with unearned trust, tricking…
Researchers have determined that two fake AWS packages downloaded hundreds of times from the open source NPM JavaScript repository contained carefully concealed code that backdoored developers’ computers when executed. The packages—img-aws-s3-object-multipart-copy and legacyaws-s3-object-multipart-copy—were attempts to…