I tested every USB-C cable I own. Half weren’t worth keeping
USB-C has been one of the best innovations for convenience and compatibility, but it also means that my bag of cables and plugs is now a tangled mess of confusion. I don’t know which ones…
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You weren’t imagining it: Windows 11’s slow shutdowns are finally fixed
If you’ve been a Windows user for many years and always shut down your PC properly, you’ll no doubt have a sense of how quickly this process should actually take. Recently, however, some Windows 11…
Wyden: AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon weren’t notifying senators of surveillance requests
Sen. Ron Wyden sent a letter to fellow senators on Wednesday, revealing that three major U.S. cellphone carriers did not have provisions to notify lawmakers about government surveillance requests, despite a contractual requirement to do…
Asus made a gold RTX 5090, as if it weren’t expensive enough already
Look, I know rich people aren’t uniformly stupid, but there definitely seems to be a subset of luxury goods that assume such. (Luxury fashion made to look like thrift store goods comes to mind.) And…
Microsoft’s AI stance would be laughable if it weren’t so bad
It’s been a long while since we last did this but it’s once again time to have a chat with the Winotaur, the Macalope’s Microsoft counterpart! THE MACALOPE: Hey, man! Long time no see! THE…
As if two Ivanti vulnerabilities under exploit weren’t bad enough, now there are 3
Mass exploitation began over the weekend for yet another critical vulnerability in widely used VPN software sold by Ivanti, as hackers already targeting two previous vulnerabilities diversified, researchers said Monday. The new vulnerability, tracked as…