Day: January 12, 2023

Samsung quietly revealed that it’s working on the next generation of SSDs (solid state drives) with the upcoming PM9C1a. The company intends for the drive to “provide elevated computing and gaming performance in PCs and laptops” for everyday scenarios. With that design philosophy in mind, the PM9C1a will sport the tried and true PCIe 4.0 […]

Showing how you really feel about your next meeting could soon be a lot easier (and riskier) thanks to a new update to Google Meet. The video conferencing tool is adding in-meeting reactions using emoji, letting users quickly show their approval (or objection) in real-time. Using common emoji such as smiley face, heart symbol or […]

HBOMax prices in the US just rose $12 a year. It's not good news, but also par for the course. There's a sea change underway in content-based services. A shame really, because it all started off so promising. There was, for instance, a brief moment when modern digital conveniences were synonymous with cost savings. We […]

Intel has announced that the Core i9-13900KS CPU is now available to buy, billing it as the world’s fastest desktop processor. The supercharged version of the 13900K Raptor Lake flagship was missing at CES 2023, oddly, but was subsequently spotted at online retailers in Europe and Asia just after the show, leading us to believe […]

A high-severity vulnerability has been discovered in a number of Cisco routers which allows threat actors to bypass authentication, gain root access to the endpoint, and even launch arbitrary commands on the underlying operating system in the second stage of the attack. The news comes courtesy of Cisco itself, which said it wouldn’t be addressing […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has joined up with Ava Labs, the company behind Avalanche, in a bid to bring blockchain to more businesses, institutions, and government agencies. Speaking to TechCrunch, Howard Wright, VP and global head of startups at AWS, explained that “web3 and blockchain is inevitable”, and while it’s hard to guess when it […]

It was almost a year ago when one of the best VPN services on the market, Surfshark, made the promise of revolutionizing the VPN industry.  At the time, the cutting-edge-technology to be integrated to its software was Nexus software defined network (SDN). Its ambitious goal? Connecting all Surfshark's existing servers together into a whole network. […]

More than 160 billion emails sent every day contain invisible trackers monitoring receivers' online activities.  This is the latest worrying data gathered by one of the best VPN providers, Proton VPN. This means that roughly five of every ten emails you receive might be spying on you.  Luckily, everyone using an iPhone or iPad can […]

Cybercriminals have been discovered abusing the popular VLC multimedia player to deliver Cobalt Strike beacons to targets in Australia.  The campaign includes SEO poisoning and the Gootkit loader malware and targets victims searching for healthcare institutions in Australia. The malware was discoverd by Trend Micro, with described how the threat actors created a malicious website, […]

Automattic has extended the availability of an ad tool available for WordPress websites via Jetpack and WordPress.com. First introduced in April 2022 by Tumblr, the Blaze ad tool now lets users reach a wider audience, with an estimated 13.5 billion impressions per month across hundreds of millions of WordPress.com sites and Tumblr pages. Available now, […]