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Several years have passed since Google first announced plans to retire its Manifest V2 browser API, and after having made several empty promises and revisions, spent much of 2022 in and out of readiness for its successor, Manifest V3.  However, the company has now delayed the transition from Manifest V2 to Manifest V3 once again, […]

The original Nothing Phone 1 is an important independent launch, if only because the phone world is dominated by so few players. With the Nothing Phone 2, founder Carl Pei hopes that lightning will strike again and again, and this time it looks like he is bringing more of his winning original OnePlus formula to […]

The Apple M2 chip and the Macs it powers are definitely some high quality hardware, but not enough to entice enough customers to buy them, forcing Apple to scale back production of the chip and pausing production for two months entirely to match the lower demand. Apple hasn't said anything publicly about the chip production […]

Mullvad VPN has teamed up with the internet privacy organization The Tor Project to release a new browser aimed at preserving user privacy as much as possible without actually accessing the Tor network. The Tor network is a series of routers that encrypt and protect web traffic from prying eyes, so that no one can […]

A new ransomware threat actor has been reported targeting large corporations and demanding huge payouts in exchange for the decryption key and for not leaking sensitive data stolen in the attack. Calling itself Money Message, the group was first reported on the BleepingComputer forums in the last days of March, with cybersecurity researchers from Zscaler […]

The first trailer for Blue Beetle is here – and, while it looks a tad corny in places, it could be the best DC movie in years. Blue Beetle's official teaser, which you can view below, offers a first look at one of the many new movies yet to release in theaters this year. And, […]

Sony has announced a new pair of noise-cancelling earbuds, called the Sony WF-C700N. They feature most of the same tech you'll find in the class-leading Sony WF-1000XM4 wireless earbuds – which we still rate as the best wireless earbuds on the planet years after their release – but they're much smaller, much lighter, and much […]

Pokémon Go’s Remote Raid Pass is due to have its price raised on April 6.  Remote Raids were a feature introduced during the COVID pandemic. It allowed players to continue playing during the lockdown – a time when it was tough for anyone to Pokémon Go anywhere. Remote Raids allowed players to engage in tough […]

A cybercriminal outfit is posing as well-known ransomware gangs in order to extort money from US companies. Since March, the group, known as Midnight, has impersonated other gangs in emails sent to US companies, instructing them to pay up or have their data leaked. The threats are completely empty, though, as no malware tools are […]

Public financial service company TMX Finance has disclosed suffering a data breach incident that exposed personally identifiable information (PII) on almost five million customers.  TMX Finance operates three subsidiaries: TitleMax, TitleBucks, and InstaLoan, all of which have been hit. TitleMax is a lending business, TitleBucks a car loans service, while InstaLoan is a personal loan […]