Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) Internet Explorer 11 was never Windows 10’s primary browser—that would be the old, pre-Chromium version of Microsoft Edge. But IE did continue to ship with Windows 10 for compatibility reasons, and IE11 Read more…
Enlarge (credit: CHUYN / Getty Images) Nearly 11,000 websites in recent months have been infected with a backdoor that redirects visitors to sites that rack up fraudulent views of ads provided by Google Adsense, researchers Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Apple) Apple is releasing minor updates to all of its major software platforms today to address one high-priority security vulnerability and to fix a handful of other device- and service-specific issues. The iOS Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Popular discussion website Reddit proved this week that its security still isn’t up to snuff when it disclosed yet another security breach that was the result of an attack that successfully Read more…
Enlarge / With the right suggestions, researchers can “trick” a language model to spill their secrets. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) On Tuesday, Microsoft revealed a “New Bing” search engine and conversational bot powered Read more…
Enlarge (credit: MZLA Technologies) “Why does Thunderbird look so old?” That’s one of the most frequently asked questions about Thunderbird, according to Thunderbird Project Design Manager Alessandro Castellani (along with “Is Thunderbird dead?”). And it’s Read more…
(credit: Valve) Researchers have unearthed four game modes that could successfully exploit a critical vulnerability that remained unpatched in the popular Dota 2 video game for 15 months after a fix had become available. The Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Aytac Unal/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Twitter’s direct messages have always been a security liability. The DMs you send to friends and internet strangers aren’t end-to-end encrypted, making your conversations potentially accessible if Twitter suffers a data Read more…
Enlarge / Having a great meeting in Microsoft Teams. (credit: Microsoft) There is a free Microsoft Teams tier now, and there will continue to be a free Microsoft Teams tier after April 12, 2023. But Read more…
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) On Wednesday, Google held a highly anticipated press conference from Paris that did not deliver the decisive move against ChatGPT and the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership that many pundits expected. Instead, Google ran Read more…