Tech Releases

With help from Google, impersonated Brave.com website pushes malware

The privacy battle Apple isn’t fighting

3G-only Kindles begin their long, slow death this year

Huawei’s latest flagship phone has HarmonyOS, a Qualcomm SoC, and no 5G

Malicious PyPI packages caught stealing developer data and injecting code

New bank-fraud malware called Vultur infects thousands of devices

Facebook’s next hardware product will be “smart” Ray-Ban glasses

Forget “App Tracking Transparency”: Facebook is enjoying more ad revenue than ever

Google Play gets mandatory app privacy labels in April 2022

Feds list the top 30 most exploited vulnerabilities. Many are years old

Apple, AMD, and Intel shift priorities as chip shortages continue

Here’s what that Google Drive “security update” message means

July has already brought us 2 new ransomware groups hunting for big game

Apple reports a 50% year-over-year jump in iPhone sales

Google Cloud offers a model for fixing Google’s product-killing reputation

Review: Framework’s lightweight modular laptop is a winner

Intel’s foundry roadmap lays out the post-nanometer “Angstrom” era

VPN servers seized by Ukrainian authorities weren’t encrypted

iOS 14.7.1 and macOS 11.5.1 arrive with one bug fix and one security fix

Report: The iPhone 14 will be a major upgrade, and it will be made of titanium

Here’s the first credible Microsoft Surface Duo 2 leak

Venmo gets more private—but it’s still not fully safe

Apple and Roku have newly upgraded streaming remotes—are they worth buying?

An explosive spyware report shows limits of iOS, Android security

Researchers demonstrate that malware can be hidden inside AI models

Teardown reveals how much capacity Apple’s $99 MagSafe Battery Pack has

Google is finally doing something about Google Drive spam

Google’s Wear OS 3 update plans will leave most existing devices behind

Kaseya gets master decryptor to help customers still suffering from REvil attack

iPadOS 14.7 and macOS Big Sur 11.5 come with plenty of bug fixes and security updates

Today’s massive Internet outage comes courtesy of Akamai Edge DNS

Google pushed a one-character typo to production, bricking Chrome OS devices

Home and office routers come under attack by China state hackers, France warns

Google Maps massively expands its mass transit crowd-reporting service

Report: Apple will introduce a new iPhone SE with A15, 5G in early 2022

Samsung confirms August 11 event—here’s what to expect

Audacity’s new owner is in another fight with the open source community

Two-for-Tuesday vulnerabilities send Windows and Linux users scrambling

Apple’s MagSafe Battery Pack is available in-store now for $99

The MAGA-targeted “Freedom Phone” has a breathtaking amount of red flags

Report claims Apple will finally give the iPad mini some love

Apple under pressure over iPhone security after NSO spyware claims

“Clickless” exploits from Israeli firm hacked activists’ fully updated iPhones