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Dark Reading Confidential: This Threat Hunter Helped Cops Bust Up An African Cybercrime Syndicate

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Vehicle Tire Pressure Sensors Enable Silent Tracking

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Qualcomm Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Android Attacks

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Speakeasies to Shadow AI: Banning AI Browsers Will Fail

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Apple Calls New M5 MacBook Pro Its Most Powerful Laptop Yet

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Motorola Plans GrapheneOS-Compatible Devices as Early as 2027

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Inside the Gas Engine Strategy Powering AI’s Next Wave

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Chrome Extension Hijacked to Deliver Malware, Steal Crypto Wallets

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Elon Musk: X Shatters All-Time Traffic Record During US-Israeli Strikes on Iran

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IPad Air vs. iPad (and iPad Pro): How to Decide?

Apple has three levels of iPad and a sliding scale for what you could pay…well, four if you count iPad Mini, last updated in 2024, but I'm not getting into that one here. And the question, as always, is: which one? As the M4 iPad Air gets ready to arrive March 11, let's figure it out. While Apple clearly has different people in mind for different tiers of its phones or Macs or iPads, the iPad's always been tough because the sliding scale depends on what you define an iPad to be. Is it a casual c...

Meta Enters the AI Shopping Wars to Challenge ChatGPT and Gemini

It was only a matter of time before Mark Zuckerberg's Meta jumped into the AI shopping race. According to a Bloomberg report, Meta is testing a new AI shopping assistant feature to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini in one of the fastest-growing areas of e-commerce. A representative for Meta did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Meta joins an AI shopping assistant market that is expected to boom. Research and consulting firm Grand View Research projects the market ...

Best Business Laptop for 2026

Most people don't get to choose their company laptop. Or at least, you likely don't have much choice; it's simply whatever business laptops your IT department has available. However, if your employer is bring-your-own-device-friendly, or you're a contractor or self-employed, you may want to invest in a business laptop. Business laptops, while a bit pricier than average consumer laptops, generally offer better security, specialized features for office work, more tech support options, and a strong...

Best Cheap Phone of 2026: Get the Most Value for Your Money

In 2026 affordable phones come brimming with features and options from companies like Motorola, Google, Samsung and Apple. After testing and reviewing dozens of cheap handsets, we found there are two pricing sweet spots: $300 and $450. Phones that cost $300 tend to have NFC (for Google Pay), wireless charging and good screen -- though cameras can be hit-or-miss, like the $300 Motorola Moto G Power (2024). In the $450 range are phones have solid cameras and features that rival pricier models like...

Intel Chairman Frank Yeary retires, Craig Barrat to become the new chairman of the Board of Directors

Intel Chairman Frank Yeary retires, Craig Barrat to become the new chairman of the Board of Directors Craig Barrat to become new chairman of Intel. Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Intel late on Tuesday announced that its board of directors had elected Dr. Craig H. Barratt as independent chairman, who will assume his role in mid-May after the company's Annual Stockholders’ Meeting. Craig H. ...

Seagate begins shipping 44TB hard drives with HAMR tech to data centers — Mozaic 4+ platform expands to 10 platters

Seagate begins shipping 44TB hard drives with HAMR tech to data centers — Mozaic 4+ platform expands to 10 platters Hard drives hit an important 44TB capacity milestone. Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Seagate has announced that it has begun shipments of its latest hard disk drives featuring a 44TB capacity to two of its partners among the leading hyperscale cloud service providers (CSPs). ...

A suite of government hacking tools targeting iPhones is now being used by cybercriminals

Security researchers have identified a suite of powerful hacking tools capable of compromising iPhones running older software that they say has passed from a government customer into the hands of cybercriminals. Google said Tuesday that it first identified the exploit kit, dubbed Coruna, in February 2025 during a surveillance vendor’s attempt to hack into someone’s phone with spyware on behalf of a government customer. It found the same exploit kit months later targeting Ukrainian users in a bro...

Alibaba’s Qwen tech lead steps down after major AI push

Alibaba’s Qwen AI project has lost one of its most visible technical leaders just a day after the Chinese tech giant unveiled its new Qwen 3.5 open-weight small models. Junyang Lin, a central technical leader on Alibaba’s Qwen team, said in a post on X on Tuesday that he was “stepping down” from the project, without elaborating. He joined Alibaba in July 2019 and became part of the Qwen team in April 2023, according to his LinkedIn profile. The abrupt departure, which drew strong reactions from ...

Just three companies dominated the $189B in VC investments last month

AI continues to dominate the venture world, per a new Crunchbase report. A record $189 billion of global venture capital flowed to startups in February, according to the report. AI startups overall raised $171 billion, or 90% of the capital raised last month. It’s a stunning number that feels like only the start. That record spending was more than three times the global VC spend in January and was dominated by mammoth funding rounds from just three companies: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo. OpenAI...

TikTok down for some in US, thanks to second Oracle outage since sale

Some TikTok users in the U.S. are having trouble using the app, which the company attributes to an issue with an Oracle data center. “Creators may temporarily experience lags in posting content while Oracle works to resolve the issue,” TikTok said on X. According to user-generated reports on Downdetector, the issue has been ongoing since before 9 a.m. ET. Oracle’s own post on X indicates the outage started around then as well. Oracle is part of an investor group that owns 80% of the TikTok USDS ...

AI companies are spending millions to thwart this former tech exec’s congressional bid

If you’ve seen the recent ads attacking New York assembly member Alex Bores, you’ll know he used to work for Palantir, the AI company that’s powering the controversial raids and high-volume deportation efforts from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The ads even accuse Bores of having made hundreds of thousands of dollars building the tech for ICE and “powering their deportations.” But that’s not quite the whole story. “I quit Palantir specifically over its work with ICE in 2019,” Bores t...

ChatGPT’s new GPT-5.3 Instant model will stop telling you to calm down

Take a breath, stop spiraling. You’re not crazy, you’re just stressed. And honestly, that’s okay. If you felt immediately triggered reading these words, you’re probably also sick of ChatGPT constantly talking to you as if you’re in some sort of crisis and need delicate handling. Now, things may be improving. OpenAI says its new model, GPT-5.3 Instant, will reduce the “cringe” and other “preachy disclaimers.” According to the model’s release notes, the GPT-5.3 update will focus on the user experi...

Anduril aims at $60 billion valuation in new funding round

Palmer Luckey’s defense-tech company is in the middle of a multibillion-dollar funding round led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. The funding round would come less than a year after the company’s Series G, which closed in June with $2.5 billion against a $30 billion valuation. Lux Capital and Founders Fund are also expected to participate. A previous report from Bloomberg said the new round could bring as much as $8 billion of cap...

Claude Code rolls out a voice mode capability

Anthropic is bringing Voice Mode to Claude Code, the company’s AI coding assistant for developers. The launch of voice mode marks a significant step toward more hands-free, conversational coding workflows. Thariq Shihipar, an engineer at Anthropic, announced the feature’s gradual release on X on Tuesday. According to Shihipar, voice mode is now live for about 5% of users, with a broader rollout planned in the coming weeks. Voice mode is designed to streamline the coding experience by letting use...

Android users can now share tracker tag info with airlines to help locate lost luggage

Google on Tuesday announced a series of new features coming to the Android ecosystem, alongside its March software update for Pixel phones, called the Pixel Drop. Notably, Android users are getting a new way to find lost luggage. If users have added a Find Hub-compatible tracker tag to their luggage, they can now share a link with participating airlines to help identify the location of the luggage. In the Find Hub app, users can now select their lost item and tap “share item location” to generat...

X says it will suspend creators from revenue-sharing program for unlabeled AI posts of ‘armed conflict’

X says it’s going to take action against creators who post AI videos of armed conflict without disclosure that the content is AI-generated. On Tuesday, X’s head of product, Nikita Bier, announced that people who use AI technology to mislead others in this way will be booted from the company’s Creator Revenue Sharing Program for a three-month period (90 days). If they continue to post misleading AI content after the suspension lifts, they’ll be permanently suspended from the program. “During time...

The new MacBook Pro laptops are as much as $400 more expensive than their predecessors. Thank the RAM shortage.

Apple unveiled its latest slate of MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops on Tuesday morning, and in the case of the MacBook Pro, the new hardware comes with the announcement of new M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. The specs on the new chips are impressive, featuring an 18-core CPU that Apple says is over 4x the peak GPU compute for AI compared to the previous generation. But consumers may be surprised to see the price of the new MacBook Pro devices, which are all between $100 and $400 more expensive than ...

Hacked traffic cams and hijacked TVs: How cyber operations supported the war against Iran

On Saturday, U.S. and Israeli jets began a bombing campaign against Iran, killing its supreme leader Ali Khamenei and several senior government officials. The attacks also hit military and civilian targets all across the country, including a girls’ school, where at least 168 children and adults were killed. After a few days of conflict, multiple reports, as well as statements from government officials, suggest that cyber operations played a significant role in the beginning of the war. This show...

Activist investor Elliott takes a $1B stake in Pinterest, betting on AI-driven growth

Elliott Investment Management, an activist investor known for its assertive involvement in company decisions, has taken a $1 billion stake in Pinterest. The firm first invested in the social platform in 2022. Pinterest announced the financial boost on Tuesday, and CEO Bill Ready said he considers this a major vote of confidence that underscores the company’s ambitious AI efforts. “We delivered record revenue in 2025, with users reaching all-time highs for ten consecutive quarters and more than 8...

Apple’s rumored MacBook Neo, a lower-cost, colorful laptop, could launch this week

According to multiple reports, Apple is working on a low-cost MacBook, which would allow the company to compete with inexpensive laptops for the first time. As Apple drips out news this week about its newest iPhones and MacBooks, could we finally see this new laptop unveiled? If reporting from MacRumors and Bloomberg is correct, the lower-cost MacBook, which is rumored to be released in multiple colors, could be announced as soon as Wednesday. According to MacRumors, Apple accidentally posted a ...

Amid new competition, Chrome speeds up its release schedule

As AI-powered browsers from companies like OpenAI, Perplexity, and others attempt to carve out a space for themselves in a market that’s long been dominated by Chrome, Google says that it’s now speeding up the pace of Chrome releases. Starting this September, Chrome will move from a four-week release schedule to a two-week schedule, the tech giant announced on Tuesday. Chrome has committed to shipping a new milestone of some sort with each release, in areas like stability, speed, or ease of use....

Audible launches a cheaper ‘Standard’ subscription plan, challenging Spotify

Audible is rolling out a cheaper “Standard” subscription plan that costs $8.99 per month, the Amazon-owned company announced on Tuesday. The new plan is $6 cheaper than the platform’s existing “Premium” plan, which costs $14.95 per month. The Standard plan includes one audiobook per month from Audible’s catalog and unlimited listening from a curated library that includes a selection of Audible Originals. Under the new Standard plan, subscribers will lose access to the audiobooks they’ve consumed...

X begins testing standalone X Chat app on iOS

Social network X is bringing its private messaging service, dubbed X Chat, to a standalone app. The company on Monday said the initial beta of the X Chat app was being made available to thousands of early adopters through Apple’s TestFlight testing platform. The beta program had reached full capacity two hours after the announcement. According to an X post by xAI product designer Michael Boswell, the company will expand the beta beyond the initial 1,000 users “soon.” (After publication, Boswell ...

Apple unveils new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with M5

Apple announced its new slate of laptops on Tuesday morning, including new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models that use Apple’s M5 chips. The Pro models were unveiled alongside the brand new M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, which Apple describes as its most advanced CPU cores yet. The company said these updated M5 chips were specifically designed to make the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops better at handling intensive AI tasks, which are becoming more of a focal point for new Apple hardware. Both the...

Apple’s new Studio Displays come with Thunderbolt 5

Apple on Tuesday announced a new MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, both powered by its latest chips, as well as a new family of displays. The latter includes a new $1,599 Studio Display and a $3,299 Studio Display XDR. The new 27-inch displays come with better cameras and improved connectivity. Both displays feature a 12MP Center Stage camera, which the company says offers improved image quality. There’s also support for Desk View, a feature that shows your face and an overhead view of your desk at t...

Apple unveils M5 Pro and M5 Max chips with new ‘Fusion Architecture’

Apple on Tuesday debuted the latest addition to the M-series of chips, as it announced its new M5 Pro and M5 Max, which are powering the new MacBook Pro. The tech giant says the chips are engineered around its new Fusion Architecture, an advanced design that merges two dies into a single, high-performance system on a chip (SoC), which includes a powerful CPU, scalable GPU, Media Engine, unified memory controller, Neural Engine, and Thunderbolt 5 capabilities. Both chips feature an 18-core CPU, m...

How WebAssembly plugins simplify Kubernetes extensibility

How WebAssembly plugins simplify Kubernetes extensibility The integration of WebAssembly (Wasm) into the Helm ecosystem streamlines the orchestration of WASI-compliant binaries across disparate environments, including OCI containers and virtualized infrastructure. By leveraging Helm’s templating engine, developers can standardize the lifecycle of sandboxed modules while maintaining a high degree of portability. While Wasm inherently provides fault-isolated execution through a capability-based se...

How to clone a drive to an image with Clonezilla

How to clone a drive to an image with Clonezilla There will come a time when you need to not only back up your data, but also create an image of a machine so that you can recover, should disaster strike. Think about it: Should a server (or desktop) go down due to hardware failure, you don’t want to have to take the time to rebuild it from scratch; that could take days or hours. Instead, you should consider using image backups. This process is simple: you use a piece of software to create an imag...

Why 83% of organizations reportedly trust open source with their most sensitive assets

Why 83% of organizations reportedly trust open source with their most sensitive assets Internal access management (IAM) is seeing compounded growth in demand and adoption as a key component in zero trust and security in general, expanding across cloud native to legacy infrastructures. According to Forrester, the market size of identity access will total $27.5 billion by 2029 at a compound annual growth rate of 15.3% from 2024 until 2029. Forrester also reports notes that IAM is now the third fas...

OpenAI’s GPT-5.3 Instant promises to dial down the cringe

OpenAI’s GPT-5.3 Instant promises to dial down the cringe On the same day Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, OpenAI also launched a faster version of its GPT-5.3 family on Tuesday. GPT 5.3 Instant is the first model in OpenAI’s GPT 5.3 family, with Pro and Thinking versions coming soon. The Instant models are somewhat of a workhorse in OpenAI’s stable, and in its ‘Auto’ model, ChatGPT routes all tasks it deems easy enough to them. When deeper reasoning is needed, it will pick the Thinking mo...