If you’ve been using the internet for more than a month or so, you know that downloading files from unknown sites is a great way to get compromised. But the latest security update to Windows does a ...

AT&T has extended the deadline for its $177 million data breach settlement, giving customers until December 18, 2025, to file a claim. The settlement covers the two breaches the company announced in ...

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Nowadays, major productivity apps seem to demand a monthly payment. This "subscription creep" is annoying, but there’s a ...

Free software on your phone or tablet lets you scan, create, edit, annotate and even sign digitized documents on the go. By J. D. Biersdorfer I write the monthly Tech Tip column, which is devoted to ...

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The Internet Archive is preserving the web one page at a time, a job that’s more critical than ever as the internet evolves in the age of AI.

Gladinet has released security updates for its CentreStack business solution to address a local file inclusion vulnerability (CVE-2025-11371) that threat actors have leveraged as a zero-day since late ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new set of vulnerabilities impacting OpenAI's ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) ...

During his vetting for labor secretary, Alexander Acosta allegedly told Trump transition officials he’d been told to “back off” the Jeffrey Epstein case—saying Epstein “belonged to intelligence." ...

Although the U.S. government remains closed, taxpayers who requested a filing extension from the IRS earlier this year remain on the hook to submit their income tax returns by Oct. 15. "Taxpayers ...