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Microsoft’s ‘Crazy Huge Hack,’ Explained

Last week, Microsoft announced that the on-premises version of its widely used email and calendaring product Exchange had several previously undisclosed security flaws. These flaws, the company said, were being used by foreign threat actors to hack into the networks of U.S. businesses and governments, primarily to steal large troves of email data. Since then,…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

Google TV Brings Kids Profiles to an Already Fantastic Streaming Device

Google TV is bringing new parental controls to its streaming device. The company announced that beginning Monday, parents or guardians can now create individual profiles for each of the kids in their households with either their name and age or an existing Google account, should they have one. From these new profiles, account holders will…

Internet Catie Keck

Atari Says It’s Launching a Crypto Casino Based on Its Old Games

In a move that’s not at all desperate, Atari claims it will be launching an online casino in May. More specifically, an Ethereum blockchain casino built around “Atari-themed games.” The venture is a partnership with Decentral Games, and according to the company’s blog, the Atari Casino will feature nostalgia-tinged games, with some being luck-based, while…

Tech News Victoria Song

Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Bethesda Acquisition Gets the All Clear

Six months ago, Microsoft announced plans to buy ZeniMax and its game publisher Bethesda for $7.5 billion in cash. Now, thanks to approval from both EU and U.S. regulators, Microsoft can now proceed with the acquisition of famous gaming franchises including Fallout, Doom, and The Elder Scrolls. Microsoft cleared the first major hurdle back on…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

The Boox Nova 3 Color Proves Color E Ink Screens Aren’t Ready for Tablets Yet

An Android 10 tablet that trades LCD and OLED for E Ink’s second generation color e-paper displays.

Tablets Andrew Liszewski

5 Reasons to Ditch Gmail for ProtonMail

You may assume that you have to rely on Google, Apple or Microsoft for fast and free email, but that’s not true. If you want to break away from the big tech giants, there are other options. One of those is ProtonMail. Many Gizmodo staffers rely on Gmail, but some of us also use ProtonMail,…

Gadgets David Nield

For Whatever Reason, People Are Willing to Pay up to $10 Million for an NFT of Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s first tweet is well-known on the platform. Published nearly 15 years ago, the tweet reads, “just setting up my twttr.” While there’s no doubt that it’s meaningful in popular culture, Dorsey apparently also seems to believe it’s got monetary value. And it appears he’s right. Dorsey posted a link to the…

Social Media Jody Serrano

The Latest Microsoft Hack Looks Like It Could Be Huge

Microsoft announced this week that another one of its email products, Exchange, had been compromised by a hacking campaign. This recent hack is actually totally unrelated to the “SolarWinds” one, in which Microsoft has also played an outsized role. A state-sponsored threat actor from China dubbed “HAFNIUM” is said to be exploiting a number of…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

LiquidVPN Faces Lawsuit for Allegedly Promoting Pirating Content

LiquidVPN is now facing a lawsuit from pissed-off movie copyright holders

Tech News Alyse Stanley

Setting Spotify as a Default Music App in iOS 14.5 Isn’t a Feature After All

What appeared to be one of the most exciting features of iOS 14.5 turns out to work a little differently than it originally seemed. Last month, Redditors discovered that the iOS 14.5 beta presented a new menu when a user asked Siri to play music. That menu offered app alternatives for music playback, including Spotify,…

Tech News Catie Keck

What If Clubhouse, but With State Censorship, TikTok Owner ByteDance Ponders

China’s ByteDance, is planning on launching its own version of audio chat app Clubhouse for the Chinese market, Reuters reported on Thursday. Clubhouse allows users to set up audio chat rooms, and is popular among Silicon Valley types (and a few far-right trolls who have taken advantage of its loose approach to moderation and hang…

Tech News Tom McKay

Someone Is Hacking the Hackers

In the latest in a string of “hits” on Russian dark web forums, the prominent crime site Maza appears to have been hacked by someone earlier this week. This is kind of big news since Maza (previously called “Mazafaka”) has long been a destination forall assortment of criminal activity, including malware distribution, money laundering, carding…

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek

Sonos Roam Speaker Details Leak Ahead of Next Week’s Announcement

Rumors of a new Sonos speaker have been swirling for a while now, and it seems every detail of the new Sonos Roam has been leaked ahead of its announcement. The Verge obtained images and specs for the $169 Roam, which is a waterproof portable speaker that looks to be a UE Boom 3, but,…

Gadgets Caitlin McGarry

Apple’s App Store Faces New Antitrust Investigation in UK

Regulators in the UK have launched a new antitrust investigation into Apple’s App Store, according to an announcement from Britain’s Competition and Market’s Authority on Thursday. And if the details sound similar to the European Union’s antitrust probes, that’s no accident. The UK will investigate the terms developers must agree to when they build software…

Tech News Matt Novak

Arizona’s Anti-Monopoly Bill Could Help Put Fortnite Back in the iOS App Store

Arizona legislators just passed an anti-monopoly bill in a 31-29 vote, which could have big implications for Apple, Google, and, weirdly enough, Fortnite. Arizona House Bill HB2005 “restricts the ability of certain digital application distribution platforms to require use of a specific in-application payment system.” (You can read the text of the bill here.) This…

Tech News Joanna Nelius

Apple’s New Service Helps You Transfer Your Pics and Videos From iCloud to Google Photos

For anyone who feels like they’ve been held hostage by iCloud’s 5GB of free storage or just wants to try out a different photo storage app, this week Apple launched a new service designed to make it way easier to transfer photos and videos stored in iCloud over to Google Photos. As reported by MacRumors…

Tech News Sam Rutherford

Study: Far-Right Propaganda Gets the Most Engagement on Facebook, Especially When It’s Lies

Shocker: Despite conservatives’ endless kvetching about the supposed liberal bias of Silicon Valley technocrats, one of the easiest ways to go viral on Facebook is spouting extreme, far-right rhetoric, according to a new study by New York University’s Cybersecurity for Democracy project. In results released Wednesday, researchers with the project analyzed various types of posts…

Social Media Tom McKay

Parler Drops One Lawsuit Against Amazon, and Files Another

Alleged domestic terrorist haven/free speech network Parler has bowed out of its antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. For a blessed moment it seemed we might get a break from conservative bitching and moaning about unfairness. No such luck. In January, following the storming of the capitol, major tech companies rushed to cut ties with the short-lived…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

AMD’s RX 6700 XT Is Here, and There’s Even More Good News for Radeon Owners

Today, AMD officially revealed the newest member of its Radeon 6000-series family: the RX 6700 XT. Situated just below the RX 6800, AMD said this is an ideal graphics card for anyone with a high refresh rate, 1440p monitor who wants to play games on max settings. And yes, Smart Access Memory is enabled, too,…

Gadgets Joanna Nelius

Apple TV+’s Calls Sounds Like Twilight Zone on the Phone

Calls is an upcoming Apple TV+ series that is almost exclusively audio recordings of people making phone calls, and when you first watch—listen, really—this trailer is going to seem like the dumbest idea possible. Then, as you keep going, the hook becomes very clear—it’s what you can’t see that’s most frightening, and in Calls, you…

Trailers Rob Bricken

Microsoft’s ‘Crazy Huge Hack,’ Explained

Google TV Brings Kids Profiles to an Already Fantastic Streaming Device

Atari Says It’s Launching a Crypto Casino Based on Its Old Games

Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Bethesda Acquisition Gets the All Clear

The Boox Nova 3 Color Proves Color E Ink Screens Aren’t Ready for Tablets Yet

5 Reasons to Ditch Gmail for ProtonMail

For Whatever Reason, People Are Willing to Pay up to $10 Million for an NFT of Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet

The Latest Microsoft Hack Looks Like It Could Be Huge

LiquidVPN Faces Lawsuit for Allegedly Promoting Pirating Content

Setting Spotify as a Default Music App in iOS 14.5 Isn’t a Feature After All

What If Clubhouse, but With State Censorship, TikTok Owner ByteDance Ponders

Someone Is Hacking the Hackers

Sonos Roam Speaker Details Leak Ahead of Next Week’s Announcement

Apple’s App Store Faces New Antitrust Investigation in UK

Arizona’s Anti-Monopoly Bill Could Help Put Fortnite Back in the iOS App Store

Apple’s New Service Helps You Transfer Your Pics and Videos From iCloud to Google Photos

Study: Far-Right Propaganda Gets the Most Engagement on Facebook, Especially When It’s Lies

Parler Drops One Lawsuit Against Amazon, and Files Another

AMD’s RX 6700 XT Is Here, and There’s Even More Good News for Radeon Owners

Apple TV+’s Calls Sounds Like Twilight Zone on the Phone

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Aragorn Is Officially Being Recast For ‘The Hunt for Gollum’

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