The importance of the Vulnerability Operations Centre for cybersecurity

The importance of the Vulnerability Operations Centre for cybersecurity

Traditional cybersecurity is laser-focused on incident detection and response. In other words, it’s built around a Security Operations Centre (SOC). That’s no bad thing in itself. Read between the lines, however, and that assumes we’re waiting on the threats to come to us. With cyber adversaries evolving their tactics through AI, automated ransomware campaigns, and … Read more

TP-Link routers are still being bombarded with botnet and malware threats

TP-Link routers are still being bombarded with botnet and malware threats

More than a year after a patch was released, hackers are still competing to compromise vulnerable TP-Link Wi-Fi routers. A report from Fortinet claims half a dozen botnet operators are scanning for vulnerable TP-Link Archer AX21 (AX1800) routers after cybersecurity researchers discovered a high-severity unauthenticated command injection flaw in the endpoints early last year. The … Read more

Samsung Galaxy M55 review: Saved by Snapdragon

Samsung Galaxy M55 review: Saved by Snapdragon

Samsung’s Galaxy M55 is an interesting phone. While not nearly as expensive as the Galaxy A55, Samsung has equipped it with features we don’t see–or haven’t seen–on the company’s mid-range phones. The M55 has a 50MP front camera, a first for any Samsung Galaxy smartphone. It’s also the first mid-range Galaxy phone to support 45W … Read more

Dear tech industry, we don’t need to follow behind gaming with terrible product trade-in values

Dear tech industry, we don’t need to follow behind gaming with terrible product trade-in values

Recently a story made headlines concerning a potential seller finding out just how bad Microcenter’s trade-in value is for a Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card.  The retailer only offered $700 for a card that’s currently priced at nearly $2000 on its own online store, less than half its original value. And keep in mind … Read more

NVIDIA Instant NeRFs need just a few images to make 3D scenes

NVIDIA Instant NeRFs need just a few images to make 3D scenes

NVIDIA sees AI as a means of putting new tools into the hands of gamers and creators alike. NVIDIA Instant NeRF is one such tool, leveraging the power of NVIDIA’s GPUs to make complex 3D creations orders of magnitude easier to generate. Instant NeRF is an especially powerful tool in its ability to create these … Read more

Playdate developers have made more than $500K in Catalog sales

Playdate developers have made more than 0K in Catalog sales

Panic is celebrating Playdate’s second birthday this month, and the party favors include some piping-hot statistics about Catalog game sales. Playdate hit the market in April 2022 with 24 free games. Its Catalog store went live in March 2023, offering 16 curated games for purchase directly on the device. Panic has added more titles to … Read more

NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Friday, April 19 (game #47)

NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Friday, April 19 (game #47)

The working week ends here, for some people at least – but you’re not allowed to down tools and start relaxing until you’ve solved today’s Strands puzzle. OK, that’s not an official requirement – no, I don’t have the power to compel people to play – but it’ll get your brain working ahead of that … Read more

Slack rolls out its AI tools to all paying customers

Slack rolls out its AI tools to all paying customers

Slack just rolled out its AI tools to all paying users, after releasing them to a select subset of customers earlier this year. The company’s been teasing these features since last year and, well, now they’re here. The AI auto-generates channel recaps to give people key highlights of stuff they missed while away from the … Read more