Month: June 2022
Oculus VR games are up to 40 percent off through June 26th
This story is part of a group of stories called Only the best deals on Verge-approved gadgets get the Verge Deals stamp of approval, so if you’re looking for a deal on your next gadget or gift from major retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Target, and more, this is…
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This promising new Windows 11 feature is coming to more users
Audio player loading… Windows 11 users are set for a newly spiced up search function with the latest round of updates. The new “Search Highlights” feature promises to “present notable and interesting moments of what’s special about each day – like holidays, anniversaries, and other educational moments in time both…
Read MoreMorbius finally finds some success…on Vudu
If at first you don’t succeed you can try again, and again, and again, and eventually you might find an audience. At least that’s what appears to have happened for Morbius. The abysmal vampire superhero film starring Jared Leto is finally number one somewhere. In a press release issued by…
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iOS 16 will let you bypass CAPTCHAs on some apps and websites
When iOS 16 comes out later this fall, you may notice that you don’t have to deal with as many annoying CAPTCHAs asking you to slide a puzzle piece or distinguish between a hill and a mountain. That’s because Apple’s introducing a feature for its iPhones and Macs called Automatic…
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Sorry QNAP customers, you’re under attack again
Audio player loading… Another day, another cyberattack against QNAP’s network-attached storage (NAS) devices. This time, QNAP users are being targeted by ech0raix, a known ransomware operator that’s been targeting vulnerable QNAP devices for years now. Users first started recording being hit with ransomware on June 8, and since then, the…
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Sophos Firewall zero-day bug exploited weeks before fix
Audio player loading… A vulnerability in the Sophos Firewall, first discovered in late March and patched soon afterwards, was being exploited by a Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT), in the weeks before the patch was released, reports have revealed. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Volexity, the threat actor, known as DriftingCloud,…
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