Month: March 2023
Soaring SUV sales make it harder to hit climate goals
SUV sales soared in 2022, a trend that makes it much harder to reach global climate goals, experts say. And while car buyers flocked to electric SUVs along with their gas-guzzling counterparts, supersize EVs pose their own environmental challenges. Bigger is the opposite of better Nevertheless, SUVs outcompeted their smaller…
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Proton VPN makes it easier to bypass censorship and secure browsing
Audio player loading… Users of one of the best VPN services on the market now have a more flexible way to bypass censorship and secure their browsing activities. The Swiss-based Proton VPN has just launched a new browser extension to meet the pressing needs of its community. A standalone VPN…
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Email and ransomware attacks dominated the cybercrime space last year
Audio player loading… Despite being one of the oldest tricks in the book, email attacks still remain one of the most popular, and most efficient forms of cybercrime, new research has claimed. The latest edition of the annual “State of the Phish” report from Proofpoint also found that following close…
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The Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League has Xbox Series X and PS5 targets set
Audio player loading… If you’re worried about how The Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League‘s performance on Xbox Series X and PS5 then you can be reassured by the framerate targets on the consoles. That’s because the game is slated to target 60fps to keep the intense action smooth. While…
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Intel launches quantum computing SDK, so you can try it out for yourself
Audio player loading… Intel has released a Quantum Software Development Kit (SDK) that allows developers to emulate a quantum computer on standard computing hardware. Given the expense and sparsity of the real thing, Intel’s SDK looks to give developers the chance to experiment with writing software in a quantum environment…
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Dish Network confirms outage was ransomware attack, user data possibly stolen
Audio player loading… Dish Network has now confirmed that the cybersecurity incident it suffered earlier this week was, in fact, a ransomware attack. After initially describing the disruption as an “internal systems issue”, and a “VPN issue”, the new public filing with the SEC sheds more light on the incident.…
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