Month: June 2024
The best portable SSDs for 2024
Whether you want to back up the data on your PC, transfer videos from your Mac or offload a few games from your PlayStation 5, a portable SSD is an easy way to expand your storage. These little bricks may cost more than traditional external hard drives, but they’re significantly…
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WhatsApp reunites Modern Family for ad about green bubble friends
Four members of ABC’s Modern Family cast have returned to their roles to star in a new commercial for WhatsApp. The ad is designed to promote WhatsApp to families that use a mix of iPhones and Android devices, so they can avoid green bubbles and the limitations of Apple’s group…
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Factor Review: Satisfying but Slimy
Factor’s prepared meals taste good, but they’re hard to eat. Source
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VMware reveals critical security bugs, so patch now
VMware has released patches for two critical vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to execute malware remotely. Users are advised to apply the patches immediately and thus secure their endpoints. In a security advisory, VMware said it was tipped off on the existence of two “heap-overflow vulnerabilities in the implementation of…
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The Morning After: US Surgeon General says social media needs warning labels like cigarettes
The US Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, says social media should come with warning labels, writing in The New York Times that social media is an “important contributor” to the teen mental health crisis. Last year, he issued an advisory making similar arguments, saying social media posed a “profound risk” to…
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Here are all of the Copilot+ PCs with Snapdragon X chips that were released today
It’s the dawn of a new era in Microsoft’s eyes as the first wave of Copilot+ PCs are now available as of June 18. This “new class of Windows PCs,” as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella describes them, contains hardware designed to run as many generative AI processes locally as possible,…
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