Month: May 2025
Global Russian hacking campaign steals data from government agencies
ESET uncovers a major cyber-espionage campaign It was attributed to APT28, AKA Fancy Bear The campaign leveraged multiple n-day and zero-day flaws For years now, Russian state-sponsored threat actors have been eavesdropping on email communications from governments across Eastern Europe, Africa, and Latin America. A new report from cybersecurity researchers…
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xAI posts Grok’s behind-the-scenes prompts
A system prompt is a set of instructions served to a chatbot ahead of a user’s messages that developers use to direct its responses. xAI and Anthropic are two of the only major AI companies we checked that have made their system prompts public. In the past, people have used…
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Samsung just launched the first-ever 500Hz OLED gaming monitor – but I think it’s overkill
Samsung has launched a new gaming monitor, the Odyssey OLED G6 The monitor is the first ever 500Hz OLED option on the market It will be available in other regions later this year Samsung‘s Odyssey lineup includes some of the best gaming monitors available on the market, many of which…
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Spotify is sorry that it revealed how many people listen to your podcast
Spotify announced earlier this month that podcast creators and listeners would get a new data point: how many plays an episode has gotten. The idea, according to Spotify, was that listeners could discover new shows they hadn’t heard of, enticed by this new public measure of fandom. Podcasters did not…
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“A clear escalation in Russia’s crackdown on digital privacy tools” – experts warn against recent VPN disappearances in Russia
The VPN purge from Russian official app stores continues, with smaller providers becoming the new target after Apple and Google. Between May 15 and 16, 2025, Samsung and Xiaomi both removed the AdGuard VPN application at the Roskomnadzor’s demand. At least one more VPN provider, HideMyName VPN, has also been…
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What is the release date and time for The Last of Us season 2 episode 6?
Want to know when episode 6 of The Last of Us season 2 will be released? I’ve got you covered. Below, I’ll tell you when the hugely successful HBO TV Original’s next entry, which is also available on Max in numerous countries, including the US, will make its worldwide debut.…
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