Author: Zach_Wilson
What to Do When Hackers Crash Your Gene Pool Party
This week, we talk about how the data of millions of 23andMe customers was stolen and put up for sale. Pro tip: Don’t use the same password on multiple websites. Source
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In the end, the FTX trial was about the friends screwed along the way
Sure, Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial has revealed that FTX was basically a seething mass of scams. But it has also revealed how Bankman-Fried blew up the lives of the people who are closest to him. Of course everyone who had money trapped on the FTX exchange when it collapsed — as the…
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Windows 11 is about to get a lot more secure for SMB users everywhere
Microsoft is introducing new features in the next version of Windows 11 which should make it a lot more secure for some users. In an update posted on the Microsoft blog, Microsoft Principal Program Manager Ned Pyle announced that Windows 11 will let admins mandate SMB client encryption for all…
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The Morning After: Meta’s Threads reaches almost 100 million active users
Meta’s Threads continues to grow, all while the service it aped, X, continues to splutter and fall apart. Mark Zuckerberg said that Threads currently has “just under” 100 million monthly active users and that the app could reach 1 billion users in the next couple of years. Threads picked up…
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Downtime could be one of the worst things to affect your business – here’s why
Major legacy infrastructure challenges are causing IT decision-makers to report negative impacts on their businesses, a new report by Hitachi Vantara has claimed. Its study of more than 200 North American and European IT leaders, which explores subscription- and consumption-based ITaaS models, found that more than half (56%) of businesses…
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The Samsung Galaxy S25 and other 2025 phones could be exceptionally expensive
If you thought the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, the OnePlus 11, and the other best Android phones were expensive, we’ve got some bad news for you – it looks like the top Androids are only going to get more pricey in 2025. Why 2025? Well, because that’s when most phones…
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