Author: Zach_Wilson
Designer Ray-Ban Metas, An EV to Mock Tesla, and Portable Pizzas—Here’s Your Gear News of the Week
Plus: iRobot unveils its new robo vacs, JBL pimps its most beloved speakers, a bright future for TCL TVs, and more. Source
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Over 400 million unwanted and malicious emails were received by businesses in 2024
Report finds reverse proxy attacks bypass 2FA, exploiting trust in fake logins Phishing remains dominant, accounting for a third of all attacks Malicious URLs surge, comprising 22.7% of cyberattack strategies Cybercriminals are continually evolving their tactics, and email remains a primary vector for attacks, with new research from Hornetsecurity highlighting…
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ICYMI: the week’s 7 biggest tech stories from Twitter’s massive outage to iRobot’s impressive new Roombas
This week has been a rollercoaster in the world of tech. Twitter shut down thanks to its biggest outage in years, giving us all a moment of peace, Google unveiled Gemini-infused robots, which feels like the start of a robot revolution, and we tested Apple‘s new Macbook and iPad Air.…
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From iPhone to Android and (almost) back again – the iPhone 16e failed to lure me back to iOS
I spent nearly a decade with iPhones until I switched to the Google Pixel 6a in 2022, and have not looked back. Android sucked me in. But I was curious about how the Apple experience has changed since I left, so I decided to go back to iOS with the…
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Researchers want to embrace Arm’s celebrated paradigm for a universal generative AI processor; a puzzling MEGA.mini core architecture
New dual-core MEGA.mini architecture boosts performance while saving energy Dynamic core allocation optimizes workloads Mega cores for complex tasks and mini cores for routine processing At February 2025’s International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), researchers unveiled a new MEGA.mini architecture. Inspired by Arm’s celebrated “big.LITTLE” paradigm, this universal generative AI processor,…
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Samsung soundbar owners report major problems after latest firmware update
Samsung’s flagship soundbar, the HW-Q990D, is being rendered useless for some owners after a faulty firmware update that the company rolled out this week. The sheer number of reports on Samsung’s community forums, Reddit, and AVSForum confirm that something has gone very wrong with the premium Dolby Atmos system in…
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