A Clever Honeypot Tricked Hackers Into Revealing Their Secrets
Security researchers set up a remote machine and recorded every move cybercriminals made—including their login details.
Read MoreSecurity researchers set up a remote machine and recorded every move cybercriminals made—including their login details.
Read MoreImage: The Verge Meta has rolled out the ability to verify a link to your Threads profile on social media platforms like Mastodon, according to a Threads post from Instagram head Adam Mosseri. To be clear, this isn’t a free way to get a blue checkmark next to your Threads name; you’ll probably need to
Read MoreWhitney Wolfe Herd, the founder of Bumble. | Photo: Ramona Rosales Bumble founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd is coming to the Code Conference, where she’ll be interviewed on stage by CNBC senior media and tech correspondent Julia Boorstin. Wolfe Herd’s company has moved quickly to adopt AI in targeted ways to help daters. Last
Read MoreFinancial Times: Sources: Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent, and Alibaba made orders worth $5B to acquire Nvidia chips, amid concerns that the US will soon clamp down on their export — Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba rush to acquire GPUs amid concern US will soon clamp down on their export
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority There’s a Verizon price increase on the way for certain grandfathered unlimited plans. This increase will affect “Mix & Match” plans, which Verizon sunsetted earlier this year. You can expect an increase of $3 each month. If there’s one thing Verizon loves, it’s switching the branding of its wireless
Read MoreA $50 fitness band like the Amazfit Band 7 is a rare sight these days. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Smartwatches are the default wearable option these days, but why is it so hard to find simple yet affordable alternatives like the fitness bands of yesteryear? Continue reading…
Read MoreA $50 price drop on the high-end OnePlus Buds Pro 2 just landed in a OnePlus Wednesday-style deal, and it has our full attention. The offer reduces the asking price to within the budget of many earbud shoppers, and we were clear in our review that these buds were worth the outlay at the full
Read MoreVishal Chawla / The Block: Coinbase’s Base mainnet opens to the public featuring 100+ dApps and service providers as part of the ecosystem, after a developer-specific release in July 2023 — – The Base network, backed by Coinbase, has now officially been opened to the public. — The Base network’s journey began …
Read MoreImage: Google Google has launched a new tool that lets you create AI-generated poem postcards based on a piece of artwork and a subject of your choice. The addition of poem postcards comes as part of Google’s broader redesign of its Arts & Culture app and its rollout of generative AI features across its other
Read MoreIllustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok appears to be working on a new way for creators to disclose if their posts contain AI-generated content. As shared by social media consultant Matt Navarra, a new “AI-generated content” toggle has appeared under the “more options” section before uploading a video. As part of the description for
Read MoreJessica Allain as Lou, Hubert Point-Du Jour as Miles, Colin Woodell as Winston, Adam Shapiro as Lemmy. | Peacock While the very first teaser for Peacock’s forthcoming The Continental series was rather light on details, the latest trailer definitely makes it seem like the John Wick prequel is going to live up to the films’
Read MoreAndrew Tarantola / Engadget: The US debuts a DARPA contest to build AI systems that can proactively identify and fix software flaws, with help from Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI — The winning systems will be able to analyze and correct vulnerable code in critical infrastructure.
Read MoreImage: GM For no reason at all, today seemed like a good day to reflect on where our obsession with supersized SUVs and trucks has taken us and where it’s headed with the shift to electric vehicles. I’m kidding, of course. Because today was the day that GM unveiled a brand-new Cadillac Escalade — only
Read MoreCredit: Ryan Whitwam / Android Authority A YouTuber put the new Galaxy Z Fold 5 through a torture test. Despite the abuse, the Fold 5 managed to continue working. The same tests did much more damage to Google’s Pixel Fold. With pre-order sales higher than they’ve ever been for Samsung’s foldables, it’s clear people are
Read MoreIt probably goes without saying that solar panels need to be pointed at the sun for optimal performance. The tricky bit is that the sun has a funny habit of moving on you. For those with a solar panel on their balcony or garden, mysoltrk tracks the sun to get the most out of a
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Roblox CEO David Baszucki envisions that its generative AI systems might someday work in a way that’s somewhat similar to what you might have seen on the sci-fi show Westworld, based on comments during Roblox’s Q2 2023 earnings call on Wednesday. The Westworld comparison came up as part of a longer answer
Read MoreI’ve talked about a low-effort way to document your projects by taking plenty of pictures, and about ways that your PCBs could be documenting themselves. Today, let’s talk about a quick and easy way that you could help other hackers as you go through your own hacking adventures — leaving breadcrumbs. In short, breadcrumbs are
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Elon Musk’s Twitter was fined $350,000 for refusing to comply with a search warrant on Donald Trump’s Twitter account earlier this year, according to new court documents released Wednesday. The warrant was issued as part of the Justice Department’s special investigation. In January, special counsel Jack Smith obtained
Read MoreThe internet celebrity is the first Twitch streamer to be charged with inciting a riot. It joins a long legacy of disastrous internet meetups.
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you haven’t changed your Verizon data plan in a few years, take note: starting August 29th, the company is increasing the cost of its “Mix and Match” unlimited plans that debuted in 2018. They had truly confounding names like Go Unlimited, Beyond Unlimited, and Above Unlimited. I
Read MoreIllustration: The Verge Threads, Meta’s Twitter competitor, is getting some new features “this week,” according to a post from CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The new features include the ability to share a Threads post to your Instagram DMs, a way to add custom alt text to photos and videos that you include in posts, and a
Read MoreCredit: Andrew Grush / Android Authority The latest version of the Google Home app has code hinting at a new Nest Wifi router model. The new model has the codename Breeza. It’s possible that Breeza could be a cheaper version of the Nest Wifi Pro. It’s only been about a year since Google released the
Read MoreGreg Stohr / Bloomberg: The SCOTUS lets Apple keep its App Store rules for now, rejecting an Epic request that would have let developers start directing users to other payment options — – Supreme Court justice won’t let appeals court ruling kick in — Epic seeking to open App Store to lower-priced alternatives
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Supreme Court has rejected Fortnite publisher Epic’s request to make Apple loosen its App Store rules as a legal battle progresses. As first reported by Bloomberg and Reuters, Justice Elena Kagan declined to vacate a stay on a lower court order about Apple’s anti-steering rules, which limit
Read MoreThe Citizen Lab: An analysis of Tencent’s Sogou Input Method, the top tool in China for inputting Chinese characters with 450M+ MAUs, finds data-leaking flaws in its encryption — We urge Sogou Input Method users to immediately update to the most recent version of the app (at least Windows version 13.7, Android version 11.26, or
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