Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica Microsoft Exchange servers compromised in a first round of attacks are getting infected for a second time by a ransomware gang that is trying to profit from a rash of exploits that caught organizations around the world flat-footed. The ransomware—known as Black Kingdom, DEMON, and DemonWare—is demanding $ 10,000 for […]
Enlarge / The iPhone 12 and 12 Pro, side by side. Samuel Axon Apple has posted multiple job listings indicating that it is hiring engineers to work on 6G technology internally so it does not have to rely on partners like Qualcomm as the next generation of wireless technology hits several years down the line. […]
Enlarge / GoSearch22 isn’t, technically speaking, any sort of “virus.” But it’s certainly not anything you’d want on your shiny-new M1 Mac. Pete Linforth Last year, Apple released Macbooks and Mac Minis powered by a new ARM CPU—the Apple M1. A few months later, malware authors are already targeting the new hardware directly. Wired interviewed Mac […]
Pedro Pascal, star of “The Mandalorian,” the Disney+ Star Wars version of “The Last of Us,” will be taking in another special orphan child. Wednesday, it was announced that Pascal was cast as Joel Miller, one of the protagonists of the upcoming HBO adaptation of the “The Last of Us” video game series. Bella Ramsay, […]
As 2021 kicks into high gear, a harsh reality is setting in for gamers: Major delays are coming. In our 2021 predictions, we noted that this was a very real possibility due to the long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. While some of 2020’s releases got shuffled around, those games were largely near the end […]
NASA fired the four engines of its towering Space Launch System rocket for the first time Saturday after a decade of development, but the engines were cut off well short of the intended duration, a sign that something went wrong. NASA had been hoping to fire the four RS-25 rocket engines for eight minutes, but […]
The world’s biggest gaming conference, E3, has been canceled this year due to the global outbreak of coronavirus, officially called COVID-19. But plans are already underway for next year’s event, E3 2021, according to the event’s organizers. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the body which runs the E3 events, has announced that it is planning […]
Enlarge / An exterior view of the Apple Store on the Chicago River. Apple Apple has re-opened all of its retail stores in China, business publication Bloomberg reports, but the company also notified its tech support workers that some products and supplies could be in short supply in the immediate future. The company sent a memo […]
Google says it has implemented new algorithms in an attempt to elevate original news reporting. Here, Trystan Upstill speaks about Google News at the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, Calif., on May 8, 2018. (Jeff Chiu) September 13 at 10:59 PM Editor’s Note: Two sentences originally published in this story used language similar to […]
Take-Two Interactive Software is already preparing for the launch of the next-generation game consoles from Sony and Microsoft in 2020. And you can already see some evidence of that in today’s first-fiscal quarter report for the three months ended June 30. In a conference call with analysts today, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick and other executives […]
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Steve Kovach of CNBC had his Galaxy Fold die right along the display crease. Steve Kovach The Verge’s Galaxy Fold review unit had something press against the back side of the screen, killing several rows of pixels. The Verge A tweet from Mark Gurman: “The screen on my Galaxy Fold review unit is completely broken […]
Edgar Su/Reuters If history is any indication, we can expect Apple to unveil its next-generation iPhones in the fall. Even though September is still months away, some reports have already provided insight about what the company’s iPhone XS successors will entail. Based on the rumors so far, it seems like the biggest updates we can […]
The Edge Insider extension. Microsoft Microsoft’s first public release of a Chromium-based version of its Edge browser is fast approaching. Microsoft has published an early version of its extension market for the new browser, and the Windows Store includes a new extension for Edge-on-Chromium. On top of all this, a build of the browser has […]
Enlarge / Windows is now perpetually under construction. David Holt / Flickr The release earlier this month of a preview Windows 10 build that isn’t due until 2020 was a little strange. At the time, Microsoft said vaguely that it was because of features that “require a longer lead time,” with no indication of what […]