If your browser could talk, it would know more about you than your best friend. Every search, every sign-in, every late‑night shopping tab leaves a trail. That’s why the browser you choose isn’t just about speed—it’s about who gets to see your life online, and what they do with it. Chrome, Firefox, and Brave all…
If you’re like most people, your TV is the heart of your living room—always on, always connected, and loaded with apps. But here’s the part manufacturers don’t write on the box: that big screen is also one of the most hackable devices in your home. Smart TVs aren’t just televisions. They’re full-blown computers with microphones,…
If you’ve ever wondered whether that tiny metal chip on your card can be hacked, you’re not alone. EMV chips and tap-to-pay have slashed in‑store fraud. But then you see headlines about “tap thieves” and skimmers and think… what’s actually true? Good question. In this guide, we’ll break down how chips and contactless payments work…
Your webcam light flickers on. A new “productivity” app installs on your laptop. Your boss mentions “time on task” in your 1:1. If you’ve felt watched at work—especially since remote work took off—you’re not imagining it. Employee monitoring tools (sometimes called “bossware”) are everywhere now. They can log your keystrokes, capture your screen, watch your…
You can finish a client call from a beach café in Bali and ship code from a train in Lisbon. That freedom feels incredible—until a sketchy Wi‑Fi network, a lost laptop, or a hacked account turns your dream into a scramble. Here’s the good news: you don’t need to be a security engineer to work…
If you’ve ever shopped at Gucci, Balenciaga, or Alexander McQueen, this one’s for you. Luxury conglomerate Kering has confirmed a major data breach, and a notorious cyber gang claims it includes 7.4 million email addresses and detailed spending histories. No, not card numbers—but something arguably more dangerous: “Total Sales” figures that map how much individual…
What if your coding assistant could look at a gnarly refactor, pause five minutes in, and say, “Actually, give me another hour—I’ve got this”? That’s the promise behind GPT-5-Codex, OpenAI’s new, specialized model for autonomous software engineering. It doesn’t just autocomplete lines of code. It plans. It tests. It reviews. And crucially, it decides how…
If you’ve been waiting for a real breakthrough in private AI—not just marketing spin—this is it. Google AI Research and DeepMind have announced VaultGemma, a 1-billion parameter open-weight language model trained end-to-end with differential privacy. In plain English: it’s the biggest publicly available LLM to formally guarantee that it won’t memorize and leak sensitive training…
If the last decade was “move fast and break things,” the next one is “move smart and prove things.” Governments from Washington to Brussels to Beijing have decided that artificial intelligence isn’t just a tech story anymore. It’s a governance story. It’s about safety, competitiveness, and who gets to set the rules of the digital…
What would you do if your phone buzzed and, for a split second, you heard a voice you thought you’d never hear again? Not a recording. A new message. In their tone, their cadence, their familiar pause before your name. For a growing number of people, that moment is real. Artificial intelligence now makes it…
