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Facebook’s New Friends-Only Feed Lets You Scroll Like It’s 2008
Facebook wants to be your friend again, by showing you what your real friends are up to. In an attempt to save itself from the AI slop and clickbaity images that are all over its algorithmic feed, Facebook is now updating its mobile app’s dedicated Friends tab to be a whole feed, showing you updates only from the real people…
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Instagram Finally Lets You Fast Forward Those “Long” Reels
Thanks to TikTok and Instagram Reels, our attention span has gone down the drain. It’s hard to focus on something for more than 30 seconds unless it has Subway Surfers at the bottom. I guess the folks at Instagram might also be suffering through the same plot, which is why they are now rolling out the ability to fast-forward Reels.…
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High-Severity Flaw Lets Hackers Bypass Authentication
Image: Ferran Rodenas/Flickr/Creative Commons If you use VMware Tools for Windows, it is critical to update to the latest version. Broadcom, which acquired VMware for $69 billion in 2023, has issued a patch for a high-severity vulnerability that is actively being exploited by cybercriminals. The vulnerability affects VMware Tools for Windows versions 11.x.x and 12.x.x, but has been patched in…
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Veeam RCE bug lets domain users hack backup servers, patch now
Veeam has patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-23120 in its Backup & Replication software that impacts domain-joined installations. The flaw was disclosed yesterday and affects Veeam Backup & Replication version 12.3.0.310 and all earlier version 12 builds. The company fixed it in version 12.3.1 (build 12.3.1.1139), which was released yesterday. According to a technical writeup by watchTowr Labs, who…
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Need Help Making Business Choices? This AI App Lets You Test Strategies before Deciding
Welcome. Tell us a little bit about you. This will help us provide you with customized content. First Name Last Name Job Title Company Name Company Size Select a size 1 – 4 5 – 9 10 – 24 25 – 49 50 – 99 100 – 249 250 – 499 500 – 999 1000 – 4999 5000 – 9999…
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Ever Wanted to Conduct an Orchestra? This Meta Quest 3 Game Lets You
Summary Maestro offers a great pseudo-simulation of conducting through a gesture-based rhythm game and on- and off-screen antics. You conduct a variety of orchestral and jazz tracks through hand tracking with baton waves, gestures, and pointing. There are a good selection of other rhythm-action games on Meta Quest 3, if conducting an orchestra doesn’t sound like your idea of fun.…
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Cisco IOS XR vulnerability lets attackers crash BGP on routers
Cisco has patched a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability that lets attackers crash the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) process on IOS XR routers with a single BGP update message. IOS XR runs on the company’s carrier-grade, Network Convergence System (NCS), and Carrier Routing System (CRS) series of routers, such as the ASR 9000, NCS 5500, and 8000 series. This high-severity flaw (tracked as CVE-2025-20115) was found…
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The Microsoft Windows App Lets You Access PCs Remotely and in the Cloud
The Windows app, on Windows. Credit: Microsoft There’s more than one way to use Windows now. As well as sitting down in front of a locally installed copy of Windows, running on a hard drive inside your desktop or laptop, you can also fire up the Microsoft Windows app—a one-stop central hub for managing connections to remote PCs and Windows…
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Bluesky Now Lets You Hide DMs From Strangers
Bluesky’s latest update adds a few more useful options to its impressive arsenal of anti-harassment tools. The changes make it easier to hide direct messages (DMs) from strangers, and to mute accounts even faster. You don’t need to do anything to receive these features, too. As long as you’re using the latest version of Bluesky’s apps or log in to…
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How to disable ‘Let’s finish setting up your device’ with ‘Remind me in 3 days’ prompt on Windows 11
On Windows 11, you can stop the system from showing the “Let’s finish setting up your device” page at login, and in this guide, I’ll explain the steps to complete this process. Sometimes, after installing an update or restarting the computer, Windows 11 may show you the “Let’s finish setting up your device” prompt to lure you into using other…
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