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Verizon now offers a three-year price lock — but there’s a catch
Verizon is announcing a new price lock policy today, and the timing is probably no coincidence. The company is extending a three-year price guarantee on certain plans, both for new and existing customers. The announcement comes a day after President Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs, and Verizon says it’s hoping to give customers more “predictability” in the current economic environment. But…
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Microsoft finally offers roadmap for new features coming to Windows 11
Microsoft now provides a roadmap for new features and changes expected to come to Windows 11. Since the company switched to Windows as a service development model, one of the problems (not counting the system bugs and other issues) has been tracking the new features and changes being tested through the different pre-release channels. Sure, the development team regularly publishes…
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Razer’s new Blade 18 offers Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs and a dual mode display
Razer is adding a fresh gaming laptop to the pile of new models up for preorder today: the Blade 18. Like its smaller (but far from small) Blade 16 cousin, the new Razer Blade 18 will come with Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs and Intel Arrow Lake CPUs. But one major way it differs is its large 18-inch display, which has…
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TikTok now offers its Android app for download outside of Google Play
TikTok is now offering US downloads of the Android version of the app on its own website, the company announced last night. With the change, Android users in the United States now have an easy way to download or update the app for the first time since Google removed it from Google Play last month in response to a US…
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Samsung Care+ Now Offers Free Galaxy Screen Repairs
If you want to take extra care of your Samsung devices, Samsung’s Care+ insurance program tries to do what AppleCare+ does for iPhones. Now, the most expensive subscription tier gives you access to screen repairs free of extra charge. Samsung has announced a significant upgrade to its top-tier device protection plan, Samsung Care+ with Theft and Loss. Subscribers to this…
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Phishing campaign targets developers with fake CrowdStrike job offers
Developers are being targeted in a new phishing campaign using fake CrowdStrike job offers, the security company has warned. The firm noted that the campaign, first identified on 7 January, uses CrowdStrike’s recruitment branding to load crypto-mining malware onto the victim’s systems. The campaign begins with phishing emails purporting to be part of a recruitment process informing victims that they…
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Apple offers $95 million in Siri privacy violation settlement
Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a class action lawsuit in the U.S. alleging that its Siri assistant recorded private conversations and shared them with third parties. The proposed lawsuit alleges that the audio data was disclosed without users’ consent to a network of third-party marketers and advertisers. Users complained of being targeted on their Apple devices with advertisements for…
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New ‘OtterCookie’ malware used to backdoor devs in fake job offers
North Korean threat actors are using new malware called OtterCookie in the Contagious Interview campaign that is targeting software developers. Contagious Interview has been active since at least December 2022, according to researchers at cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks. The campaign targets software developers with fake job offers to deliver malware such as BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret. A report from NTT Security…
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EU Offers Guidance on How AI Devs Can Obey Privacy Laws
The European Data Protection Board has published an opinion addressing data protection in AI models. It covers assessing AI anonymity, the legal basis for processing data, and mitigation measures for impacts on data subjects for tech companies operating in the bloc. It was published in response to a request from Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, the lead supervisory authority under the…
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US offers $5 million for info on North Korean IT worker farms
The U.S. State Department is offering a reward of up to $5 million for information that could help disrupt the activities of North Korean front companies and employees who generated over $88 million via illegal remote IT work schemes in six years. The two companies, Chinese-based Yanbian Silverstar and Volasys Silverstar from Russia, tricked businesses worldwide into employing North Korean staff…
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