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The Securities and Exchange Commission is making an example of SolarWinds by charging the company with defrauding investors for allegedly failing to stop a massive breach at the IT company and covering up its negligent cybersecurity practices.

Yesterday, Canada banned the use of WeChat and Kaspersky's suite of security apps on all government-issued mobile devices. The apps will be uninstalled and any attempt to download them again will be blocked.

Meta is responding to "evolving European regulations" by introducing a premium subscription option for Facebook and Instagram from Nov. 1.

Skipping the second generation of Apple silicon entirely, the 24-inch iMac has arrived with M3 processing to drastically elevate Apple's all-in-one computer. With little else changed, the new iMac focuses on what more power can do to increase its versatility and ability to serve the unique needs of each family member in your home.

In times past, we've waited for years to see a new MacBook Pro. This time, we get two sets of new pro-grade Apple laptops only about 10 months apart. Apple has raised the curtain on its new line of 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pros with the latest M3 processors inside.

Apple today announced its new M3 processing platform, which will launch inside fresh iMac and MacBook Pro models, available for order now. The iMac is, for now, exclusively a 24-inch model based on the new M3 chip, starting at $1,299.

Apple's Scary Fast announcement brings news of new MacBooks and the return of the iMac, but inside every one of these products is something just as significant: A trio of new M3 processors.

It seems like Apple's last big event, where they unveiled the new iPhones, Apple Watches and the like, was just yesterday (it was actually September 7th). But there's a new Apple event today as well, and retailers are anticipating it by delivering some unexpected price drops on hardware. One of the best deals we've found is at Amazon, where the brand-new AirPods Pro with USB-C charging are going for fifty bucks off.

Researchers at the University of Maryland say they've found a way for EVs to store more energy, therefore increasing their range, without a corresponding increase in fire risk.

A recent Xbox update may include a mechanism to block third-party controllers.

Many of us like to think we're web-savvy enough to know when something is fishy (or phishy). Kids don’t have that same wealth of experience and web-surfing wisdom that older users have accumulated–and the bad guys know it. They’re willing to take advantage by planting malicious code on sites that your child would otherwise be innocently looking for.

If you're old enough to remember flip phones, there are probably a few that stand out in your mind. The Motorola Razr, the Nokia 3310, and the Samsung SGH-E700 are three such examples, and that last one is coming back—in the form of an updated Galaxy Z Flip 5.

Memory provider Western Digital is spinning off its flash business into a new company that’ll adopt its own name. 

Elon Musk is trying to stop users from posting viral misinformation on Twitter/X by clamping down on its revenue-sharing program.

ChatGPT is growing more powerful all the time, with a continuous rollout of new features. If you're a subscriber, you get access to many of those features in beta, including plugin support and web-browsing access (which is back after being pulled). Now, ChatGPT is rolling out a new data analysis mode more widely, along with other convenience features.

With a new executive order, the Biden administration plans to reach deep into the non-legislative compartments of its policy toolbox to manage the risks of increasingly powerful AI systems while also promoting their development.

Most tech users are vehemently loyal when it comes to their platform choices. But I suspect there are open-minded people on both sides of the macOS vs. Windows operating system debate who aren’t aware of what the other side has to offer—or maybe you're just curious. So here I compare the standard operating system features from Microsoft and Apple one by one. Each category has a winner or is declared a tie, and at the end I tally up the points to declare an overall winner. Note that this is a different exercise than how PCMag reviews products, which involves rating each product as a whole in its category rather than as the sum of its parts, as I do here.

Elon Musk is facing criticism from the Israeli government for wanting to supply Starlink access  to humanitarian aid groups working in Gaza.

MAUI, Hawaii—Let's start with a great big caveat: This is not your conventional benchmark testing story, at least as PCMag usually does them. We attended Qualcomm's 2023 Snapdragon Summit last week, and were regaled with session after session detailing advances in on-device AI, Qualcomm's ubiquitous Snapdragon smartphone chips, news around new cross-device info sharing and synchronicity. But most of all there is "Oryon": the company’s next-generation CPU core silicon that will scale from laptops (where it will make its first appearance in the company’s Snapdragon X Elite processor next year) eventually to smartphones, automotive applications, and more.

Doctor Web's latest monthly mobile threat report has identified several Android apps with more than 2 million installs that masquerade as gaming or productivity apps but are actually adware.

Hackers have earned $300 million in all-time rewards from HackerOne through its bug bounty program.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is showing off a full-sized mockup of an unscrewed version of its Blue Moon lunar lander.

Apple is reportedly working on extensive upgrades across the AirPods line, with plans to completely overhaul the product in 2024.

Threads is reportedly working on an API.

Samsung will be adding satellite features to the Galaxy S24, 9to5Mac reports.

Google Bard now has a “respond in real time” option, 9to5 Google reports.

When it comes to buying a laptop, the display has never been more important. An indispensable part of the modern computer, the screen type can affect not only the visual quality of a laptop but also its portability, battery life, and even the core functionality of your machine. Whether you're a creative professional seeking color accuracy, a gamer craving smooth visuals, or a student desiring an immersive multimedia experience, the right laptop screen can make all the difference.

The iPhone 15 lineup has been out for about a month, so you know what that means: rumors about next-gen iPhones.

Every month, Netflix adds lots of new content to its library of films and TV shows. But to make room for the fresh stuff, some of the shows and movies you'd always wanted to watch—and have had in your to-watch list for months or years—suddenly disappear.

Google is following in Amazon’s footsteps and has committed $2 billion to the AI startup Anthropic, The Wall Street Journal reports. Amazon committed to investing up to $4 billion in the startup in September, a move that gave it minority ownership of the company. 

The Apple Watch Ultra 2 "offers minor refinements over the last generation," we found in our review, but if you're waiting for the third-gen smartwatch to take your tracking up a notch, it may not happen until 2025.

Sony's OLED televisions are some of the absolute best on the market, and the A75L model combines rock-solid 4K resolution with excellent pricing thanks to cutting some corners on speaker placement and the removal of the on-board Google Assistant. You won't miss either of those things, especially with this healthy price drop of $500 off the 65" model and $400 off the 55" one.

It’s Friday again and Best Buy has unveiled another one of their weekend sales. This time it’s a doozy: Black Friday Early Access, wherein My Best Buy Plus and Total members get additional discounts and a $50 promotional certificate by meeting a $500 spending threshold in the month of October. Non-members are also treated to some very good discounts, so don’t sleep on this sale. Below, you can find some of our top picks*:

One of the biggest advantages to setting up a smart home network is being able to secure your property and monitor it from anywhere in the world. Blink security cameras launched as a wildly successful Kickstarter project before being acquired by Amazon in 2017, and access to the mega-retailer's infrastructure has enabled them to manufacture their products a very reasonable price points. For Black Friday, Amazon is offering massive discounts on a whole range of Blink products. These deals are on par with what we saw during Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days earlier in this year. Here are some of the hottest picks.

It's common knowledge that Google pays Apple to be the default search engine on Apple devices, but the exact amount has been the subject of much debate. Typical guesses are north of $10 billion, but two sources tell The New York Times that the bill was "around $18 billion" in 2021.

The option to view Twitter/X without ads is finally here, but it’ll cost you $16 per month. 

Netflix is looking really good in November, with high-profile series and movie premieres for just about everybody. We've got a new David Fincher flick, some reality TV goodness, the real-life Squid Game, anime both American and Japanese, and way more. Here's our guide to the hottest new content on the streaming service this month. Whether you're already a subscriber or thinking of signing up, there's definitely some worthwhile stuff to watch here.

MAUI, Hawaii—At Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit 2023, PCMag sat down with two of the company’s senior leaders for a conversation around the star attraction of the first day’s keynote: Snapdragon X Elite, the first PC-compute iteration of the company’s new Snapdragon X family of mobile processors. Qualcomm has made some bold performance and efficiency claims around X Elite. They stand in stark contrast to the relative paucity of Snapdragon laptop-processor design wins to date (compared with Qualcomm's commanding position in smartphone chips). Many of the initial claims throw down the gauntlet to today’s big-three laptop chip makers (AMD, Apple, and Intel).

Image-generating AI seems to be stuck between a rock and a hard place. To work well, it needs a massive treasure trove of well-annotated artwork to train it. That could get expensive, but it's free if you take it from the internet without asking. That latter bit has artists understandably upset, and the new Nightshade tool might give them the means to fight back.

Starting this weekend, Hyundai is opening clinics in five US cities where drivers can take their vehicles for a software update it says will prevent the type of vehicle theft made popular on TikTok.

Amid rapid growth in artificial intelligence, Google is expanding its bug bounty program to include generative AI-specific security issues.

Antivirus provider Kaspersky says it caught North Korean hackers trying to spread malware through a “high-profile” legitimate software meant to encrypt web communications. 

For many EV-curious buyers, the fear of spending thousands on a battery replacement at some point could understandably keep them from going electric. But a study done in March by Recurrent, a Seattle-based company that analyzes used electric car batteries, shows this is much less likely to happen than you might think. It's certainly not something every EV owner should plan on doing.

I've been very intrigued by the concept of a foldable PC, so when I got the chance to use HP's version for the past couple of weeks, I jumped at the opportunity. The HP Spectre Foldable PC has a 17-inch foldable OLED panel, and it offers the ability to use it in a variety of ways, with the included Bluetooth keyboard. You can have the whole panel folded out, flip down a kickstand, and use it as a desktop. You can lay it flat and use it as a tablet, with an included pen. Or you can fold it in half, put the keyboard on the bottom, and use it like a 12.3-inch laptop. Alternatively, you could just put the keyboard on the lower half of the folded area, and get a larger 14-inch laptop, albeit one in which the lower part of the display is flat while the top part is vertical.

We've talked a bit before about the benefits of a Best Buy Plus / Best Buy Total membership, but this deal is an astonishing illustration. The Samsung Odyssey G9 is an absolutely spectacular curved monitor that delivers across all of the metrics you need it to. It's bright, responsive, blur-free and gigantic, measuring almost 50 inches on the diagonal. You'd normally expect to pay $1800 for one of these, but Total and Plus members can get it for $700 less with a free 2TB internal SSD on top — a $180 value.

Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? Boston Dynamics is back with another video, only there's no parkour and dancing. This time, Spot the robot dog is the star, and now he has the power of speech and personality thanks to some help from ChatGPT.

Will Intel ever produce company-branded Arm chips for Windows PCs? 

GM-owned Cruise is halting all self-driving car operations after California’s DMV suspended the company’s state permit to operate the vehicles, citing them as a risk to public safety. 

Microsoft’s vision for the future of Windows is all about artificial intelligence (AI). Not long ago in New York City, I listened as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella declared, “It’s kind of like the '90s are back,” because of how exciting it was.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) had a few things to say Thursday morning about what the federal government should be doing to tame AI, but first he had to wait through an uncanny opening act: AI versions of himself. 

The rise of easily accessible generative AI means it's getting more difficult to know whether an online image is legitimate. At I/O earlier this year, Google previewed an "About this image" tool that will offer details about an image's origin, and it's rolling out now alongside some other fact-checking tools.

Despite what you may have heard, Threads is doing just fine, thank you very much.

Apple is reportedly planning to overhaul its AirPods lineup over the next two years, with new versions of the wireless headphones at every price point from entry-level to the Pro and Max models, although the Pro revamp won't come until 2025, Bloomberg reports.

To prevent artificial intelligence from destroying society, OpenAI is asking the public for realistic ideas on how the company’s programs could cause a catastrophe. 

Google Maps is about to get a lot more immersive with the rollout of an AI-enhanced feature that gives you bird's-eye view of your route complete with 3D imagery along the way.

A powerful piece of malware has been disguising itself as a trivial cryptocurrency miner to help it evade detection for more than five years, according to antivirus provider Kaspersky. 

Capcom has had several excellent video game releases this year, and there are more hot titles on the way. If you can tear yourself away from Resident Evil 4, its Separate Ways DLC, or Street Fighter 6, you can free yourself to crush prosecutors in crazy courtroom capers or slay monsters in the coming weeks and months. We put three upcoming Capcom titles through their paces at a recent Capcom showcase including Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy, Dragon's Dogma 2, and Resident Evil Village for iPad and iPhone.

Next week, The Beatles—yes, the legendary rock band from the 1960s—will be back with their first new song in decades, thanks to an AI algorithm. 

When Apple introduced the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2, there wasn't a lot new to get excited about. Beyond the usual display and processor improvements, they're mostly a spot-the-difference game—except for the new double-tap gesture, which is rolling out this week.

Smack dab in the middle of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Elite X laptop processor unveiling, Apple teased a Mac-focused product reveal for Oct. 30. In a more revealing mood than usual, Apple nodded to Macs being the focus of the event, with a macOS Finder logo hidden in the invitation.

The holidays are on their way, and if you're anything like me that means judgmental relatives will soon be invading your home looking for something to complain about. If your current vacuum cleaner isn't pulling its weight, there's no better time to pick up a Dyson from Walmart, because they're having a massive sale on both new and refurbished models. We're talking price drops in the hundreds of dollars. We've also got discounts on Dyson air purifiers, hair dryers and more. Here are our picks for the best deals in the litter.

Apple has rolled out iOS 17.1 with bug fixes for problems like iPhone display burn-in, as well as new features for AirDrop, StandBy mode, and more.

Good news for T-Mobile users: The carrier is backpedaling on an idea to migrate legacy users to newer, pricer plans, at least for now.  

Leica's newest camera isn't brand new. Instead the M11-P rangefinder takes the basics from the the M11 and puts it in a discrete body that drops the iconic red dot logo, quadruples internal storage, and encrypts creator and copyright details right into the image metadata, so it can't be later stripped away.

Samsung's new feature for certain Galaxy devices—Temporary Cloud Backup—is pretty self-explanatory. But once it rolls out, it will back up files like photos, videos, and items in your Secure Folder over Wi-Fi to Samsung's servers as long as you have a Samsung Account.

There aren’t many easy jobs in information security, but protecting people against nation-state attackers is the hardest of them all. And yet security researcher Runa Sandvik did not sound hopeless during a talk at a conference about the threat of intelligence agencies targeting commercial spyware at reporters, activists, and opposition politicians.

Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Apple products that can be abused to force the Safari browser to leak a user’s login credentials and other sensitive data to a hacker.

Google's latest subsea cable endeavor will connect the US, Fiji, French Polynesia, and Australia in the South Pacific.

There's always a refractory period when a new wave of Apple products come out, where retailers measure demand for the new stuff, inventory of the old stuff and do the mental arithmetic for how to keep things moving. The winners, of course, are smart shoppers. We're always looking out for unexpected price drops like this, and it's a good one. Right now, you can get a first-generation Apple Watch Ultra for just $659 at Amazon.

After teasing the advancement a year ago, Google Fiber says it’s ready to start offering the company’s 20Gbps internet service to select residential users later this year. 

Amazon is now rolling out an "Explore with Alexa" feature that lets children interact with Alexa using generative AI, TechCrunch reports.

Camera functions are one of the big drivers of upgrading to a new phone these days, so I wondered: Of the high-end phones, which takes the best pictures? So for the past few weeks, I've been walking around with the top phones from three big US sellers—the Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max, Google Pixel 8 Pro, and Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra—and using them to take pictures in a wide variety of situations.

Black Friday is fast approaching, but that time will fly by. We’ll be updating this article as more sales go live and information comes out, so be sure to bookmark this page. Here’s everything you need to know about Black Friday 2023.

A nonprofit group has sent a petition to Microsoft, urging it to extend the end-of-support date for Windows 10 beyond 2025 to prevent “the junking” of millions of PCs.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently sat down for an interview with Bloomberg Insider, where he covered topics from family to leadership to AI. But in one of his more surprising admissions, he admitted regret to "exiting mobile phones."

Oregon State University (OSU) is home to quite a few food delivery robots from Starship Technologies, which ferry meals to hungry students. This week, however, deliveries were halted after a bomb threat, and one person has now been arrested for the hoax.

It's about to get more expensive to watch Ted Lasso and The Morning Show. Apple TV+ is receiving its second price hike since the streaming service launched in 2019. 

Amazon has come up with a solution for advertisers who either can't afford or can't be bothered to produce high-quality images of the products they are trying to sell.

Honda and GM have called off plans to co-develop small, cheap electric vehicles.

Cisco is turning to AI to solve some of the most common issues with video calls, such as blurry video and choppy audio.