ClickFix bait, combined with advanced Castleloader malware, is installing Lumma “at scale.” Last May, law enforcement authorities around the world scored a key win when they hobbled the infrastructure of Lumma, an infostealer that infected nearly 395,000 Windows computers over just a two-month span leading up to the international…
He became one of the first to visualize personal computing by painting vivid cover art. On February 1, Robert Tinney, the illustrator whose airbrushed cover paintings defined the look and feel of pioneering computer magazine Byte for over a decade, died at age 78 in Baker, Louisiana, according to…
Guano dramatically boosted the production of maize, and the surplus helped fuel the Chincha Kingdom’s economy. The pre-Inca Chincha Kingdom (circa 1000-1400 CE), along Peru’s southern coast, was one of the most wealthy and influential of its time before falling to the Inca and Spanish empires. Scientists have long…
Zoë Hitzig resigned on the same day OpenAI began testing ads in its chatbot. On Wednesday, former OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig published a guest essay in The New York Times announcing that she resigned from the company on Monday, the same day OpenAI began testing advertisements inside ChatGPT. Hitzig,…
Arm PCs have enjoyed special treatment from Microsoft for the past two years. Since its release in the fall of 2021, Microsoft’s Windows 11 has received an “annual feature update” in the second half of every year. These feature updates sometimes include new Windows features and other changes that…
Users only get three hours of free Nest video storage, but Google can retrieve videos much later. Like most cloud-enabled home security cameras, Google’s Nest products don’t provide long-term storage unless you pay a monthly fee. That video may not vanish into the digital aether right on time, though.…
It’s getting a little easier to move from iOS to Android, if that’s your thing. Apple has just released the latest major updates for iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, and all the other operating systems it released back in September of 2025. The 26.3 updates for these…
Updated Home app is required for Matter support and some types of accessories. In 2022, Apple announced it was adopting a “new Home architecture” for its smart home ecosystem to improve its performance and reliability and make it possible to support different kinds of accessories. Although it was mostly…
The EPA is revoking the finding for legal, not scientific, reasons. Following three of the warmest years on record, as scientists reckon with climate tipping points and states and cities grapple with the escalating cost of extreme weather and more intense wildfires, the Trump administration this week is expected…
Some brands are already ahead of the curve, while others leave the US in the cold. A long time ago, in (I believe) an issue of Car Magazine from the mid-1990s, the designer Gordon Murray shared his thoughts about a possible four-door follow-up to the McLaren F1. Road cars…
