Help! Everyone Is Judging My Messy Bedroom
Dear OOO: Is everyone judging my background on Zoom? All of my coworkers have these lovely setups with stark white bookcases and hanging plants, but I’m lucky if I can…
Need Trail Running Shoes? These Are Our 8 Favorite Pairs
Even before the pandemic started, trail running was growing in popularity. But last year was a blowout year for trail runners, who set records (known as fastest known times, or…
Biden Faces a Steep Challenge to Unite Democracies on Tech
In a February 19 speech at the Munich Security Conference, delivered virtually from the White House, President Joe Biden declared, “We must shape the rules that will govern the advance…
8 Great Chess Apps for Beginners and Grand Masters
The millennia-old pastime of chess has been enjoying an explosion of interest. Whether people are longing for any engaging hobby to keep themselves sane during the long wait, or they…
I Woke Up to Australia’s Newsless News Feed
By late Tuesday afternoon, Sydney time, Facebook had announced it would restore access to news on its platform in Australia. But logging on five days after its surprise ban, there…
Biden to sign executive order calling for semiconductor supply chain review
President Biden is set to sign an executive order Wednesday to address growing concern over a global semiconductor shortage hampering the production of goods like automobiles and smartphones. The White…
A new browser extension blocks any websites that use Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or Amazon
The Economic Security Project is trying to make a point about big tech monopolies by releasing a browser plugin that will block any sites that reach out to IP addresses…
Amazon Luna cloud gaming now available on Fire TVs without an invite
Amazon’s cloud-gaming service, Luna, is now available to try for free in the US on select Fire TV devices without an invitation, the company has announced. Luna launched in early…
TikTok removed more than 300,000 videos for election misinformation
TikTok removed over 340,000 videos in the US for breaking the platform’s rules on election misinformation, manipulation, or disinformation, according to a Wednesday transparency report covering content from the second…
Hackers Tied to Russia’s GRU Targeted the US Grid for Years
Together, in other words, the groups Dragos call Kamacite and Electrum make up what other researchers and government agencies collectively call Sandworm. “One group gets in, the other group knows…