More than 140,000 phishing websites have been found linked to a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform named Sniper Dz over the past year, indicating that it's being used by a large number of cybercriminals to conduct credential theft. "For prospective...

Recently I came across a minor mystery—the model numbers of the original IBM PC. For such a pivotal product, there is remarkably little detailed original information from the early days. ↫ Michal Necasek Count me surprised. When I think IBM, I th...

The maker of the uBlock Origin Lite extension has ended its support in the Firefox Add-ons Store, citing a "nonsensical and hostile" review process. Read more...

For those making use of "reverse PRIME" setups where you have a primary NVIDIA discrete GPU while monitors are connected to Intel integrated graphics as the secondary GPU, such configurations should be working nicely with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 rele...

While the Linux 6.12 merge window only ended this weekend and won't be out until November, already code is beginning to accumulate for DRM-Next of graphics driver improvements targeting the Linux 6.13 cycle that in turn will be the first major Linux ke...

Igalia open-source developer Carlos Garcia Campos has written a new blog post to outline recent graphics improvements found in WebKitGTK 2.46 and WPEWebKit 2.46. Most notable with the new stable release is using the Skia library rather than Cairo as th...

During the month of September on Phoronix there were 265 original news articles and 16 Linux hardware reviews / featured benchmark articles. Here's a look back at the most exciting content for September...

Microsoft has shared a Group Policy fix for the Windows 11 KB5043145 update, which is breaking PCs and causing restarts, green screens, blue screens, and USB and Bluetooth failures. Read more...

Alleged renders of the Google Pixel 9a have surfaced online, showing off a totally new flat camera module. Read more...

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new cryptojacking campaign targeting the Docker Engine API with the goal of co-opting the instances to join a malicious Docker Swarm controlled by the threat actor. This enabled the attackers to "use Docker Sw...

Windows 11 continues its growth, and according to Statcounter, it has just reached a new, all-time high market share. Read more...

WordPress 6.7 Beta 1 is now ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it is recommende...

The Linux Mint project head has unveiled exciting updates for Cinnamon 6.4, including a modernized theme featuring darker contrasts and rounded edges. Users can expect this in December. Read more...

You may have received an Excessive Heat Warning on your iPhone today even if you’re nowhere near the affected area. This is probably why.

Update: Emphasis on probably, huh? Readers report seeing these alerts without Cupertino saved. There goes that theory. Might just be a bug. You may have received an Excessive Heat Warning on your iPhone today even if you’re nowhere near the affected ...

Here’s some feedback I’d like to put on Apple’s radar. Lock Screen customization is awesome, especially with new iPhone control options in iOS 18, but sometimes I just want to change my wallpaper. Trying out a new wallpaper has been rather comple...

Following the release of the ChatGPT app for macOS earlier this year, Perplexity AI has now announced that it will soon be launching its own app for Mac as well. But unlike ChatGPT for macOS, Perplexity will be available for download on the Mac App Sto...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a 39-year-old U.K. national for perpetrating a hack-to-trade fraud scheme that netted him nearly $3.75 million in illegal profits. Robert Westbrook of London was arrested last week and is expected to be ...

The Lenovo IdeaPad 1 (15.6-inch) is enjoying a healthy discount ahead of Amazon Prime Day, making it easy to get a solid Windows laptop for next to nothing.

If you’re looking to kick the tyres on some AI image processing/recognition tasks and you own an older Raspberry Pi, the new AI Camera add-on may be of interest. While the $70 Raspberry Pi AI Kit only works with a Raspberry Pi 5, the $70 AI camer...