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More than 7 million distributed-denial-of service (DDoS) attacks were launched in the last six months of 2023—and an increasing number of them are politically motivated, a new new analysis finds.
The cybersecurity defense services provider NETSCOUT tracked the sectors in which victims worked, and the time at which they were attacked. It found that DDoS attacks rose 15% in the second half of 2023 compared to the first half. Many
There are so many fascinating AI tools out there these days. But most of them rely on a far-off powerful server to do all the hard work. It’s no surprise they frequently require accounts and subscriptions to pay the bills.
Today’s Cool Tool is exactly the opposite: an AI tool that runs completely on a web page in your browser. It’s useful, too. There’s no account needed, and your data doesn’t leave your own device—so you don’t have to wo
When President Joe Biden signed a $95 billion foreign aid bill into law on April 24, it started the clock on a nine-month window for TikTok’s China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app. The president can extend the deadline by three months, and TikTok has indicated that it plans to
If you hate dealing with opaque and costly app subscriptions, I’ve got bad news for you: the situation is about to get even worse—and you can blame artificial intelligence for that.
App subscriptions have been a part of the app economy since Google first allowed developers to offer them in the Play Store in 2011. (Apple followed suit in its App Store five years later.)
They serve a purpose. By charging users a monthly or yearly fee to use their app, instead of selling the
Tell me if you can relate to this: The time comes for you to buy something new. Maybe it’s something big and expensive, like a refrigerator. Or maybe it’s something small and insignificant, like a spatula.
Either way, you suddenly feel a sense of anxiety—a need to know: What is the ~best~ possible option I can buy within my budget range? And thus begins the endless rabbit hole of online research.
‘Twas a time when you m
The content recommendation algorithm that powers the online short video platform TikTok has once again come under the spotlight after the U.S. ordered its Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the app’s U.S. assets or face a nationwide ban.
Here is how it works and why it has attracted m
You probably know better than to click on links that download unknown files onto your computer. It turns out that uploading files can get you into ransomware trouble, too.
Today’s web browsers are much more powerful than earlier generations of browsers. They’re able to manipulate data within both the browser and the computer’s local file system. Users can send and receive email, listen to music or watch a movie within a browse
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Thursday evening’s earnings headlines contained a giant curve ball: Alphabet’s Google announced its first-ever quarterly dividend, twenty cents a share, and also added to its share buyback program another seventy
Until late yesterday, major tech stocks were having a pretty rough few weeks. But thanks to premarket surges this morning from Google, Microsoft, and Snap, the final week of April could be a very good one for select tech giants. Here’s what to know:
Netflix changes the rules
The tech earnings period kick-started last week in earnest with streamer Netflix reporting its Q1 2024 results, which saw the company