Malware can take sneaky forms—including software that performs the job advertised. These seemingly legitimate apps and browser extensions behave like wolves in sheep’s clothing. Install one, and it might steal your identity. Or lock up your PC with ransomware. This dangerous software is bad enough to have earned an alert from the FBI’s Denver field…
On Tuesday, Microsoft released the KB5053657 update for Windows 11 that fixes the unusual error where certain USB printers connected to a Windows 11 computer were printing out random text. This patch is only for Windows 11 23H2 and 22H2. No equivalent update is currently available for Windows 11 24H2 users. This is an optional…
Earlier this week, OpenAI released their “most advanced image generator yet” and made it available through ChatGPT using the GPT-4o model. ChatGPT previously relied on Dall-E to generate images. According to OpenAI, the improved 4o model is able to produce precise, accurate, and photorealistic results. They claim that it’s also particularly good at rendering text,…
Macworld Apple has been holding back from the foldables market for so long now that at times it seemed like it would never release a folding iPhone. But this month has seen a succession of more and more plausible reports that suggest the iPhone Fold project is finally happening, even if a launch remains a…
Macworld Severance, the Apple TV+ show that’s being hailed as one of the best TV shows around, wrapped up its second season last week. But Apple isn’t content with just letting the season end and leaving us waiting for a third season. Apple seemingly wants to prolong its time in the spotlight by releasing a…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inside a romance scam compound—and how people get tricked into being there Gavesh’s journey had started, seemingly innocently, with a job ad on Facebook promising work he desperately needed. Instead, he found himself…
Sifting through the multitude of gaming hardware stories and there’s only been a handful about PC VR written for the start of this year. That’s a shame because new technologies will likely propel VR forward in 2025 — at least a little closer to that seamless high-resolution experience that all VR gamers want. I’m mainly…
Stop the presses! Because I just found an RTX 4070 gaming laptop for under a grand. In fact, with this massive $600 discount, this HP Victus is now just $900 at Best Buy—that’s a steal for a laptop with this top-shelf configuration, especially if you’re in the market for a capable device that’ll serve you…
Power banks aren’t just ideal for traveling, but also for when you’re at home! At least when they have a unique design like Ugreen’s Nexode, which has enough juice to charge multiple devices at once and has a magnetic wireless charging pad that doubles as a phone stand. Yeah, it’s pretty crazy… and it’s on…
Macworld Now we know that June 9 is the day Apple will kick off WWDC 2025. I’ve been covering WWDC since before Steve Jobs came back to Apple, and this year is shaping up to potentially be the most interesting and certainly most dramatic version of Apple’s most important event of the year. If you…