Category: Technology

So, brace yourself: we’ve just uncovered a treasure trove of 16 billion passwords. Yes, billion with a *b*. If that number makes your head spin, you’re not alone. Cybernews has dropped the mic on this revelation, revealing that this isn’t just one company being careless but a compilation of records harvested by unscrupulous infostealer malware…

If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a tech billionaire’s sunny weekend turns stormy, let me introduce you to Mike Lynch’s legendary misadventure. Last year, Lynch’s superyacht, provocatively named Bayesian, decided to trade the high seas for a nice long nap on the ocean floor, claiming seven unfortunate casualties along the way. Kinda gives a…

In a twist that sounds like the plot of a nerdy rom-com, Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds finally met face-to-face. Let that sink in for a moment—two tech titans, one from the land of Windows and the other from the kingdom of Linux, have somehow danced around each other for decades without ever sharing a…

Let’s talk about Apple’s latest brainchild: The Parent Presentation—an 81-page slide deck designed to convince your folks that a Mac is essential for your education. It’s available in every format under the sun: Google Slides, PowerPoint, or Keynote. Almost makes you wonder if Apple’s trying to win an award for Most Dramatic Tech Pitch? On…

Grab your party hats, folks! The tech world is brewing up some drama as the first developer beta of macOS Tahoe appears to have kicked FireWire to the curb. Yep, you heard it right— that vintage IEEE 1394 standard, which Apple affectionately refers to as FireWire, might finally be getting the pink slip. According to…

Imagine the internet running on eyeball verification—well, Reddit is exploring just that! That’s right, folks: Sam Altman, co-founder of OpenAI and champion of the tech frontier, is rolling out his iris-scanning Orb to help Reddit fend off pesky AI bots. What does this mean for users? Picture a futuristic landscape where your eyeballs could unlock…

Ah yes, the great digital babysitting debate: Can we, or should we, age-gate social media to keep the under-16s from being inundated by the madness of the internet? According to Australian officials, it’s ‘technically feasible’—like saying ‘it’s possible’ to train a cat to fetch (spoiler alert: not likely). A hastily conducted Age Assurance Technology Trial…

In the latest episode of *Bureaucratic Battles*, the BBC strides onto the stage like a bold matador, ready to showdown with AI content scrapers. The British broadcasting giant has served notice to the AI startup Perplexity, claiming that its chatbot has been a cheeky little thief, regurgitating BBC content verbatim like it’s auditioning for a…

Hold onto your emojis, folks! If you’re a WhatsApp user in Europe, you can enjoy a little extra peace and quiet with an ad-free experience—at least until 2026! Meta has pumped the brakes on its plan to introduce ads into WhatsApp’s updates tab in the EU, thanks to some serious discussions brewing over data-sharing practices.…

Get ready, folks, because the Nothing Phone 3 just might be the tech equivalent of a sequel no one saw coming—like that time we all pretended to love *Grease 2*. Rumor has it that this phone won’t just have Glyph lights; oh no! Instead, it’s diving headfirst into the *Glyph Matrix*. Yes, you heard me…