Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Financially motivated hackers with ties to a notorious Conti cybercrime group are repurposing their resources for use against targets in Ukraine, indicating that the threat actor’s activities closely align with the Kremlin’s invasion of its neighboring country, a Google researcher reported on Wednesday. Since April, a group researchers track as UAC-0098 […]
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Ableton’s music production tools are 25 percent off for Labor Day weekend
Ableton makes one of the most popular digital workstations (DAWs) around and if you’ve been waiting for a decent discount to pick up the music production suite, now might be the right time. The company has slashed the price of its software, including Ableton Live 11, by 25 percent for Labor Day weekend. The sale […]
Pinterest’s new tools turn it into more of a storefront
If you come across more and more product pins on Pinterest in the future, that’s because the platform has rolled out tools that make it easier to sell goods. In fact, companies can now upload their full catalogs to the website, which can turn Pinterest into some sort of a storefront for various brands. The […]
Verizon will give subscribers free access to anti-robocall tools
Verizon will give all its subscribers free access to its spam alert and call blocking tools, so long as their phones can support the features. The carrier originally rolled out those tools over a year ago as part of its $ 3-per-month Call Filter add-on. But starting in March, subscribers with compatible smartphones (including iPhone […]
The digitization of daily life is making phones and connected devices the preferred payment tools for consumers — here’s what that means for stakeholders
This is a preview of a research report from Business Insider Intelligence. Current subscribers can read the report here. The digitization of daily life is making phones and connected devices the preferred payment tools for consumers — preferences that are causing digital payment volume to blossom worldwide. As noncash payment volume accelerates, the power dynamics […]
The digitization of daily life is making phones and connected devices the preferred payment tools for consumers — here’s what that means for stakeholders
This is a preview of a research report from Business Insider Intelligence. Current subscribers can read the report here. The digitization of daily life is making phones and connected devices the preferred payment tools for consumers — preferences that are causing digital payment volume to blossom worldwide. As noncash payment volume accelerates, the power dynamics […]
Fortnite update 7.01 Creative mode PATCH NOTES: New featured islands, creative tools, more
Fortnite Creative mode (Image: EPIC GAMES) Fortnite update 7.01 is live for Battle Royale, Save the World and Creative mode. The brand new Fortnite update makes a whole host of changes to the Creative mode, introducing new featured islands and lots more. *Fortnite 7.01 update PATCH NOTES: Infinity Blade, Polar Peak changes, Close Encounters LTM* […]
The Secret Tools Magicians Use to Fool You
Louis De Belle photographed 32 gimmicks for his new book *Disappearing Objects*. https://media.wired.com/photos/5be474db8a2ca166d2895775/master/pass/1_LDBLittleHandstanding.jpg
Archaeologists find 300,000-year-old stone tools in Saudi Arabia
Enlarge (credit: Roberts et al. 2018) Stone tools unearthed in Saudi Arabia’s inhospitable Nefud Desert indicate that members of our genus Homo had ventured beyond the familiar borders of Africa and the Levant sometime between 300,000 and 500,000 years ago. And according to climate data captured in the bones of animals found at the site, […]
NSA employee who brought hacking tools home sentenced to 66 months in prison
The National Security Operations Center at NSA, photographed in 2012—the nerve center of the NSA’s “signals intelligence” monitoring. A former NSA coder has been sentenced to 66 months in prison for bringing home the code that drove much of the NSA’s signals intelligence operations. (credit: National Security Agency) Nghia Hoang Pho, a 68-year-old former National […]