It's codenamed P92 and supports the ActivityPub protocol used by Mastodon. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 12 months ago

How Much Your Social Media Accounts Cost on the Dark Web

Hacked on Facebook or Twitter? Bad actors sell access to your accounts for as little as $6 apiece. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

US Considers Security Reviews of Musk's Twitter Deal, Starlink

US officials are concerned about Elon Musk's recent threat to stop supplying Starlink in Ukraine and his plan to buy Twitter with foreign investors, according to Bloomberg. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Despite High Price, Nvidia's RTX 4090 Sells Out Fast on Launch Day

The Founders Edition RTX 4090 model sold out immediately on Best Buy. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

iPhone 14 Crash Detection Calls 911 on Roller Coasters

Apple's testing of the new feature clearly didn't involve visiting theme parks and having fun. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Nvidia: We're Ceasing All Business Activities in Russia

The company is giving its Russian employees the option to continue work elsewhere. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Starlink Now Selling Pricey High-Performance Dish to Residential Users

At $2,500, the high-performance Starlink dish costs far more than the standard $599 dish, but the internet service fee remains the same at $110 per month. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Zuckerberg: Our AI Program Can Create Video from a Line of Text

Meta is taking AI art generation to the next level by expanding it to video. 'You give it a text description and it creates a video for you,' says CEO Mark Zuckerberg. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Rockstar Confirms GTA 6 Leak Is Real, Blames 'Network Intrusion'

'An unauthorized third party illegally accessed and downloaded confidential information from our systems,' Rockstar Games says. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Warns China Could Cripple US Military, Economy

A report from the Special Competitive Studies Project gives the US until the end of the decade to counter this 'destiny-shaping' threat. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Craig Newmark's explanation of the site’s evolution (or lack thereof) is surprisingly simple. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Time to Patch: Hackers Are Exploiting 2 Flaws in iOS, macOS

One flaw can execute rogue computer code on Apple's WebKit engine, the other can elevate system privileges. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Russian Army Expo Shows Off Robot Dog Carrying Rocket Launcher

Russian news agency RIA Novosti records the RPG-wielding robot at a military convention. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Is Helium's New '5G Network' Just Hot Air?

The crypto-friendly company jumps the gun on calling its shared network '5G.' | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

TikTok Is Experimenting with HTML5-Based Mobile Games

Developers have released seven games in partnership with the social platform. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Apple's M2 MacBook Air Contains No Intel Components

iFixit's teardown reveals Apple replaced the last remaining Intel component in its new laptop. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

CEO Arrested for Selling $1B in Fake Cisco Hardware on Amazon, eBay

Onur Aksoy allegedly imported thousands of fake Cisco networking devices from China. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

A HackerOne Employee Stole Vulnerability Reports from Security Researchers

Insider threat meets side hustle. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

I Went to a Russian Website and All I Got Was This Lousy Teapot

Russian websites hit with DDoS attacks have responded by cutting off access coming from outside Russia. But what does their security response have to do with teapots and the number 418? | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Google Warns About Hacker-for-Hire Services Trying to Phish Users

These hacker-for-hire services have been busy using fake messages from companies including Google to trick users into visiting their malicious websites. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

The Gateway PC Brand Returns with New Laptops

Acer, which acquired Gateway in 2007, is bringing back the brand to sell consumer-focused laptops in the US. The products will be sold exclusively through Walmart. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Atari Turns 50: A Look Back on the Original Name in Video Games – PCMag

Atari launched a multi-billion-dollar industry, only to lose control of it in a series of missteps. But the name will always resonate. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

You Can Run Doom on a Chip from a $15 IKEA Smart Lamp

Software engineer Nicola Wrachien demoed his creation in a video that shows the chip running a memory-optimized version of Doom over his custom hardware. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

US Shuts Down Botnet That Masqueraded as a Proxy Service

The Justice Department says the Russian-controlled RSocks botnet involved millions of compromised devices across the globe. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Google Cloud Sets World Record by Calculating Pi to 100T Digits

It took 157 days to calculate and required 128 vCPUs, 864GB of RAM, and 515 terabytes of storage. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

The Lost World of Soviet PCs (2015)

A rare peek at personal computing behind the Iron Curtain. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Smartwatch's heart rate sensor was developed by a furry

Dr. David Benaron is an inventor whose team at Stanford laid the groundwork for the optical heart rate monitor. He's also a cheetah named Spottacus. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

7 Forgotten Atari 800 Gaming Classics

The 800 platform often gets overlooked in video game history due to a classification quirk that placed it in the PC category, but its library of games is incredible. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Legislators Introduce Bipartisan Digital-Privacy Bill That May Not Be Doomed

The American Data Privacy and Protection Act would mandate data minimization and let Americans opt out of targeted ads while preempting many state privacy laws. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

The Golden Age of Atari Home Computers

When you didn't want a Commodore, you got an Atari. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

School's In: Teens Prefer an IRL Education

In a Pew survey, most high school students said they would rather not learn remotely, but their parents are more positive about it. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Read the Charter Issue of PC Magazine from 1982

Four decades ago, no one knew exactly where technology would take us. We just knew the IBM PC was here to change everything. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

US Takes Supercomputer Top Spot with First True Exascale Machine

The HPE Frontier system can perform over 1 quintillion calculations per second. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

The Next Google? Decentralized Search Engine 'Presearch' Exits Testing Phase

The search engine is hoping to become a rival to Google. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Researchers Urge China to Develop Ways to Destroy Starlink Satellites

A recent paper from Chinese researchers outlines the potential military threat SpaceX's satellite internet system poses to China, and how the country should respond. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

DuckDuckGo's Browser Won't Block (Some) Microsoft Trackers

DuckDuckGo-ing back on its word. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Russia Looks to Legalize Software Piracy to Bypass Ukraine-Related Tech Bans

The Kremlin considers suspending criminal penalties for using unlicensed software products. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Russia Picks a Slow Chinese x86 CPU to Replace Intel/AMD Chips

Intel and AMD chips are no longer available, so Russia looked to China for an alternative. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Researchers Found a Better Way to Detect Earthquakes with Subsea Cables

They're useful for more than just ferrying bits and bytes. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 1 year ago

Microsoft Is Adding a Free VPN to the Edge Browser

It's powered by Cloudflare and called the 'Microsoft Edge Secure Network.' | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 2 years ago

EU Joins Mastodon Social Network, Sets Up Its Own Server

The EU's Mastodon instance, launched in the wake of Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition, is part of an effort to support private, ad-free, open-source software. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 2 years ago

More Users Flock to Mastodon After Musk's Twitter Acquisition Bid

Article URL: https://www.pcmag.com/news/more-users-flock-to-mastodon-after-musks-twitter-acquisition-bid Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31154911 Points: 53 # Comments: 17 | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 2 years ago

Wi-Fi 7 Explained: Everything to Know About Tomorrow's Fastest Wireless Spec

Wi-Fi 7 devices are at least a year away, but the upcoming standard promises peak speeds up to four times faster than Wi-Fi 6, itself still cutting edge. Here's what we know so far. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 2 years ago

Can You Get Starlink?

SpaceX's new mapping feature suggests Starlink is at capacity or still not serving a lot of areas across the US. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 2 years ago

Russia's War in Ukraine Results in Bombing of Retro Computer Museum

The Club 8-Bit museum in Mariupol housed over a 120 retro computing devices, including some old-school Apple and Atari hardware, along with Soviet-era computers. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 2 years ago

As Far as China Is Concerned, Keanu Reeves No Longer Exists

Searching for 'Keanu Reeves' in China yields no results, and all his movies have disappeared. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 2 years ago

China Tells Microsoft to Turn Off Bing Auto-Suggest

Somebody in the Chinese government clearly didn't like the results Bing was suggesting. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 2 years ago

Tiny PCs of the 1980s

Think small PCs are a recent thing? Think again. | Continue reading


@pcmag.com | 2 years ago