From The Verge: Apple’s iOS 15 preview earlier this week gave us a look at an important new feature coming to your iPhone’s notifications: help. A few new tools may act as a life preserver for those of us up to our eyeballs in a sea of notifications every day, regulating which apps and people are...

From PC Mag: In August 2020, Google decided to hide all parts of a web address in Chrome except for the domain name. However, less than a year on, the so-called "simplified domain experiment" is coming to an end.

As Android Police reports, the experiment was implemented in spite of protest from...

From CNET: Hackers tapped into servers at Electronic Arts on Thursday, making off with key game files for popular titles, including FIFA 21. The data is now reportedly up for sale on the dark web.

The hackers claim to have made off with 780GB of data from EA servers, including the source code for...

From ASUS Press Release: ASUS today launched the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPUs and are offered in a diverse family of ROG and TUF Gaming notebooks, making RTX enhancements and performance available to a wider audience than ever before.

The ROG and TUF Gaming...

From The Verge: Google is using machine learning to help design its next generation of machine learning chips. The algorithm’s designs are “comparable or superior” to those created by humans, say Google’s engineers, but can be generated much, much faster. According to the tech giant, work that takes...

From PC Mag: Facebook hopes to fully open all US offices by the fall, with an option for employees to continue working from home.

The social network, which said it will expand remote-work eligibility, plans to reconvene at half capacity in September, before inviting all staff back in October, The...

From CNET: One of the biggest meat producers in the US paid an $11 million ransom to cybercriminals responsible for temporarily knocking out processing plants last week, the company said Wednesday.

JBS USA made the payment to avoid further disruption to production and to limit the impact on...

From The Verge: Google is changing how its Android search engine choice screen works in Europe, following complaints from rivals about its pay-to-play model, the company has announced in a blog post. The selection screen appears for users when they first set up an Android device, and is designed to...

From PC Mag: Fastly today provided more details on Tuesday's outage, placing the blame on an "undiscovered software bug" that was triggered by a "valid customer configuration change."

The issue dates back to May 12 when Fastly rolled out a "software deployment that introduced a bug that could be...

From CNET: In a supermajority vote by its Congress, El Salvador has become the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. On Wednesday morning, President Nayib Bukele sent the bill to Congress, where the measure passed the legislature with 62 of the body's 84 votes. News of the move boosted...