From CNET: A massive Twitter hack earlier this month that hijacked the accounts of dozens of high-profile politicians, celebrities and businesses to peddle a cryptocurrency scam was the result of a spear phishing attack, Twitter said late Thursday.

To succeed, attackers in the July 15 hack needed...

From The Verge: Google One, the cloud storage service that Google launched back in 2018, will now backup your iOS or Android phone for free with your Google account. The iOS app will be able to backup your photos, videos, contacts and calendar events, consolidating what’s offered by different...

From PC Mag: The highly-anticipated new version of Microsoft Flight Simulator launches on Aug. 18, and now there's some more good news for those of you who own a virtual reality headset: support is coming.

As Eurogamer reports, virtual reality won't be in place at launch, but support is planned for...

From CNET: Huawei shipped more phones worldwide than anyone else in the second quarter, tech market analyst Canalys reported Thursday. It's the first time in nine years that any company other than Samsung or Apple has been market leader, Canalys said.

The Chinese phone maker shipped 55.8 million...

From PC Mag: Konami is a name usually associated with video and arcade games, and gave us such classics as Castelvania, Gradius, Metal Gear Solid, and Silent Hill. However, the Japanese company has decided to turn its attention to hardware and is set to offer a new line of gaming-focused desktop PCs...

From The Verge: Slack developer Felix Rieseberg has transformed Mac OS 8 into an app you can install on your Mac or PC. After transforming Windows 95 into an app back in 2018, Rieseberg decided to turn an entire 1991 Macintosh Quadra with Mac OS 8.1 into a single Electron app. It even includes a...

From CNET: Spotify's paying subscribers climbed 27% to hit 138 million at the end of June, the music streaming service said Wednesday in its second-quarter earnings report, as the number of people listening to the service overall -- including those who listen free with advertising -- closed in on a...

From ASUS Press Release: ASUS today announced RT-AX86U and RT-AX82U, two high-performance dual-band WiFi 6 (802.11ax) gaming routers. The new models give gamers — especially mobile gamers — even more choice for creating an ultrafast and stable gaming network.

RT-AX86U is an upgraded version of the...

From PC Mag: After delaying its 7nm processors until 2022 and subsequently shaking up its chip team, Intel has decided to release a new 10th-generation Core i9 Comet Lake desktop processor.

As Anandtech reports, the Core i9-10850K is a rather unusual processor for Intel to launch because it's only...

From The Verge: Amazon’s Alexa app on iOS, Android, and Fire OS is being redesigned to focus on Alexa’s core functionality rather than its third-party “skills” or weather forecasts, TechCrunch reports.

The home screen is where the biggest changes appear to have been made. For starters, the button...