From PC World: Last week, the World Wide Web Foundation announced in an open letter (PDF) that it would be “winding down” and “closing [its] virtual doors” after 15 years of working to make the web safer and more accessible.

The World Wide Web Foundation was founded in 2009 by Tim Berners-Lee, the...

From PC Mag: Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare says it fended off a record-breaking DDoS attack that reached a whopping 3.8Tbps.

The attack exceeds the 3.47Tbps DDoS that Microsoft encountered in November 2021, the previous record holder. In both cases, the hackers launched a “volumetric...

From PC World: Nvidia has been pushing its new app — creatively called the Nvidia App — since February of this year. Nvidia says it “intends to migrate all remaining GeForce Experience users to the new Nvidia App when it exits beta before the end of the year.” So if you’ve been resisting the switch...

From CNET: Amazon-owned Ring, which offers a range of home cameras and a very DIY-friendly security system, is saying goodbye to its Ring Protect plans. In their place, the home security company is welcoming fall with a completely new set of subscription plans called Ring Home.

Ring Home will come...

From PC Mag: YouTube has signed a new licensing deal with SESAC. Songs that were blocked as a result of the expiring contract will be restored in a day or two, the platform announced in an X post.

YouTube's previous deal with SESAC, a performance rights organization that represents over 15,000...

From PC World: Neowin reports that the popular ad blocking add-on uBlock Origin Lite has been removed from Firefox’s official add-on marketplace due to a recent conflict that’s been brewing.

uBlock Origin Lite’s developer Raymond Hill has been butting heads with Mozilla since early September, when...

From Noctua Press Release: Noctua today introduced its eagerly anticipated next-generation 140mm fan. Succeeding the award-winning NF-A14 and building on the technological innovations of the ground-breaking NF-A12x25, the NF-A14x25 G2 is Noctua’s new square-frame 140mm flagship model: Made from...

From G.Skill Press Release: G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd., the world’s leading brand of performance overclock memory and PC components, is thrilled to showcase an incredibly high-speed overclock of G.SKILL DDR5 memory at DDR5-9000 CL44-56-56 with 48GB (24GBx2) kit capacity, featuring...

From PC Mag: California Governor Gavin Newsom on Sunday vetoed an AI safety bill that targeted OpenAI, Google, and the many large AI companies based in the region.

The Golden State is home to 32 of the top 50 AI companies, Newsom says in his veto message, citing a Forbes list. Focusing on companies...

From The Verge: Apple is preparing to take a fresh run at the smart home that starts with a rumored smart display that it may release next year. That’s according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who writes in his Power On newsletter today that the display will use a new operating system, called homeOS...