From CNET: Google Messages are now encrypted by default when messaging between Android devices, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.

Google Messages have had an option to encrypt your messages in settings, but now it's set to default.

This means that when sending texts between two Android...

From Tom's Hardware: Valve is now selling refurbished Steam Decks, dropping the prices for the devices, which now start at $319. The used Decks will be available both on Steam and, in limited quantities, at GameStop locations.

The company says that "Each Certified Refurbished Steam Deck has been...

From TechCrunch: Lyft has been cutting fares in order to secure more riders, and it’s working. But that success has come with a (literal) cost.

The ride-hail company reported Tuesday during its second quarter 2023 earnings an increase in riders and decrease in revenue per active rider. That...

From ExtremeTech: In the final days of 2022, TSMC announced it had started production on its highly-anticipated 3nm process, which it calls FinFlex. Several months later, it was reported that Apple was the first TSMC customer to open up its checkbook for the fledging node, as it had reportedly...

From The Verge: Verizon is shutting down BlueJeans, its Zoom competitor it acquired in the early days of the covid pandemic, as reported by 9to5Google.

9to5Google shared the text of an email received by BlueJeans customers that said that “we have made the difficult decision to sunset our suite of...

From Tom's Hardware: A new security vulnerability, called Downfall, was revealed today by Intel and the researcher who discovered it, Daniel Moghimi. The new attack uses Gather Data Sampling to steal data and other sensitive information from other users on a computer with Intel processors from 2015...

From TechCrunch: WeWork is struggling to survive in a post-pandemic world.

In announcing its earnings today, the flexible space provider said that “substantial doubt exists about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern.”

WeWork has faced a number of challenges for years now, and with...

From PC Mag: With its new GPTBot, AI models from OpenAI can crawl the web for new information, meaning your website and its content can be scraped to train artificial intelligence—unless you opt out.

"Web pages crawled with the GPTBot user agent may potentially be used to improve future models,"...

From PC Mag: When the iPhone 15 makes its debut, the iPhone 15 Pro may get a hefty storage bump.

According to 9to5Mac, the iPhone 15 Pro will have storage tiers that start at 256GB and go up to 2TB. Currently, the iPhone 14 Pro lineup comes in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB configurations.

9to5Mac...

From Tom's Hardware: The RTX 4060 Ti 16GB might be one of the least attractive GPUs due to its $500 price point, but according to a review by Daniel Owen, the GPU is substantially quicker than the $100 cheaper 8GB model in several modern games. In his review, Owen compared the RTX 4060 Ti 16GB to...