From Forbes: Google has confirmed that a high-severity security vulnerability in the Chrome web browser was found by Apple’s Security Engineering and Architecture team. Moreover, the SEAR team was awarded a bug bounty of $15,000 from Google for the discovery and disclosure. As surprising as it may...

From ExtremeTech: Tesla is in hot water with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) again, and this time, it has nothing to do with the company's Autopilot or Full Self-Driving features. The agency is investigating claims that Tesla vehicles have developed a nasty habit of...

From The Verge: Reddit says it has recovered from some big issues that lasted for about an hour. While outages were happening, I couldn’t load any Reddit pages on my browsers where I’m logged into the site — usually, I ran into an error message, though I also hit a blank white screen. However, if I...

From PC World: Intel has quietly launched the Arc A530M and A570M for laptops, offering another option for low- to mid-range GPUs that won’t eat much of your budget.

While Intel has confirmed the Arc A530M and A570M in its Ark (no relation) parts database, the company made no public announcement...

From ExtremeTech: It’s already challenging enough to call ChatGPT, Bard, and other AI chatbots “good,” but to make matters more complicated, they already have their own evil twins. Security researchers shared last month that WormGPT and FraudGPT were beginning to automate cybercrime by allowing bad...

From TechCrunch: Canadians using Facebook and Instagram should expect to see some gaps in their feeds, starting now.

This week, Meta began blocking Canadian access to links and stories from news publishers — the company’s response to a bill that would require the tech giant to pay outlets for the...

From Tom's Hardware: Despite all its winning qualities for semiconductor industry use, diamond has been held back as it has been hard to fashion into usable wafers. On Tuesday, a representative from Chiba University in Japan emailed us about a breakthrough described as a novel laser-slicing...

From PC World: Anyone who’s bought or researched buying a new SSD for their PC understands their limitations: SSDs are often constrained by the PCI Express bus to the rest of the PC, and they generate tons of heat. The architects of PCI Express are thinking about a solution: replacing PCIe’s...

From PC World: It took a while, but new midrange PC graphics cards from AMD are on the horizon. In an earnings call on Tuesday, CEO Lisa Su said the products before the end of September.

“We are on track to further expand our RDNA 3 GPU offerings with the launch of new enthusiast-class Radeon 7000...

From PC Mag: YouTube is experimenting with allowing an AI to generate summaries for videos.

As Android Police reports, the experiment was mentioned in a YouTube support post from 2019, which regularly gets updated as new features are tested. The latest update, dated July 31, is explained as follows...