From PC Mag: While Bluesky has gotten a lot of attention since the US elections, its biggest rival, Threads, has actually surged much further ahead.

In the past two weeks, the Meta-owned platform has gained 15 million new users, Threads and Instagram boss Adam Mosseri shared.

"Huge couple of weeks...

From The Verge: The hacker behind one of the biggest-ever cryptocurrency heists will serve five years in prison for conspiring with his wife to launder billions in stolen Bitcoin. Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein was sentenced in Washington federal court Thursday after he admitted to hacking the Bitfinex...

From PC World: A new mandatory security patch for Windows 11 was released this past Tuesday, known as update KB5046633 for Windows 11 23H2. Users who have installed the update, however, are reporting a strange message that’s showing up ever since.

It appears that the Windows Update service warns of...

From The Verge: Almost two years after EU regulators first accused Meta of “abusive practices” that gave the tech giant unfair market advantages, the European Commission has fined Meta €797.7 million (around $840 million). The combination of forcing Facebook users to be exposed to Marketplace and...

From PC Mag: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company evacuated one of its new chip factory construction sites in Kaohsiung, Taiwan after an unexploded bomb was found, according to news outlets and a statement from the chip maker.

The bomb has corroded, signifying it may be quite old, and weighs...

From PC World: Open AI is reportedly preparing the launch of a new AI agent, codenamed ‘Operator’, which can perform tasks for users, such as writing code or booking travel.

According to sources familiar with the project, the tool is planned to be released in January as a research version and via...

From CNET: Google brought out a really lovely kid-focused alternative to the Apple Watch earlier this year, called the Fitbit Ace LTE. Its one downside was its weird, locked-down approach to LTE calls and messaging, which prevented contacting siblings. Google's fixing this today, thankfully, along...

From PC Mag: Tesla's unmistakable Cybertruck has been recalled for the sixth time this year—this time, over its drive inverter.

Tesla filed the issue to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Nov. 5, explaining that the recall is because "a fault in the drive inverter may...

From PC World: November’s Patch Tuesday has finally come, and with it Microsoft has eliminated 89 security vulnerabilities across Windows and other Microsoft apps and services. Four of those vulnerabilities are classified as “critical” and all but one of the remaining vulnerabilities are “high risk...

From PC World: Windows Latest reports that the taskbar in Windows 11 may soon get a new feature for recommending content to you.

We still don’t know exactly how these new recommendations are going to work in the taskbar, nor what exactly will be recommended, but we can speculate. The first signs of...