From PC Mag: The FCC is making good on a threat, and penalizing a pair of scammers $300 million for bombarding US residents with robocalls.

After proposing the record-breaking fine in December, the FCC today officially issued(Opens in a new window) the penalty in an ongoing effort to crack down on...

From TechCrunch: Instagram is launching a new feature that is designed to better protect users from unwanted images and videos in DMs, the company announced on Thursday. The official launch comes a few weeks after Instagram began testing the feature.

With this new feature, people looking to send DM...

From PC World: Brave said Thursday that it has now completely separated its own search capabilities from Google and Microsoft Bing, allowing any search query within the Brave browser to be searched entirely by Brave itself.

Based on the company’s previous claim that “Brave Search is 100 percent...

From Tom's Hardware: Teslas are among the most popular electric cars on the market, which makes them an easy target for hackers. Now, a team of security researchers from TU Berlin has found a way to exploit or "jailbreak" the MCU found in modern Tesla vehicles to unlock paid features and more. To...

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...