From The Verge: Tech companies operating some of the world’s biggest online platforms — including Facebook-owner Meta, Microsoft, Google, Twitter, Twitch, and TikTok — have signed up to a new EU rulebook for tackling online disinformation.

These firms and others will have to make greater efforts...

From PC Mag: Grocery delivery and pick-up service Instacart is rebranding its subscription service from Instacart Express to Instacart+. The name change comes with a suite of new family shopping features(Opens in a new window), including subscription sharing.

"Instacart+ caters to all different...

From CNET: Samsung is the latest tech giant trying to replace your physical wallet with a digital one that lives on your phone. The company on Thursday launched Samsung Wallet, a new mobile wallet for storing digital keys, boarding passes, ID cards and credit cards. Apple and Google announced major...

From The Verge: Microsoft will start automatically redirecting Internet Explorer users to its Edge browser over the next few months. Internet Explorer is being retired today, and consumers or businesses still using the browser will start to see a prompt soon that will redirect them to Microsoft Edge...

From PC Mag: Bad news everyone: The majority of desktop, laptop, and server processors are vulnerable to a new type of attack called Hertzbleed(Opens in a new window) that's extremely hard to mitigate against.

Hertzbleed is a power side-channel attack and works by taking advantage of the dynamic...

From CNET: YouTube said Wednesday that Shorts -- the quick, vertical, looping videos competing with TikTok -- are being watched by 1.5 billion logged-in accounts a month. By comparison, TikTok said in September that more than 1 billion people use its app monthly, the latest figure it has released....

Last week, I had the pleasure of sitting down with representatives from be quiet! to go over their next set of fans, the Silent Wings 4. These fans will come in two flavors, the Silent Wings 4 and Silent Wings Pro 4, with a handful of differentiating features to separate the two.

Development for...

From Patriot Press Release: VIPER, a trademarked brand of PATRIOT, is proud to announce the market launch of its VPR400, the world's first RGB M.2 PCIe Gen 4x4 SSD. A unique aluminum heat spreader has been included to keep the drive thermally stable while accenting the onboard RGB LEDs. This SSD is...

From PC Mag: Meta is giving people more control over their Horizon Worlds VR experience with a new Voice Mode setting.

Rolling out in the coming weeks, the feature lets metaverse users choose how they hear folks not on their friends list—including the option to mute unwanted conversations entirely...

From The Verge: Just four months ago, Coinbase reportedly spent $14 million on a Super Bowl ad that consisted almost entirely of a colorful QR code bouncing around the screen, pointing viewers to a website where they could get $15 in Bitcoin just by signing up. Now, its fortunes have turned so...