14 ex-Huawei workers have been sentenced to jail over secret theft Former engineers went on to work at Wi-Fi chip startup Zunpai Huawei has been on both sides of the IP legal fence A Shanghai court has sentenced 14 former Huawei employees to jail for stealing chip-related business secrets, sending ripples across the industry not…
Rich with detail, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week. NGC 1309 is situated about 100 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. This stunning Hubble image encompasses NGC 1309’s bluish stars, dark brown gas clouds and pearly white centre, as well as hundreds of distant…
From mid-July 2025, there’s been an uptick in malicious logins Researchers speculate criminals found a zero-day Users are advised to strengthen their cybersecurity posture There is a chance SonicWall SSL VPN devices are carrying a zero-day vulnerability that Akira’s cybercriminals discovered, and are now using in the wild. As of mid-July this year, cybersecurity researchers…
A deepfake video of Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese on a smartphone Australian Associated Press/Alamy A universal deepfake detector has achieved the best accuracy yet in spotting multiple types of videos manipulated or completely generated by artificial intelligence. The technology may help flag non-consensual AI-generated pornography, deepfake scams or election misinformation videos. The widespread availability…
Looking for a different day? A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Monday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Monday, August 4 (game…
If you’re not including And Just Like That… season 3 in your best HBO Max shows of 2025 list, I can hardly blame you. Since its debut in 2021, the Sex and the City (SATC) sequel has had a rocky ride on screen, frequently being lambasted on social media for how it’s changed the core…
It’s almost time to return to Nevermore Academy. The second season of Wednesday, Netflix’s massively popular TV take on The Addams Family franchise, is just a couple of days from making its debut. So, you’ll want to know when Netflix‘s most-watched English language TV Original will return to a screen near you. Below, I’ll tell…
Meta Ads and an SMS campaign is driving traffic to hundreds of fake Play Store pages There, victims download fake apps that carry the PlayPraetor malware The malware can log keystrokes, grab credentials, and monitor the clipboard More than 11,000 Android devices were recently infected by a new variant of the PlayPraetor remote access trojan…
Valve’s SteamOS market share has grown by 0.32%, based on new Steam Hardware & Software survey Microsoft’s Windows 11 market share fell by 0.44%, suggesting gamers are migrating to SteamOS These results come right before Microsoft’s new ‘full-screen experience’ for the Xbox PC app Microsoft‘s Windows 11 is on the verge of receiving significant updates…
The iPhone 17 Pro probably won’t land until September 2025, but this being a high-profile handset we’re already hearing leaks and rumors about it – along with the rest of the iPhone 17 series. The Pro will likely slot in just below the iPhone 17 Pro Max, and just above the iPhone 17 and perhaps…
