Why I’m skipping the iPhone 17 this year (and it’s not just about the money)

Apple’s new iPhone 17 lineup is tempting, but I’m not upgrading from my older iPhone just yet – and that’s a testament to Apple.

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Google Launched Behind-the-Scenes Campaign Against California Privacy Legislation; It Passed Anyway

In April, Rhode Island resident Navah Hopkins received a plea for her help to defeat legislation thousands of miles away in California. The ask came from Google, maker of the world’s most used web browser, Chrome. The tech giant sent a message to an email list that Hopkins and other small business owners were subscribed […]

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West Virginia Credit Union Notifying 187,000 People Impacted by 2023 Data Breach

Two years after the fact, Fairmont Federal Credit Union tells customers their personal, financial, and medical information was compromised.

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Samsung Patches Zero-Day Exploited Against Android Users

Reported by Meta and WhatsApp, the vulnerability leads to remote code execution and was likely exploited by a spyware vendor.

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AI-Powered Villager Pen Testing Tool Hits 11,000 PyPI Downloads Amid Abuse Concerns

A new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered penetration testing tool linked to a China-based company has attracted nearly 11,000 downloads on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository, raising concerns that it could be repurposed by cybercriminals for malicious purposes.
Dubbed Villager, the framework is assessed to be the work of Cyberspike, which has positioned the tools as a red teaming

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HiddenGh0st, Winos and kkRAT Exploit SEO, GitHub Pages in Chinese Malware Attacks

Chinese-speaking users are the target of a search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign that uses fake software sites to distribute malware.
“The attackers manipulated search rankings with SEO plugins and registered lookalike domains that closely mimicked legitimate software sites,” Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Pei Han Liao said. “By using convincing language and small character

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Samsung Fixes Image Parsing Vulnerability Exploited in Android Attacks

Samsung patched CVE-2025-21043, a critical flaw in its Android devices exploited in live attacks. Users urged to install September 2025 update.

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Get this Samsung TV on sale and get a year of ESPN Unlimited for free

Right now, when you buy directly from Samsung, you can save $950 on the 83-inch QN1EF and get a free one-year subscription to ESPN Unlimited.

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600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet

Hackers leaked 600 GB of data linked to the Great Firewall of China, exposing documents, code, and operations.…

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Qrator Labs Mitigated Record L7 DDoS Attack from 5.76M-Device Botnet

Qrator Labs blocked a record L7 DDoS attack from a 5.76M-device botnet targeting government systems, showing rapid global growth since March.

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