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7 Windows laptops that caught us by surprise at CES 2026 – including this trackpad beast
/in General News2026 is shaping up to be an exciting year for PCs: Dell is reviving the XPS, while MSI has just announced a new series of ultra-thin laptops.
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377,000 Impacted by Data Breach at Texas Gas Station Firm
/in General NewsGulshan Management Services has informed authorities about a recent data breach resulting from a ransomware attack.
The post 377,000 Impacted by Data Breach at Texas Gas Station Firm appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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$15 Billion Pig Butchering Scam Boss Chen Zhi Extradited to China
/in General NewsBillionaire Chen Zhi and associates Xu Ji Liang and Shao Ji Hui have been extradited to China. This exclusive report details the collapse of the Prince Group’s global scam network, the seizure of $15 billion in Bitcoin, and the forced labour camps behind the billion-dollar pig butchering fraud.
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A network-free smart home? The Emerson brand is doing just that (without a hub!)
/in General NewsThe app-free, Wi-Fi-free, hub-free smart home is here, and Emerson is leading the charge.
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CISA Retires 10 Emergency Cybersecurity Directives Issued Between 2019 and 2024
/in General NewsThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday said it’s retiring 10 emergency directives (Eds) that were issued between 2019 and 2024.
The list of the directives now considered closed is as follows –
ED 19-01: Mitigate DNS Infrastructure Tampering
ED 20-02: Mitigate Windows Vulnerabilities from January 2020 Patch Tuesday
ED 20-03: Mitigate Windows DNS Server
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Trend Micro Apex Central RCE Flaw Scores 9.8 CVSS in On-Prem Windows Versions
/in General NewsTrend Micro has released security updates to address multiple security vulnerabilities impacting on-premise versions of Apex Central for Windows, including a critical bug that could result in arbitrary code execution.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-69258, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. The vulnerability has been described as a case of remote code execution
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AI PCs aren’t selling, and Microsoft’s PC partners are scrambling
/in General NewsMicrosoft has gone all-in with its plans to turn the Windows PC into an AI-powered ‘agentic OS.’ But at least one PC maker says consumers aren’t buying the Copilot hype.
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FBI Warns North Korean Hackers Using Malicious QR Codes in Spear-Phishing
/in General NewsThe U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday released an advisory warning of North Korean state-sponsored threat actors leveraging malicious QR codes in spear-phishing campaigns targeting entities in the country.
“As of 2025, Kimsuky actors have targeted think tanks, academic institutions, and both U.S. and foreign government entities with embedded malicious Quick Response (QR)
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The coolest audio gear I listened to at CES 2026 (including brain-reading headphones)
/in General NewsI spent a week at CES finding the best audio products. These ones stood out the most.
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Finally, I found a room-filling soundbar that makes a subwoofer unnecessary for me
/in General NewsTo fill your TV room with big, bold sound, you need a soundbar akin to the Bluesound Pulse Cinema.
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