Wired headphone jack, CrowdStrike crash, stalkerware, Galaxy AI, Alexa, Pixel 9 Pro, groovy pickups, pneumatic tubes and the Duckmaster. Last week ended in complete chaos due to the faulty Crowdstrike update. Soon after this week’s news goes out, the Paris Olympics will get underway. May they be safe and successful! Check out all the headlines of the past week below.
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- iFi Audio GO Link Review: Supercharge Wired Headphones for Cheap
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- ‘Port Shadow’ Flaw Can Exploit Some VPNs to Attack Users
- Costs From UnitedHealth’s Ransomware Attack Soar to at Least $2.3 Billion
- Faulty Microsoft cybersecurity update takes out banks, airlines and other major companies worldwide
- Elon Musk Has Info on Trump Shooting? Nope, It’s Just a Crypto Scam
- Major outages at CrowdStrike, Microsoft leave the world with BSODs and confusion
- Banish the Blue Screen: How to Fix the CrowdStrike Bug on a Windows PC
- Diary of a CrowdStrike Crash: Here’s Who Got Hit by the Windows Outage
- Don’t Fall for It: Hackers Pounce on CrowdStrike Outage With Phishing Emails
- 17-Year-Old Arrested for Last Year’s Ransomware Attack on MGM Resorts
- Prior to Microsoft Meltdown, CrowdStrike Exec Warned of ‘Single Point of Failure’
- Microsoft Says 8.5 Million Devices Were Impacted by CrowdStrike’s Faulty Update
- How a software update from cyber firm CrowdStrike caused one of the world’s biggest IT blackouts
- What Is Stalkerware? How to Find and Remove It
- Telegram Zero-Day for Android Let Attackers Hide Files in Fake Videos
- Inside the 78 minutes that took down millions of Windows machines
- CrowdStrike: ‘Undetected Error’ in Binary File Caused Massive Windows Crash
- Security Firm Discovers Remote Worker Is Really a North Korean Hacker
- 7 password rules to live by in 2024, according to security experts
- Apple takes aim at the world’s most popular browser in creepy new ad – see for yourself
- Microsoft is changing how it delivers Windows updates: 4 things you need to know
- Samsung going all in on Google Messages in US, stops pre-installing Samsung Messages on Galaxy phones
- Meta releases the biggest and best open-source AI model yet
- Prime Video gets a much-needed UI overhaul with a new content bar and AI recommendations
- After 6 Months, These Are My Favorite Samsung Galaxy AI Features
- FAT32 vs. ExFAT vs. NTFS: Which Format Is Best for Your Storage Drive?
- SpaceX’s Starlink Teases 8Gbps Downloads With Mobile Gateway Tech
- “Extraordinarily disappointed” users reckon with the Google-fication of Fitbit
- WHAM! Nuclear fusion experiment hits new record for magnet strength
- AMD Ryzen 9950X With Unlimited Power Settings Beats Intel Core i9-14900KS
- It’s Thread-zilla! AMD Tips Epyc ‘Zen 5’ Processors With Up to 192 Cores
- Complete recycle of solid-state batteries possible, thanks to polymer layers
- Elon Musk’s xAI activates “most powerful AI training cluster in the world” with 100k Nvidia H100 GPUs
- Alexa Is in Millions of Households—and Amazon Is Losing Billions
- Not a Defect: Intel Blames 13th, 14th Gen CPU Crashes on Software Bug
- How Amazon can turn around its failing Alexa business in 4 steps
- Intel has finally tracked down the problem making 13th- and 14th-gen CPUs crash
- AT&T failed to test disastrous update that kicked all devices off network
- Alexa had “no profit timeline,” cost Amazon $25 billion in 4 years
- Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 Review: Steps Forward and Backward
- Apple, Don’t Screw Up the iPhone Flip
- HMD’s Skyline Phone Embraces Repairability and Social Media Breaks
- Clicks Keyboard Review
- How iOS 18 changes the way you charge your iPhone
- Google, its cat fully escaped from bag, shows off the Pixel 9 Pro weeks early
- Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 6 Needs This iPhone Feature
- Apple’s first foldable iPhone could arrive in 2026
- I replaced my Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra with the Z Fold 6 for a week – and can’t go back
- The Lucid Air Pure review: Lower weight, better steering, amazing efficiency
- 2024 BMW i5 Review
- Most Efficient EV Ever? Lucid Touts MPGe Boost on 2025 Air Pure Lineup
- We’re building nuclear spaceships again—this time for real
- A stripped-out 2024 Cayenne V6 may just be Porsche’s best daily driver
- Why Do Pick-Up Truck Beds Have Grooves on the Sides?
Each week we’ll share a meme that we find thought provoking or just plain funny.
- People in 1920s Berlin Nightclubs Flirted via Pneumatic Tubes
- The Magic Spells That Herded Medieval Bees
- Mini-Neptune turned out to be a frozen super-Earth
- The Surprising Second Life of an Abandoned Victorian Sea Fort
- What It Takes To Be This Luxury Memphis Hotel’s ‘Duckmaster’
- The Vivid Blue Mineral That Grows on Buried Bodies and Confuses Archaeologists
- You Can Watch a Once-in-a-Lifetime Cosmic Explosion From Your Own Backyard
- 10 Scandals That Rocked the Summer Olympics
- Australian scientists genetically engineer common fly species to eat more of humanity’s waste
- 5 of the World’s Most Interesting Directional Systems
If you see some important tech news that you feel we should share with our readers, please let us know and we’ll consider including it in our next post.
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