Microsoft has announced its plans to phase out the password storage and autofill feature from its Microsoft Authenticator app starting in July 2025, with a complete phase-out by August 2025. The decision aligns with the company’s goal to streamline autofill support and consolidate credential management under a single platform, Microsoft Edge, for a secure user experience. For those unaware, Microsoft Authenticator is a mobile app that provides multi-factor authentication (MFA) for Microsoft accounts and other services, allowing users to verify their identity using a secondary factor, such as a code, push notification, or biometric data (like fingerprint or face recognition), in addition to their password....

Microsoft is reportedly working on a new section on the Edge’s History page that will keep a record of web pages and tabs you send to other devices. Currently, the Edge web browser keeps a track of web pages you visited on the History page unless the browsing history is deleted. The new History section was first spotted by Reddit user Leopeva64-2 on the Sent pages on the History page of Edge....

Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it is planning to change the default Microsoft Office font, Calibri, and make way for new default font. For those unaware, Calibri was released to the general public in 2007 with Microsoft Office 2007 and Windows Vista. In Office 2007, it replaced Times New Roman as the default typeface in Word and replaced Arial as the default in PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and WordPad, and has since been the default font for Microsoft products ....

Microsoft has been reportedly developing its own chips specifically for artificial intelligence (AI) programs that can be used to train large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and GPT-4 and process huge amounts of data to generate human-like content. According to a report from The Information , who cited two people with direct knowledge of the project, said that the Redmond giant has been secretly working on the chip internally codenamed “Athena” – a first-party chip built to power the supercomputers that train AI – since as early as 2019....

Travelling to Mars would never be so easier thanks to NASA’s EM engine which has been trialled NASA seems to validate its ‘Warp Drive’ by testing it in vacuum and concluding that it may be able travel faster than the speed of light. Fresh reports from NASASpaceFlight.com states that NASA researchers have been successful in testing their ‘Electromagnetic propulsion Drive’ or the EM Drive in hard vacuum similar to outer space....

Last month, we reported that Netflix is planning to roll out its ‘paid password sharing’ scheme ‘more broadly’ on its streaming platform in 2023 to enforce that “a Netflix account is intended for one household” and crack down on password sharing accounts. In a step towards the broader rollout of its password-sharing crackdown, the video-streaming giant on Thursday announced that it is rolling out the new policy on password-sharing in four more countries – Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain....

A Few days ago Alienvault Labs reported the U.S Department of Labor website was hacked and redirects to the malware page. In their report, they mentioned the exploit used in the attack was CVE-2012-4792. After further analysis security researchers have discovered the vulnerability exploited in the cyber attack wasn’t CVE-2012-4792 but a new zero-day affecting Internet Explorer 8. CVE identifier CVE-2013-1347 has been assigned for this new IE vulnerability. Microsoft noted that Internet Explorer 6, IE7, IE9, and IE10 are not affected by the vulnerability....

Back in February 2021 due to the rapid increase in the number of crypto miners, the GPU shortage problem was at its prime. To combat the issue Nvidia introduced the RTX 3060 graphics card with built-in cryptomining hash limiters. The limiter was accidentally removed by NVIDIA themselves a few weeks later. That said, with the recent GeForce 466.27 driver update the cryptomining limiters have been reintroduced. Well, the GeForce 466.27 driver will force the graphics card to run with this limiter activated....

Password Stealer malware stored on Google Drive being delivered to Steam users online A malware that aims to steal the credentials of STEAM users has cropped up recently. This malware is being spread via the service’s chat feature. It asks users to click on a link which is shortened using the shortening services available on internet. When the user clicks on it, it gets directed to a file stored on Google drive....

Photoshop is one of the most trustworthy programs for photo manipulation, editing, artwork creation, and graphic designing. That said, Photoshop is an expensive program, and buying it might be difficult for hobbyists or beginner photographers. Fortunately, there are many free alternatives to Photoshop, and GIMP is one among them. In this article, we have compared Photoshop and GIMP, and hopefully, by the end of this article, you will be able to decide which program suits you the best....

Sony has finally revealed the pricing of the upcoming next-gen PlayStation console duo that consists of PlayStation 5 and the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition. The PlayStation 5 is priced at $499.99 and the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition will cost $399.99. Starting September 17th the consoles can be pre-ordered from selected resellers. The PlayStation console duo will launch on November 12th and on the launch date they will be available in the US, Japan, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea....

YggTorrent, one of the most-visited and largest torrenting websites in France, has moved to a new Slovenia-based .si domain in the latest switch for the site to avoid fresh ISP blocking in the country. In February this year, YggTorrent had lost control over its main domain name , YggTorrent.ws, after it was suspended by its domain registrar, Tucows. The domain name ‘YggTorrent.ws’ was “suddenly disabled” by its domain registrar without warning or providing an additional explanation, leaving the ominous ‘serverHold’ status behind....

Kali Linux now runs natively on macOS, thanks to Apple’s new containerization framework introduced at WWDC 2025. This is part of a broader move to support developer and security workflows natively on macOS, without needing Docker Desktop or third-party hypervisors. The feature, currently available in macOS Sequoia 15.5 and coming fully integrated in macOS “Tahoe” 26, allows Apple Silicon Macs to run OCI-compliant Linux distributions like Kali Linux inside lightweight, secure virtual machines....

Microsoft is giving Windows 11 a power-saving upgrade that could help laptops last longer on a single charge. The company recently shared on its developer site that it’s rolling out a new feature called “User Interaction-Aware CPU Power Management” in the upcoming Windows 11 version 25H2, which is designed to reduce power consumption when you’re not actively using your computer. In other words, the system will now be smart enough to detect user inactivity and automatically dial down CPU usage to help conserve power....

Remember the Pokémon GO Grandpa who played Pokémon GO on phones mounted on a bike? He is back with 64 phones on his bike. The viral Grandpa, who blew up on the Internet in 2018 with his passion for playing Pokémon GO on 15 phones simultaneously has evolved with time. While the hype around the game has faded down, the legendary Grandpa of Taiwan refused to budge in. The veteran Pokémon catcher was spotted on the streets of Taipei a few days ago with greater zeal and passion to catch ’em all....

This 16-year-old hacked into Steam to promote his rather silly game on its system A 16-year-old hacker exploited vulnerability in Steam and went on to publish his 45-second-long ‘game’ onto Steam without a single person at Valve setting eyes on it. Ruby Nealon , who created the game called Watch Paint Dry, is a game about watching paint dry. It made its way onto Steam without going through Greenlight or acquiring an elusive Valve stamp-of-approval....

With the use of face masks becoming mandatory amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a Japanese robotic startup has invented a “smart face mask” that not only protects from the spread of coronavirus but also makes communication easier. Developed by Donut Robotics, the “C-Face” smart mask is made of white plastic and silicone, which fits on top of standard face masks. It connects via Bluetooth to your smartphone or tablet via a dedicated app, which then translates speech into text messages, makes calls, or amplify the mask wearer’s voice....

Facebook parent company Meta, which made a splash with its new Twitter rival, Threads, has lost more than half of its users in the weeks following its record-breaking launch. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday told employees that more than half the users who signed up for the platform in its first week haven’t kept using the app, reported Reuters , citing an audio recording from an internal company town hall....

Snapchat has adopted many features from various popular apps including TikTok apart from being ephemeral. Turns out TikTok too is working on Snapchat-style stories feature that was a part of testing available to a limited number of users. Cut to now, the feature is being rolled out to a greater number of TikTok users. TikTok will soon have Snapchat Stories-like feature The pilot feature in the works TikTok will soon have Snapchat Stories-like feature According to TikTok, the Snapchat-like stories feature on the platform is now expanding in terms of pilot testing with more users joining in....

Smartphones of senior government officials, journalists, human activists, and military officers across 20 U.S. allied countries were targeted earlier this year with an Israeli spyware that used WhatsApp to take over users’ phones, said sources familiar with an internal investigation of Facebook-owned instant messaging platform. Some of the victims of the spyware hack belong to the United States, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Mexico, Pakistan, and India. WhatsApp on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of California against Israeli surveillance software company, NSO Group....