Apple on Monday announced its updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro personal computers powered by the company’s latest M3 series chips during its October “Scary Fast” Halloween Eve product event. Besides the new range of laptops, the company also unveiled its new family of M3 chips: M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, built on the TSMC 3nm process technology. All the new MacBooks feature a brilliant Liquid Retina XDR display that is 20 percent brighter than SDR content and has peaks of 600 nits....

This plan has been brought to fruition, as Apple will start rolling out two additional ad categories on the App Store effective October 25, 2022, in all countries except China. According to a new report from MacRumors, the Cupertino giant in an email sent to developers last week announced that the company is placing app-related ads in the App Store’s main Today tab. “ With Today Tab advertising, your app can appear prominently on the front page of the App Store – making it some of the first content users see when they begin their App Store visit,” reads the Apple Search Ads support page....

Antivirus firm Avast has today confirmed that it took its Community support forum offline following a data breach which may have affected log in ids and passwords of more than 400,000 users. Company’s CEO Vincent Steckler today stated in a blog post that user’s nicknames, user names, email addresses and hashed passwords were compromised in an attack on Avast Forum which took place over this past weekend. Steckler also noted in the same blog, that although the passwords are hashed it could be possible for a sophisticated thief/programmer to derive these passwords....

It can be so annoying when, surprisingly, your iPhone gets stuck on Apple logo and it won’t even get past that screen. Many of us may have been in such a situation once if not twice. So, if you’re facing such a problem, don’t panic. Because your iPhone isn’t broken, it’s just the image of the Apple logo that’s getting you irritated. This post covers everything you need to know about the iPhone stuck on Apple logo error....

Earlier this year, China completely banned Bitcoin mining. The ban literally shut down more than half of the world’s miners overnight. It’s important to know that, the Bitcoin network’s hash rate showcases how much computing power is performing Bitcoin mining. For several years, China has been the epicenter of Bitcoin mining and roughly 65% to 75% of the mining happened in China. After the ban, more than 50% of bitcoin’s hash rate dropped off the global network....

Call of Duty Mobile trailer teases Blackout and Zombies Activision, the publisher behind the Call of Duty (COD) series – the popular first-person shooter video game franchise – is now bringing out a new free-to-play game for Android and iOS platforms. The announcement about the new game was made during the Unity Keynote at the 2019 Game Developers Conference (GDC) on Tuesday. The mobile version of Call of Duty will get both zombies mode and a battle royale mode....

Canon, the Japanese camera giant, recently fell victim to a ransomware attack where over 10TB of photos, videos, and other data were stolen across multiple devices. The attack affected the company’s storage and email services, Microsoft Teams, as well as the U.S. version of its website. Following the incident, Canon’s IT service sent a company-wide notification indicating that it is experiencing “widespread system problems affecting multiple applications, computers, email, and other systems may not be available at this time....

New ‘Pokemon GO’ cheat for Android smartphone : You can catch Pokemon sitting on your sofa, no root required If you are reading this article, it means that you are a Pokemon Go player or fan. A couple of days back we had written an article about a GPS cheat for iPhones and iPads . Now it is the turn of Android smartphone. Unlike the Pokemon Go GPS cheat which we gave for iOS which needed jailbroken iPhones, this cheat doesnt require you to root your Android smartphone....

Smartphones these days pack good quality cameras and the ability to add face filters can be considered as an icing on the cake. Using a filter you can customize your face as per your preference like changing the size of your eyes, making your color look more fairer, or removing acne marks, and much more. Unfortunately, a Chinese vlogger got banned from the live-streaming platform after her real face got revealed due to a face filter glitch....

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent directive ordering federal agencies to patch a high-severity MongoDB vulnerability that is being actively exploited in the wild. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-14847 and widely known as MongoBleed, affects a wide range of MongoDB Server versions and allows attackers to leak sensitive memory data remotely without authentication. CISA has now added the vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, mandating all Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to secure affected systems by January 19, 2026....

Is Convert2MP3 not working for you? Well, you are not alone. After 2 years of legal battle, IFPI, the worldwide voice of the record labels has finally won the class action suit against the online YouTube video ripper Convert2MP3 and it has shut down. The MP4 to MP3 ripper service has served over 640 million visitors in the past year. The market is flooded with Convert2MP3 alternatives. One of the major reasons for the success of Convert2MP3 has been YouTube’s market share in the online music streaming market which constitutes 47% of total music streamed online ....

Court Documents Name The Man Tied To Celebrity Nude Hacking Scandal It could be certified as the hack that changed the way Hollywood celebrities view Internet. Nearly two years after hackers released hundreds of nude images of Hollywood stars in a major scandal that came to be known as the Fappening, new court documents reveal the name of the FBI’s top suspected hacker: Ed Majerczyk . Majerczyk, a Chicago man, is accused of phishing his way into sexually explicit photos from celebrities including Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Justin Verlander, Kirsten Dunst, and others....

Cisco, the largest provider of networking equipment in the world, released a security update on Wednesday to address a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the REST API of Cisco Meeting Management. The critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-20156 has been rated 9.9 out of 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). This privilege escalation flaw, if exploited, could allow a remote, authenticated attacker with low privileges to elevate privileges to administrator on an affected device, posing a severe risk to organizations....

Did you know that 1 in every 3 email users relies on Gmail, which boasts a massive user base of 1.8 billion people? It is one of the most popular webmail services in the world. Thanks to the popularity of Gmail, users are always on the lookout for Gmail Desktop App . Consequently, to help you out we have shared multiple methods to download, install, and use the Official Gmail App For PC ....

Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk on Monday restarted production in its Fremont, California factory defying local county officials who had ordered the company to stay closed to slow the spread of coronavirus. In a tweet, Musk openly dared local authorities to arrest him, adding that he would join workers on the assembly line and if anyone has to be arrested it should be him. “Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules....

Unicode Consortium, a non-profit organization that supervises emoji standards and releases standardized sets of emoji for Android and iPhone, on Friday finalized the Emoji 13.1 update with 217 new emoji sequences. Of these, 210 are skin tone variants for the multi-person emoji groupings “couples with heart” and “couples kissing”, while the other seven new emoji are: “heart on fire”, “mending heart”, “woman with beard”, “person with beard”, “face exhaling”, “face in clouds”, and “face with spiral eye”....

The first word that strikes our mind whenever we talk about the best Photoshop alternatives is GIMP. The aforementioned free and open-source graphics editor recently received a major update with build number GIMP 2.10.18. This update brings a noteworthy number of refinements coupled with major bug fixes and new tool enhancements. RELATED: Photoshop Vs GIMP; Which Is The Best Photo Editing Software? GIMP 2.10.18: New Tools & Major Improvements Download GIMP 2....

GitLab, a web-based Git repository, on Thursday, released versions 16.7.2, 16.6.4, and 16.5.6 for GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) to address two critical vulnerabilities, including one of them allowing account hijacking by resetting passwords without requiring any user interaction. The first critical vulnerability — tracked as CVE-2023-7028 — has been awarded the maximum severity score (10 out of 10) on the CVSS scoring system. This issue affects GitLab self-managed instances running GitLab CE/EE versions from 16....

Google launches new Pixel Buds that are totally wireless Google announced the company’s first-ever wireless earbuds called ‘Pixel Buds’ at the Made by Google event in New York City. Also Read- Google Announces Pixel 4 And Pixel 4 XL Unlike its predecessor that was wired earbuds, Google’s new Pixel Buds are truly wireless headphones that will compete directly with Apple’s Airpods. Pixel Buds feature an in-ear design so that each earbud sits securely in your ear....

If your organization (business or school) is using the G Suite legacy free edition, you will soon need to upgrade to a paid Google Workspace subscription to continue using their services. Google has already started sending out emails to users of the G Suite legacy free edition account informing them of the change, according to a report from 9to5Google . “If you have the G Suite legacy free edition, you need to upgrade to a paid Google Workspace subscription to keep your services....