Most new Amazon Echo devices are powered by Amazon’s Linux-based Vega operating system. But older models shipped with a custom version of Android that’s been locked down to make them feel more like an ...

Over $2.4 billion was stolen in the first half of 2025, already surpassing 2024’s total. Everyday traps such as phishing, toxic approvals and fake “support” cause more damage than exotic exploits.

Earlier this year, Discord began testing a new age-verification process in the United Kingdom that required users to scan their government-issued ID. That has come back to haunt both Discord and the ...

There's a broader concern coming out of the Discord breach. Credit: Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Seventy-thousand. That's the number of users who may have had their ...

Christopher Briney has joined the cast of “Hacks” Season 5, which is currently in production. “Hacks” follows the dark mentorship between Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), an aging legendary comedian, and ...

Security researchers at Google say hackers targeting corporate executives with extortion emails have stolen data from “dozens of organizations,” one of the first signs that the hacking campaign may be ...

The HBO Max series is fresh off two Emmy wins, as Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder walked away with the titles of best comedy actress and supporting actress, respectively. By McKinley Franklin ...

Most shoppers know Costco for its $1.50 hot dog combo, $5 rotisserie chicken and legendary bulk bargains. But the real savings go far beyond supersized cereal boxes and discount toilet paper. From ...

Once you've stretched out in a lie-flat seat and been served champagne before takeoff, it's hard to go back to economy. But airlines often charge an arm and a leg for that experience. But here's the ...

Over the past 12 months, Nature’s Careers team has been tapping into its global community of readers, writers, friends and colleagues to compile a list of laboratory hacks to help make scientists’ ...

Sometimes life imitates art, in that order, and Jean Smart’s character on “Hacks” this past season is providing a strange, retroactive parallel to what’s been going on in the real-life world of ...

The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday unsealed federal charges against British teenager Thalha Jubair, who prosecutors accuse of being involved in at least 120 cyberattacks, including the U.S.