Researchers have uncovered advanced malware that’s turning business-grade routers into attacker-controlled listening posts that can sniff email and steal files in an ongoing campaign hitting North and South America and Europe. Besides passively capturing IMAP, SMTP, and POP email, the malware also backdoors routers with a remote access Trojan... Read more

Facebook parent company Meta plans to cut thousands of jobs as soon as this week in a fresh round of layoffs, Bloombergreported Monday. The latest job cuts would follow a rough 2022 for the social-networking giant. In November, the company cut 11,000 workers, representing about 13% of its workforce.... Read more

Headphone nerds are a tough crowd, especially when you take away their precious cables. Ask anyone who regularly browses the r/headphones subreddit whether noise-canceling or wireless headphones are any good, and you’re likely to get a lot of folks telling you that they’re fine for reducing outside sound, but... Read more

For something that’s defined by change, the world of technology feels extra disruptive lately. Artificial intelligence is making headlines on a regular basis. Electric vehicles are taking over the roads. Microchips are made in America again. For the techno-optimists out there, we’re finally living in a version of the... Read more

Enlarge / An AI-generated illustration of a GPT-powered robot worker. Ars Technica On Monday, Microsoft bundled ChatGPT-style AI technology into its Power Platform developer tool and Dynamics 365, Reuters reports. Affected tools include Power Virtual Agent and AI Builder, both of which have been updated to include GPT large... Read more

Outlook is now free for Mac users, meaning a Microsoft 365 subscription — formerly Microsoft Office — won’t be necessary to use the email app, Microsoft said in a blog post on Monday. Microsoft Outlook is now free on Mac. Sarah Tew/CNET Additionally, Microsoft said new features will be... Read more

As people’s incomes rise, they tend to switch from “starchy staples” like grains, potatoes, and roots to meat and dairy products. “You’d think there would be big cultural differences across human populations in these patterns,” says Thomas Tomich, a food systems economist at the University of California, Davis, who... Read more

Every science fiction author tries to imagine the future. But very few get what Neal Stephenson is experiencing: Some of the world’s most powerful companies are actively trying to create the future he sketched out three decades ago. That would be in Snow Crash, the 1992 dystopia/parody he wrote... Read more