Technology

A judge on Wednesday ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about privacy on Facebook, marking the biggest fine ever against the tech giant. Facebook’s deception was intentional and executives consistently misled users about how the platform worked, stateContinue Reading

The FBI’s Cyber Division said the vulnerabilities could allow malicious actors to remotely execute code in tools that power websites., The FBI’s Cyber Division said the vulnerabilities could allow malicious actors to remotely execute code in tools that power websites., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading

Rivian and Redwood Materials have expanded their partnership, and Redwood will recycle the automaker’s battery production scrap and end-of-life EV packs. The expansion builds on the companies’ existing project, announced in April 2026, which is deploying 10 MWh of battery energy storage from repurposed Rivian packs at Rivian’s plant inContinue Reading

Honda R&D, in collaboration with Taisei and Taisei Rotec, has developed “underlying technology” for a magnetic coupling wireless power transfer (WPT) road system. The system is designed to wirelessly charge EVs, including large commercial vehicles, while in motion. The three companies plan to begin demonstration testing on public roads inContinue Reading

You may recall hearing the PS5 can now run Linux. The catch was that it needed a console running much older firmware, long before Sony nixed the exploits used. Well, the jailbreak door is ajar again (‘get a better metaphor, Joey’ – the world). The new pLinux5-NG project adapts the old PS5 LinuxContinue Reading

Every IT and security team knows the feeling of opening a vulnerability report and seeing a number that only goes up. Thousands of findings. Hundreds marked critical. A backlog that grows faster than any team can close it. For years, the default response has been to work harder: more scans,Continue Reading

For most IT teams, Patch Tuesday used to set the rhythm of the month. Updates arrived, teams tested them, change boards approved them, and deployments rolled out over the following weeks. It wasn’t painless, but it was predictable. That predictability is gone. Nearly 48,000 CVEs were published in 2025, andContinue Reading

What I realized in the past week or so is that if you can reverse engineer it, any software is open source software. Not in the license sense, of course. But AI agents are getting good at reading binaries, tracing what an app does and rebuilding it. Last issue, weContinue Reading

Dank Linux, the Wayland desktop suite built around DankMaterialShell (DMS), has put out its final post on X under that name, bidding farewell to its old identity. Accompanying it is DMS 2.0, codenamed “Heisenberg,” which reached GitHub just a few hours ago. If you didn’t already know, the shell isContinue Reading

Mozilla Firefox 158.0.1 is rolling out with some important security fixes. Now, I don’t tend to cover Firefox point releases as mainly ship minor fixes for things the majority of users won’t have noticed were wrong in the first place. The Firefox 158.0.1 update is more ‘meaty’ than usual fare.Continue Reading