January 13, 2025

Many people beleive MacBooks are impervious to malware. While strong security measures such as Xprotect, Gatekeeper, and Sandboxing are in place on macOS, they do not offer foolproof protection. Case in point: Cyber security tech giant Check Point has issued an urgent security warning to millions of Mac users worldwide who are at risk of infection by a newly developed malware called the “Banshee macOS stealer.” Cybercriminals designed this malware to steal sensitive information from macOS

PowerColor has been one of AMD’s most dedicated AIB partners for decades. Your author fondly remembers rocking a PowerColor Radeon 9600 card, a lifetime ago. The company is known for its impressive factory overclocks and sometimes outlandish board designs, like the “Devil 13” family back in the day. Lately, PowerColor’s top-end cards have been the Red Devil designs, and it looks like the next one will live up to the brand’s legacy. Obviously, as an

Apple Intelligence hasn’t quite lived up to the hype. The piecemeal rollout has been les than stellar, and to make matters worse, it often delivers inaccurate information to users and has been called out by news organizations for doing so. Thankfully, Apple gives users a lot of control over what AI features are enabled or disabled, and there’s a scorched Earth option, if you’d like, to reclaim the storage space required to run it. On

What if you could have sixteen desktop-class AMD Zen 5 CPU cores and a 96GB professional GPU in a thin & light laptop without compromising performance? Well, that’s the promise of AMD’s Ryzen AI MAX processors, code-named Strix Halo, and that’s the heart that beats under the skin of HP’s new ZBook Ultra 14 G1a laptop, as well as the company’s new pint-sized Z2 Mini PC. There are no caveats here: you get up to

It seems like the ACE3 USB-C controller used on Apple iPhone 15 and newer can be hacked thanks to insufficient safeguards in the controller’s firmware. The breach was achieved by security researchers and was recently detailed in a video (as seen below). The ACE3 USB-C controller, used for charging and data transfer, is part of Apple’s major shift from Lightning connectors to USB-C for its latest devices. Apple may be facing a new task of