Intel re-enters Amazon's top-10 best-selling CPUs after over a year, but AMD still dominates
High DDR5 prices are driving buyers toward Intel's DDR4-compatible CPUs
AliExpress was silently running audio in your browser to fingerprint and track your device
A Bluetooth glitch exposed AliExpress's hidden audio fingerprinting
A hot potato: As cookies become a less reliable way to track people online, AliExpress may be showing how far companies will go to fill that gap. Researchers found code on the site's homepage that ran silent audio processes in the browser. Tied to Alibaba's security systems, the scripts tap a device's own audio hardware to generate a signal and measure the tiny, device-specific ways it comes back – producing something close to a fingerprint that doesn't need a single cookie to work. It's the kind of tracking a user would likely never notice.
People have clicked the "Seems like AI slop" button on LinkedIn over a million times already
The tool has been active for less than a month, alongside AI-detection classifiers
Bilibili wants to be YouTube's rival everywhere, not just in China
China's biggest video platform is coming for YouTube's international creators
Walmart will finally accept Apple Pay and Google Pay starting August 24
The retailer is finally giving up its decade-long fight against Apple Pay
Sony's Horizon live service spinoff could be dead by December
Is the industry finally rejecting the overinflated live service business model?
YouTube may be paying creators millions not to post on Netflix
Sean Evans, Alan Chikin Chow, and Nick DiGiovanni are among prominent creators in negotiations with YouTube
The FTC is cracking down on companies that charge you a "personalized price"
Businesses must disclose if they use consumer data to set individual prices
G.Skill starts paying buyers $20 to $25 from $2.4 million settlement over misleading RAM speeds
The company also agreed to warn that advertised speeds require overclocking or BIOS adjustments
This enthusiast has been torturing 351 microSD cards for years, and some brands are winning
Endurance test finds PNY, Kingston, Delkin among top performers
Comcast is turning your WiFi router into a basic home security system, for free
WiFi Motion brings home motion sensing to millions of existing Xfinity gateways
Amazon to bring 30-minute drone delivery to 500 US locations by the end of 2026
Prime Air is finally scaling up after 13 years of false starts, crashes, and FAA investigations
Looking ahead: Of the many sci-fi tropes we've seen over the years, few are as close to becoming real as skies full of delivery drones, and Amazon is leading the way. The retail giant has announced that it plans to expand its Prime Air drone delivery service to 500 cities and towns in the United States by the end of 2026, bringing under-30-minute deliveries to tens of millions of people in the country.
Meta goes to trial over Facebook and Instagram's impact on young users
The company could face $193 billion in penalties as states put its social media design on trial
GitHub is down again, and this time it's hitting almost everything
The outage follows a lengthy Actions disruption last week that GitHub called "unacceptable"
Amazon makes it harder for customers to sue as new terms block class actions and force arbitration
The company abandoned a similar clause five years ago after receiving 75,000 individual Alexa claims
France's court just blocked Macron's plan to ban kids from social media
French bill would have banned social media for under-15s, banned phones in schools
Nine PBS lost access to 50TB of archives after its cloud storage provider vanished
A failed cloud vendor left 70 years of broadcasting history stranded inside a Denver data center
A smart feeder outage left some cats and dogs without scheduled meals
Petlibro says its feeders work without the cloud, but many owners say otherwise
The US will let private companies hack back at cybercriminals for the first time
Vetted companies will be able to surveil, disrupt, and destroy criminal infrastructure
Twitch finally lets you opt out of AI training, years after it started
The platform admits nobody would opt in to the training if given the choice
Google to build three new subsea cables connecting Chile, Panama, and the Caribbean
The buildout connects directly to Google Cloud regions in Chile, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, South Carolina, and Virginia
NYC could force Amazon and FedEx to directly employ its delivery drivers
Amazon is threatening to move out of New York if the bill passes
Chrome's new security feature could make stolen session cookies virtually useless
Hardware-backed keys strengthen web sessions
A years-long investigation just unmasked a major torrent pirate, the how remains unclear
The 56-year-old is accused of seeding nearly 1,000 NHK recordings