Mark Rober's Glitter Bomb 4.0 makes porch pirates pay
Overengineered revenge
Seller loses $250,000 after listing his Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT for the wrong price
A typo meant it sold for one hundred times less than the intended amount
Many Java-based applications and servers vulnerable to new Log4Shell exploit
The exploit stems from a widely used Apache logging utility and potentially impacts any Apache Struts users
European football fans have spent millions on crypto-based fan tokens
Buying tokens shows support, but skeptics continue to question their validity
Newegg is adding DDR5 memory to its 'Shuffle' program
The online retailer is bundling DDR5 memory with Z690 motherboards for Shuffle winners
Netflix launches companion site Tudum so you can learn more about its shows and movies
Geek away on your favorite series and shows to your heart's content with Tudum
Amazon is shutting down web ranking site Alexa.com after more than 25 years
Alexa rankings were a big deal in the earlier days of the Internet
Private 5G networks are becoming a thing, and Amazon's AWS wants to have a say on it
AWS means to rewrite the rules for private 5G
Consumers have spent nearly $27 billion on NFTs so far in 2021
Virtual ownership is exploding in popularity
Two men accused of stealing $20 million in music royalties from YouTube by claiming to own the rights
"Hello, I own these music rights. Give me money," essentially
Cyber criminals are using fake advertising to distribute malware
Malvertising campaigns deploy malicious payloads disguised as popular applications to harvest personal data
The first Wikipedia edit 'Hello, World!' is being auctioned as an NFT
The winner will also get the strawberry-colored iMac used to make the edit
Zoom allocates $85 million to settle class-action lawsuit, here's how to claim your share
The settlement results from a class-action lawsuit over privacy and security issues
Signs all over Seattle mark 'the end of the internet' as Thursday, December 2, 2021
Whew! Good thing I got my Cyber Monday shopping done
After leaving Twitter, Jack Dorsey rebrands Square as Block
Block, a technology company with a focus on financial services
Microsoft tells people trying to download 'so 2008' Chrome that Edge is better
Microsoft continues to endear itself to the public
Amazon says it had a record-breaking Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend
Also had its best holiday season launch ever that opened at the beginning of October
A little web history: The first webcam ever was designed to do what exactly?
Computer scientists at Cambridge University are said to have deployed the first webcam in 1991
Cyber Monday sales were down, but overall holiday spending is up nearly 12 percent
Adobe expects full season sales to hit a record high
YouTube reveals the most-viewed videos and top creators of 2021
It was a very good year for MrBeast
Democratic lawmakers introduce bill that could ban auto-checkout bots
To stop them from 'stealing Christmas'
Users rage against Microsoft for integrating 'buy now, pay later' app into Edge
Microsoft keeps undoing all the good work it's put into Edge
Twitter drops ban hammer on sharing 'private media' without an individual's consent
It is only an extension of existing policies regarding the sharing of personal information
Australia's defamation laws could reveal social media trolls' identities
The protection of anonymity may be removed