Streaming just passed a major milestone: in May 2025, it officially overtook cable and broadcast combined. It’s the kind of moment that should feel like a victory lap for cord-cutters. And yet, as someone who ditched cable years ago, I’ve started feeling something I didn’t expect—I kind of miss it. Streaming Has Officially Overtaken Cable
Remedy has shared its plans to improve FBC: Firebreak, the new multiplayer Control spinoff, following a string of less-than-stellar reviews that criticized the game’s rough early hours. FBC: Firebreak was announced in October 2024 as the first online multiplayer game from Remedy, and another pitstop on the way to an eventual Control 2. The full
As package registries find better ways to combat cyberattacks, threat actors are finding other methods for spreading their malware to developers.
The Linux kernel is seeing a steady accumulation of Rust code. As it becomes more prevalent, maintainers may want to know how to read, review, and test the Rust code that relates to their areas of expertise. Just as kernel C code is different from user-space C code, so too is kernel Rust code somewhat
If anyone was holding out hope that the Oversight Board would provide some kind of check on Meta’s rewritten hate speech policy, Meta has just made it clear exactly where it stands. The company published its formal response to the board’s criticism, and has declined to commit to any substantive steps to change its rules.
The Taiwanese cryptocurrency exchange BitoPro claims the North Korean hacking group Lazarus is behind a cyberattack that led to the theft of $11,000,000 worth of cryptocurrency on May 8, 2025. […]
A new filesystem was the topic of a session led by Zach Brown at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF). The ngnfs filesystem is not a “next generation” NFS, as might be guessed from the name; Brown said that he did not think about that linkage (“I hate naming so
The threat actors behind the Qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme are now offering legal counsel for affiliates to put more pressure on victims to pay up, as the cybercrime group intensifies its activity and tries to fill the void left by its rivals. The new feature takes the form of a “Call Lawyer” feature on the
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Microsoft is making it harder to use Chrome on Windows. The culprit? This time, it’s Windows’ Family Safety feature. Since early this month, the parental control measure has prevented users from opening Chrome. Strangely, no other apps or browsers appear to be affected. Redditors first reported the
Microsoft is investigating a known OneDrive issue that is causing searches to appear blank for some users or return no results even when searching for files they know they’ve already uploaded. […]