The ‘White Noise’ trailer puts humor and tragedy in the same room

Adam Driver, Don Cheadle, and Greta Gerwig join forces in Netflix’s White Noise, a whirling comedy-horror-drama blend with a trailer that will have you totally questioning your life.  Based on the novel written by Don DeLillo, Noah Baumbach’s White Noise traces a modern blended family who is thrown into the midst of an apocalyptic disaster,…

Elon Musk is reinstating banned Twitter accounts. Here’s who’s back.

On the day Elon Musk took over Twitter, he made a proclamation. Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) “Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints,” Musk tweeted. “No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.” Well, it turns out that’s been…

This nasty Google Chrome extension is after your crypto and your passwords

A particularly nasty crypto-stealing malware has gotten a facelift to make it even more dangerous, researchers have claimed. Cybersecurity experts from Avast have warned the ViperSoftX Windows malware, a JavaScript-based RAT that’s been around for more than two years, has been upgraded to also install a Chrome browser add-on. Usually, ViperSoftX would monitor the clipboard…

This fake 16TB external SSD is Amazon’s best selling new storage release – just don’t buy it

While compiling our list of the best Black Friday SSD deals, we came across a peach of a product.  The Sajiulas “16TB portable SSD external hard drive” (their description not ours), a barely believable storage product that is currently Amazon’s number one new release in the highly competitive External Solid State Drives category.  In a…

Azure will now protect SMBs from DDoS attacks

Microsoft have announced that a new SKU for its cloud computing platform Azure’s DDoS Protection offering, which it says is specifically designed with SMBs in mind, is now available in public preview. Dubbed “IP Protection” the latest SKU is built to defend against L3/L4 DDoS attacks via “always-on monitoring and adaptive tuning”. According to Microsoft,…

Hyperkin is reviving the Xbox 360’s iconic controller for Xbox Series X/S and PC

Gaming accessory maker Hyperkin is creating a licensed replica of the Xbox 360’s iconic gamepad (via The Verge). Named “Xenon” – a reference to the console’s prerelease codename and IBM-made PowerPC processor – the controller brings back the nearly two-decade-old design while adding a few modern features, including a detachable USB-C cable and headphone jack….

FCC cuts off a voice provider for failing to protect against robocalls

The Federal Communications Commission didn’t take long to start isolating voice providers that don’t do enough to block robocalls. The regulator has cut off provider Global UC from other networks after allegedly failed to meet requirements for protecting against scam robocalls. Now that the company is no longer in the Robocall Mitigation Database, other carriers…