Microsoft Corp. will not launch a major upgrade to its Surface-brand personal computers until next year but may release a new, lower-priced model before then, according to new reports. Brad Sams at Thurott.com Tuesday claimed to have seen internal Microsoft documents detailing plans for the Surface range including previously unknown code names for upcoming products. First up is ...

Amazon.com Inc.’s Fire devices are being targeted by a new variant of cryptomining malware as a new report shows that mining for Monero, the cryptocurrency of choice for hackers, is surging. The malware is a variant of the ADB.Miner malware that previously targeted stock Android devices (Amazon runs a customized version of Android). It uses the ...

A security flaw in the way outside applications tie into an Apple Inc. application programming interface in versions of Mac operating system code, going back more than a decade, has been revealed for the first time. Discovered by researchers at identity management firm Okta Inc., the flaw is described as a bypass ability found in ...

Three and a half years after revealing its HoloLens mixed-reality headset, Microsoft Corp. could unveil its successor as soon as the first quarter of next year, according to a new report. Brad Sams at Thurott.com claims to have seen internal papers that indicate that the next version of the headset, codenamed “Sydney,” is scheduled for ...

Google Inc. today announced that it will stop support for inline installations of Chrome extensions from outside websites as part of an ongoing push to improve the security of its market-leading web browser. The announcement, interestingly described as bringing “transparency” to Chrome extensions, means users can directly install extensions from the Chrome Web Store only ...

A U.S. District Court judge today overruled a ban placed by the Department of Justice against AT&T Inc.’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner Inc., with the combined company set to create a powerhouse that will challenge online streaming giants Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. The deal is the largest media and telecommunications deal of its kind. ...

Weight loss company Weight Watchers International Inc. is claiming that the chances that hackers have stolen data from its servers are slim after it was discovered that the company failed to password-protect a cloud instance used for managing application containers. For something different in the age of seemingly never–ending Amazon Web Services’ S3 instance exposures, the Weight ...

U.S. authorities today said they helped in the arrest of 74 people on three continents for hijacking bank transfers using email fraud. The takedown, part of a global crackdown on email scammers, was coordinated under the name of “Operation Wire Wire.” It included cooperation from Interpol, national police forces in Malaysia, Poland, Canada, Mauritius, Nigeria and ...

Apple Inc. has declared that it’s not a fan of cryptomining by banning the practice via apps outright even when a user wishes to approve of the process. The policy change was delivered at the same time as the recent Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, but it was buried in fine print and only noticed today. ...

Troubled electric-car maker Tesla may be set to deliver new, fully autonomous vehicle features later this summer. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk tweeted Sunday that the company would release a new version of its software with “full self-driving features” in August. The tweet came days after the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary ...