2025-03-11

Security researchers aren't buying Musk's spin on the cyberattack that took down X

One day after X went down for hours, security researchers are throwing cold water on Elon Musk’s public comments about who might be behind the DDoS attack. On Monday, as X was still struggling to re [...]

2025-04-27

Largest DDoS attack of 2025 hit an online betting organization with 1Tbps brute force: here's what we know

The largest DDoS attack of 2025 so far hit an online betting organization with almost 1Tbps of brute force. [...]

2025-01-21

Instagram blocked searches for #democrats and other political hashtags

Instagram blocked searches related to a number of political hashtags, including #democrats, #democrat, #jan6th, #republicans and a number of other terms Tuesday. Users who searched for these hashtags [...]

2025-04-23

Clair Obscur Expedition 33 review: An original hit RPG

It’s rare for a turn-based RPG to excite the editorial team beyond Engadget’s usual core RPG fans. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has many excited, however. Maybe it’s the dreamy Belle Époque aest [...]

2025-06-05

How to buy the Nintendo Switch 2: Current in-stock availability on consoles and games

The Nintendo Switch 2 is finally a thing you can buy in the US — or at least, a thing you can try to buy. The $450 console officially went up for sale at midnight ET on June 5, with several retailer [...]

2025-01-03

Japan’s largest telco NTT Docomo disrupted by DDoS attack

NTT Docomo was targeted by a cyberattack, leaving users unable to access services. [...]

2025-01-07

Instagram blocked LGBTQ hashtags and treated them as ‘sexually suggestive content’

Meta’s Instagram has been blocking LGBTQ-related hashtags for months, according to reporting by User Mag. This was done under the company’s “sensitive content” policy as an attempt to restrict [...]

2025-05-01

Apple sends spyware warnings to iPhone users in 100 countries

Apple has been warning possible victims of spyware attacks, according to several alleged recipients of the messages. At the time of writing there appears to be at least two people who have confirmed t [...]

2025-03-04

Web DDoS attacks see major surge as AI allows more powerful attacks

Layer 7 Web DDoS attacks increased five-fold in the span of a year as hacktivists use AI to lower the barrier to entry. [...]