2024-12-30

The US Treasury Department says it was hacked in a China-linked cyberattack

Documents and workstations at the US Treasury Department were accessed during a cyberattack, The New York Times reports. The attack was linked to a "China state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Thr [...]

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 [...]

2025-03-10

Elon Musk says a 'massive cyberattack' is to blame for X being down

Perhaps like the loser of the proposed cage fight between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg that's never, ever happening, X has been down and out for much of Monday. Down Detector saw a spike in outa [...]

2024-12-31

The Morning After: A microwave with a 27-inch touchscreen

We’re wrapping up 2024, so why not do it with some frivolous CES announcements? Like this premium (it has to be premium!) microwave from LG, with a touchscreen bigger than your iPad. I’m not sure [...]

2025-01-16

China-linked hackers accessed over 400 US Treasury computers

The US Treasury Department announced in a letter back in December that it had been the victim of a security breach, attributing it to a “China state-sponsored Advanced Persistent Threat actor.” No [...]

2025-02-21

Bybit hacked for almost $1.5 billion in the biggest crypto theft ever

While 20th-century heists involved scoping out a location, recruiting a person on the inside and having a daredevil getaway driver waiting outside, the 21st-century version looks more like what Bybit [...]

2025-04-16

Spotify is down: The music-streaming service's outage is not a 'security hack'

The music-streaming app Spotify is down, leaving millions of music fans in the lurch. The company is aware of an issue and says it’s checking things out. To that end, we don’t know why it’s down [...]

2025-01-27

China’s DeepSeek AI assistant becomes top free iPhone app as US tech stocks take a hit

Chinese AI assistant DeepSeek has become the top rated free app on Apple's App Store in the US and elsewhere, beating out ChatGPT and other rivals. It's powered by the open-source DeepSeek V [...]

2025-01-11

CES 2025: The best tech and gadgets we saw in Las Vegas

CES 2025 has come to a close — Friday was the final day of the show — and team Engadget has departed Las Vegas. Our reporters and editors spent the week scouring endless carpeted convention halls [...]