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 [...]

2025-01-21

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 [...]

2025-04-27

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. [...]

2025-04-23

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 [...]

2025-01-03

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 [...]

2025-02-10

Apple patches iPhone exploit that allowed for ‘extremely sophisticated' attack

A new iPhone update patches a flaw that could allow an attacker to turn off a nearly seven-year-old USB security feature. Apple’s release notes for iOS 18.3.1 and iPadOS 18.3.1 say the bug, which al [...]

2025-03-18

The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury

Sarah Wynn-Williams joined Facebook in 2011 when it was very much in its “move fast and break things” era. A former United Nations diplomat, she had aspirations of helping Facebook boost its stand [...]