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Apple Macs are considered comparatively safer than Windows. This remains true, as in the past few months, we’ve noticed numerous malware and vulnerabilities affecting Windows laptops. However, a stealer malware has shown that Macs yet again aren’t completely immune to cyberattacks.The malware, called Banshee, targets the extensions installed on your Mac in order to gain illegal access to your passwords, cryptocurrency and personal data. It affects a wide range of browsers, including Chrome and Safari.GET SECURITY ALERTS, EXPERT TIPS – SIGN UP FOR KURT’S NEWSLETTER – THE CYBERGUY REPORT HERE A woman working on her Mac laptop (Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson)What you need to knowResearchers at Elastic Security Labs found that Banshee, a malware developed by Russian hackers, works on macOS x86_...

Image: Ubisoft Ubisoft has published the PC requirements for Star Wars Outlaws, which is releasing later this month on August 30th, in a post that also points to a new gameplay trailer for the Grand Theft Auto-style space adventure. The trailer compares the game’s looks when certain features, like DLSS, are turned on versus off. There may not be any major revelations in terms of story or gameplay here, but it could give you an idea of whether you want to upgrade anything for the game or not. On the hardware side, Outlaws seems fairly forgiving of PCs still using components like the GeForce GTX 1660 GPU or Intel Core i7-8700K CPU. Eurogamer notes that you’ll need DLSS or FSR to run the game at minimum specs. From Ubisoft’s page: Minimum • Visual... C...

De la date de l’événement, Clémence Iacconi n’est plus tout à fait certaine. « En décembre 2019, ça c’est sûr. Je me souviens, il y avait une grève du métro, j’ai mis un temps infini pour rentrer. » Infini, à l’échelle du quotidien parisien. A moins que pour elle, ce jour-là, le temps se fût suspendu. Car, dans son sac, la chimiste en herbe à l’Ecole normale supérieure de Paris-Saclay tenait son trésor. Des fragments métalliques, à l’apparence bien ordinaire pour un œil non exercé. Pourtant, ces fossiles textiles, minéralisés sur des petits morceaux de bronze, recueillis trente ans plus tôt sur le site du Paradis, à Creney-près-Troyes, dans l’Aube, allaient occuper trois années de sa vie et lui permettre d’exhumer un cold case majeur de l’archéologie française. C’est so...

Nanoleaf’s new Expo Smart Display Cases are an eye-catching way to make a carefully curated collection the focus of any room. Each case features diffused color-changing LED lighting, and multiple cases can be stacked to create a larger display with colors and animated lighting that syncs across hundreds of cases. They’re available now individually for $79.99, or you can save $20 by opting for a four-pack for $299.99.Made from “premium grade ABS resin,” the cases feature evenly diffused LED lighting to minimize shadows and hotspots around what’s displayed inside. Unlike display cases with a single overhead spotlight, Nanoleaf is taking an approach similar to the product lighting used in professional photoshoots.Each case features its own button controls so that changing lighting settings...

Wyoming’s Jackson Hole Travel & Tourism Board has created an open-source Instagram filter to help visitors gauge if they’re at a safe distance from wildlife to take photos. The board hopes the tool will help better protect tourists visiting wildlife destinations — and the animals they’re watching — during the busy summer travel season.To use the filter, visitors to the valley and wilderness recreation area need to open up the Selfie Control filter in the Instagram app. After selecting the type of wildlife they’re looking at, tourists must align the animal’s outline to its icon. If the real-life animal’s bigger than the icon, then they’re too close and should back up.Jackson Hole, like nearby Yellowstone National Park and other wildlife destinations, gives tourists guidance about how...

AMD has finally revealed the launch prices for its new range of Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs, and it’s pricing them slightly lower than the Ryzen 7000 launch prices. The flagship Ryzen 9 9950X with 16 cores will be priced at $649, which is $50 less than the $699 Ryzen 9 7950X that launched nearly two years ago. The rest of the lineup are priced between $20 and $50 less than equivalent Ryzen 7000 CPUs.After a delay to the launch of its Ryzen 9000 CPUs “out of an abundance of caution,” the Ryzen 7 9700X ($359) and Ryzen 5 9600X ($279) will both launch on August 8th, followed by the Ryzen 9 9950X ($649) and Ryzen 9 9900X ($499) on August 15th. AMD’s Ryzen 9000 series pricing. Image: AMDAMD is promising around a 16 percent instructions per cycle (IPC) uplift in performance over the previous-gene...

Actors have once again picked up their picket signs. But this time, members of the screen actors guild are striking against the video game industry after negotiations for a new contract governing interactive media and video games fell through. The guild began striking on Friday, July 26th, preventing over 160,000 SAG-AFTRA members from taking new video game projects and impeding games already in development from the biggest publishers to the smallest indie studios.Negotiations broke down due to disagreements over worker protections around AI. The actors union, SAG-AFTRA, negotiates the terms of the interactive media agreement, or IMA, with a bargaining committee of video game publishers including Activision, Take-Two, Insomniac Games, WB Games, and others that represent a total of 30 si...

We’ve already heard rumblings about an iPhone Slim model taking the place of the iPhone Plus in 2025, making it the iPhone 17 Slim. Now, a new report from Apple supply chain expert Ming-Chi Kuo corroborates earlier claims, suggesting that the company’s incredible shape-shifting non-Pro iPhone is about to evolve yet again.Kuo agrees it will come with a 6.6-inch screen and adds that it’ll have just one rear-facing camera along with the company’s beleaguered in-house 5G chip. Kuo adds that the slim model won’t be a direct replacement for the Plus; instead, it represents “new design trends beyond the existing iPhone lineup.” That tracks with rumors that it might cost more than the $1200 Pro Max.Apple has had one heck of a time trying to figure out what the second non-Pro iPhone in its lineu...

Though Disney Plus’ older Star Wars series have sometimes been fantastic, recent seasons of shows like The Mandalorian and Ahsoka have felt like the products of a franchise unsure of how it wants to move forward. As another show set in Star Wars’ past, Leslye Headland’s The Acolyte seemed like it might similarly wind up being hamstrung by the tedium of lore and distracting nostalgia plays. But by embracing its identity as a story free from the burdens of having to connect with anything but itself, The Acolyte’s first season became one of the more promising signs of Star Wars’ future.Even with its new time period and focus on the Dark side of the Force, The Acolyte’s twisting mystery about unusual twins torn about by an epic power struggle larger than themselves made it a quintessentiall...