A study of Microsoft employees in the US shines a light on what we’re really doing when our cameras are switched off during meetings.
GameStop FOMO Inspires a New Wave of Crypto Pump-and-Dumps


Thousands of would-be investors are joining Discord groups that promise big earnings by manipulating the crypto market.
Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2022 Dates Changing

Star Wars Celebration // MAY 12, 2021 Lucasfilm’s official Star Wars fan event will arrive early. The dates for Star Wars Celebration Anaheim are moving up from August 18-21, 2022, to May 26-29, 2022. We can’t wait to welcome fans back safely. Current ticket holders that wish to keep their existing tickets will have their […]
Why Is It So Hard to Be Evil in Video Games?

Sometimes there are too many choices. Most of the time, “good versus evil” isn’t very clear-cut.
Apple Execs Chose to Keep a Hack of 128 Million iPhones Quiet


Emails from the Epic Games lawsuit show Apple brass discussing how to handle a 2015 iOS hack. The company never directly notified affected users.
Google Gets Serious About Two-Factor Authentication. Good!


The tech giant wants to push its billions of users—and the rest of the industry—to enable multifactor authentication by default.
Microsoft Will Soon Kill Flash on Windows 10 for Good


Plus: A Peloton data leak, Russian hacker details, and more of the week’s top security news.
Twitter’s Tip Jar Privacy Fiasco Was Entirely Avoidable


Sending its users to PayPal has created all sorts of problems that Twitter should have caught ahead of time.
How to make Windows 10 feel more like a Chromebook

Make your Windows system work a little more like a Chrome OS device—or, if you’re really committed, leave Windows behind entirely.
Microsoft Office: This is what’s new for add-in developers in 2021

New Office features make it easier to build add-ins that bring new features to familiar programs.