Google’s Android and Chrome extensions are a very sad place. Here’s why

Enlarge (credit: Photo Illustration by Miguel Candela/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) No wonder Google is having…

Q&A with media scholar Ethan Zuckerman about why Twitter became the de facto digital public square, its politics of attention, power of federated networks, more (Wired)

Wired: Q&A with media scholar Ethan Zuckerman about why Twitter became the de facto digital public…

They plugged GPT-4 into Minecraft—and unearthed new potential for AI

Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) The technology that underpins ChatGPT has the potential to do much more than…

A look at India’s hacking-for-hire industry, which has a tacit alliance with the government and is unusually brazen, with firms publicly touting their services (David D. Kirkpatrick/New Yorker)

David D. Kirkpatrick / New Yorker: A look at India’s hacking-for-hire industry, which has a tacit…

“Clickless” iOS exploits infect Kaspersky iPhones with never-before-seen malware

Enlarge Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky has been hit by an advanced cyberattack that used clickless exploits…

Current and ex-employees: Meta staff generally aren’t using the Quest 3, especially for meetings, and even those in the VR unit don’t use it regularly for work (Aisha Counts/Bloomberg)

Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: Current and ex-employees: Meta staff generally aren’t using the Quest 3, especially…

Millions of PC motherboards were sold with a firmware backdoor

Enlarge (credit: BeeBright/Getty Images) Hiding malicious programs in a computer’s UEFI firmware, the deep-seated code that…

As ASML reaches a ~€275B market cap, twice that of Intel, a look at the fundamental limits on making ever-smaller chips, which could finally end Moore’s Law (Financial Times)

Financial Times: As ASML reaches a ~€275B market cap, twice that of Intel, a look at…

Critical Barracuda 0-day was used to backdoor networks for 8 months

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A critical vulnerability patched 10 days ago in widely used email software…

Monzo reports £356M in FY2023 revenue, up from £154M in FY2022, and a £116M net loss, down from £119M YoY; CEO TS Anil says an IPO is “some ways down the road” (Iain Withers/Reuters)

Iain Withers / Reuters: Monzo reports £356M in FY2023 revenue, up from £154M in FY2022, and…