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Here’s some exciting news for those looking for an advanced yet simple hard charging station: the new Nexode Pro Series that UGREEN, the popular Chinese accessories and NAS maker, unveiled today. This new lineup is the continuation of the company’s Nexode Retractable chargers it introduced last year and includes two new chargers, the Nexode Pro 160W Charger with Retractable Cable and Nexode Pro 300W Desktop Charger. Related stories on charging The new UGREEN Nexode Pro 160W Charger with Retractable Cable in action. Note its screen and the retractable cord that’s being used. UGREEN Nexode Pro Series: Fast charging made visible…

A quantum-resistant cryptography algorithm that was under consideration as an official US standard has been taken out of the running after an Anthropic security model helped find a flaw that rendered it broken. The algorithm is known as HAWK. It’s a digital signature scheme designed to withstand future attacks from quantum computers. HAWK had survived two rounds of testing by NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) for evaluating the security of PQC (post-quantum cryptographic) algorithms through widespread testing. HAWK was in a third round of testing designed to catch precisely the kinds of flaws Mythos helped uncover. Following…

Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle is a real challenge, but also fun. If you’re struggling with the puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups Yellow group hint: Helps you identify a team. Green group hint: Short for a hoops team. Blue group hint: He shoots, he scores! Purple group hint: Seventh letter of the alphabet. Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups Yellow group: A team’s symbol. Green group: NBA teams, informally. Blue group: Hockey stick manufacturers. Purple group: What “G” might mean. What are…

Apple’s long-rumored product leasing program, which it calls unironically “Apple Upgrade,” is finally here, and it looks like a low-cost way to slide into the Apple ecosystem whether on the shiny surface of a gleaming iPhone 17 Pro, a Snoopy-faced Apple Watch, a clamshell Apple Silicon Mac, or an ultra-slim iPad Pro.With no upfront fee and monthly charges as low as $11.99 a month (it’s only available in the US for now), your new Apple Watch might cost you far less than your daily Starbucks mocha latte.Honestly, this sounds like a great program, especially when you can snap up a…

After getting my Galaxy Z Flip 8 review unit, I did something I haven’t normally done when switching from iPhone to Android: I used the updated Samsung Smart Switch app to transfer my personal data from my iPhone to the Android phone. This improved process has made it much easier to transition my habits and conversations, which is often a major pain point when switching. I regularly swap from iPhone to Android when reviewing devices, a process that’s usually so cumbersome and prone to breaking my chats that I typically prefer to just set up an Android phone from stock…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. A relative newcomer in the industry, DataImpulse has grabbed a slice of the proxy pie thanks to its wallet-friendly, high-performing service. From more than 90 million ethically-sourced residential IPs across 195 locations to mobile and datacenter proxies, users gain access to a speedy and reliable global network.The company specializes in creating custom proxy services for businesses, though individual users who aim to access data from anywhere and collect the…

Last week’s unprecedented security event in which two OpenAI security hacking models trespassed into the network of fellow AI company Hugging Face was enabled by exploiting one or more zero-day vulnerabilities in Artifactory, JFrog, the product’s developer, said Monday. In an incident mimicking a dystopian sci-fi novel, two OpenAI models broke out of the restricted environment meant to keep them from accessing the Internet during an internal test, the AI company revealed last week. The models went on to breach Hugging Face’s network and steal confidential information and credentials. OpenAI said its agent achieved the feat by exploiting a previously…

Today’s Wordle answer isn’t a tough one, with an unusual repeated letter. Read on for hints and the answer. Today’s Wordle hints Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now. Wordle hint No. 1: Repeats Today’s Wordle answer has one repeated letter. Wordle hint No. 2: Vowels Today’s Wordle answer has two vowels. Wordle hint No. 3: First letter Today’s Wordle answer begins with V. Wordle hint No. 4: Last letter Today’s Wordle answer ends with E. Wordle hint No. 5: Meaning Today’s Wordle answer refers to a mechanical…

Are you a fan of CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher game series? Have you ever fantasized about what type of character you’d be if you were somehow sucked through a magic portal and found yourself in the fantasy world of The Continent? Do you think you’d be a princess, a bard, a sorceress, or even a witcher?A brand-new The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt expansion, Songs of the Past, has been announced, and it’s launching sometime next year. While we don’t have plot details yet, the story will once again follow Geralt of Rivia ahead of The Witcher 4.This means an…

Microsoft is introducing new AI tools designed to help customers continuously streamline and automate the process of identifying and reducing their exposure to security risks. The new tools come less than a week after OpenAI lost control of two of its security models when they infiltrated the servers of startup Hugging Face. The hack, Hugging Face added, involved “a swarm of tens of thousands of automated actions” that stole internal Hugging Face credentials. The OpenAI models achieved this feat by exploiting a zero-day flaw in Hugging Face’s data-processing pipeline to run malicious code that escalated the models’ access to the…