In the United States alone, there are an estimated 2.7 to 3.5 million online stores in 2025 out of roughly 32 million businesses overall. That mix includes everything from one-person side hustles to fast-growing startups and household brands. Roughly 2 million are...
Bitdefender, in partnership with NETGEAR, has released the 2025 IoT Security Landscape Report, a data-rich look at the risks facing connected homes worldwide. Using telemetry from 6.1 million smart homes and data from over 58 million IoT devices, the report offers a...
The ransomware group Everest claimed responsibility on Oct 26 for a cyberattack that allegedly compromised over 1.5 million passenger records from Dublin Airport. According to a report from Hackread, the Everest group listed Dublin Airport on its dark-web portal,...
YouTube has launched an AI likeness-detection system designed to alert creators when their face appears in videos uploaded by others. The tool uses advanced machine learning to flag potential deepfakes or unauthorized use of a creator’s likeness, giving eligible...
If your kids have ever repeated something strange they picked up online, like six-seven, you know how quickly internet culture moves. The latest? A viral “AI homeless man prank” is making headlines and alarming police in the US, the UK, and even China. In this trend,...
Long-abandoned @handles on X (formerly Twitter) are becoming valuable digital real estate, with some “rare” usernames reportedly selling for as much as seven figures each. Through its new Handles Marketplace, available exclusively to Premium and Premium+ subscribers,...
