What we know so far: Private companies in the US have traditionally been allowed to defend their own networks from bad actors, but launching their own attacks against hackers has been out of the question. That's about to change. A new White House program will let vetted security firms surveil, disrupt, and even destroy overseas cybercriminal infrastructure while operating under federal authority.

President Donald Trump signed the National Security Presidential Memorandum on

Sounding off: NightmareEclipse did it again. The security researcher who's been on a crusade against Microsoft has published a new zero-day flaw affecting all supported Windows versions. Redmond threatened to sue, but the researcher is keeping his promise to disclose a new dangerous flaw after every month's Patch Tuesday.

NightmareEclipse and Microsoft keep clashing over zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows. The researcher, who pledged to give Redmond

Evergreen Candy Crush is one of the most successful and enduring mobile game franchises ever created. Launched by Swedish video game developer and publisher King in 2012, the original Candy Crush Saga quickly climbed the popularity charts on both Android and iOS. Nearly a decade and a half after its launch, it still boasts millions of users and generates billions of dollars in revenue.

In FY 2025, Candy Crush

First look: Qualcomm has released more details about Snapdragon C, the Arm-based chip it is preparing for low-cost laptops. The company is betting that a combination of modest CPU performance, integrated graphics, and low power consumption can give manufacturers another option in a segment of the market typically dominated by entry-level Intel systems starting around $300.

The processor has eight Qualcomm Kryo CPU cores. Qualcomm

Something to look forward to: Microsoft has been working on Low Latency Profile technology for months, and Windows 11 users should now start to see the benefits of the new feature. The latest Patch Tuesday update can seemingly improve performance across most apps and Win32 programs, rather than just the Start menu and other parts of the native Windows 11 interface.

Microsoft began rolling out the new Low Latency Profile (LLP

The big picture: Prime numbers do not follow a regular pattern, but mathematicians can measure how closely their distribution follows a predictable average. The Riemann zeta function, an infinite mathematical expression, is a key tool in that work because its nontrivial zeros contain information about the distribution of primes. The Riemann hypothesis holds that every one of those zeros lies on a single line in the complex plane, where the real part is 1

In a nutshell: A Steam Deck mod built inside a Game Boy-sized case is nearing a key milestone: adding its internal display. The project, called SteamBoy, already has a working Steam Deck motherboard, battery, speakers and controls inside a custom case modeled after Nintendo's original handheld. However, the SteamBoy is still a work in progress, with the display remaining the largest unfinished component.

Fitting the AMOLED

Facepalm: Nvidia has raised the price of its RTX Pro 6000 96GB Blackwell workstation GPU to an astounding $16,000, marking a 110% increase over its $7,600 pre-order price. Over the past few months, Nvidia has also increased prices for its consumer GPUs by as much as 150%, with high-end cards

What just happened? JCB's hydrogen-powered land-speed vehicle reached 406.320 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, setting a new speed record for a hydrogen-fueled internal-combustion vehicle. The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile confirmed the record after driver Andy Green completed the run Tuesday. The 406.320 mph result surpassed the