Apple MacBook Neo. The name sounded ridiculous to me at first, but then I hadn’t seen the colorful, classic, and affordable budget laptop in person. What I didn’t know is that it’s very likely the look, which includes colors like Citrus and Blush playfully bleeding all the way onto the keyboard, that is probably at least partially responsible for the Neo name.Think about it: “Neo” is one letter short of “Neon,” and these colors, especially Citrus and Blush, have the boldness of neon lights.It turns out, though, that the gemination for the name (though many were considered) is fairly transparent.…
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If you ask a network engineer what their most-used diagnostic tool is, the answer is almost always the same: ping. Simple, fast, universally available — ping has been a staple of network troubleshooting since the early days of the internet. But “ping” is no longer just one thing. Over the years, the networking community has built an entire universe of ping-like utilities, each designed to solve a specific problem that the original ICMP-based ping couldn’t address. By our count, there are at least 14 distinct ping utilities worth knowing about — and the differences between them are meaningful. Why So…
The threat activity echoes prior exploitation during the Israeli war with Hamas, a precursor to attacks against critical sectors in the U.S.
Interviewer: David Greene Shin Yang builds the kind of online space most platforms say is impossible: a sex-positive community that protects anonymity without turning users into data. A queer writer with a legal background and experience in product management, she is the steward of Lezismore, an independent, self-hosted community for sexual minorities in Taiwan that has been alive and kicking since 2015. It is built on open-source software and she is developing privacy-first governance (minimal data, behavior-based accountability, rhythm governance and “good friction”) as an alternative to identity gates and surveillance. *This interview has been edited for length and clarity. David…
Robby Stein, VP of Product Google Search, posted that Google is updating AI Mode so that it surfaces more links to creators when users search for recipes. Google’s AI Mode has generated controversy by synthesizing multiple recipes into what many have taken to calling Frankenstein recipes. This new update aims to fix that by making it easier to tap and see a link to the recipe sites. Change To How AI Mode Displays Recipes What Google did was to create an attractive display of recipes that when clicked opens a side panel that displays recipe images and a summary of…
Synology has been the default recommendation in the NAS space for years, and for good reason. DSM is polished, the ecosystem is mature, and there’s a massive community behind it. But if you’ve been paying attention to Synology’s recent trajectory, you’ll know that the company has been making some questionable decisions. Drive restrictions, underwhelming hardware, price hikes, and the removal of features like hardware HEVC transcoding have left a lot of long-time users feeling like they’re paying more for less. And at the same time, competitors, like Ugreen, have been ramping up fast. I’ve been testing the Ugreen NASync iDX6011…
Cato Dynamic Prevention monitors network and security activity across users, devices, and sites over extended periods. When it identifies patterns consistent with malicious behavior, it automatically applies adaptive controls to block or restrict high-risk actions, without requiring manual intervention from IT or security teams. According to the company, this approach targets threat actors who use legitimate credentials and trusted tools and spread activity across days or weeks. Individually, those actions may not trigger alerts. In environments built on disconnected point products, correlating those signals can be slow and resource-intensive, often delaying response until later stages of an attack, according to…
Cisco has released security updates to patch two maximum-severity vulnerabilities in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software. Secure FMC is a web or SSH-based interface for admins to manage Cisco firewalls and configure application control, intrusion prevention, URL filtering, and advanced malware protection. Both vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely by unauthenticated attackers: the authentication bypass flaw (CVE-2026-20079) allows attackers to gain root access to the underlying operating system, while the remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2026-20131) lets them execute arbitrary Java code as root on unpatched devices. “An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted HTTP requests to…
There’s a new kind of problem showing up in search: Your pages still rank, impressions keep going up, Search Console looks fine, but when your brand shows up in AI answers, something feels terribly wrong: The description sounds vague. The services list feels out of date. What you actually sell comes across as flatter than it should. Those are usually signs of AI content decay. AI content decay doesn’t break your visibility overnight. It slowly weakens how your business is explained. If you ignore it, your online visibility will suffer in many ways. In this article, we’ll cover everything you…
MWC is over, and the talking points were predictable enough. AI agents dominated nearly every keynote, and 6G showed up to the party promising all the things its predecessor failed to deliver. But the most surprising takeaway from Barcelona this year had nothing to do with either of those things. Foldable phones have become, well, boring. Boring may not be the right word for it, but matured certainly fits the bill. These used to be the concept cars of the smartphone world. Now they’re just phones. That maturation was freeing. With the foldable wars largely settled, the floor opened up,…