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Windows 11 remains a familiar choice for many users, although complaints about hardware requirements, update behavior, and uneven performance continue to make large numbers of people wonder if it’s worth sticking with.

For those users, Linux is a viable alternative and one of the better, lesser-known OS choices is Nitrux, which has now reached version 5.1.

The financial services sector has now overtaken healthcare as the industry with the highest number of data compromises.

New research from Alta Technologies analyzed information from the Identity Theft Resource Center 2024 Data Breach Report to determine which industries experienced the highest number of data breaches in 2024. shows the industry, which includes jobs such as accountants, bankers, and financial analysts, experienced 737 data compromises throughout 2024. Since 2018, healthcare had previously been the most attacked industry.

AI-driven bot traffic has surged in the past year, often they scrape content to serve their operator’s needs only without sending new users or traffic to the targeted site. This is also creating an environment where automated abuse is a primary driver of fraud, infrastructure cost overruns, traffic volatility, and customer friction.

Real-time data platform company, Hydrolix, is launching a new Bot Insights solution that gives real-time visibility into every bot, crawler, and AI agent hitting a business.

Alongside a preview of new cases, cooling hardware, and peripherals planned for future systems, iBUYPOWER brought a concept gaming desktop to CES 2026 which takes a different approach to liquid cooling.

Custom loop cooling normally uses rigid tubes, a separate pump, and a reservoir to move liquid around the CPU and graphics card. This setup is common in enthusiast builds but rarely appears in prebuilts because it's difficult to assemble and maintain. The Trace X Custom Loop Concept Gaming PC shows how liquid cooling could be introduced into mass-produced systems.

Dell Technologies announced a number of new products at CES 2026, including new laptops, Alienware gaming systems, and larger, higher-resolution monitors aimed at professional users. Perhaps the biggest news is the return of the XPS brand that Dell retired this time last year.

Dell is launching redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch XPS laptops with a new chassis. Both the XPS 14 and XPS 16 use CNC-machined aluminum construction and adopt slimmer profiles than previous generations. For the first time, the XPS logo appears on the laptop lid.

In 2025, the number of known phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) kits doubled in number, increasing the pressure on security teams trying to defend against this ever-evolving threat.

A new report from Barracuda shows new players such as Whisper 2FA and GhostFrame introduced inventive and evasive tools and tactics, including a suite of techniques to prevent analysis of their malicious code, while established groups such as Mamba and Tycoon also continued to evolve and thrive.

Google has announced a significant change to the way in which it releases the source code for its Android operating system. The company has, until now, released source code several times a year as part of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).

Moving forward, Google says that it is going to be using a twice-a-year schedule for source code release – once in Q2 and then in Q4. With the latest code drop having come in November, we won’t see the next one until some time near summer. But what does all of this mean?

A new wave of attacks is hitting the JavaScript package ecosystem, specifically through open-source managers like NPM. Instead of malicious code hiding in the package itself, attackers now weaponize the install process. So, the code looks clean at build-time but later executes in end-user browsers, where it quietly steals data.

We talked to Simon Wijckmans, CEO at the client-side security and intelligence platform cside, to understand why this is happening and how organizations can respond.

Last year Google started the rollout of the Material 3 Expressive redesign to Google Drive, bringing it in line, aesthetically, with other products and services. Then, for reasons best known to Google, the company then seemed to change its mind and pulled back some of the new look.

Now there has been another change of heart. Google Drive users are now seeing the reappearance of a visual tweak that had been yanked.

Asus Republic of Gamers has unveiled the ROG Falchion Ace 75 HE magnetic gaming keyboard at CES 2026. The compact keyboard introduces a new magnetic switch platform and is aimed at competitive PC players looking for fast response and adjustable input in a smaller layout.

The new keyboard uses a 75 percent layout that retains dedicated arrow keys and navigation controls while reducing overall desk footprint. This design leaves more room for mouse movement than full-size or tenkeyless keyboards, which remains a common setup choice for competitive play.

Universal Music Group has announced a new collaboration with Nvidia that centers on using AI to support music discovery, artist tools, and fan engagement. The work draws on Nvidia’s AI infrastructure and Universal’s catalog of recorded music, with a focus on systems that account for copyright, attribution, and artist involvement.

The collaboration brings together Nvidia’s research in audio and machine learning with Universal Music Group’s catalog, which spans millions of recordings across genres and eras. The plan is to apply AI to music search, recommendation, and creative workflows, rather than replacing human creators or existing rights frameworks.

Cybercriminals can use malicious insiders as a direct means to access sensitive company resources, stealing confidential data or using the access to deploy a devastating cyberattack. New research shows that they’re actively searching for insiders from various organizations via the dark web.

Over the past 12 months, the team at threat exposure platform NordStellar has identified 25 unique dark web posts seeking out insiders. A significant portion of these posts focus explicitly on insiders who work for social media or cryptocurrency platforms.

LEGO has been a best seller for decades, and part of the secret of its success is a willingness to evolve and embrace new technology. The latest innovation from the company is the LEGO SMART Play system which sees the humble LEGO brick reborn as LEGO SMART Bricks which are crammed with ground-breaking technology.

In short, the system allows for the creation of interactive builds, using chips, tags and sensors to trigger sounds, lights and more. Sets based on the system will be available in a couple of months, and things kick off with a Star Wars theme.

Enterprises are already seeing AI agents sharing sensitive data, overriding internal policies and making unsanctioned changes without visibility into who authorized the action or why it occurred.

Security automation company Exabeam is launching a new release to deliver a connected system of AI-driven security workflows to protect organizations from the risks of AI usage and AI agent activity.

FiiO M33 R2R is a new digital audio player that blends classic dedicated music hardware ideas with modern Android performance. It’s a fully featured portable player for music listeners who want something more focused than a smartphone, echoing the role once filled by devices like the Apple iPod, and for those of a certain age, the Sony Walkman.

The M33 R2R sits below FiiO’s M27 in the lineup and combines a discrete R2R digital-to-analog design with contemporary processing, wireless features, and app support.