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Logitech is preparing to open a pop-up store in San Francisco’s Union Square, giving visitors access to its latest products and a closer look at its MX line. The walk-in hub will remain open until late December.

A preview session for media and creators is planned for the first afternoon, offering early access to the layout and product stations. The store will allow Logitech to show how its MX products fit into creative and productivity workflows, and the MX Master 4 mouse is placed at the center of the experience --literally. There will be a giant version of it there for people have photographs taken with.

Retailers aren’t the only ones to want to make the most of Black Friday, it’s a boom time for scammers too. New analysis by Check Point reveals that one in 11 newly registered Black Friday-themed domains is classified as harmful.

October saw 158 new Black Friday related domains, a 93 percent increase over the 2025 monthly average. Early November intensified that growth, with more than 330 new related domains appearing in only the first 10 days.

A survey of over 2,000 IT and security decision-makers finds that 71 percent of in-house IT builds are eventually abandoned. In heavily regulated industries like manufacturing and finance this rises to 83 percent, which underscores how complexity and compliance pressures make homegrown systems difficult to sustain.

The study from Exclaimer calls this ‘The DIY Mirage’, a false sense of control and efficiency that fades as maintenance demands, compliance risks, and long-term costs grow.

AdGuard has released a mobile app for DNS-level protection on iOS and Android, offering a simple way to block ads, trackers and harmful sites via encrypted DNS. AdGuard DNS targets users who want network-level filtering while avoiding the complexity of full ad-blocking or VPN tools.

The app is easy to set up and use. After installing it, users can link a device to their AdGuard DNS account by entering a Setup ID from the dashboard or by scanning a QR code.

A new report finds that the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system struggles to keep pace with the realities of modern software development.

The study from Sonatype analyzed 1,552 open source vulnerabilities disclosed in 2025 and found that nearly two-thirds (64 percent) lacked severity scores from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD).

As the number of CVEs continues to rise, a new study finds 46 percent of respondents say that the volume of vulnerabilities has placed additional strain on their security teams’ resources impacting not only organizational security but also staff well being.

The report from Hackuity also shows that 26 percent, admit this pressure has contributed to a data breach, while 36 percent, report it resulted in a regulatory fine.

Spotify has announced that it has acquired WhoSampled, a service which reveals information about the origins of musical components.

The company will use data from the WhoSampled community to power a new SongDNA feature. Available to paying subscribers, the feature provides a wealth of information about tracks including the source of samples used within songs.

If you have been waiting for Microsoft to make Windows 11’s taskbar flyout calendar useful, there is not much longer to wait. At Ignite, the company has provided details of a significant change that is coming in December.

The calendar flyout that appears when clicking the taskbar clock is in line for an upgrade. Now, in addition to displaying a quick-view calendar, there will be an agenda view.

You may have noticed that yesterday ChatGPT, X and a number of other websites -- including BetaNews for a while -- were unavailable due to an issue with online security service Cloudflare. So what went wrong?

According to the company the problem occurred after a configuration file designed to handle threat traffic did not work as intended and ‘triggered a crash’ in its software handling traffic for its wider services.

We have reached the time of year when ‘best of’ roundups become increasingly difficult to avoid. Not wanting to buck the trend, Apple has released its list of finalists for the 2025 App Store Awards.

The list is not just about apps, but also includes games. Apple says that the aim is to recognize developers’ “achievements in innovation, user experience, and cultural impact”.

Today’s IT leaders frequently face a critical trade-off between delivery speed and systems security. AI-assisted and -generated coding tools accelerate development cycles, but this speed can run counter to the realities of managing multi-faceted, complicated software components.

This seemingly leaves CIOs with two choices, moving at the speed of business while balancing potential production systems risks, or being overcautious to the point of losing to competitor’s innovations.

Nearly 40 percent of organizations have experienced security or compliance incidents directly linked to governance gaps introduced during cloud migration according to a new report.

The study from Pathlock, based on responses from 620 enterprise IT, compliance, and security leaders, finds that in spite of the regulatory pressures many organizations face, with respondents operating under major regulations like SOX, GDPR, and others, governance is often treated as an afterthought.

Google is taking the fight to AI rival ChatGPT with the launch of Gemini 3, the search giant's new flagship AI model built to handle complex reasoning, interpret multiple types of media and power new agent features across Search, the Gemini app, developer tools and enterprise platforms.

In a note announcing the new model, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said, “Nearly two years ago we kicked off the Gemini era, one of our biggest scientific and product endeavors ever undertaken as a company. Since then, it’s been incredible to see how much people love it.”

Vibe coding has surged in popularity in the last year. Tools like Lovable, Replit, and v0 are giving anyone the ability to generate apps without writing a single line of code. The experience is fast, intuitive, and surprisingly powerful, fueling a wave of innovation across both consumer and enterprise settings.

But as companies rush to adopt these tools, a new challenge has emerged. Employees are beginning to build their own AI-powered applications using whatever platforms they can find, often connecting them to live business data. It is a trend some experts are calling the rise of “shadow AI,” where software is created outside of established security and governance frameworks.

Microsoft’s Ignite developer conference is underway, and the company has used this as a platform to announce new recovery options for Windows 11. This is something which is being pushed not as an evolution of recovery, but a reinvention.

Having already released Quick Machine Recovery a few months ago, Microsoft is now switching focus. With Intune remote recovery via WinRE, the company enables admins to not only see the Intune console when a managed PC has entered recovery, but also perform recovery actions.