US government orders its workers to update their iPhones immediately

US government workers owning Apple devices have until May 1 to apply the latest patch and protect their endpoints from potential compromise. BleepingComputer recently reported the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) ordering federal agencies to apply a patch fixing CVE-2023-28206 and CVE-2023-28205 for iPhones, Mac computers, and iPad devices.  Allegedly, the flaws are being actively

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Microsoft finally gets around to fixing half-decade-old Firefox CPU bug

Better late than never, I guess, but Microsoft finally got around to fixing a five-year-old high-CPU usage bug in Mozilla Firefox. The bug, which is tied to Windows Defender’s Antimalware Service Executable process, has been known to produce high-CPU usage when running Firefox compared to Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Fortunately, the issue looks like

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PC sales are down due to cost of living crisis but this is good for gamers

It seems that PC and Mac sales haven’t escaped the shadow of the cost of living crisis, going by recently released sales numbers for the first financial quarter of 2023.  According to preliminary results from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker, PC global shipments totaled 56.9 million, which is a

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