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Intel has been caught in the past trying to make its CPU appear faster or trying to make rival CPUs appear slower. That accusation is back again on Team Blue and AMD is not the one accusing.
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The Attorney General's Office in New Hampshire made progress in investigating the robocall campaign that used the fake voice of President Joe Biden to deter people from voting in primaries.
A fake audio message impersonating Joe Biden was used to urge supporters not to vote in the presidential primary. The new incident reinforces national concern about the misuse of AI.
Security researchers discovered that a new ransomware campaign, dubbed Big Head, is infecting devices by fooling users into thinking it is a critical Windows update, and it can even delete backups.
The CERT Ukraine has warned about a new malicious campaign that is targeting Ukrainian officials. The campaign is essentially distributing fake Windows updates via Outlook domain mails.
Amazon has helped authorities in China to disrupt three counterfeit product networks. A huge 240,000 fake items were seized by authorities after Amazon shared warehouse and manufacturing locations.
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After a flood of Wordle clones - including those charging a premium - hit the App Store in the past few days, Apple is finally taking charge against copycats by removing them from the storefront.
A fake Microsoft Authenticator extension for Chrome remained in the store for a month before Google finally removed it today. It redirected users to a suspicious website hosted in Poland.
A tear down of a £339 anti-5G USB stick, dubbed 5GBioShield, has found that it has an uncanny resemblance to cheap, £5 USB sticks that you can find online. The retailer claims it protects against 5G.
Facebook has deleted 470 accounts and pages that it suspects were fake and set up by Russians trying to influence politics. It said the ads did not target the recent US elections last year.
Following reports of Ubisoft's For Honor losing a lot of active players on Steam a few months ago, a company representative has now disputed the data, claiming it to be "fake news".
Apple has found that an overwhelming majority of chargers and cables sold and fulfilled by Amazon as 'genuine' Apple products, are in fact fake. The company is now suing one of the manufacturers.
Various email providers who were allegedly affected by a data breach that was supposed to have exposed over 272 million account credentials now claim that over 98% of these were bogus.
A fake application called "Tweetium Beta (Free)" managed to bypass undetected by Microsoft and onto the Windows 10 Mobile store. Anyone who has downloaded it could have risked their passwords.
Facebook is trying to help its users and grow its value. The giant social network is tweaking its algorithms in an effort to limit the number of fake news stories that users see in their timelines.
It looks like eBay is under fire for perpetuating the sale of known counterfeit goods. A new investigative report shows that eBay assists merchants selling counterfeit goods by manipulating feedback.
A knock-off Lumia 920, called the Lamia R920, has appeared in India for around US$82, packing a wonderful 4.5-inch display and a huge 200 kB of internal memory. Don't expect Windows Phone though.
For once a cheap rip-off phone is not loaded with fake iOS or Android, but instead fake Windows Phone! This absolutely fantastic Lemon Dual SIM Mobile T109 is sure to attract many buyers
If you stopped by Google Play earlier today, you just might've had a chance to pick up some Apple designed apps for your Android device. Did hell freeze over? As it turns out, no, it did not.
In a new SEC filing, Facebook admitted that 8.7 percent of its subscribers numbers are duplicates, misclassified or "undesirable", meaning that it has a total of over 83 million "fake" accounts.
Earlier this week, there were reports from various bloggers regarding the discovery of fake Apple Stores in the Chinese city of Kunming. Thanks to American blogger BirdAbroad, Chinese officials have begun an investigation into all...
An American blogger who lives in China has made a rather unusual discovery; a fake Apple Store found in the remote Chinese city of Kunming. In the store itself, a variety of Apple products are...
With so many Windows 8 screenshots floating around, it's very hard to tell fact from fiction. Unless you have inside knowledge by knowing the person who leaks you information, or are the one actually leaking...
It might have been a bit of an easy victory for Apple if the string of rogue antiviruses targeting Mac OS X with names such as "MAC Defender," "MAC Protector," and "MAC Security" stopped on...
Remember this fake antivirus, MAC Defender, that was making its rounds amongst Mac users earlier this month? Despite its simple payload and method of execution -- which requires manual intervention on the part of the...
Before anyone is alarmed by the headline and the screenshot shown below - don't panic! While it appears to be yet another new case in the uncharted waters of malware existing on Mac OS X,...
Just in time for this weekend, there appears to be a humourous story making its rounds on several news sites. You are probably all too familiar with some malicious eBay sellers selling portable electronics -...
Millions of computer in the US are infected with fake security software, which their owners may have even paid for, according to a cybercrime report from security company Symantec. Such software would only make computers...
It appeared for sometime that the Tibetian spiritual leader Dalai Lama followed the footsteps of Pope Benedict XVI to use the latest technology to attract the tech-savy youths and joined twitter. The twitter account was...
Update: Carbonite have now responded to Neowin here. It was just 10 days ago we had the news of Belkin paying people to post fake reviews and the comments of anonymous Belkin employees confirming those...
Trend Micro Advanced Threats Researcher Paul Ferguson has discovered fake websites with headlines like Barack Obama has refused to be a president and links that take the user to fake Obama sites which mimick the...
Corporations live and die off consumer reviews and when your product isn't getting the remarks you had hoped for what do you do? Well if you are Belkin apparently you pay people, 65...
Microsoft today unveiled it's "Retail Experience Center". The experience center is like a real Microsoft store but unfortunately it's fake. This store acts, feels and functions like a real store and was built at Microsoft's...
A French court has ordered eBay to pay a 40m euro fine (£36.1m; $63m) to luxury goods group LVMH for allowing fake copies of its goods to be auctioned on the site. The case was...
The detective agency used by the Motion Picture Association of America has attempted to lure file sharers to a fake download site that installs spyware on their PCs. The MiiVi.com site offered downloads of complete...
Mozilla's Firefox 2 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 are vulnerable to a flaw that could allow attackers to steal passwords. Dubbed a reverse cross-site request, or RCSR, vulnerability by its discoverer, Robert Chapin,...
The problem of finding "Bluetooth" devices in shops which turn out not to be genuine was highlighted a couple of years ago, by Ezurio (then TDK) - but the Bluetooth SIG has decided that "pressure...
According to local press, forged Maxtor MaXLine II hard disk drives have been making their way into the Japanese market. Alleged fakes feature a 320GB capacity while Maxtor only produces 250GB and 300GB varieties...
A worm that modifies a user's HOSTS file to redirect visitors of Google.com to a spoof website has been discovered. The worm was found by Panda Labs and is currently circulating on P2P networks Shareaza...
A number of recent stories released on the internet purporting to show images of Nintendo's forthcoming next generation console, dubbed 'Revolution', and its tech demos have been uncovered as fakes. The first supposed leak was...
As Windows 10 approaches end of life, Microsoft targets more users with full-screen ads
Windows 11 build 27754 is out with modernized Windows Hello, new taskbar features, more
Windows 11 audio bug blasts users with 100% volume, Microsoft confirms
Microsoft's free Bing Wallpaper app for Windows is borderline malware
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