Pricing The QuadCast S retails for $159.99 (£144, AU$299, CA$229.99, €164), which puts it on par with other microphones favored by popular streamers and Let’s Players like the Razer Seiren V2 Pro ($149.99), the Blue Yeti ($129.99), and the Elgato Wave:3 ($149.99). As I mentioned earlier, the QuadCast S is just $20 more than the original version, with the cost increase attributed to the addition of customizable RGB lighting effects that you can change with the HyperX Ngenuity app; you can either sync effects and colors with other HyperX peripherals you may have or create custom effects to show off your personal style in your videos and live streams....

The raised forecast reflects “early momentum” in the fiscal year given the first quarter’s results, plus the inclusion of the marketing automation software technology program Mailchimp, which Intuit acquired this month. The report sent Intuit shares surging by 10% in late trading. CEO Sasan Goodarzi remarked that the company is “off to a strong start in fiscal year 2022, delivering on our strategy of becoming an AI-driven expert platform powering the prosperity of consumers and small businesses....

Apple released iOS 16 on Sept. 12, and you can download and install it right now – so far, the reviews have been positive. Of course, the new lock screen is getting plenty of attention after users update, and for good reason. It’s just too much fun to use. Below I’ll walk you through everything you need to know about picking your own interactive wallpaper, customizing the clock, and then adding widgets....

Apple first announced the new operating systems in early June at WWDC 2021, and it also released them as developer betas. I’ve been using the developer betas since they were made available on my iPhone and iPad. There are plenty of changes on both operating systems to write a book about – but, for now, I want to start with my first impressions of the iPadOS 15 beta, specifically. As you go through the areas of the update I like, and what I think needs some work, keep in mind that iPadOS 15 is very much still a beta....

And this is how I’ve been rolling for a few years now. And during that time, I’ve noticed something quite interesting. First, the iPhone is buggy. Incredibly buggy. Rarely does a week go by that I’m not fighting some bug or issue on the iPhone. Battery issuesConnectivity problemsPerformance issues Just tracking my last few months with the iPhone 13 Pro Max – Apple’s flagship of flagships – and it’s been problem after problem....

Apple has a lot to say on the subject of heat, saying that the iPhone (and iPad, iPod, and Apple Watch) operate best at 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C), and warns that it is “especially important to avoid exposing your device to ambient temperatures higher than 95° F (35° C), which can permanently damage battery capacity.” Now, Apple has had a mechanism built into the iPhone that kicks in when the device gets too hot, but it seems that with iOS 16, the company has taken this further....

The “adjustment” to the shareholding structure will see changes to the voting rights of its major shareholders, including Ma, according to a statement released Saturday by Ant. The Chinese fintech company said Ma holds a controlling stake and voting rights via Hangzhou Junhan Equity Investment Partnership and Hangzhou Junao Investment Partnership. Hangzhou Yunbo Investment Consultancy is the general partner of both investment firms, which together hold 53.46% of Ant shares....

Because it’s a case – or somewhere between a case and a bumper – the BlackBelt Rugged Case is much lighter than most desktop docks at just over 160g. It’s much more convenient than a dock that you need to either plug and unplug as you’re moving around, or try to tuck behind the screen when you’re using the Surface Pro as a tablet, or an adapter that might get knocked off: once the Kensington case/dock is fitted, it’s as if the Surface Pro just had a couple of extra ports....

But because Kickstarter’s rules have evolved to require prototypes for physical projects, the odds of getting what you “back” have increased. That said, I am explicitly not recommending you back any projects. I am also not evaluating projects based on the team or their viability. Instead, I will devote the occasional Kickstarter Hands-on (and, by extension other crowdfunding sites’ projects) to evaluations of products I can actually hold and use....

At present, he has not been publicly accused by law enforcement nor has he been publicly named. Researchers, however, suspect him of being behind several high-tier Lapsus$ cyberattacks this year. Elite Teen Hacker Operates From His Mother’s House The British teenager, who goes by the online aliases “White” and “breachbase” apparently lives with his mother near Oxford, UK, Bloomberg said. Four researchers investigating cyber attacks on behalf of major companies such as Microsoft Corp....

Even complete novices can start applying for jobs sooner than they might imagine after just finishing one course: “Python 3: From ZERO to GUI Programming.” Follow up with crowd favorite “Learn to Code with Python 2021,” a comprehensive bootcamp that students rated an impressive 4.7 stars out of 5. They gave the same excellent rating to instructor Boris Paskhaver, a full-stack software developer and a teacher. Get lots of hands-on practice with “Practical Python: Learn the Basics of Python 3 Step-by-Step,” then actually start creating apps, scripts, games and more in “The Complete 2021 Python Course,” By this point, you’ll be ready for “Automatic Stock Trading with Python,” which teaches you how to design a trading bot with Python for implementing stock trading strategies....

While CES officially starts tomorrow, some of the biggest names in tech have been delivering a slew of keynotes, announcements, and previews during the conference’s Media Days Tuesday and Wednesay. (See our recap of the biggest Day 1 CES announcements.) This morning, LG CEO William Cho took the Las Vegas stage to kick off the press conference-palooza for LG, premiering an interactive car computing concept, a transparent OLED screen, and a smart refrigerator with lights that can sync with your music....

“In the past Linux Mint used its own default settings and configured Firefox in a specific way. Most of this configuration is abandoned to go back to Mozilla defaults,” distribution founder Clement Lefebvre wrote. The relationship between Mozilla and Mint is commercial and technical, with hopes that Mint users will be able to update the browser from within Firefox, similar to how Windows users do, rather than needing to use the distribution’s package manager....

Also: How to build a cryptomining rig: Bitcoin mining 101 Los Angeles recently launched an automated traffic control system that synchronizes all of its nearly 4,400 traffic lights over 469 square miles. City officials say it’s the first major city in the world to synchronize its traffic lights. How does it work? The New York Times reports: [T]he magnetic sensors in the road at every intersection send real-time updates about the traffic flow through fiber-optic cables to a bunker beneath downtown Los Angeles, where Edward Yu runs the network....

DragonForce Malaysia said the attacks are retaliation for insulting remarks about Prophet Muhammed made by members of the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), India’s ruling party. On Friday, June 10, DragonForce Malaysia tweeted about the attack, calling on hackers all over the world to join their campaign against the Indian government. While Indian authorities have regained control over most of the hacked websites, some of them—including that of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)—remain inaccessible at this time....

Shachar Menashe, senior director of JFrog security research, and Andrey Polkovnychenko explained that hijacking a user’s Discord token (the user’s credentials) effectively gives the attacker full control over the user’s account. “This type of attack has severe implications if executed well, and, in this case, public hack tools made such an attack easy enough for even a novice hacker to perform,” Menashe said. “We recommend organizations take precaution and manage their use of npm for software curation to reduce the risk of introducing malicious code into their applications....

But the truth is that learning how to code is important even if you’re not primarily interested in a starting a full-time development career. Understanding the basic principles of programming and the fundamentals of the world’s most popular coding languages will give you a leg up over the competition in a growing number of fields. And online educational platforms like Learnable make it surprisingly easy to learn multiple programming languages at your own pace....

The anti-defamation legislation, framed as laws to stop trolling, seeks to require social media service providers to establish nominated Australian entities that can access user data for users who have posted potential defamatory material while in Australia. The laws contain this requirement as the federal government wants to make it possible to unveil the poster’s identity for the purpose of initiating defamation lawsuits against them. During a parliamentary hearing to review the anti-defamation laws a fortnight ago, a Senate committee questioned whether such a requirement would be in conflict with Australia’s existing free trade agreements with other countries such as the United States....

Microsoft is growing more confident in the Windows 11 rollout, which began on October 5 and was accelerated in late October after its machine-learning models determined that it was safe for more PCs running Windows 10. The big hitch with Windows 11 adoption is that Microsoft has imposed strict minimum hardware requirements for the new OS. According to one estimate, only half of enterprise workstations meet those requirements today. Nonetheless, on the hardware that actually meets Microsoft’s hardware requirements, the experience is good enough to expand the Windows 11 rollout....

The three zero days affect Microsoft Publisher, the Windows Common Log File System Driver, and the Windows Graphics Component. Also: Microsoft: We are tracking these 100 active ransomware gangs using 50 types of malware The Microsoft Publisher flaw, CVE-2023-21715, is a security feature bypass vulnerability with an “important” severity rating from Microsoft. An attacker could bypass Office macro policies used to block untrusted or malicious files. Normally, Office alerts users that a file is untrusted before allowing it to run....