Krista McCay is a writer specializing in video game guides and walkthroughs. She first entered the industry in 2022 while studying English at UC Santa Barbara and working part-time as an editor. It ...

Tech giants are in a heated race to build data centers and dominate the AI landscape. But America might not be ready for the energy demand. The country’s aging electrical grid could struggle to keep ...

AI copilots are incredibly intelligent and useful — but they can also be naive, gullible, and even dumb at times. A new one-click attack flow discovered by Varonis Threat Labs researchers underscores ...

Microsoft has fixed a vulnerability in its Copilot AI assistant that allowed hackers to pluck a host of sensitive user data with a single click on a legitimate URL. The hackers in this case were white ...

The Education Department is moving forward with a new dataset initiative for its annual college admissions survey, giving postsecondary schools three months to complete the extensive task. The new ...

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Apple introduced the Alarm slider with iOS 26.1, but you can get rid of it in four easy steps. Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, ...

AT&T customers have until tonight, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, to file a claim to get up to $7,500 in an AT&T data breach settlement, with the company agreeing to pay impacted Americans $177 million to ...

November’s job report may be distorted as a result of the government shutdown, limiting how much it will influence the Federal Reserve’s next interest rate decision in January. By Ben Casselman and ...

The main reason Apple switched to “slide to stop” is to keep people from accidentally turning off alarms when they’re groggy in the morning. On iOS 18, when an alarm went off, you were presented with ...

Data centers are weird things. They're partly real estate assets. They're partly extremely advanced technological products. And they have to find a way to consume a tremendous amount of electricity ...