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Something I’ve wanted to do for a long, long time: ask an audiologist for their expert advice on protecting our hearing when it comes to today’s ever-advancing audio tech. I test headphones, speakers, DACs, turntables and the like all day every day, so my auditory system is one I’d like to safeguard — and sometimes…

For years, organizations have focused on strengthening and fortifying endpoints, networks, and authentication at login. Meanwhile, one of the most critical control points in the identity lifecycle, the help desk, has remained surprisingly exposed, because most identity systems were not designed to extend strong verification into recovery and support workflows, leaving a critical gap that…

For years, quantum computing lived in a strange place in the cybersecurity conversation: important enough to worry about, but sufficiently distant to leave for another day. When we asked CISO what’s keeping them up at night, quantum computing rarely made the top five. It still feels distant, theoretical, someone else’s problem for 2030-something.

Hot take: I don’t think color ereaders are very good in general. The colors themselves are muted, and typically — such as with E Ink’s Kaleido 3 tech — they make the screen darker and grainier even when just viewing text. They generally cost a premium, too. As such, I’d always pick a black-and-white ereader…

Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined Australia in restricting minors from accessing social media—barring children under 15 from major platforms, before the ban was blocked by the country’s top court on human rights grounds. The UK aims to forbid kids under 16 from accessing Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms in early…