Plus, get a creepy new look at the ‘Witchboard’ remake.

Hello, and welcome to Decoder! This is Casey Newton, founder and editor of Platformer and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. This is the second episode of my productivity-focused Decoder series that I’m doing while Nilay is out on parental leave. Today, I’m talking with Notion cofounder and CEO Ivan Zhao. I’ve followed Notion for […]

The Trump administration has forced Nvidia and AMD to share their profits in exchange for access to the lucrative Chinese market, creating a radical new playbook for the U.S. tech war.

A new analysis from the Federal Trade Commission spotlights a disturbing surge in scams targeting older Americans, with retirees increasingly falling prey to fraudsters impersonating trusted businesses and government agencies to steal their life savings.

The FTC report reveals a sharp escalation in high-dollar impostor scams over the past four years. Reports from victims aged 60 and older who lost at least $10,000 have quadrupled from 2020 to 2024.

Even more alarming, the number of reports inv

Users urged to update WinRAR version 7.13 to patch a critical vulnerability under active exploitation.

Critical zero-day CVE-2025-8088 patched

A newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in WinRAR, tracked as CVE-2025-8088, has been patched following reports of active exploitation in the wild. The flaw, with a CVSS severity score of 8.8, affects the Windows version of WinRAR and stems from a path traversal bug that enables arbitrary code execution through malicious archive files.

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With its car business in a nosedive, the company is making a dramatic pivot to become the UK’s next big power company. The UK’s energy sector generates over $200 billion a year and a slice of that could be exactly what Musk is looking to use to shore up Tesla.

Paramount has just snapped up the rights to the UFC, joining an industry-wide race to buy up remaining sports streaming rights. The $7.7 billion deal will bring 30 of the UFC’s “Fight Nights” and 13 marquee events to Paramount Plus subscribers for seven years starting in 2026 — no pay-per-view required. Paramount, which merged with […]

Repairable phone manufacturer Fairphone has announced a new range of USB cables and chargers. While they’re not user-repairable, the company says that they’re more durable and sustainably manufactured than its previous peripherals. And even for people without a Fairphone device, they should make for a more affordable entry point to its more ethical take on […]

Apple has little interest in merging iPadOS and macOS, or bringing its desktop operating system to its touchscreen tablet. So a Chinese modder took it upon themselves to create a hybrid laptop they’re calling the iPadBook featuring both operating systems in a single device that lets you switch from macOS to iPadOS by simply detaching […]