Until now, ISIS' hacking efforts have been largely improvised, and split between five overlapping groups. That changed this month.

Need some extra storage? You can build a 480TB server, if you really want to. Backblaze designed it, and open sourced the hardware.

Want a $70 Ubuntu stick computer for your TV? Chinese manufacturer Mele has you covered. It's underpowered, sure, but could prove useful to some users.

USB replaced all sorts of dedicated ports in the 90s. Could USB type-C eventually replace the audio port? Intel thinks so, and is working on a standard.

Western Massachusetts has a fiber-optic broadband network, but politics is keeping the critical last mile from being built. Will things clear up anytime soon?

Spotify, Skype, and Flash are all Linux programs that are breaking to various degrees in 2016. Are software companies abandoning the platform?

Mozilla's now offering Firefox 46, the latest version of their popular Web browser. There aren't many new features, but it's worth updating to.

The HoloLens isn't really available to consumers yet, but that didn't stop the Red Dot committee from recognizing its design. It won for Product Design.

What's different inside the 2016 MacBook? Not much, iFixIt's latest teardown suggests. And it's also just as resistant to being repaired.

Facebook offers direct access over Tor, a service for browsing the Web anonymously. Last month, 1 million people accessed the social network that way.

The end of Mega is coming, founder Kim Dotcom implied this week. Pointing to financial problems, he told users to back up files as soon as possible.

Cherry's new MX Speed switch, aka MX Silver, offers an actuation point of 1.2mm and an activation force of 45 cN, the fastest mechanical switch out there.

Users are reporting driver issues after installing the latest firmware for the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4, the latest in a series of issues.

Edge will support more codecs starting this summer. WebM, VP9, and Opus audio will all be built-in to Microsoft's browser, meaning millions of new users.

Think cybersecurity is a new problem that couldn't have been predicted? A 1970 paper outlined almost all the weaknesses exploited by attackers today.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is advising Windows users to uninstall QuickTime for Windows because of a zero-day exploit that won't be patched.

Offering read speeds of 560 megabytes per second and capacities up to 1TB, Intel's 540s line of budget solid state drives might be a touch expensive.

Premier Pro, Adobe's video editing software, is adding support for editing virtual reality footage. Uploading to YouTube and Facebook is supported.

If you pre-ordered the BQ Aquirius M10 Ubuntu edition, don't wait by the mailbox. The tablet won't ship next week, as previously thought, but in late April.

A five-person team aged 10 to 14 can now split $15,000 toward their college funds after winning a Minecraft competition. 450 teams participated.

Representative Duncan D. Hunter, a California Republican, had $1,302 of Steam spending on his campaign disclosure, prompting an FEC investigation.

OCZ updated its Trion line of solid state drives, offering a 120GB SSD for just $50, with read speeds of 550 megabytes per second.

Seagate's drives are becoming more reliable, as Western Digital drives seem to be getting worse, according to data from cloud storage company Blackblaze.

Imagine talking to a friend halfway across the world and feeling like you're in the same room. A Microsoft Hololens demo promises just that.

Av Test compared 20 antivirus programs for Windows; Kasperksy, Avira, and BitDefender top the list. At the bottom: ThreatTrack and Comodo.

Windows 10 is behind Windows 7 in overall marketshare, but is winning in among Steam gamers. Cutting-edge users are embracing Microsoft's latest OS.

Broadband access isn't a luxury, according to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler: it's necessary for modern life. Should that tool be subsidized?

A team at MIT can track the location of Wi-Fi users to a couple of decimeters, even on networks with only one access point. This could help block hackers.

Xamarin, which Microsoft bought last month, is now a free part of Visual Studio. Now .NET and C# developers can make iOS, Android, and Windows apps all at once, using the free Community version of Visual Studio.

A HoloLens app could allow workers to collaborate in 'mixed reality,' attending meetings using Microsoft's augmented reality headset.

Windows 10 Anniversary edition includes new features for Windows Ink and Windows Hello. Win32 applications are coming to Windows Store as well.

MedStar Health, a chain of hospitals based in Baltimore, shut down their entire IT infrastructure to fight off a malware attack. No data was compromised.

Curious about OneNote, but use Evernote? Well, Microsoft has a tool for migrating content between the two. Here's how it works, and why you should try it.

System Integrity Protection, or rootless, was supposed to protect users from unauthorized changes to the system. Turns out it's not exactly bulletproof.