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It's been nearly six years since Apple Arcade launched, and while the service hasn't fully delivered on Apple's promise back in 2019, it can still be worth paying for. Of course, that's provided you're willing to hunt through the 200-ish games currently available on the service. I've been playing Apple Arcade games since it launched and these are just a few of my favorites that have stood the test of time.
Best Apple Arcade games of 2025
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Apple said these vulnerabilities may've been exploited in sophisticated attacks.
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The US government has continued to make drastic cuts to budgets and personnel, but one cybersecurity service has at least temporarily avoided the chop. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database operated by nonprofit MITRE Corp will receive 11 months of federal support. A representative from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, whose parent agency funds the MITRE database, told Reuters that the department exercised an "option period on the contract to ensure there will be no lapse in critical CVE services." The news was an eleventh-hour announcement, as federal funding for the project was slated to expire today.
This CVE database identifies and tracks cybersecurity vulnerabilities, and it is regularly used by IT professionals. It offers a standardized approach that allows complex and technical information about potential problems to be quickly shared across companies and organizations worldwide.
"We appreciate the overwhelming support for these programs that have been expressed by the global cyber community, industry, and government over the last 24 hours," said Yosry Barsoum, vice president and director for MITRE's Center for Securing the Homeland.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/cybersecurity/database-for-cybersecurity-vulnerabilities-secures-last-minu
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Trump's raft of tariff plans has been dubbed "worse than the worst-case scenario," and markets have ricocheted up and down as the specifics have been altered.
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 OpenAI today announced the release of new o3 and o4-mini AI models, which the company says are its smartest models to date. o3 and o4-mini can use and combine all ChatGPT tools, including web searches, analyzing files and data with Python, reasoning about visual input, and generating images.
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Sadly the only review units that Nvidia sent out were variations on the 16GB version of the RTX 5060 Ti. The 8GB version should be on store shelves, at least theoretically and for a few seconds before it sells out, but it doesn't look like many reviews are popping up on launch day. But the good news is that the 16GB version, which has an MSRP of $429 (yeah, we'll see about that), is pretty darn good.
In the initial benchmark rundown, Adam kept the comparisons as relevant as possible: an apples-to-apples comparison with the last-gen RTX 4060 Ti, also in 16GB flavor, the step-up RTX 5070, and the Radeon 7700 XT (which is AMD's comparable card for the Nvidia 40-series). In short, the new card is pretty darn good, even
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Digital Trends reports that there's a lot of fine details in the fine print of the announcement. First, you have to be a new customer—if you've been using Xfinity for years, you're apparently unworthy of this consideration. New users don't have to sign a contract, and they're able to get the price lock without a commitment. But home internet plans that qualify for the 5-year lock start at $55 per month, versus $40 per month if you do sign a contract for just one year. For the cheaper plan, there's no guarantee about the price beyond that. Oh, and the offer is only good until June 23rd, according to the promotional site.
So yeah, that's a bit of a dice roll if you're trying to save money on these less-expensive options. (For international readers: Yes, $40-55 per month is pretty cheap in the US, especially in metro areas.) If you're fairly certain that you'll be sticking with Comcast for the long haul—or you have no other choice, since much of the country operates with effective monopolies on wired internet service—then signing up at the $55 rate might make sense. You'll have the option to drop it in a heartbeat if you see a better deal, say, on 5G-based service from Verizon or T-Mobile.
But if you don't think you'll be in the same area for that lon
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Americans and Canadians are still waiting to pay up for a new Switch 2. Switch 2 pre-orders remain indefinitely delayed in the U.S. and Canada right now, after Nintendo previous announced an April 9 pre-order date and promptly walked that back in response to tariffs announced by President Donald Trump.
According a statement Nintendo provided to Engadget: "Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions. Nintendo will update timing at a later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged."
Not much has changed since the initial delay, but there are rumors now that pre-orders could open as early as April 23 or April 30. However, those details have not been confirmed by Nintendo.
Tariffs and the Nintendo Switch 2
During its most recent Direct presentation at the start of April, Nintendo showed off more of the Switch 2 than it ever had before. That included the reveal of the April 9 pre-order opening date, in addition to the original $450 starting price. Shortly after, President Trump announced sweeping tariffs on China and other countries, prompting Nintendo to delay pre-orders in the U.S. and Canada.
In a reversal, President Trump then announced a
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In 2018, Mark Zuckerberg floated the idea of spinning out Instagram, one of the remedies the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will likely seek in Meta's antitrust trial that began this week. CNBC reported on Tuesday that the comments from an email thread with executives came to light in Washington, DC.
"I'm beginning to wonder whether spinning Instagram out is the only structure that will accomplish a number of important goals," Zuckerberg wrote in the email. "As calls to break up the big tech companies grow, there is a non-trivial chance that we will be forced to spin out Instagram and perhaps WhatsApp in the next 5-10 years anyway." His estimate, made six years ago, ended up being spot-on.
"On the flip side, while most companies resist breakups, the corporate history is that most companies actually perform better after they've been split up," Zuckerberg added in the same email, according to The New York Times.
It's Zuckerberg's second day of testimony in the trial, which stemmed from a 2020 government lawsuit against Meta (then still known as Facebook). The FTC argues that the company's purchases of Instagram (for $1 billion in 2012) and WhatsApp (for $19 billion in 2014) hurt competition. If the trial goes th
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 OpenAI is developing a social network that's focused on ChatGPT's image generation features, reports The Verge. OpenAI is reportedly testing a prototype version of an image generator with a social feed, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been asking people for feedback on the project.
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