Block, the company behind the mobile payment service Cash App, has acknowledged a Cash App data breach in which a former employee accessed reports that included US customer information. The company is notifying about 8.2 million current and former customers about the breach. “Upon discovery, we took steps to remediate this issue and launched an …

Last year, Bose released its SoundControl Hearing Aids ($850), the first FDA-cleared direct-to-consumer “self-fitting” hearing aids that you can fit and tune yourself without the help from an audiologist. Now it has some company with the arrival of Jabra’s $800 Enhance Plus buds, which come in two colors — gold and dark gray — and according to Jabra, are 40% …

After a major win last week for unionization at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, the Amazon Labor Union received moral support from US President Joe Biden on Wednesday.  Biden spoke at the North America’s Building Trades Unions Legislative Conference and gave a nod to the union victory at Amazon.  “And by the way, by the way, Amazon, here we …

New home screen and lock screen backgrounds arrived in iOS 15 — available in light or dark mode — building on the ability to make your iPhone “aesthetic.” Changing your iPhone wallpaper is one of the easiest ways to spruce up your phone and inject some personality into it. As silly as it might sound, giving your iPhone a makeover with …

With that springtime sunshine peeking through your window, it’s a better time than ever to get outside and start learning to run.  When you’re new to running, it can be difficult to keep up your motivation and stay on track — especially as the days get hotter and the sweat starts to pile up. But a good running app can …

Google has removed dozens of apps from the Google Play Store that were secretly collecting users’ data, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The Journal said the Panamanian company that wrote the data-collecting code is linked to a Virginia defense contractor that does cyberintelligence work for US agencies.  The code was found in several Muslim prayer apps, a highway-speed-trap detection …

Though it was last updated in 2020 with Apple’s original M1 chip, we didn’t get a new Mac Mini announcement in March as hoped. Instead, we got the Mac Studio, a higher-end and bigger model with a doubled version of the same M1 Pro and M1 Max chips found in the company’s latest MacBook Pros. Unless Apple wants to get …

Uber has struck a deal with local taxi companies in San Francisco allowing taxis to pick up Uber customers, as first reported by The San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday. In an arrangement similar to the one that Uber set up with New York City’s taxis in March, Flywheel Technologies and Yellow Cab SF taxis will reportedly start taking on Uber users’ …

This story is part of War in Ukraine, CNET’s coverage of events there and of the wider effects on the world. As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues and sanctions imposed on Russia from the international community increase, cybersecurity concerns are also on the rise. Though US officials haven’t identified a specific retaliatory cyberthreat to the US coming out of Russia …

Anker may be best known for its battery packs and docking stations, but it’s now getting into a new area: 3D printing. The company has announced its first 3D printer, the AnkerMake M5, which claims to be incredibly fast.  Instead of retail stores or its own online shop, the M5 is starting off as a Kickstarter project, where people pledge …