As we await Amazon Prime Day (and the wealth of other sales that tend to accompany it), check out these models on sale now. …read more Source:: CNet

AirTags have been out for a month, and Apple is already planning a privacy tweak to stop them from being used to track unsuspecting third-parties. …read more Source:: ZDNet

The U.S. Department of Justice is elevating investigations of ransomware attacks to a similar priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack and mounting damage caused by cyber criminals, a senior department official told Reuters. From the report: Internal guidance sent on Thursday to U.S. attorney’s offices across the country said information…

Officials attribute the attack to REvil/Sodinokibi and say they are working to bring the threat actors to justice. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Forget Seattle, Microsoft ‘Round Island One’ lives in Bermuda A subsidiary of Microsoft in Ireland has paid no corporation tax because it is “resident” in Bermuda for tax purposes – despite making a whopping $314.73bn in profit.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Here’s the best bargains on Roku, Android TV and Fire TV video players with prices starting at $25. …read more Source:: CNet

Mark your calendars — Amazon Prime Day is right around the corner. …read more Source:: CNet

Kamau Bobb has been moved to a role focused on science and tech education. …read more Source:: CNet

Do you miss the mind-blowing typing speed of your old Nokia brick with predictive text turned on? Well, so did [Guy Dupont], so he created a USB keypad with T9 predictive text built-in to turn typing into a one-handed affair. Video after the break. T9 was the first predictive text technology to gain widespread use…

The airline, which plans to buy planes from Boom Supersonic [Editor’s note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source], a start-up, could become the first to offer ultrafast commercial flights since the Concorde stopped flying in 2003. From a report: The era of supersonic commercial flights came to an end when the Concorde completed its…