Steven Vaughan-Nichols

It’s officially Super Bowl Sunday: Tonight at 6:30 p.m. EST, the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs (with Taylor Swift in tow) will kick off football’s biggest game at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada, with Usher headlining the halftime show. Also: The best 85-inch TVs of 2024: Expert tested and reviewedUnless you watch the game -- which is being broadcast by CBS -- over the air (OTA) with an antenna, the best and cheapest way to watch the Super Bowl will be with a live TV stre…

ZDNET’s key takeawaysI checked out , , , , and , and Monarch Money, at $99 a year, is my top pick. Pros: Easy to set up, with powerful tools for analyzing your finances and building a budget. Cons: The most expensive personal financial program.I spent my Thanksgiving week looking at personal finance programs, but since Intuit decided to bury Mint -- its popular and free money tracking and budget program -- I didn’t have a choice. Mint was supposed to stop working on January 1, 2024. Intui…

ZDNET’s key takeawaysI checked out , , , , and , and Monarch Money, at $99 a year, is my top pick. Pros: Easy to set up, with powerful tools for analyzing your finances and building a budget. Cons: The most expensive personal financial program.I spent my Thanksgiving week looking at personal finance programs, but since Intuit decided to bury Mint -- its popular and free money tracking and budget program -- I didn’t have a choice. Mint was supposed to stop working on January 1, 2024. Intui…

One of the ultimate cloud security nightmares is when someone breaks through your container runtime into its underlying operating system. With attacks such as Leaky Vessels, a hacker can wreak havoc on your programs, smash other containerized applications, and grant the attacker root user-level privileges. In short, it’s all over for your security. To prevent such attacks, Edera is taking an old program into a new language to provide a memory-safe container runtime. Written in Rust, Edera is bu…

I have 2 Gigabits per second (Gbps) of fiber internet in my home for $120 a month. I’m lucky. I have access to that kind of broadband and the money to pay for it. Many people aren’t that fortunate. On Wednesday, May 1, the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), a critical initiative to provide affordable broadband, ran out of money. That means 23 million households -- roughly 60 million Americans -- will have to choose between paying for internet or paying for food, rent, and other utilities.Al…

A few years ago, I saw streaming services already following in cable TV’s footprints with higher rates and similar packages. Now, old-school cable company Comcast is rolling out , a package of with ads, with ads, and for $15 per month, with no annual contracts.This StreamSaver bundle is available for current and new customers. You can also combine the bundled streaming services with for an all-in-monthly price of $30. That’s a discount of over 30% compared with subscribing to the ser…

We all know that some perfectly good Windows 10 PCs can’t be upgraded to Windows 11. But did you know that Canalys Insights estimated there are 240 million Windows 10 PCs doomed to the trash heap because they can’t be upgraded to Windows 11 after Microsoft dumps Windows 10 support on October 14, 2025? Wow. That’s a lot of trashed PCs. And, it may be worse than that. By IT asset management firm Lansweeper’s count, 40% of all enterprise workstations can’t make the upgrade, which would put the num…

Over the past 10 years, Kubernetes has become central to how modern computing is orchestrated. You won’t see it, but there’s very little you can do today with any sophisticated website or cloud service that doesn’t have Kubernetes managing background work. So, what is it, and why does it matter so much?The story starts with Docker making it easy to run applications in containers. Before that, companies ran most of their applications using virtual machines (VMs) on servers, data centers, and the…

ZDNET’s key takeaways is $99 a year but you can get it for 50% off until June 30th with code MINT50, plus there’s a 30-day free trial.Pros: It’s easy to set up, with powerful tools for analyzing your finances and building a budget. Cons: It’s one of the more expensive personal financial program I tested.I spent last Thanksgiving week looking at personal finance programs. Why? When Intuit decided to bury Mint, its popular and free money-tracking and budgeting program, I didn’t have a choice. I…

If that five-year-old laptop that runs at a turtle’s pace is killing your back-to-school mood, it might be time for an upgrade. Students have many options when it comes to affordable laptops for studying and getting their work done, including lightweight Chromebooks, which cost significantly less than most Windows machines or Apple’s Mac offerings and are streamlined with ChromeOS.Also: The best Chromebooks for workThe lighter OS makes it easy to navigate to popular apps like Google Docs, Google…