Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

Required minimum distributions (RMDs) begin the year you turn 73. Failing to take RMDs will result in a penalty of 25% of the amount you failed to withdraw. The penalty for failing to take an RMD can ...

Nahda Nabiilah is a writer and editor from Indonesia. She has always loved writing and playing games, so one day she decided to combine the two. Most of the time, writing gaming guides is a blast for ...

Usama has a passion for video games and a talent for capturing their magic in writing. He brings games to life with his words, and he's been fascinated by games for as long as he's had a joystick in ...

Bluetooth is a technology for short-range data transmission that has become so ubiquitous in recent years that we can no longer imagine life without it. This makes it all the more annoying when ...

Update December 12, 18:43 EST: This vulnerability is now tracked as CVE-2025-14174 and has also been patched by Apple in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS. Google has released emergency ...

President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" increased the SALT deduction limit to $40,000 for 2025, up from $10,000 in 2024. The cap reverts to $10,000 in 2030, which leaves five years to leverage ...

Given the crippling expense of paying college athletes, the University of California system’s investment manager has offered the Big Ten athletic conference $2.4 billion upfront in exchange for 10% of ...

A RunDLL error occurs when a DLL file that is needed to start with a program, run at startup, or set up as a scheduled task fails to start. Windows tries to load this ...

A vulnerability in the ‘node-forge’ package, a popular JavaScript cryptography library, could be exploited to bypass signature verifications by crafting data that appears valid. The flaw is tracked as ...

Eleven years ago, Paul Lundy was dying a slow, workingman’s death under fluorescent light. For three decades, he had worked in facilities management — an honest trade that ground him down until, in ...

Got a flat soccer ball, basketball, or football and no pump in sight? Fix-a-Flat can be a surprising solution. In this video, we show step-by-step how to bring your ball back to life quickly and ...