Going back many years Imagination PowerVR graphics were widely despised by open-source enthusiasts and Linux desktop users for their lack of an open-source GPU driver. But over the past few years the Imagination PowerVR driver focused on their Rogue graphics IP has matured nicely within the Linux kernel and the PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa taking shape too. Paired with Zink for OpenGL over Vulkan, there’s a robust open-source PowerVR graphics experience now possible. For those interested in trying out said open-source driver stack, the TI AM62-powered BeaglePlay is an affordable way of doing so for that $99 USD single board computer…
YouTube adds more parental controls, including a way to block teens from watching Shorts
YouTube is rolling out some additional parental controls, including a way to set time limits for viewing Shorts on teen accounts. In the near future, parents and guardians will be able to set the Shorts timer to zero on supervised accounts. “This is an industry-first feature that puts parents firmly in control of the amount of short-form content their kids watch,” Jennifer Flannery O’Connor, YouTube’s vice president of product management, wrote in a blog post. Along with that, take-a-break and bedtime reminders are now enabled by default for users aged 13-17.
The platform is also bringing in new principles, under which it will recommend more age-appropriate and “enriching” videos to teens. For instance, YouTube will suggest videos from the likes of Khan Academy, CrashCourse and TED-Ed to them more often. It said it developed these principles (and a guide for creators to make teen-friendly videos) with help from its youth advisory committee, the Center for Scholars and Storytellers at UCLA, the American Psychological Association, the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital and other organizations.
Moreover, an updated sign-up process for kid accounts will be available in the coming weeks. Kid accounts are tied to parental ones, and don’t have their own associated email address or a password. YouTube says users will be able to switch between accounts in the mobile app with just a few taps. “This makes it easier to ensure that everyone in the family is in the right viewing experience with the content settings and recommendations of age-appropriate content they actually want to watch,” O’Connor wrote.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/youtube/youtube-adds-more-parental-controls-including-a-way-to-block-teens-from-watching-shorts-151329673.html?src=rss
Google Pixel 10a Design, Pricing And Launch Info Exposed In Multiple Leaks
Google is accelerating its hardware timeline once again, according to new reports suggesting the mid-range Pixel 10a could arrive on retail shelves as early as mid-February 2026.
According to retail leaks, the Pixel 10a will be dropping on February 17, pushing the launch forward by a full month compared to the Pixel 9a, which debuted in
This App Brings Some of My Favorite Windows Features to Mac
As someone who regularly switches between the Mac and PC, I really can’t live without the PowerToys app on Windows. It adds little missing features that I really like on the Mac, like a Spotlight Search alternative, auto dark mode, screen awake, on-screen OCR (which lets you pull text from images), and more.
But the reverse is also true. When I’m on MacOS, I start to miss the little features and commands that I’ve been used to Windows having for decades now (I started using Windows in school, but was only exposed to macOS when I was in college).
It’s the little things, like not being able to cut and paste files in Finder. And why must I accidentally open the Music app every time I press the play button? This is just the beginning.
Enter Supercharge, a utility from prolific indie developer Sindre Sorhus. Think of it not as a single app, but as a Swiss army knife for your menu bar—a collection of micro-utilities designed to patch the specific usability holes that Apple has left open, many of which Microsoft has already plugged. The app offers an unlimited free trial (with a prompt to upgrade every 12 hours), or you can buy it outright for $18. It’s also available as part of a Setapp subscription.
Credit: Supercharge
The best Supercharge tweaks that you should enable
The Supercharge app works in two ways. The first is by giving you a set-and-forget settings menu. Secondly, it adds a menu bar app where you can quickly access small features on the fly.
The tweaks part, to me, is a lot more interesting. Once the app is installed, open the menu bar app and go to Settings. Go to the Tweaks tab and take some time to customize your Mac’s behavior.
Make Finder work more like Windows File Explorer
Credit: Khamosh Pathak
The Finder is where Supercharge shines, fixing legacy behaviors that have frustrated Windows switchers for years. The first thing I enabled was the “Cut and Paste” functionality. Finally, you can use Cmd+X to cut a file and Cmd+V to move it, eliminating the awkward Cmd+C followed by Cmd+Option+V dance required by default.
Beyond moving files, the app allows you to enable the Option+N shortcut to instantly create a new text file in your current folder—another Windows muscle memory I’ve had for decades. Additional tweaks include toggling the Enter key to open a file instead of renaming it, and an option to show hidden files by default.
Mission Control features
Apple’s Mission Control provides a bird’s-eye view of all your windows, but it’s hardly interactive. Supercharge changes that by adding window management buttons directly to the overlay. You can now add dedicated Close, Minimize, and Quit buttons for every window inside Mission Control, helping you clear cluttered app windows in seconds, and in a fairly visual way.
Dock enhancements
Supercharge also brings much-needed flexibility to the Dock, making it more like the taskbar on Windows or Linux. Enable the Click-to-Hide feature, and you can minimize or hide an app simply by clicking on the app icon. My favorite, though, is the option to open folders directly in the Finder from the Dock. You can also set Supercharge to add spacers to the Dock, and quit apps using the middle-click mouse button.
The Apple Music app fix
Perhaps the most useful fix in the entire suite is the ability to stop Apple Music from launching automatically. This feature stops the app from popping up when you press Play on your keyboard or Bluetooth headphones. If you are a dedicated Spotify user or simply dislike it when your headphones accidentally wake up Apple Music, this feature alone makes a Supercharge installation worth it.
Other useful features
The Supercharge app includes several other quality-of-life improvements. The Notification Nuke feature allows you to set a global hotkey to instantly clear all notifications from Notification Center, acting as a panic button for focus. To prevent accidents, you can also enable Accidental Quit Prevention, which requires a double-press or a Shift + Cmd + Q combo to actually quit an application.
Add these features to the Supercharge menu bar app
Credit: Khamosh Pathak
The second part of the equation here is the menu bar app. Here, you can add small missing features that usually require downloading separate apps. There are more than two dozen options. Go to Settings > General > Show Menu Items to see the whole list.
Here, you can add options to quickly capture and copy any text from an image (or translate it). There are one-click options for hiding all windows, showing the desktop, quitting all apps except the current one, clearing all notifications, and more. There’s also a simple Keep Awake feature that will keep your Mac active even when the screen is off.
And there’s also a simple default browser switcher built-in, though I prefer using Sindre’s dedicated Default Browser app.
The Nintendo Switch 2025 year in review is finally here
We’re almost exactly halfway through January, but Nintendo has clearly taken a better-late-than-never approach to its 2025 year in review feature, which finally went live this week for Switch and Switch 2 users. All you need to do is head here and sign into your Nintendo account to see your 2025 breakdown.
Like most annual gaming wrap-ups, Nintendo’s shows how many games you played over the calendar year, as well as your total playtime. It also shows you your most-played titles for each month, your preferred genres by percentage, and if you scroll all the way to the bottom you can choose your favorite game of the year. You can also download a shareable image that shows off your taste, but there’s no way to directly share your results on social media through the website.
2025 was a massive year for Nintendo, with the Switch 2 launching in early June. If you bought one, the year in review site will naturally congratulate you for doing so, but it doesn’t separate your results by games you played on the original Switch versus its successor.
Nintendo’s rivals went live with their own 2025 recap features in December. First came Sony’s, which is unfortunately no longer live, and Steam followed shortly after. That one is still available to view if you want to see how your Switch 2 playtime stacks up against your Steam Deck hours. Microsoft decided to skip a 2025 wrap-up altogether, which Windows Central’s Jez Corden previously suggested could be due to a reallocation of marketing budget towards a number of significant anniversaries happening this year, including the 25th anniversary of Xbox.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/nintendo/the-nintendo-switch-2025-year-in-review-is-finally-here-145810913.html?src=rss
Battlefield 6 Is Trying To Do Too Much
Also: what’s the ‘AAAA’ game Eidos Montreal has spent seven years working on?
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I’ve found the incredible-value Giant road bike you can’t buy
Good-value bikes never go out of fashion here at BikeRadar, and we’ve just discovered a hidden gem tucked away on Giant’s Chinese website.
Brought to our attention by a viewer on our YouTube channel (thanks @Jaco_ocaJ), the Giant PCR LTD is an aluminium mash-up of the Taiwanese brand’s best road bikes.
Up front, for example, is the fork and integrated front end from the Propel, while we also see the lightweight rear end from the TCR and the slim, flexible seatpost from the Defy.
Best of all, a build featuring carbon wheels, a fully integrated carbon cockpit and a Shimano Tiagra groupset is available for only CN¥6,998 – around £750, according to current conversion rates.
The catch? We likely won’t ever see it outside of Asia.
PCR, not TCR
The PCR LTD, Giant says, “integrates the simple and efficient ACE concepts” – these stand for Aero, Climbing and Endurance.
According to Google Translate, it’s “an all-around motorcycle designed specifically for riders”.
In terms of specifics, the frame is aluminium and made using Giant’s Aluxx SL technology.
The down tube looks to be subtly aero-optimised, while the rear is borrowed from the Contend SL Disc, with slim alloy tubes, dropped seatstays and a distinctive bulge at the bottom of the seatpost for the frame’s integrated seatpost clamp.
The fork is a full-carbon affair, made using Advanced-grade fibres and a tapered steerer tube.
To my eye, it looks almost identical to that found on the Propel Advanced, save for a little less sculpting at the rear of the crown and a bump up in tyre clearance to 32mm (according to the spec sheet).
The PCR LTD features fully integrated cable routing and even a one-piece handlebar – the latter of which is an aftermarket upgrade for even the top-spec Propel Advanced SL.
Notably, though, rather than being made from carbon fibre, the one-piece bar is made from aluminium, and is slotted to allow for easier cable routing or the integration of a cable-to-hydraulic converter junction box (on certain models).
The bike is finished with a Giant D-Fuse seatpost (carbon or aluminium, depending on the model) and a Shimano Tiagra 4700 groupset.
Opting for the PCR LTD 2+ (CN¥5,698 / ~£600) nets you a build featuring proper, conversion-free hydraulic disc brakes and alloy wheels.
The slightly pricier PCR LTD 1 (CN¥6,998 / ~£750) features 50mm-deep carbon rims and cable-actuated brake levers, plus a hydraulic converter box that nestles into the integrated bar.
Why you can’t have one
All things considered, it’s an enticing package – especially at the bargain prices quoted on Giant’s Chinese website.
In comparison, the closest equivalent model available in the UK is the Contend AR 2. A much more endurance-focused bike, it has an RRP of £1,449 – almost twice the price of the PCR LTD 1.
So why the discrepancy, and will riders ever see the PCR LTD reach Western markets?
We suspect the likely answer is that Giant – the largest bicycle manufacturer in the world – is simply so big that it can afford to make market-specific bikes and price them accordingly.
Beyond that, though, there are also increased costs involved in selling in places such as the UK, US and EU, including import duties, distribution costs, wages for local staff, local taxes and so on. These things exist in Asia, of course, but we’d imagine Giant faces higher costs for these factors in Western markets.
There may be an element of market segmentation, too. Perhaps Giant is worried that having a bike such as the PCR available in the West could eat into sales of its higher-value bikes, such as the TCR, Propel and Defy.
Of course, we put these questions to Giant and will update this article if we receive a response.
Either way, it’s a useful reminder that the UK and EU aren’t always at the centre of the bicycling world despite what the Mercator projection might suggest.
Acer Slaps AT&T, T-Mobile And Verizon With Lawsuit Over 4G/5G Wireless Patents
Acer has filed individual lawsuits against all three major wireless carriers in the United States, including AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. According to Acer, the three carriers collectively infringed on half a dozen U.S. patents “covering key advancements in cellular networking,” and now it’s taken them to court after failing to reach a licensing
GNOME Mutter 50 Alpha Released With X11 Backend Removed
In preparing for the GNOME 50 Alpha release, the “50.alpha” tags just occurred for the Mutter compositor and GNOME Shell. Most notable with GNOME Mutter 50 Alpha is the X11 back-end indeed being removed to focus exclusively on the Wayland session…
Europe is Rediscovering the Virtues of Cash
After spending years pushing digital payments to combat tax evasion and money laundering, European Union ministers decided in December to ban businesses from refusing cash. The reversal comes as 12% of European businesses flatly refused cash in 2024, up from 4% three years earlier.
Over one in three cinemas in the Netherlands no longer accept notes and coins. Cash usage across the euro area dropped from 79% of in-person transactions in 2016 to just 52% in 2024. Sweden leads the digital shift where 90% of purchases now happen digitally and cash represents under 1% of GDP compared to 22% in Japan.
The policy change stems from concerns about financial inclusion for elderly and poor populations who struggle with digital systems. Resilience worries also drove the decision after Spaniards facing nationwide power cuts last spring found themselves unable to buy food. European officials worry about dependence on American payment giants Visa and MasterCard. The EU now recommends citizens store enough cash to survive a week without electricity or internet access.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Ex-BioWare Dev Explains How Anthem Could Live On As A Single-Player Game
Mark Darrah has released a lengthy postmortem on the loot shooter that’s worth watching
The post Ex-BioWare Dev Explains How <em>Anthem</em> Could Live On As A Single-Player Game appeared first on Kotaku.
We finally have a long-travel 32in enduro bike – but why does it have to be so ugly?
DirtySixer has unveiled the MonsterEnduro, a full-suspension enduro bike built around 32in wheels and designed specifically for tall riders – but it’s not a looker, with kinked top and down tubes that are sure to divide opinion.
While we’ve seen the 32in trend picking up steam this past year, with Maxxis releasing tyres and BMC testing a prototype Fourstroke, DirtySixer has championed the wheel size since 2013.
The current trend seems centred on XC bikes, with the MonsterEnduro being one of the first production enduro models to feature 140mm of rear-suspension travel.
The new mountain bike takes inspiration from the brand’s 36in DH prototype shown at Eurobike and raced at Megavalanche last year.
The new bike comes in five sizes, with the smallest a size L, which is said to fit riders who are over 170cm, and the largest 4XL.
The MonsterEnduro is available at one build level, priced at $8,999, or around €7,708, plus shipping, as well as in rolling chassis form, complete with headset, fork and wheelset for $3,599.
You can also buy only the frame for $1,299.
- Read more: Are we on the cusp of a 32in wheel revolution? This is what pro XC racers are riding in 2025
Long-travel 32in
The frame is handmade from 6061 aluminium, using hydroformed tubing, and is designed around a four-bar Horst-link suspension layout with an expected 140mm of suspension travel.
While the travel figure may seem small for a conventional enduro bike, it’s one of the longest-travel 32in-wheel bikes on the market.
The brand says: “Conventional travel categories don’t really apply to bigger wheels, as they don’t need that much travel to overcome bigger bumps.”
Up front, DirtySixer is running a modified Manitou Dorado fork, complete with custom CNC-machined crowns, with the rear shock yet to be confirmed.
The brand hasn’t listed any finalised geometry figures, but says it is targeting a 65-degree head angle, 75-degree seat tube angle and 490mm chainstays.
As with DirtySixer’s other bikes, chainstay length and crank length will increase with frame size to maintain rider proportions.
The bike uses a T47 bottom bracket with inboard bearings, paired with a narrow 186mm Q-factor, despite the use of fat-bike derived standards.
A SRAM Eagle 90 drivetrain is used for shifting, while braking comes courtesy of Magura’s new four-piston Louise brakes with 200mm rotors front and rear.
The frame uses a 34.9mm seatpost and accepts dropper posts exceeding 200mm of travel.
DirtySixer has been testing several carbon rims, but says it might ultimately use its own wheels that it developed for ebikes.
Smart Glasses Are About to Have a Big Year
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The expected release of glasses from huge players like Apple and Google has industry analysts predicting sales of smart glasses will rise from six million units in 2025 to 20 million in 2026. In other words, this year is looking like an inflection point, where tech-enabled spectacles make the transformation from tech wear for early adopters to everyday gear for regular folks. Whether you’re looking for a pair of audio-first glasses, display glasses, or full augmented reality, here’s what to expect from the major players and smaller operators in the smart-glasses space.
CES’s major smart glasses announcements
This year’s Consumer Electronics Show saw a ton of companies introducing new smart glasses, including “been in the space forever” firms like XReal and “these are the first smart glasses for us” companies like XGimi. Below are four of the most notable new smart glasses announced at CES.
XReal 1S
Credit: XReal
XReal was an early player in the smart glasses space. They’ve been releasing high-end, display-first glasses like the Xreal One Pro since 2019. They’re the go-to if you want specs that put a high-def display in your pocket. At CES, the company unveiled the 1S: Glasses that promise a massive virtual display as large as 500″, 3Dof augmented reality capability, and a smooth as silk refresh rate of 120Hz, all powered by an onboard X1 chip. XReal 1S is available now for $449.
Even Reality G2
Credit: Even Reality
Even Reality is aiming for people who wanted fashionable glasses that do extraordinary things. The company followed its excellent G1 smart glasses with the G2, a new model with a bigger, sharper monochrome display, “contextual AI” that can flash helpful conversation suggestions to users, and an integrated smart ring to make all of it easier to control. They also don’t look dorky, so no one needs to know you’re wearing smart glasses. Even Reality G2 glasses are available now for $599 and up.
RayNeo Air 4 Pro
Credit: Stephen Johnson
Released in 2025, RayNeo’s impressive X3 glasses provided a glimpse into the future, where we’ll have instantly available HUDs. The Air 4 Pro, on the other hand, is more about the present. Display glasses that are for streaming games and movies instead of wearing all the time, Air 4 Pros feature dual Micro-OLEDs creating a virtual 200-inch screen, HDR10 support for high dynamic range video, a Vision 4000 custom processor for upscaling, and Bang & Olufsen-tuned audio. They’re aggressively priced at $299 and set to be released on Jan. 25.
XGimi Memomind Air Display
Credit: XGimi
XGimi is known for projectors, but its first line of smart glasses, dubbed Memomind Air Display, made waves at CES for their lightweight, stylish frames, monochrome display integrated with AI, and a battery that lasts all day. Memomind glasses are available with a dual lens display, single lens display, and audio-only. There’s no set release date for these, but the company is expecting them to hit the market around March.
Upcoming smart glasses releases
As the year rolls on, we’ll be seeing new models of smart glasses dropping from huge companies like Google and Snap, not to mention smaller companies that are likely to surprise us with something unexpected.
Google and Samsung
Google was the first company on the smart glasses scene with the release of Google Glass, and in 2026, it’s getting back in the game. Google is collaborating with Samsung, Gentle Monster, and Warby Parker to release two different Android-powered smart glasses: an audio-first pair that will allow users to access Gemini AI, and glasses with an in-lens display that displays things like directions and language translations.
Apple
After the relatively lukewarm response to Apple’s VR gear, the company is rumored to be shifting its resources into smart glasses. The company hasn’t officially announced anything, but the rumor mill says Apple’s glasses will include camera, microphone, and AI capabilities, and could be released this year.
Snap
The company behind Snapchat is planning to release some high-powered augmented reality smart glasses sometime in 2026. Snap’s Spectacles are designed to allow you to “interact with digital objects the same way you interact with the physical world, using voice, gesture, and touch.”
Amazon
If you were hoping for a consumer release of Amazon smart glasses in 2026, it’s not happening, but the company is planning to equip its army of nearly 400,000 delivery drivers with smart delivery glasses designed to help them “identify hazards, seamlessly navigate to customers’ doorsteps, and improve customer deliveries.”
Meta
All the companies above are essentially gunning for Meta, whose smart glasses make up about 73% of the total market in 2025, a dominant position it earned by making smart glasses feel normal and futuristic. Meta hasn’t announced any plans for 2026, as its Meta Display glasses and second generation of Ray-Bans and Oakleys came out in late 2025.
The end goal for smart glasses: replacing your phone
If you combined the best features from each kind of smart glasses, you’d have a wearable that essentially does everything your phone does and corrects your vision. Replacing phones is the game behind the game, and it explains the number of companies fighting for the same real estate.
Maybe a pair of smart glasses will eventually come out that’s so easy to use, cool-looking, and powerful that everyone ditches their smart phone, but probably not in 2026—the tech is not quite there and neither is the public acceptance. Still, a lot more people will be using smart glasses this year.
Linux 7.0 To Focus Just On Full & Lazy Preemption Models For Up-To-Date CPU Archs
A Linux scheduler patch queued up into a TIP branch this past week further restrict is the preemption modes that will be advertised. With it hitting the “sched/core” branch, it will likely be submitted for the upcoming Linux 7.0 (or alternatively, what could be known as Linux 6.20 instead)…
Three Small Plugins That Make Joplin Click
According to our writer, three small, easy-to-miss plugins were all it took for Joplin to live up to its Evernote-killer reputation.
Radicle 1.6.0 released
Version
1.6.0 of the Radicle peer-to-peer, local-first code collaboration
stack has been released. Notable changes in this release include
support for systemd
credentials, use of Rust’s clap crate for
parsing command-line arguments, and more. LWN covered the project in March
2024.
Nuclear Weapons Are Now ESG Compliant
The European Union published guidance on December 30 that reclassified nuclear weapons as acceptable investments under its sustainable finance framework, completing a policy change approved in November that narrowed the definition of banned armaments from “controversial” to “prohibited.”
The shift addresses earlier vagueness that the Commission said hindered efforts to raise $932 billion in defense investments over four years. Under the revised rules, only four weapon categories remain expressly outlawed by a majority of EU states: personnel mines, cluster munitions, and biological and chemical weapons. Nuclear weapons manufacturers avoided exclusion because only Austria, Ireland and Malta signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, though all EU members support non-proliferation under the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The updated guidance also permits ESG labeling for companies handling depleted uranium for anti-tank ammunition and white phosphorus, which is toxic but not classified as a chemical weapon. European ESG funds currently hold minimal defense stocks, according to Jefferies data. The Commission’s notice now makes these investments eligible for funds operating under Article 8 and Article 9 sustainable investment mandates.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
China Allegedy Issues De Facto Ban On NVIDIA H200 AI Chip Imports
There have been plenty of twists and turns in NVIDIA’s ongoing efforts to resume AI chip shipments to China, the latest of which involves a de facto ban by Beijing. In what could be a move to bolster China’s bargaining power, people who are purportedly familiar matter told Reuters that Beijing has instructed customs agents not to permit NVIDIA’s
EPA makes it harder for states, tribes to block pipelines
The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed a new rule aimed at speeding up and streamlining the permitting process for large energy and infrastructure projects, including oil and gas pipelines and facilities tied to artificial intelligence.
The rule, which does not require action by Congress, includes a suite of procedural changes to section 401 of the Clean Water Act—a law enacted in the 1970s that is the primary federal statute governing water pollution in the United States.
For decades, section 401 has granted states and tribes the authority to approve, impose conditions on, or reject, federal permits for projects that they determine will pollute or damage local waterways.
Betterment Users Are Being Targeted in This Crypto Scam
Customers of automated investment platform Betterment are being targeted with a cryptocurrency rewards scam following a data breach that allowed threat actors to obtain some user data and send fake emails promising huge returns on Bitcoin and Ethereum deposits.
According to a Jan. 12 security update posted on Betterment’s website (and sent to users via email), hackers gained unauthorized access on Jan. 9 to a third-party platform used for marketing and operations. Following the breach, they sent fraudulent messages to some customers with offers to triple crypto investments.
Betterment crypto rewards scam
The scam emails were sent to Betterment users on Jan. 9, soon after the data breach, with subject lines like “We’ll triple your crypto!” The message inside claimed that Betterment was “giving back” for a limited time and tripling Bitcoin and Ethereum deposits as large as $750,000 to specified wallets. Threat actors tried to create a sense of urgency with an expiration deadline for the promotion (a typical scam tactic).
The messages came from support@e.betterment.com, which is a legitimate Betterment subdomain, allowing them to appear verified in users’ inboxes. Note that this is the same email address Betterment used to send the security update to all of its customers.
A nearly identical crypto scheme targeted Grubhub users in December with emails—also sent from a real Grubhub subdomain—promoting a 10x return on $1,000 in deposited bitcoin.
Betterment data hacked
Cybercriminals were able to steal some customer information from the compromised system, including names, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth. Betterment has said that no passwords or credentials were included in the breach, nor did threat actors gain access to user accounts. While few official details have been published, the company is reportedly being extorted as the target of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
If you’re a Betterment customer, be wary of any unsolicited communication in the coming days and weeks about your account. Scammers will use events like this as a phishing opportunity. Know that Betterment (and other legitimate companies) will not request your password or other personal information via email, text, or phone call. If you are concerned about your account or want to update your credentials or other data, go directly to the website or app and do so there—this is generally safer than clicking links in communication, even if messages from Betterment are (or seem) legitimate.