Editorial policy
How Tech News Explained chooses sources, dates its articles and flags corrections.
How we choose sources
Every article starts from a primary source: the vendor announcement, the release notes, the security advisory or the CVE record. We link those sources at the end of each article. When we use secondary reporting, we say so in the text and explain what it adds.
Dates
Each article shows the date we published it. When a story covers an event, we also show when the event happened, because the two often differ. We change the update date only when the facts, versions or advice in the article change, never to make an old article look new.
Vulnerability analyses
For CVEs we check the vendor advisory and the CVE record. When we cite a CVSS score, we give the score, the CVSS version and who assigned it. We separate public proof-of-concept code from confirmed attacks, and we say plainly what has not been confirmed.
Corrections
If we get something wrong, we fix the article and add a correction note at the top with the date and what changed. We do not delete corrections.
Translations
Articles are published in six languages. Every version is reviewed so it reads naturally, and facts, product names, version numbers and CVE identifiers stay identical across languages.