Need a CD/DVD drive for your laptop? This one via USB is only $21 now

Optical drives are still practical for many users, whether to play old CDs and DVDs, install software, or create ...
Hackaday

A Network Adapter Thinks It’s A CD-ROM. Restore Its True Calling!

A mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD in there, instead the ...
gearpatrol

Apple Just Killed Off One of the Last MacBook Accessories from the Steve Jobs Era

Apple hasn’t sold a MacBook with an actual CD/Drive drive in almost eight years. The last one was the 13-inch MacBook Pro that was released in mid-2012, which Apple sold until late 2016. Ever since, ...
Lifehacker

Open Found USB Drives/CD-ROMs with a Virtual Machine to Avoid Malware Attacks

The Department of Homeland Security recently planted several USB drives and CD-ROMs in a government facility parking lot to see how easy it would be to spread viruses, and 60% of workers plugged the ...