A virtual private network (VPN) is a useful and sometimes indispensable tool for protecting privacy, circumventing country restrictions, or protecting oneself from persecution by totalitarian regimes. For example, you can use it […]
YouTube has declared war on ad blockers and the internet is in an uproar. On one side, Reddit’s edgelords declare that if you can’t watch YouTube without adverts, they will never use […]
Setting up a router can be a quick and easy task—so quick and easy, in fact, that you might skip a few steps or plan to return to them later. Except later […]
It has been discovered that a bug in Apple’s iOS makes a perfect prank if you’ve got friends with an iPhone. When a particular string of characters is received by an iPhone […]
Nvidia has confirmed that new graphics card drivers will cause blue screen crash loops on Windows 10 PCs that can’t execute a certain CPU instruction called POPCNT (Population Count). Specifically, older Windows […]
How to tell if a smartphone, laptop, tablet or gadget is a fake. How to spot a counterfeit product, and how to avoid buying a dud. Counterfeiting is a huge industry. Factories all […]
Many phishing scams are easy to spot but hackers are getting better at disguising threats online. One of the latest scams is gaining momentum and even tricking tech-savvy experiences users. Here’s how […]
Sophos has detected a new type of Android malware called ‘Andr/HiddnAd-AJ’ that piggybacks at least six QR code reader apps previously available to download from the Google Play store. Once installed on user devices […]
According to some Microsoft Word users, the Office software is apparently deleting files after saving — not the kind of behavior you want when doing important work, and not the kind of […]
Phishing attacks are a nasty business. Not only do they have the potential to clear out a victim’s bank account, but also leave the person feeling very foolish due to the fact […]
