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Saturday September 13, 2025. 06:41 PM
Microsoft is by no means a stranger to nagging its customers in one way or another – usually with the intention of parting people from their money. In a somewhat unusual move, the company has used the latest preview builds of Windows 11 to introduce a way to pester...
PasswordManager.com has released a new survey looking at how business leaders view Gen Z employees (those born around the mid-to-late 1990s through the early 2010s), especially when it comes to the handling of sensitive company information. The results reveal that many...
HitPaw has rolled out major updates to FotorPea and VikPea. The updated photo editing tool, FotorPea 5.0.0, introduces a new feature called AI Replace, which lets users modify images with plain text instructions. This can be used to switch backgrounds, adjust hairstyles or...
Every web browser has a browsing mode designed to be more private; in Chrome, it is Incognito Mode. But while switching to this mode can help with improving privacy at a local level, it is not flawless when it comes to blocking external privacy invasions. Tackling the...
Friday September 12, 2025. 06:27 PM
Mastodon is to roll out the ability to quote other people’s posts in your own posts on the decentralized social platform. This is something that has been a very long time coming, with Mastodon having talked about it for months. The reason it has taken so long for post...
Microsoft has managed to avoid a hefty fine or other sanctions after the European Commission accepted the company’s proposal for unbundling Teams from Office 365 and Microsoft 365. A complaint from Slack a few years ago started the European legal wheels turning as...
Microsoft has announced that it is going to allow app developers to publish to the Microsoft Store without having to pay. The company says that by removing a friction point of requiring a credit card, it is “creating a more inclusive and accessible platform”. More than...
Artificial intelligence is finding its way into more and more areas of our lives. But while there are concerns around the use of the technology itself, there are much greater ones over how we secure it. We spoke to Anand Kashyap, CEO and founder of Fortanix, to discuss...
Thursday September 11, 2025. 07:33 PM
Fans of debloating Windows now have another tool to experiment with. NTDEV, the developer behind the well known Tiny11 project, has created Nano11 Builder, a PowerShell script that hacks Microsoft’s operating system down even further. While Tiny11 already produced a...
Apple’s newly announced, soon to launch, AirPods Pro 3 have been greeted enthusiastically by a crowd prone to enthusiastically greeting Apple products. Even before they are available to buy, praise has been heaped upon the latest incarnation of the iPhone maker’s...
Workers are increasingly using shadow AI to draft emails, analyze data, or summarize meetings, but are pretending they haven’t. New data from marketing agency OutreachX finds 52 percent of US workers are worried about how AI will be used in their workplace in the future...
A new study from Liquid Web shows IT professionals spend an average of 77 minutes per day checking dashboards, which equals about 468 hours per year or nearly 20 full workdays. This is leading to stress and a risk of burnout as one in three say they can’t relax unless they ...
Global influencer marketing spend is forecast to reach $32.5 billion in 2025, with much of the new growth coming from AI influencers, according to a new case study by UNmiss. From polished AI Instagram avatars to TikTok personalities who never sleep, brands are increasingly ...
The Information Commissioner's Office, the UK’s independent regulator for data protection and information rights, says more than half of cyber attacks and data breaches in schools and colleges in the past three years were carried out by pupils. Of the 215 hacks and...
A new survey of 2,000 UK consumers shows that 64 percent agree the Online Safety Act protects children, with support higher among parents of young children and lower among ‘empty nest’ parents. However, the data from verification and anti-fraud platform Sumsub also shows ...
There are many reasons to love Spotify, and just as many to dislike it. One of its many failings has been the fact that audio quality has been – to be diplomatic – less than perfect. Now, thanks to the long-awaited arrival of lossless audio, this is finally changing. The ...
The rollout of Windows 11 25H2 is now underway – at least to anyone signed up for the Windows Insider Release Preview channel. When the rollout started, there was disappointment when Microsoft did not have the ISOs for the build ready, saying that they would be coming...
Wednesday September 10, 2025. 05:35 PM
F-Secure has released new research that suggests a troubling divide between how safe people believe they are online and the dangers they actually face. The Digital Perception-Reality Gap Report, based on a survey of 9,000 consumers worldwide, suggests that misplaced...
Helpdesks are bogged down by repetitive, time-consuming tasks (34 percent), long resolution times (34 percent) and limited resources (31 percent). This is among the findings of the latest digital employee experience (DEX) report from Ivanti. It shows that while many...
We know that the UK’s Online Safety Act has had a number of consequences including a surge in interest in the use of VPNs. But VPNs aren’t the only things that have seen greater interest. New research from Comparitech shows more people are searching for fake IDs, how to...
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