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Deepfake Safety: Five Things You Can Do Today

The generation of images, videos, and voices through artificial intelligence is evolving at a pace that demands we establish clear criteria and good habits to defend ourselves from the dangers of abusing these technologies. Deepfakes are already part of our everyday online life, so it is a very good idea…

Top Online Scams to Be Aware of in 2025

The internet is undoubtedly full of great content, hobbies, information, offers, products, and people, but there’s also a darker side to it. We might not realise it, but every day we’re exposed to threats and scams as we navigate the online world. Curiosity and trust can be exploited to lure…

Meet the new features for Avast Free AV and Avast Premium Security

With millions of active users worldwide, Avast stands as a benchmark in cybersecurity. Why? Because of the quality of its solutions, the reach of its tools and because it is a platform in continuous evolution. A platform that today, once again, places our security at the forefront by reinforcing every…

Free Keylogger Adds Layer Of Security To Tech
These are strange times for tech and security, as recent headlines have shown. Cyber bullying, online cheating scandals, hacking events, and many more types of internet behaviors have landed plenty of people in hot water lately, some of them in high-profile ways. In some of those instances, the old... Read more
Mozilla Releases Firefox for iOS Preview To Public…If You Live In New Zealand
Last Thursday, Mozilla released the first public preview of its brand spanking new version of its Firefox web browser for iOS. But don’t anybody go diving for the download button just yet…. While the Firefox browser has finally decided to make an appearance on iPads, iPhones, and iPods, unless... Read more
Two New Updates To Enhance Multimedia Use
When Microsoft announced it would no longer be supporting Windows Media Center in its new operating system, the public outcry was pretty loud. Longtime users who’d come to rely on the multimedia platform to fill a variety of needs were left wondering how they’d continue utilizing content.   With... Read more
Adult Player Porn App Takes Secret Photos Of Users, Holds Them To Ransom
Android Adult Player porn app entices users with explicit images but instead takes photos using smartphone’s front camera, locking the device and then holding users to ransom. In this latest example of ‘Ransomware,’ the Adult Player app seems  legitimate enough to begin with. Unfortunately this particular porn app for... Read more
Facebook Moves Into Educational Software Space
All the kids are using Facebook these days, right? So it makes sense for Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg to launch an educational software initiative. No, your kid isn’t going to graduate from Facebook University (yet), but this initiative is actually part of Zuckerberg and his wife’s commitment to giving... Read more
Google, Intel, Mozilla, Netflix, And Others Form Alliance For Open Media
Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, Netflix, Amazon, and Cisco, have become day one members of the newly formed Alliance for Open Media. The Alliance (AOMedia) is an open source, not for profit project intent on creating ‘a new, open royalty-free video codec specification…with binding specifications for media formats…’ The overall... Read more
Fighting The Heroin Epidemic With Software
The US has been fighting–and losing–the infamous War on Drugs for decades, and attitudes towards the issue are shifting. More and more citizens favor decriminalization of marijuana, states that have had “blue laws” against alcohol sales for hundreds of years are easing up, and tobacco use is on the... Read more
FossaMail Open-Source Mail Client Launches Update
There are a few reasons to skirt the old standbys and try something different with your email, as this update from Pale Moon shows. The people who launched their own browser have released an update to their popular FossaMail feature, and it’s a great way to switch from a... Read more
US Considers Sanctions Against China For Alleged Cybertheft Activity
The Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima has reported that the Obama administration are planning a series of ‘unprecedented economic sanctions against Chinese companies and individuals,’ who have gained from the Chinese government’s cybertheft of ‘US trade secrets.’ The news has surfaced just weeks before the Chinese Premier, Xi Jinping, visits... Read more
Google: Software, Browsers, and the Android Watch
There’s a reason Google is everywhere, and it’s not just a bottomless bank account and an endless talent pool of techxperts vying to work for them. Largely, the thing that has made Google so exhaustively far-reaching is its ability to look past proprietary boundaries and reach out to new... Read more
Alphabet Subsidiary, Google, Changes Logo
Google: A synopsis: In the beginning was the word, and the word was Google. Then God Google  said: “Let us remake the internet in our image, in our likeness, so it may rule over the search browsers of cyber space.” And Google saw what it had made, and it was... Read more
Office 2016 For Windows Set For September 22 Release!
Microsoft keep quiet but leaked memo all but confirms date. An internal memo obtained by WinFuture.de from Microsoft’s internal intranet last week confirmed what many in the industry long suspected: Microsoft Office 2016 will be released in September, on the 3rd Tuesday of the month. While Microsoft have yet to officially... Read more
Tor, Ghostery Give You Control Over Your Browsing Privacy
Privacy is a hot topic right now, with the numbers of large-scale hacking events and major data breaches on the rise. One of the chief concerns for tech users of any kind is the tracking of their internet activity, especially with breaches that have recently involved membership accounts on... Read more
Chrome To Silence Audio Auto-Play In Tabs: Internet Set To Rejoice
The internet is collectively poised to exhale loudly in relief as news has begun to surface that Google Chrome will silence tabs that automatically play whenever a new tab is opened. In what might start to put an end to one of the biggest bug-bears of recent times for... Read more
WhatsApp Productivity Platform Comes To Edge Browser
One of the hot names in productivity apps and platforms is WhatsApp, a messaging feature that is streamlining business operation, especially for project teams and telecommuting personnel. The mobile app WhatsApp syncs automatically with the users’ desktops through the WhatsApp Web platform, which originally launched only for Google Chrome.... Read more
Windows 10 Installed 75 Million Times In First Month: Microsoft Quite Pleased With Themselves
Microsoft has revealed that Windows 10 has been installed on more than 75 million devices in the first month of its release. The news caused jubilation in the company, and  several Microsoft executives have allegedly sustained serious “High Five” related wounds, according to anonymous sources in Emergency Rooms across the... Read more
Bringing Down The Cost Of Software And Tech
A new report from Pew Research group found some interesting statistics concerning internet and computer use by Americans. It might seem hard to believe, but a full 15% of the population does not use the internet and has no reliable access to it. Even more staggering was the group’s... Read more
Suicides And Extortion Linked To Ashley Madison Data Hack.
Two people in Canada with personal information allegedly associated with the Ashley Madison Data Hack are reported to have committed suicide as a result of the leak from the adultery website. Toronto police’s acting staff Superintendent, Bryce Evans, said on Monday morning, that while the deaths were as yet unconfirmed,... Read more