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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…

AI A Bigger Threat Than North Korea Says Elon Musk
Tesla and SpaceX boss says Artificial Intelligence (AI) could lead to third world war. Billionaire and serial entrepreneur, Elon Musk, has warned that the most probable result of an international military artificial intelligence race is more likely to cause World War III than any real conceivable conventional threat such... Read more
New Tech Uses Selfies To Detect Cancer
BiliScreen uses a smartphone camera, computer vision algorithms and machine learning tools. A team of researchers at the University of Washingtonhas developed a mechanism called BiliScreen that relies on analysis of a selfie the patient snaps in order to detect pancreatic cancer by looking for traces of jaundice. According... Read more
Equifax Data Breach Exposes 143M Identities
Breach hits huge consumer credit reporting agency. Giant US credit agency Equifax, has reported a data breach of its servers, one that compromised the information of 143 million consumers. The breach was discovered July 29th and is only just now coming to light; the company has just begun sending... Read more
Man Jailed For Selling VPNs that Bypass China’s ‘Great Firewall’
Sale of virtual private networks carry serious penalty, rules Chinese Supreme People’s Court.  News  has emerged that authorities in China sentenced a man in March, to nine months in jail for selling virtual private networks (VPNs) aimed at circumnavigating the Great Firewall of China. According to court documents posted on... Read more
Apple Watch Helped Red Sox ‘Cheat’
Boston baseball team accused of using tech to beat New York Yankees.  Major league baseball  – like mot other professional sports – has its ups and downs when it comes to scandals, but this one might be the most ridiculous one since the infamous New England Patriots “deflategate” fiasco. The... Read more
Radmin VPN launched
New virtual private network online security tool for Windows PC users.  From the authors of Radmin and Advanced IP Scanner, Radmin VPN is a free and easy-to-use software product which creates a virtual private network (VPN), creating a secure connection between computers over the Internet – as if they... Read more
Samsung Throws Its Hat In The Self-Driving Ring
Electronics giant gets self-driving car permit in California. It’s a little odd how so many different – and even unexpected – entities are getting in on the self-driving car game, with a few unlikely players. But what’s even stranger is the sense of non-committal to the concept. Apple has... Read more
Tinder Tops Apple Store With New ‘Premium’ Feature
-For the first in its history, Tinder has become the top-grossing app in Apple’s online app store, beating the likes of Netflix, Candy-Crush, and other hit apps such as Clash Royale.  The sudden burst to the top of the charts comes straight after Tinder launched a paid-for ‘premium’ feature... Read more
Samsung vs iPhone Still A Game Of Catchup
Is the Galaxy Note 8 Samsung’s phoenix phone? It’s been a rough year-and-a-half for Samsung, who suffered the single most damaging product recall in smartphone history when its Galaxy 7 handsets began exploding. The situation was so dire that some airlines banned the phones from their planes, even while... Read more
Bitcoin Goes Beyond $5,000 For First Time Breaking Records
Bitcoin yet again has managed to silence many of its naysayers and critics by reaching (briefly) the $5,000-mark last Saturday. The currency peaked at $5,103.91 according to Coindesk, before a sudden sharp sell-off of the digital cryptocurrency sent it scurrying back down toward around the mid-4,000s. Of course, $5,000... Read more
BMW Reveals Electric MINI Concept
German carmaker BMW has unveiled the outline design for the full-production electric version of the next Mini car. With the rise in popularity of electric cars and the rise in global gas prices, a lot of manufacturers are looking for their own portion of the customer base. While giants... Read more
Canadian University Loses $10m In Phishing Scam
Staff at MacEwan University fall for a simple online phishing scam. Staff at MacEwan University, in Edmonton, Alberta, received fake emails from someone who claimed they were writing on behalf of one of the university’s major clients, and that they were changing their bank account details. Seemingly taken at... Read more
Google Questionnaire To Help Decide If You’re Clinically Depressed
Search giant partners with US National Alliance on Mental Illness. “Now when you search for “clinical depression” on Google on mobile,” reads Google’s blog post on the subject, “you’ll see a Knowledge Panel that will give you the option to tap “check if you’re clinically depressed”, which will bring... Read more
Uncovering The Hidden Tech Job Offers
Apple follows Microsoft’s novel approach to attracting tech talent.  There’s little doubt that the 21st century workplace is a very different environment than previous generations experienced on the job. In every area of industry, new innovations and labor practices have changed the setting, so it should come as no... Read more
Alexa, Open Cortana: Microsoft And Amazon To Integrate Cortana and Alexa
Tech giants announce first-of-its-kind collaboration. “Alexa has made a new friend,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tweeted to announce a major collaboration between the two tech giants. So it turns out, both Amazon and Microsoft have been working together for the last 12 months to make Alexa and Cortana BFFs.... Read more
Benkow Uncovers Spambot With 700M Stolen Emails
Opening emails alerted spambot to functioning accounts. A Paris-based security researcher just made an unprecedented discovery: the largest database of stolen email addresses to date. With more than 711 million separate emails, it’s certainly one for the history books. The security expert, who goes by the name Benkow, explains... Read more
Ford Self Driving Cars To Deliver Domino’s Pizza In Michigan
The face of pizza delivery may change forever if new joint experiment in the city of Ann Arbor is successful. The experiment, due to start this September will see selected Domino’s customers being given the option to have their fresh pizza pie delivered by an autonomous Ford Fusion Hybrid... Read more
Sarahah ‘Self-Development’ App Steals Your Contacts Data
Researcher catches the app copying his entire address book, in real-time. There has been a lot of news about a compliments-and-criticisms app, which at one point reached number one in the App Store for both iPhone and iPad. Essentially, the stated premise of Sarahah – which means “frankness” – is... Read more