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Can You Provide Full Protection Against Identity Theft with a VPN? Here’s What It Can (and Can’t) Do

News Privacy and Security VPNs May 22, 2025

Nowadays, it feels like every click and every login to our email or social networks opens a window for those trying to steal our information. Identity theft has reached levels we couldn’t have imagined just a decade ago. According to the latest official statistics, total fraud and identity theft... Read more

May 17 tech news roundup: YouTube’s AI will annoy you with ads, Apple says no to Fortnite again, Google Chrome won’t run with admin rights

News May 17, 2025

YouTube has introduced an AI feature, but you won’t like it YouTube is at it again, it has found another way to display advertisements to viewers. Google has announced a new feature called Peak Points, which is a new tool for YouTube advertisers. Peak Points has been designed to... Read more

May 10 Tech news roundup: Second trailer for GTA 6 impresses gamers, Windows 11 and Google Chrome have added AI Agents, Apple wants to add AI search engines to Safari

News May 10, 2025

GTA 6 gets a new trailer, and smashes viewership records Rockstar Games released a new Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer this week, and it didn’t stop there. The New York based gaming giant also published a special page on its website to highlight the various characters in the game,... Read more

May 3 tech news roundup: GTA 6 Delayed Until May 2026, Judge says Apple violated injunction willfully, Microsoft increases Xbox prices globally

News May 3, 2025

Grand Theft Auto 6 to release on May 26, 2026 Rockstar Games has officially announced the Grand Theft Auto 6 release date. But the bad news is it’s not coming this year. The New York company says that GTA 6 will be released on May 26, 2026. Development on... Read more

April 26 Tech news roundup: The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered launched, OpenAI wants to buy Chrome, Windows 11 says bye to BSODs

News April 26, 2025

The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered launches for PC, PS5 and Xbox Bethesda has launched The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion Remastered. The original game which was released in 2006 went to become one of the best role-playing games of all time. Nineteen years later, the remastered version takes players... Read more

April 19 tech news roundup: Gemini live video and screen sharing are free for Android users, PS5 prices increased in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, Copilot Vision is free for Microsoft Edge

News April 19, 2025

Google makes Gemini live video and screen sharing features free for Android users Google has announced that Gemini live video and screen sharing features are now free for Android users. The announcement comes as a surprise, because the Mountain View company had only unveiled the features about a week... Read more

April 12 tech news roundup: Recall is coming to Windows 11, Apple Maps on the web comes to Android, Age of Empires 2 is coming to PlayStation 5

News April 12, 2025

Microsoft releases Recall for Windows 11 Insiders Microsoft is inching closer to releasing Recall for Windows 11. Recall was designed to help users search for previously seen or utilized content on their PCs. It works by capturing screenshots every few seconds, to extract the data on the screen and... Read more

April 5 tech news roundup: Amazon’s “Buy for Me” could revolutionize online shopping, Nintendo Switch 2 announced, Windows Start Menu is getting a redesign

News April 5, 2025

Amazon’s ‘Buy for Me’ feature could change the way you shop online Amazon is testing a new AI-powered feature in its shopping app. This isn’t merely a chatbot, the company has come up with an option that lets users order products that are not available on Amazon. The feature... Read more

August 3 Tech news roundup: Chrome may soon stop supporting old extensions, YouTube frustrates ad blocker users, Apple releases security updates for old devices

News August 3, 2024

Google Chrome may soon stop supporting some extensions Google Chrome users are seeing an unwanted change, the browser has begun displaying a warning that says “These extensions may soon no longer be supported“. The message appears on the Extensions page, but what is about? Why are the add-ons going... Read more

July 27 Tech news roundup: CrowdStrike says that a bug caused the massive outage, Apple Maps is now available for web browsers, Windows 11 has a new pop-up ad

News July 27, 2024

CrowdStrike says that the global outage was caused by test software Last week, the world was shocked by Windows computers crashing across various organizations. It affected offices, airports, hospitals, and several businesses across the globe. Microsoft was incorrectly blamed for the massive outage, which was actually caused by a... Read more

July 20 Tech news roundup: Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage affected thousands of PCs, Intel CPUs have a big problem, Kaspersky exits the U.S.

News July 20, 2024

Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage causes computers to fail across the world Thousands of Windows computers experienced a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error on Friday. The result left thousands of computers across the world. Several offices were affected by the issue, and many hospitals, banks, airlines, TV Stations were left without... Read more

July 13 Tech news roundup: Windows Notepad gets a spell checker, Firefox adds simpler data clearing options, Xbox Game Pass is now available on Amazon Fire TV devices

News July 13, 2024

Notepad gets a spell checker on Windows 11 Microsoft has added a very important feature to Notepad on Windows 11. The text editor, which has been part of the operating system for 41 years, now supports spell check. The latest version of Windows Notepad now checks the spelling of... Read more

July 6 Tech news roundup: Netflix is discontinuing its Basic Ad-free plan, Authy suffers another security breach, Google Translate supports 110 new languages

News July 6, 2024

Microsoft’s Weather app is displaying more ads Microsoft has made a server-side update to its Weather app. The desktop app, which is pre-installed in Windows 11, now displays multiple advertisements. This is not the first time that the Redmond company has made such a change, it did something similar... Read more

June 29 Tech news roundup: Gmail is getting an AI, AMD wants to make game downloads faster, OneDrive is enabled automatically in Windows 11

News June 29, 2024

Windows 11 will automatically back up your folders to OneDrive Microsoft is enabling OneDrive folder back up in Windows 11 for new installations of the operating system. Prior to this change, on the first run, Windows 11 would ask the user for their permission to set up OneDrive on... Read more

June 22 Tech news roundup: Kaspersky banned in the U.S., Microsoft patches critical Wi-Fi security issue in Windows, Snapdragon X laptops fail to impress in gaming performance

News June 22, 2024

Biden administration bans Kaspersky products in the U.S. The United States Government has officially banned all Kaspersky products in the Country. Users will need to switch to alternative security products as the company can no longer sell its software in the U.S. The Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry... Read more

June 15 Tech news round up: Apple announces iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15 Sequoia, YouTube ads are getting more intrusive, Apple Intelligence is here to take on Copilot and Gemini

News June 15, 2024

Bitwarden Authenticator adds support for switching from other authenticators Bitwarden, the makers of the popular password manager service, have updated the Bitwarden Authenticator with a highly-requested feature. You can now switch from other authenticators easily using the new option to import security tokens, aka TOTPs (time-based one-time passwords). Bitwarden... Read more

June 8 Tech news round up: Spotify and Twitch subscription prices are increasing, Brave Browser and Search grows rapidly

News June 8, 2024

Spotify Premium plans are now more expensive in the U.S. Spotify has hiked its prices in the U.S. once again, for a second time in less than 12 months. The streaming service has announced that all subscribers will be notified of the price change within the next month. Spotify... Read more

June 1 Tech news round up: Chrome to disable Manifest V2 extensions soon, Windows 11 will let you copy text from photos on your phone, YouTube is causing some issues for ad blocker users

News June 1, 2024

Manifest V2 extensions will soon be disabled in Chrome Google has revealed the timeline for deprecating Manifest V2 extensions in its Chrome browser. Developers will be forced to use the new Manifest V3 API in their add-ons. The migration to Manifest V3 will reduce the capabilities of extensions, which... Read more