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Top five recommended VPNs have all been tested again and reviews rewritten. Proton VPN climbs to 3rd place as ExpressVPN slips to 4th place. NordVPN remains at #1. It’s official! The results are from our latest VPN retest, and Proton VPN is the biggest mover and shaker. While NordVPN remains the #1 best VPN service, […]

UK confirms October hack of Foreign Office system, data possibly stolen Risk to individuals considered low; The investigation continues, the attribution is unclear Chinese state actors are suspected but not officially confirmed The UK government has confirmed speculation that classified government servers were hacked and accessed by threat actors raised by former chief adviser Dominic

AI is compared to the industrial revolution – jobs will change but not disappear Those prepared with the right skills should see minimal disruption Bank of England also keeps an eye on ‘AI bubble’ fears Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has compared artificial intelligence to the industrial revolution, suggesting the productivity-enhancing technology could actually

Looking for a different day? A new NEW Strands puzzle appears at midnight every day for your time zone – meaning some people always play ‘today’s game’ while others play ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Friday’s puzzle instead then click here: NEW Strand’s Hints and Answers for Friday, December 19 (Game #656). Strands is the

It’s time to plan some pre-holiday time in front of your TV. With the festive break now in full effect for most of us, I suspect you’ll be loading up one or more of the world’s top streaming services to watch the latest new movies and shows that have arrived. There is also a lot

Adobe accused of using pirated books to train SlimLM The company claims it used SlimPajama-627B – an open source Cerebras dataset The plaintiff claims sufficient financial resources to “vigorously” pursue this case Adobe is facing an AI copyright lawsuit in the US with a class action alleging the company trained its AI models on pirated

BBC Radio 4 is the UK’s most popular talk station, home to marquee shows and podcasts such as Desert Island Discs and The Incredible Truth, Infinite Monkey Cage and In our time. Its high status is why, when BBC management inexplicably blocked international access to BBC Sounds, an exception was made for Radio 4. But

Proofpoint reports phishing surge abusing Microsoft OAuth 2.0 device code flow Victims enter codes on real Microsoft domains, giving attackers access tokens Proofpoint recommends blocking entity code streams Cybercriminals, including state-sponsored threat actors, are increasingly abusing Microsoft’s OAuth 2.0 device code authentication flow to take over Microsoft 365 accounts. This is according to a new

Mozilla says Firefox will get an AI ‘kill switch’ in early 2026 The move is an attempt to appease users who are angry about their AI plans Mozilla’s new CEO revealed plans to turn Firefox into an ‘AI browser’ AI is taking over the world, but not everyone is happy about it. That was aptly

We now have Unicode approval for 163 new emojis They have appeared first in a new Android 16 beta Everyone should get these emojis by early 2026 You’ll soon have a wealth of new ways to express yourself pictorially, as 163 new emojis have now been approved by Unicode – the top emoji regulator –