Steam limits game auto-updates to manage peak demand Console makers aren't the only ones managing game service bandwidth to keep traffic flowing during the COVID-19 outbreak. Valve is scaling back game auto-updates in Steam to […]
Facebook makes it easier to see how much it knows about you Facebook will let you view and download more of the data it collects about you, the company revealed today. It's expanding the Download […]
The U.S.’s $13 Billion Aircraft Carrier Has a Toilet Problem The toilets on America’s two newest carriers clog frequently, causing problems throughout the ship. The ships use a scaled-up version of airliner toilets, using vacuum […]
COVID-19: Hackers Begin Exploiting Zoom’s Overnight Success to Spread Malware As people increasingly work from home and online communication platforms such as Zoom explode in popularity in the wake of coronavirus outbreak, cybercriminals are taking […]
FBI Offers Workout App to Quarantined Americans — Turns Out It Can Spy on You The FBI doesn’t have a particularly good brand image right now. I’d kind of forgotten about that for a while […]
Saudi Arabia may be spying on its citizens via US mobile networks Data shared by a whistleblower suggests Saudi Arabia may be using a weakness in mobile telecom networks to track its citizens in the […]
Sony will limit PlayStation download speeds in the US Earlier this week, both Sony and Microsoft announced that they would follow the lead of many streaming companies and limit the bandwidth of their gaming services […]
New Windows 10 bug hits home working: Outlook, Office 365, Teams can’t access internet As if working from home wasn’t challenging enough, Microsoft has now warned that a Windows 10 bug is preventing Office 365, […]
11 countries are now using people’s phones to track the coronavirus pandemic, and it heralds a massive increase in surveillance Countries have been quick to use the one tool almost all of us carry with […]
Working from home? Switch off Amazon’s Alexa (say lawyers) One of the byproducts of doing all your work from home is that you might be discussing confidential matters. And who might overhear them? Well, there’s […]