Category Archives: Computering

Stolen COVID vaccine data may have been manipulated before being leaked online

New evidence has come to light indicating that the COVID-19 vaccination data that was stolen from the European Medicine Agency (EMA) last month had been altered before being leaked online. It is thought that the hackers manipulated the information to damage public trust in the vaccination process. “The ongoing investigation of the cyberattack on EMA […]

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AWS wants to tempt customers into switching to Linux

Another tech giant has thrown its weight behind Linux partnerships after Amazon Web Services (AWS) praised the system when launching the source code for its latest open source tool on GitHub. The open source Porting Assistant for .NET is designed to scan .NET apps and list the things that need to be fixed in order […]

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Nvidia has quietly released a surprise new GPU – but it’s not what you think

Chances are the Nvidia GeForce GT 1010 announcement may have slipped under your radar, what with all the recent buzz surrounding the latest generation of powerful new Ampere-powered graphics processing units (or GPUs). Or rather, it would have slipped past us if an announcement had been made at all – but instead the new GeForce […]

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How the ‘Digital DIY’ movement thrived in 2020

Living through an extended period of lockdown this year forced many of us into becoming DIY “try-ersâ€�, either tackling jobs in the house we would normally avoid or simply trying something new as a way to be creative. For many, this mindset was entirely novel, but for an army of online builders, it was merely […]

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IronKey maker couldn’t unlock this locked $260m Bitcoin wallet, even if it wanted to

Last week, programmer Stefan Thomas revealed he has just two attempts left to unlock a cryptocurrency wallet containing hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of Bitcoin.  In an interview with the New York Times, he explained the private key for a wallet containing 7,000 units of Bitcoin is stranded in an encrypted IronKey USB drive, […]

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Apple Macs with M1 chip reportedly hit by annoying screensaver bug

Apple Macs which have the new M1 chip inside have been suffering reported issues with Bluetooth devices, and now further reports are emerging of problems with a bug that randomly pops up the screensaver – with no easy way to dismiss it. MacRumors highlighted the problem which seems to be affecting folks who have multiple […]

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Sorry, Mac M1 users. Apple just banned sideloading iOS apps

Apple has been working to make iOS apps available and more useful on macOS for some time now. The ability for Macs with the M1 chip to run iOS apps natively was no small feature when Apple announced its new chips and hardware.  Unfortunately, Apple is tamping down on the ability of developers to run […]

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Rendering the WordPress philosophy in GraphQL

WordPress is a CMS that’s coded in PHP. But, even though PHP is the foundation, WordPress also holds a philosophy where user needs are prioritized over developer convenience. That philosophy establishes an implicit contract between the developers building WordPress themes and plugins, and the user managing a WordPress site. GraphQL is an interface that retrieves […]

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Hackers abusing this perfectly innocent Windows 10 feature to infect machines

The Windows Finger command that is used to display information about users on a remote machine is being abused by cyberattackers to infect Windows 10 devices with malware. It has been discovered that the command can be misused to download the MineBridge malware on an unsuspecting victim’s device. Bleeping Computer reports that security researcher Kirk […]

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WoW Classic: The Burning Crusade release date, beta, and everything we know

WoW Classic: The Burning Crusade is now front and center on everyone’s mind after the release of phase six content patch in December 2020, including the Vanilla release’s final raid, Naxrammas. With everyone speculating on a World of Warcraft Classic: The Burning Crusade announcement and potential release date at BlizzCon 2021 (or BlizzConline, as the […]

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