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1. Gamers bypass UK age verification with Death Stranding — no real face or VPN required

   By Karlston, July 28, 2025   

   • age verification
   • united kingdom
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   • 545 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • July 28, 2025

2. Our PCs, AI, and services are supposed to work for us, but modern tech increasingly feels like it’s watching, tracking, and nudging us instead

   By Karlston, December 26, 2025
   • 1 comment
   • 387 views
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   • Comment by dabourzannan
   • December 27, 2025

3. This huge Russian phishing campaign is hitting targets across the world

   By aum, December 6, 2023
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   • Added by aum
   • December 6, 2023

4. Firefox users slam Mozilla over controversial data privacy update — while ironically using "the biggest data-mining operating system in the world (aka Microsoft Windows)"

   By Karlston, March 5, 2025   

   • mozilla firefox
   • privacy
   • 1 comment
   • 1,296 views
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   • Comment by Mutton
   • March 5, 2025

5. This scary AI breakthrough means you can run but not hide – how AI can guess your location from a single image

   By aum, December 20, 2023
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   • Added by aum
   • December 20, 2023

6. Steam will comply with the UK's age verification rules without sending any of your data to third-parties — doing a better job than Xbox

   By Karlston, August 30, 2025   

   • steam
   • age verification
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   • Added by Karlston
   • August 30, 2025

7. You've heard of carjacking – but what about carhacking?

   By aum, August 10, 2024
   • 1 comment
   • 1,331 views
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   • Comment by andy2004
   • August 11, 2024

8. This dangerous new malware wants to target your cloud systems

   By aum, April 1, 2023
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   • 1,080 views
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   • Added by aum
   • April 1, 2023

9. Botnets responsible for nearly all malicious web traffic

   By aum, July 6, 2023
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   • Added by aum
   • July 6, 2023

10. A powerful new malware backdoor is targeting governments across the world

    By aum, September 25, 2023
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    • 1,156 views
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    • Added by aum
    • September 25, 2023

11. Millions of users were unknowingly tracked in a 7‑year Chrome and Edge malware scheme — extensions turned into spyware

    By Karlston, December 7, 2025
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    • Added by Karlston
    • December 7, 2025

12. Even YouTube’s anti-adblock campaign doesn’t stand a chance against this self-made AR app — blocking real-world billboards with Google Gemini AI

    By Karlston, June 24, 2025   

    • adblocker
    • augmented reality
    • 1 comment
    • 656 views
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    • Comment by Karlston
    • June 24, 2025

13. Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker

    By Karlston, October 21, 2023   

    • youtube
    • adblockers
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    • 1,512 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • October 21, 2023

14. Microsoft's EU agreement means it will be hard to avoid CrowdStrike-like calamities in the future

    By aum, July 22, 2024
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    • Added by aum
    • July 22, 2024

15. How to report phishing emails to Microsoft in Outlook for Windows 11

    By Karlston, March 23, 2024   

    • microsoft outlook for wimdows
    • phishing
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    • Added by Karlston
    • March 23, 2024

16. This large-scale hack could affect millions of servers across the world

    By aum, July 21, 2023
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    • Added by aum
    • July 21, 2023

17. 80% of firms that experienced a ransomware attack have paid up, says research - generating millions of dollars of easy cash for criminals

    By aum, October 6, 2025
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    • Added by aum
    • October 6, 2025

18. Audacity fans are absolutely furious right now - here’s why

    By aum, July 5, 2021
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    • Added by aum
    • July 5, 2021

19. Privacy-focused web browsers are stuck in a rut, but why?

    By aum, October 2, 2022
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    • 1,117 views
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    • Added by aum
    • October 2, 2022

20. The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker — here’s why

    By alf9872000, December 22, 2022
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    • Added by alf9872000
    • December 22, 2022

21. Did Microsoft just try to gaslight us? The tech giant has seemingly backtracked on changes to the account sign-in experience.

    By Karlston, February 20, 2025
    • 1 comment
    • 1,130 views
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    • Comment by The Boca Deb
    • February 22, 2025

22. Microsoft wants AI to read your browser history — but there's one reason not to worry

    By Karlston, June 9, 2025   

    • microsoft edge
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    • 837 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • June 9, 2025

23. Microsoft issues emergency Windows server security patch - update now or risk attack

    By aum, October 24, 2025
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    • 299 views
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    • Added by aum
    • October 24, 2025

24. Microsoft is killing off this authentication protocol in Windows - here's why

    By aum, October 16, 2023
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    • 1,316 views
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    • Added by aum
    • October 16, 2023

25. This huge Windows security hole is letting malware hackers in - here's what you need to know

    By aum, July 12, 2023
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    • 1,437 views
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    • Added by aum
    • July 12, 2023