Testing your internet speed is a smart way to check you’re getting what you pay for. But if the results seem slower than expected, don’t rush to blame your ISP—testing mistakes could be skewing your numbers. 1 Running Other Apps or Devices Simultaneously One of the most common mistakes when testing internet speed is leaving
When my smart TV’s Wi-Fi connection seems spotty, I no longer blame the TV; instead, I blame the Wi-Fi itself. Nine times out of 10, it’s the router. While a reset may sometimes work, fixing a smart TV’s Wi-Fi problems often needs more finesse. 5 Restart Your Router and Smart TV Dreamchild Obari / MakeUseOf
For the longest time, I thought the dark web was an impenetrable, tangled mass of secret websites frequented only by hackers and criminals. I certainly didn’t know that there are several ways you can actually search the dark web for specific websites and types of content—but that’s now changed. How to Search the Dark Web
CoinMarketCap, the popular cryptocurrency price tracking site, suffered a website supply chain attack that exposed site visitors to a wallet drainer campaign to steal visitors’ crypto. […]
Oxford City Council warns it suffered a data breach where attackers accessed personally identifiable information from legacy systems. […]
Microsoft announced that the Windows screenshot and screencast Snipping Tool utility is getting support for exporting animated GIF recordings. […]
Russian hackers bypass multi-factor authentication and access Gmail accounts by leveraging app-specific passwords in advanced social engineering attacks that impersonate U.S. Department of State officials. […]
Hackers are exploiting a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the WordPress theme “Motors” to hijack administrator accounts and gain complete control of a targeted site. […]
Linus has released 6.16-rc3 for testing. “So rc2 was smaller than usual, but rc3 seems to be right in the usual ballpark for this time, so everything looks entirely normal.“
One of the games that really caught my eye during the Xbox Games Showcase at the beginning of June was The Blood of Dawnwalker, a dark fantasy action-RPG from Rebel Wolves, the studio co-founded by Witcher 3 director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz. First teased earlier this year, The Blood of Dawnwalker is a single-player open-world game set