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UK Government Expands Online Safety Bill to Make Inciting Self-Harm a Crime!
The UK Government recently confirmed more than a few tweaks, changes, and additions to its much-maligned Online Safety Bill. Mostly, I suspect, to try and patch up the very obvious cracks and loopholes it has which were patently obvious to even the most casual of internet users. Now don’t get…
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Google Says the Internet Only Has 40% of Non-Duplicated Content! (Shocking?)
I daresay that many of you wouldn’t be overly surprised to be told that the internet (as a whole) hosts an incredibly large amount of duplicated content. Think of a video that’s available on YouTube. It’s incredibly unlikely if it’s proving mildly popular that this is the only site to…
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Giphy (Bizarrely?) Calls GIF Images ‘Cringe’ and ‘Out of Fashion’
I have to admit that when someone mentions GIF images/animations, my initial thoughts do generally tend to go back to the days of the internet in the mid to late 90s. – At a time when dial-up connections could barely handle a 5MB download, let alone a 500MB video, GIFs…
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TP-Link Unveil its New Deco XE75 Pro AXE5400 Wi-Fi 6E Tri-Band Mesh
TP-Link has announced the launch of its all-new Deco XE75 Pro AXE5400 Tri-Band Mesh Wi-Fi 6E System, featuring robust Wi-Fi 6E features, tri-band structure and multi-gig connections, bringing warp speeds without congestion for more WiFi devices. The Deco XE75 Pro brings customers true Gigabit + WiFi performance and a whole…
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Nintendo Warns Users to Stop Using its Official (But Very Old) Wi-Fi Dongle
Did you know that Nintendo once released a wifi dongle? I have to admit that until today, I certainly wasn’t aware of it! – Upon doing a little legwork, however, it appears that not only did they release one, but they actually released two products looking to offer wifi support…
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AMD Investigating Hacking Incident – Source Claims Laughably Poor Security!
Earlier this week, rumours began to appear online suggesting that AMD had just been subjected to a pretty huge hacking incident. Although details at the time were more than a little unclear, it was alleged that a huge amount of data had been stolen from the tech giant and was…
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Internet Explorer Has Officially Died! – A Brief Obituary!
Initially released back in 1995, Internet Explorer was, for many people, their first gateway into the online world. – This was, of course, back in the day where having a browser wasn’t a particularly common thing. If you didn’t have an internet connection, after all, you clearly didn’t need a…
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Linksys Unveil New and Affordable WiFi 6 Mesh Solutions
Linksys has announced the launch of two new WiFi 6 mesh systems designed to deliver peak wireless performance for all at-home needs including remote working, streaming content, multi-user gaming and more. The Linksys Hydra 6 and Linksys Atlas 6 are Linksys’ newest entry-level dual-band products in the company’s family of…
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DuckDuckGo Says it Hasn’t Banned Piracy Search Results
While an exceptionally long way from hitting the levels of traffic seen with Google, DuckDuckGo has, in recent years, been gaining a lot of traction with the internet community. The reasons for this can largely be explained in two simple points. It doesn’t use algorithms to track your search activity,…
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DuckDuckGo Continues Content Crackdown with Piracy Sites Removed!
Founded in 2008, while DuckDuckGo certainly has nowhere near the prominence or traffic of Google, in terms of search engines I think it would be fair to say that many today now choose to use this as a, rightly or wrongly, superior alternative. – One of the key features of…
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Is Expanding 5G a Better Temporary Solution for the UK’s Internet Than Fibre?
I’d like to start this by freely conceding that given the problems going on in the world at the moment (Ukraine/Russia), complaining about the quality of internet within the UK right now might sound like a rather frivolous point. Having a crap connection to your home is one thing, but…
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Android Begins Rolling Out Chrome ‘Delete Last 15 Minutes’ Browser Feature
When it comes to clearing your browser history, there are many instances where users simply want to remove a certain portion of it rather than everything entirely. As such, when Google announced last year that they were looking to introduce a ‘delete last 15 minutes’ feature to Chrome (specifically their…
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Man Shuts Down Internet in 2 Towns Attempting to Curb his Kids Screentime!
Attempting to control the amount of time your kids spend on the internet, or just in front of a screen in general, is a problem for many parents around the world. It seems, however, that following a report via Gizmodo, the attempt by one French dad has landed him in…
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Microsoft Study Finds the Internet Community Might Be Getting Nicer
I don’t think it’s any secret that the general anonymity offered by the internet often results in a number of people saying things online that they’d never say to someone’s face. And if you want any proof of that, just play a couple of rounds of Call of Duty, or,…
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UK Edges Closer Towards Online ‘Passports to Porn’
For the last three years, the UK Government has regularly discussed/proposed plans to introduce terser age verification checks when it comes to accessing online pornography websites. To date, however, one of the biggest issues hasn’t so much been the concept, but exactly how this could be applied. – Following a…
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