Author: pekandesigns

Google’s new safety update for Android to detect unwanted Bluetooth tiles has started reaching smartphones and we’re going to show you how to activate it. To give a quick refresher of the situation, bad actors have been reported using Bluetooth trackers, like Apple AirTags, as an inexpensive way to stalk people. The method is someone […]

It's time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off.  Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I'm still playing now, around 18 months after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it's good fun, […]

Wacom is back with four new mid-range drawing tablets for fledgling digital artists: the One S, One M, One 12, and the One 13 touch. The first two are your traditional pen tablets while the others feature a screen similar to an iPad. Measuring 152 x 95mm (6 x 3.7 inches), the Wacom One S […]

Popular open source (OS) project Moq just got updated to include a not-so-open-source addition in the form of a series of DLLs designed to collect hashes of user email addresses. The changes were first reported on by BleepingComputer, which notes that the project sees around 100,000 daily downloads on average, having amassed more than 476 […]

There’s been (probably a little too much) chatter on the internet about how OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and similar artificially intelligent (AI) chatbots, are going to change the way we approach work.  There’s also some doom associated with this: are AI chatbots going to make a mockery of academia? Do away with experts? Will they somehow foreshadow […]

The US Government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has revealed a two-year contest to find the best AI tools for fixing software vulnerabilities. The AI Cyber Challenge will be held in collaboration with industry heavyweights including OpenAI, Google and Microsoft, with the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) acting as the challenge advisor. […]

Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 3 is well underway but is set to end this month. It introduced a slew of new content, like mud mechanics, the Mammoth Pistol, and even a Futurama collaboration.  With Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 4 set to arrive imminently, you'll likely want to know when the current season of the game […]

While we're not expecting to see the Samsung Galaxy S24 series arrive until early 2024, a new report suggests that we could see a next-generation display debut on the company's next flagship phone line, before the technology makes its way onto Apple's expected iPhone 16 series as well. We've already heard a number of tidbits […]

Escape from Tarkov’s latest patch – 0.13.5 – is now live, meaning that players can get their hands on several new weapons, as well as the ability to use kit presets. Oh, and everything has been wiped again, so there’s that. If you’ve not been playing Escape from Tarkov for long, you might not have […]

Apple’s Macbook Pro or iPhone devices are often perceived as safer, from a cybersecurity standpoint, compared to those from Microsoft or Google, mostly because of its “walled garden” approach.  However, another key reason why hackers aren’t as interested in Macs as they are in Windows or Linux devices is the smaller market share Apple holds. […]