Author: pekandesigns

Universities across the world now have a new easy way to directly support the Tor browser in fostering better privacy and free speech online. With censorship on the rise everywhere and governments increasingly clamping down on the use of VPN services and other circumventing tools, Tor remains a vital way to evade both government surveillance […]

YouTube users from across the internet have reported encountering a homepage completely devoid of content. That’s because the platform has decided it will no longer provide video recommendations if an account's watch history has been turned off “and [has] no significant prior [history]” available.  The company quietly made the announcement on a support page explaining […]

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, […]

This week's Netflix top 10 movies list has a surprisingly low-rated entry at number one: Jackie Chan's new action flick Hidden Strike. The film debuted on the best streaming service on July 28 but has been called a flop by critics – it has just a 15% Rotten Tomatoes score. Despite the lacklustre reception, the […]

Google has redesigned its little-known Arts & Culture app introducing new features plus an improved layout for easier exploration. We wouldn’t blame you if you weren’t aware that Arts & Culture even existed in the first place. It is a pretty niche mobile app aimed at people who want to learn more about the art […]

Two vulnerabilities found in popular business VPN solutions could allow hackers to divert traffic outside a VPN tunnel, among other things.  A new research paper, recently published by a group of authors from different universities around the world, outlined two vulnerabilities affecting Cisco routers were mentioned – CVE-2023-36672, and CVE-2023-36673.  The flaws, collectively titled TunnelCrack, […]

Apple may have turned around the fortunes of its upcoming M3 line of chips after reportedly securing an entire year's worth of scarce 3nm silicon from TSMC. It seems that Apple managed to secure TSMC’s entire stock of 3nm chips for a full year, according to Wccftech, who reports that these 3nm chipsets “will be […]

Information security is one of the most vital challenges facing businesses, governments, and even just casual web users as cyberattacks become more sophisticated with each passing day. However, a new initiative by the Biden Administration might just kick cybersecurity into high gear – thanks to AI and a healthy dose of competitive hacking. The program […]

A major vulnerability, dubbed Downfall, has been found lurking in most Intel chips designed over the past decade, and if cybercriminals find a way to exploit it, a lot of people could be in trouble.  This is the conclusion of cybersecurity researcher named Daniel Moghimi, who works at the University of California, San Diego, as […]

Nvidia has announced its next generation AI chip platform which uses the new Grace Hopper Superchip with the world’s first HBM3e processor.  The new NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper platform is designed for heavy generative AI workloads, such as Large Language Models in the vain of ChatGPT. Nvidia also mentions other AI applications that it can […]