Earlier this month, a Samsung Galaxy S10 phone user discovered that her husband was able to unlock her phone using the fingerprint scanner. Naturally, she was somewhat surprised and alarmed by this discovery. As a security precaution, some UK banks are temporarily pulling their services from the phone.
In news that will surprise almost no-one that has been paying attention, the government has scrapped their plans to impose age restrictions on adult websites. In one of our 3a Analysis blogs, we take a look at the history of this decision and go on to explore why it is that politicians keep making mistakes like this when dealing with IT.
Almost all of our HowTos to date have covered the software side of computing. This month, we're going to hopefully provide you with enough working knowledge to be able to decide which device best suits your requirements next time you need to buy a new PC.
Your machine is grinding to a halt. Excel has just taken 30 seconds to work out what 4+4 is. You try and open your browser to Google the problem only for that to take 2 minutes and the internet to crawl along slower than a dial-up modem. What is your PC doing? Here's how you find out.
We should (hopefully) all know by now that giving out a password in almost any circumstances is generally a really bad idea. A rail user has discovered that it seems that no-one at Transport for London got this memo.
Avid readers of our blog may have noticed that we haven't yet created an article detailing what new features will be rolling out in what would usually be the next big twice-annual update that is due in early Autumn. There's a good reason for this...
Almost all of us will have been CCed into an endless email thread that has long moved past being relevant to you (or was never relevant in the first place). Still, your device keeps pinging away, needlessly distracting you from what you were doing. This month's HowTo explains how you can tell Outlook to make them vanish into thin air!
On a Tuesday at the beginning of last month, there was a sudden spike in the amount of support requests we were getting. Various companies were reporting that seemingly completely unrelated services had all started throwing errors. It turned out these were all related. Half of the internet had gone AWOL...
For the first time, Microsoft have announced the number of people currently using their Teams software. This blog takes a look at these figures, and adds some context outlining Microsoft's recent rise from their doldrums at the turn of the decade.
Another blog this month about something happening in six months, although you'll notice no inverted commas on this one as we're far more confident it's true! We're now entering the final few months of Windows 7 support by Microsoft.
