We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. USB drives or flash drives are convenient, mostly because they’re compact and portable. They come in a range of storage capacities, even up to 2TB in some cases. But typically, in a head-to-head, solid-state drives offer much faster speeds. If you’re planning to do anything…

PixieMe/Shutterstock Virtual reality headsets became one of the most exciting new entertainment products in the last few years. Millions of people rushed to buy their Meta Quest 3 headsets with better VR, and for many, it became a go-to gaming device. Although gaming is definitely a major draw, the Meta Quest is capable of far…

Tada Images/Shutterstock Budgeting can be a difficult thing to wrap your head around, with credit cards demanding so much of our spending and checking out is as easy as a tap. While you could lean on ChatGPT tips to save money, considering a high-quality budgeting app can take out a lot of the guesswork. Mint was…

Cloudflare has successfully recovered its services after a second outage in the space of three weeks briefly took down Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs, knocking out multiple online services. The issues surfaced shortly after 9am GMT (4am EST) and left users unable to access sites such as Canva, Coinbase, LinkedIn, SubStack, X, Zoom, and once…

Flights to and from Edinburgh Airport are continuing to be beset by delays, after an undisclosed IT issue grounded passengers for around an hour on the morning of Friday 5 December 2025. The airport issued a statement via its social media channels at around 9.30am, confirming that no flights were currently arriving or departing from…

Paul Neville, director of digital, data and technology at The Pensions Regulator (TPR), is building strong IT foundations as part of a five-year strategy to help transform the organisation from a compliance-based to a risk-based regulator. He explains what that change will mean in practice over the next few years. “As a regulator, we’ll obviously…

A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the React JavaScript library, which earlier today caused disruption across the internet as Cloudflare pushed mitigations live on its network, is now being exploited by multiple threat actors at scale, according to reports. Maintained by Meta, React is an open source resource designed to enable developers to build…

DevOps adoption has been going on for a decade and shows no signs of slowing. In Forrester’s 2024 developer experience survey, 87% of developers indicated that their organisation had already adopted DevOps practices or planned to do so in the coming year. But for many organisations, scaling their DevOps practice has been complicated, expensive and,…

AlexandrinaZ/Shutterstock When you get a 3D printer, it can be overwhelming to figure out what you want to make. There are several designs you can discover online, and eventually, you can create your own using programs like SketchUp, CAD, or free apps like Blender, just to name a few. Creating these models is a much…