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aileenchik/Shutterstock iPhone’s Personal Hotspot feature can be quite helpful when you don’t have access to a Wi-Fi network; it uses your iPhone’s mobile data connection to share internet with your other devices. Despite some of its shortcomings, such as occasional hotspot disconnections, it’s much more secure than getting internet from a random free Wi-Fi hotspot.…

After unveiling the Dragonwing suite of products in February 2025 to offer a purpose-built portfolio in consumer and industrial segments, Qualcomm Technologies has launched the Dragonwing Q-6690, which it claims is the world’s first enterprise mobile processor with fully integrated ultra-high frequency radio frequency identification (UHF RFID) capabilities. The Dragonwing brand represents Qualcomm’s industrial and embedded…

Luis Alvarez/Getty Images Have you ever needed a power performance boost on your computer? Perhaps you are doing tasks like editing videos, designing graphics, or playing a PC game, and feel like your computer is running too slowly. Windows has a lot of settings, often not in obvious locations, that can be customized to change…

aileenchik/Shutterstock Mental health care is as essential as caring for any other part of our bodies. Perhaps even more so, as our brains lead all aspects of our lives. People seeking care for their mental health may go to therapy, where they see a trained professional who helps them work through thoughts and emotions, and…

Identity technology supplier Okta is to acquire Axiom Security, a supplier of privileged access management (PAM) for cloud, database, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and other critical resources, to reinforce its own offerings in this area. The acquisition will see Axiom’s core technology integrated into Okta Privileged Access, which the buyer says will expand access controls across more…

Citrix has issued patches to fix three newly designated common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) in the widely used NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and NetScaler Gateway lines, at least one of which is known to be under active exploitation by an undisclosed threat actor. The trio of bugs, which are tracked as CVE-2025-7775, CVE-2025-7776 and…

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is calling for the government to make changes to company tax regulations and extend the powers of regulators to ensure artificial intelligence (AI) is not abused by employers to weaken staff. In response to Labour’s Plan for Change, industrial strategy and memorandum of understanding with large language model (LLM) providers,…

The number of ransomware attacks observed worldwide held steady in July, increasing by just 1% to 376 recorded cases, according to the latest monthly Threat Pulse figures from cyber security services firm NCC Group. This comes in the wake of an unfortunate record-breaking start to 2025, but as NCC’s analysts observed, the more stagnant summer…

While the CEOs of the major tech firms have lined up to support US president Donald Trump’s 9.9% equity stake in chipmaker Intel, the company itself sees many potential adverse effects going forward. A few weeks ago, Trump questioned the suitability of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, claiming he had links to China. The pair then…

The Police Digital Service (PDS) has completed a “strategic restructuring” of its senior leadership team, more than a year after two of its employees were arrested for suspected bribery, fraud and misconduct in public office. The two PDS employees were arrested, interviewed and bailed by City of London Police in July 2024, and since then, the…