Philips Hue is widely known as the best smart bulb brand, but if you’re looking to get yourself kitted out with a full Hue setup from the main range, it’ll cost you. You might have spotted the brand’s Essential range — which looks very similar to the main lineup but comes in at a much…

When a trusted friend recommends a product or service to you, it can alter the way you think about the potential purchase. You tend to lower your guard, with the knowledge that some of the filtering work has already been done on your behalf. This is particularly true when that friend understands your tastes and…

Reflecting on my time with Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis at Summer Game Fest 2026, I really can’t wait to fight more dinosaurs and solve more puzzles as Lara Croft once more — but I’m yearning to see more to get a better idea of the reimagining at work. Playing one area complete with lush…

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)’s recent advisory detailing how the Russian cyber actor APT28’s exploited vulnerable routers to enable DNS hijacking highlights a dangerous blind spot in enterprise security today. Traditional perimeter-based security models are increasingly failing at the edge, and this should be uncomfortable reading for any security leader still anchoring their strategy…

The disclosure-to-exploit window used to be measured in weeks; for weaponized vulnerabilities, it now runs in hours. Out-of-cycle patches that used to be exceptional have become routine across enterprise environments of meaningful size. This pattern now has a name. You might have heard it already: the Patch Apocalypse. Sounds a bit dramatic, but the impact…

Ten Aussie survivalists are being taken well out of their comfort zone for Alone Australia 2026, which – in a series first – is set in the northern hemisphere. They’ll be entirely self-reliant in the near-inhospitable region of Sápmi (known by some as Lapland) in the Arctic Circle, where even the indigenous Sámi people have…

UN Secretary General calls for a global ban on autonomous “killer robots” Guterres argues that delegating life-or-death decisions to machines is “morally repugnant” Governments should take a stance now – not wait for something catastrophic to happen UN Secretary General António Guterres has called for lethal autonomous weapons, which he describes as ‘killer robots’ to…

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Volkswagen and n+ have unveiled a premium new eBike range It features a rear-view camera and radar-based blind-spot warnings Smart glasses and a connected helmet complete the safety ecosystem Volkswagen has taken some of the most advanced safety features from its passenger cars and squeezed them onto an electric bicycle, unveiling what is claimed to…

PS5 user reports being locked out of Ghost of Yotei digital copy for ‘half an hour’ due to license verification License verification isn’t new, but this case is important amid Sony’s plans to axe physical game copies Once physical game copies are gone, access to games on PlayStation will be at Sony’s disposal Sony’s plans…