iDrive is adding cloud-to-cloud backup for personal Google accounts

[ad_1] iDrive, one of our best cloud backup service providers, is adding another string to its bow by allowing personal Google account users to back up the contents to its own service. Per the blog post announcing the move (via Storage Newsletter), the cloud storage service is now offering backups of Google Drive, Mail,…

Byluke.hughes@futurenet.com (Luke Hughes)April 8, 20240Comments

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Why you should make a cloud backup this March

[ad_1] March 30 is World Backup Day. No, you don’t get the day off. It’s an initiative backed by some of the providers we recommend in our cloud backup guide like Mega and Backblaze, and even Amazon, asking everyone - individuals? Organizations? - to make at least one backup of their precious data. At…

Byluke.hughes@futurenet.com (Luke Hughes)March 10, 20240Comments

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Tech bosses are desperate to make AI PCs happen — and spoiler alert, they probably will

[ad_1] We all know about, and are maybe tired of, artificially intelligent computing right now. AI tools to make you productive, workplace AI subscription services, AI operating systems. AI buses, AI plants, and so on. We all think we know it’s the future, but even I don’t know what that future looks like, and…

Byluke.hughes@futurenet.com (Luke Hughes)February 12, 20240Comments

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Amazon is laying off hundreds of workers in its healthcare division

[ad_1] Amazon is cutting hundreds of jobs across its two health-focussed companies, One Medical and Amazon Pharmacy, suggesting that even top brass at Amazon think getting into medical billing or telemedicine may not be the best future strategy idea. Per Business Insider (paywall, via CNBC), One Medical was acquired by Amazon in July 2022…

Byluke.hughes@futurenet.com (Luke Hughes)February 7, 20240Comments

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AI in education isn’t a crisis, it’s an indictment of the whole thing as a means to an end

[ad_1] Over 1,000 UK undergraduates have been surveyed by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and 53% admitted to also using popular AI tools like ChatGPT or its innumerable imitators to create content, generate ideas, or both. The Guardian phrases the next bit perfectly, so I’m going to quote them on it: “Just 5% admitted…

Byluke.hughes@futurenet.com (Luke Hughes)February 3, 20241Comment

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Experts think they’ve found a great new way to see if your iPhone is infected with malware iOS spyware remains a prominent threat, but Kaspersky has a new solution

[ad_1] Top antivirus company Kaspersky has released Python scripts to automate the analysis of Shutdown.log, an Apple iOS system log file that covers device activity during a reboot, in an effort to curb spyware on the world’s most popular mobile platform. Per an announcement on its Securelist blog aimed at security researchers, the collection…

Byluke.hughes@futurenet.com (Luke Hughes)January 20, 20240Comments

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Looking for a Raspberry Pi 5? Shortages could over for good as company almost doubles production

[ad_1] The popular Raspberry Pi 5 single-board microcomputer should be in ready supply in 2024, with an estimated 70,000 boards a week being manufactured as we write - a figure that, with any luck, should scale up to 90,000 over the course of the year. That's the promise of Raspberry Pi CEO and birth…

Byluke.hughes@futurenet.com (Luke Hughes)January 15, 20240Comments

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Tunefab music piracy tool leaked hundreds of gigabytes of user data over 24 hours last year

[ad_1] Users of the Tunefab suite of music ripping software could be waking up to an identity theft nightmare after experts claimed a database left user data publicly accessible for roughly twenty-four hours in September 2023. You might be reading this and thinking there isn’t a story here, and you might be right: minimal…

Byluke.hughes@futurenet.com (Luke Hughes)January 2, 20240Comments

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Raspberry Pi OS’ dark mode adds more coal to your stocking this year

[ad_1] Your sullen adopted teenaged chimp Raspberry Pi son resents you and spends day and night in his room playing online video games with weirdos who he claims 'understand' him. Yes, haha, dark modes are for emos, The Register has already been there, but I (we?) think giving your Raspberry Pi 5 a theme…

Byluke.hughes@futurenet.com (Luke Hughes)December 10, 20230Comments

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Look it up, Bookworm – the Raspberry Pi 5 just got its first OS(es)

[ad_1] A brand-new microcomputer from Hell needs a brand-new OS. Enter the Raspberry Pi Foundation with Bookworm, the latest (un)cool product label for the next version of the Raspberry Pi OS. While not surprising, or even exciting news, we still think this is a neat release. It’s a port of the Linux distribution Debian’s…

Byluke.hughes@futurenet.com (Luke Hughes)October 15, 20230Comments