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Cyber criminals are sending out millions of phishing emails a day, using extortion and other schemes to steal Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from victims. The phishing attacks use a variety of techniques to trick people into transferring sums of Bitcoin, including phony requests for charity donations and business email compromise (BEC) scams. According to a report by cybersecurity researchers at Proofpoint, the company blocks an average of one million extortion emails every day, with some days peaking at nearly…

Since its launch in May 2003, WordPress has become the most-used website platform globally. The WordPress platform powers almost 37% of the top 1 million trafficked websites, according to BuiltWith data. Given the low cost (you really only pay for hosting), ease of installation and use and flexibility, WordPress is ready for websites of all sizes, from personal blogs to enterprise businesses. Count me as a fan. I’ve advocated for its use, going back to nearly the beginning of…

Firefox Translations add-on by Mozilla has been released. The new tool has been developed under The Bergamot Project which is aimed to provide an option that runs directly on users' machines for web page translation and, at the same time, preserve their privacy. The add-on will translate the text in and from any language by using the user's computer resources and the data will not be sent to the cloud for processing. It is currently available for translation in eight languages, and work is in progress for further four…

As you begin your journey with Linux, you'll find things are far easier than you originally assumed. This is especially so on the desktop, where everything is a point-and-click affair and you could go your entire life without ever having to touch the command line. That's a far cry from when I first started my Linux journey (back in '96), at which point the terminal was an absolute necessity. Nearly everything I did required some level of command-line usage.Also: How to install Ubuntu Linux (It's easy!)Because of that, I…

As a child actor, Owen Kline played Jesse Eisenberg’s kid brother in The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach’s excruciating comedy about a middle-class New York family wrecked by divorce, with Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney as the warring parents. Kline played the troubled 12-year-old kid who sympathises with his mother and has developed a habit of covertly masturbating in public.His debut feature as a director features many of the same unwholesome themes. This is a genuinely bizarre, startling, freewheelingly lo-fi and…

| The Joker #15, the finale of the series, written by James Tynion IV, drawn by Giuseppe Camuncoli and Cam Smith and has been delayed two weeks from the 14th of June to the 28th of June, nine weeks since the previous The Joker #14 issue, published on the 26th of April. It will have now have a Final Order Cutoff date of the 5th of June. Additionally, all covers of The Joker #15 now have a cover price of $6.99, with an expanded page count of 48 made up of 39 story pages. That's compared to the average Joker issue which is…

When the US Food and Drug Administration rejected an antidepressant as a treatment for COVID-19 on Monday, it also released a 27-page memorandum explaining exactly why it wasn’t convinced the drug was effective. It’s an unusual move for the agency, which typically rejects drugs quietly without quite so much publicly available paperwork. The antidepressant fluvoxamine is a cheap, generic drug that’s been used for decades. Research shows that the drug can also block inflammation in the body. So, some researchers hoped…

I cannot tell you how many times my wife has shouted from one corner of the house or another, "Chrome ate my pinned tabs again!" It seems like no matter how I configure her Chromebook, I know at some point the gremlins hiding away in the OS are always in a state of coming for those tabs.I've done everything possible to keep that from happening, knowing it is inevitable and I'm going to hear that cry again.…

Overwatch 2 should have been a surefire hit. The original Overwatch took the world by storm when it was released in 2016 and introduced a fresh take on the hero shooter subgenre established by Team Fortress 2. It had a healthy community, and its sequel would maintain that by not overriding its multiplayer base. In 2022, though, Overwatch 2 is both sorely needed and a controversial title. In the years since its announcement, Activision Blizzard has lost multiple major developers related to the franchise…

Brave, the privacy-focused browser has unveiled a new feature that allows users to navigate directly to the publisher's website. The latest functionality called De-AMP will bypass accelerated mobile pages (AMP) hosted by Google and take users to the original website. According to Brave, AMP harms users' privacy and promotes Google to monopolise the Web. The new feature will rewrite links and URLs to prevent users from landing on AMP pages. When Brave cannot rewrite links, it will redirect users from AMP pages to non-AMP…