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Image: StackCommerce TL;DR: Get lifetime access to AdLock Premium for $18.99 (MSRP $210) and block ads, pop-ups, and trackers across your devices for good. Why AdLock is Helpful Stops all ads: Blocks pop-ups, banners, video ads, and some in-app commercials. Boosts privacy: Removes spyware and tracking tools that collect data in the background. Speeds up browsing: Pages load faster without …

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Skip to content Image: StackCommerce TL;DR: Get Microsoft Office for life for only $50. Instead of paying $99.99 per year for Microsoft 365, you can now get the same apps for life. Microsoft Office Pro 2021 is now available as a lifetime license, and it’s on sale for $49.97 (reg. $219.99). This version comes with Word Excel PowerPoint Outlook Publisher …

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Image: Jon L. Jacobi If you’ve been using the internet for more than a month or so, you know that downloading files from unknown sites is a great way to get compromised. But the latest security update to Windows does a little extra to keep you safe. According to Microsoft, those who install the latest …

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With privacy all but nonexistent now thanks to web advertising and monetized tracking, there’s a definite niche for browsers and other tools that specialize in keeping you safe and anonymous online. Brave, DuckDuckGo, Mullvad, and Tor are all great examples. But one “privacy browser” is allegedly made by cyber criminals specifically to harvest data—and it …

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marekkijevsky – stock.adobe.com With its integrated model for research, innovation, and commercialisation, VentureOne’s CEO says the incubator is helping turn the UAE’s bold tech ambitions into globally competitive companies. By Andrea Benito , Computer Weekly Published: 24 Oct 2025 10:14 Abu Dhabi is accelerating its aim to become a global hub for deep technology, and …

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Romolo Tavani – stock.adobe.com Days after its largest US datacentre region experienced a lengthy outage, causing service disruption to web users across the globe, Amazon Web Services issues an explanation and apology regarding what happened By Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK Published: 23 Oct 2025 12:00 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has issued an apology to …

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grandeduc – stock.adobe.com The unpredictable geopolitical climate is having an impact on IT strategies, a report from Kyndryl has found By Cliff Saran, Managing Editor Published: 23 Oct 2025 11:45 Kyndryl’s second annual Readiness report has found that geopolitical pressures have become more important in IT decision-making compared with 12 months ago. According to the …

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Alexey Stiop – stock.adobe.com Surging investments in cloud infrastructure and hyperscale capacity position the UAE as a regional digital powerhouse and a magnet for global tech giants By Andrea Benito , Computer Weekly Published: 23 Oct 2025 11:18 The UAE is undergoing a shift in its digital infrastructure landscape, with a wave of data centre …

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Most enterprises now run applications in containers, and so they must pay attention to how they store and manage data for containerised applications. The Nutanix enterprise cloud index, compiled for the cloud software supplier by VansonBourne and published earlier this year, found 54% of firms have containerised all their applications and as many as 98% …

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