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Is it worth buying a refurbished PC for under £150?

Mark needs to replace a 10-year-old desktop computer on a budget. Is a refurbished model a good option?

Will I be able to do more work with three screens?

Having more screen space makes people more productive, but it’s not necessarily best distributed over multiple monitors

Eve V review: upstart Windows tablet for power users has great potential

This crowdfunded and croudsourced machine could offer something special if its niggles are ironed out

Major security flaw found in Intel processors

Developers scramble to fix bug within Intel chips made in the last decade that will affect millions of computers running Windows, mac OS and Linux

Can I use a cheap USB flash drive to run Windows and use as a local hard drive?

Roger has bought a 1TB USB memory stick for only £8.99 and wonders if he could use it as a day-to-day drive

Microsoft Paint saved after outpouring of love – sort of

Microsoft says that it will put the 32-year-old Paint on the Windows Store, but that won’t help office workers pining for some impromptu creative sessions

‘As it dies, I die also’: your Microsoft Paint creations

Our readers share paens to MS Paint, which is not long of this world

Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

Long-standing basic graphics editing program, used throughout childhoods since the 1980s, has been marked for death

Share your Microsoft Paint memories and creations

As MS Paint prepares to shuffle off this mortal coil, we want your memories and shaky artworks created via this venerable graphics editing program

Should I upgrade my Windows Vista PC or buy a new one?

Many readers are still using Vista despite it no longer receiving security patches, but it should still possible for them to upgrade to Windows 7 and Windows 10

Huawei MateBook X review: fanless and full-blooded MacBook Pro rival

Huawei has achieved something quite special with its new laptop that is one of the lightest around without sacrificing power

HMS Queen Elizabeth could be vulnerable to cyber-attack

Royal Navy £3.5bn carrier appears to be running Windows XP, the operating system targeted in NHS ransomware attack

WannaCry attacks prompt Microsoft to release Windows updates for older versions

The company typically releases security updates for operating systems it still supports – but in wake of serious cyber-attack it has reassessed the policy

Windows 10 S review: faster, simpler … and incredibly painful to use

New Windows variant delivers on speed, security and simplicity – but its limited Windows Store apps and awful Edge browser just don’t cut it

WannaCry hackers still trying to revive attack says accidental hero

Marcus Hutchins says hackers are attempting to overwhelm ‘kill switch’ that halted ransomware attack on NHS and global companies

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  • How Belfast knife attack became the latest far-right ‘trigger event’
  • Crackdown on tech platforms will go ahead despite US intervention, says No 10
  • Peabo Bryson obituary
  • Disclosure Day review – close encounters of a deferred kind in Spielberg’s conspiracy spectacular
  • ‘We got banned from YouTube but they showed Saddam Hussein being hanged’: the wild viral visions of Romain Gavras
  • All signs point to Trump pushing AI growth
  • UK regulator orders social media firms to adopt measures to stop viral illegal content
  • Amazon’s main UK arm handed £7.6m tax credit as profits soar to £355m
  • I watched as Meta’s threats stopped Sarah Wynn-Williams from speaking – we must have stronger rights for whistleblowers
  • Bank of England warns of AI scams as deepfakes of Farage-Bailey fight spread
  • Think Musk the billionaire was bad? Brace yourself for Musk the trillionaire
  • ‘A man of great appetites’: what’s it like to be a dictator’s personal chef?
  • Signal One review – Dennis Quaid and David Thewlis ballast high-concept, low-risk first contact yarn
  • White House urges UK not to ban social media for under-16s
  • Pink Narcissus review – garish colour and dreamlike images in a homoerotic vision of 60s New York
  • Doctors and NHS could be sued for mistakes made by AI tools, report warns
  • Let this be a warning – if Europe worries about Trump, it has even more reason to fear JD Vance
  • Tuesday briefing: Is a social media ban in the UK enough to help protect young people?
  • World’s first wind-powered underwater datacentre starts operating in China
  • French star Patrick Bruel held by police investigating new sexual assault allegations
  • Plan for AI legal assistants in England and Wales ‘cannot replace funding and staff’, lawyers say
  • Child sexual abuse victims in England and Wales to get help to remove online images
  • OpenAI confidentially files for initial public offering on US stock market
  • Apple debuts revamped ‘Siri AI’ and new child safety features for iPhones and iPads
  • The Guardian view on children and the internet: rolling back big tech’s untrammelled power
  • Rushed social media ban for under-16s in UK could ‘unravel’, charity warns
  • Child phone nudity law could largely end online child sexual abuse if widely adopted, Jess Phillips claims – as it happened
  • Revealed: the ‘less lethal’ weapons Australian police don’t want you to know about
  • If Australian datacentres are going to power the AI revolution, we deserve a fair return
  • Tell us: which Steven Spielberg movie means the most to you?

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