A spokesperson for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics organizing committee has confirmed that the Games fell victim to hackers just prior to the opening ceremony. The website for the Games crashed, with visitors unable to print tickets or view information for about 12 hours. “We know the cause of that problem, but [these kinds] of issues occur very frequently during the Olympic Games,” Pyeongchang organising committee spokesman Sung Baik-you said on Saturday. Details of the attack are as yet u

A Linux gaming distro, as the name suggests, is tailored for avid gamers. As such, any regular Linux distro can easily be turned into a ‘game station’. In this guide you will discover five of the very best Linux gaming distros. Relight your gaming fire on virtually any platformPre-bundled gaming software like SteamSupport for online gamesNo pre-installed console emulatorsSparky Linux is a Debian-based distro. In addition to proprietary codecs and drivers, the distro provides two different system

We’re just a week away from seeing exactly what Samsung’s been working on for the past year – the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus are expected to be unveiled ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next Sunday, and of course TechRadar will be there to bring you the news as soon as it breaks. In the meantime, how about some official Galaxy S9 covers? German site WinFuture has spotted some cases on the web, and they introduce two new styles that we haven’t seen for the Galaxy flagships before: Hy

Amazon is planning to take even more control over the journey your purchased products take to your door, according to reports – the giant retail and tech company is said to be plotting to launch its own full-scale delivery service at some point during 2018. It’s not the first time such a rumor has surfaced, but it seems Amazon is now ready to start putting the plan into practice, starting with a limited roll out. It follows on from the service Amazon already offers of delivering products for com

An unusually versatile Contacts Backup feature can protect your address book by emailing the details to yourself, or backing them up directly to Google Drive or Dropbox. Put it all together and Avira Mobile Security is a versatile suite which uses multiple layers to protect you from web-based and other dangers. Upgrading to the Premium plan – from $8.99 (£6.40) a month – gets you cloud backup and a “premium security VPN”. iOS security with comprehensive identity theft protectionDetailed security

If you were watching the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea yesterday then you might have noticed a swarm of Intel-made drones lighting up the night sky at various points – and those intelligent packs of drones broke a Guinness World Record along the way. The record-breaking segment shown at the ceremony was actually pre-recorded, and featured a total of 1,218 drones flying together in sync, more than ever before. We’ve seen these Shooting Star drones from Intel in actio

Rumors of some Google Glass-style AR/VR specs in development at Apple have been swirling for a while now, but we now have a better idea of what this gadget might actually look like, courtesy of a new Apple patent that’s just arrived in the public domain. As spotted by PatentlyApple, the patent shows an “Optical System for Head-mounted Display”, a series of lenses designed to point images into the wearer’s eyes, wrapped in a unit that’s intended to be less bulky and less heavy than some of the ot

And, yet, here we are, speculating on the release of a MacBook Air 2018 release. Likely as much as – if not more than – current modelsSince the only rumor of a 2018 MacBook Air is actually foretelling its death, we have no idea exactly when the MacBook Air 2018 release date will be. MacBook Air 2018 priceOf course, without a mention of a MacBook Air 2018 rumor beyond its prophesied death, that leaves us with next to nothing regarding the price of such an Apple laptop. MacBook Air 2018 specsUnfor

HTC Vive China President Alvin Wang Graylin, speaking with Antony Vitillo, aka SkarredGhost, said the company is open to launching the Vive Focus in more markets, once it has clearer market data on the headset’s performance in China. We’ve asked HTC for further comment on a possible wider Vive Focus release, and we’ll update this story if we hear back. Wire-free futureAs a standalone VR headset, the Vive Focus doesn’t require a PC or even a smartphone to operate. Other Vive Focus features includ

The awesome operating system Linux is free and open source. In this article, we’re going to highlight 10 of the best offerings when it comes to both privacy and security. Industry-standard pen-testing distroMost popular pen-testing distro in the worldHundreds of built-in pen-testing toolsVery much a niche distroNamed after the Hindu goddess, Kali is one of the oldest and most well-known pen-testing distros. Another distro bristling with pen-testing utilitiesVisually stunning desktop and menusLar

The Mac mini is really overdue an update, so 2018 is the ideal year to release a new Mac mini. Mac mini 2018 specsAgain, rumors of specs for the Mac mini 2018 are thin on the ground. The integrated graphics of these new Intel chips will also give the Mac mini 2018 a nice boost, and while we wouldn’t expect to play heavy-duty games on the Mac mini 2018, it should still prove to be an excellent media machine. What we want to see in Mac mini 2018While we don’t know a lot about the Mac mini 2018 at

LG is rumored to be announcing a revised version of the LG V30 at MWC and we’re now hearing more about what that phone might offer. Dubbed the LG V30S, the souped-up version of one of last year’s best Android phones will bring some features that the V30 was lacking to make it competitive in 2018. It’s tipped by ETNews to boast 256GB of storage and launch the LG Lens, an AI and augmented reality play to improve the quality of the cameras. Early reports suggested that this phone would be called V3

Therefore, while Bitcoin still remains the most-trafficked cryptocurrency on the dark web, cybercriminals are currently moving away from it. Instead, the firm reckons that Litecoin is likely to claim the throne as king of dark web transactions, as it’s the second most accepted virtual currency right now (30% of all vendors on the dark web accept it). This is according to an analysis of some 150 of the most prominent dark web message boards and marketplaces. Although Dash still remains the third

As part of its continuing effort to clean up its platform and its reputation, Facebook has started testing an experimental downvote option. Instead it’s intended to improve the quality of comments on public posts by letting users downvote anything offensive, misleading or off-topic. A Facebook representative confirmed to the Verge that the downvote link is currently being tested among a small selection of US-based users who began sharing screen grabs on Twitter yesterday. As part of this move, F

Mario Kart Tour – how much will it cost? Mario Kart Tour – which platforms will it be on? Mario Kart Tour – how will it play? Unfortunately, Nintendo hasn’t released any details on how Mario Kart Tour will actually play, but given it’s based on the popular Mario Kart IP, it’ll naturally be a streamlined version of the console games. While details are limited just now, keep checking back because we’ll keep updating as we hear more about Mario Kart Tour!

The Apple HomePod, the iPhone maker’s answer to the Amazon Echo and Google Home smart speakers, has gone on sale. Priced at $349 / £319 / AU$499, pre-order sales saw stock swallowed up by keen Apple fans. But while Apple stores may be in short supply of the speaker, you’re likely to have more luck at the many third-party retailers also offering the curvy speaker. But with some time for Siri to expand its functionality, the sheen of Apple’s premium design sensibilities is still present. We’ll hav

Mobile network EE has launched its 4G home broadband antenna, bringing a superfast internet connection to rural homes not connected by traditional cable or fibre lines. The antenna requires someone to come and install it onto the outside of your house, and it links up to EE’s Home Router inside the home to provide internet speeds of up to 100Mbps. While 100Mbps sounds appealing, you’ll be highly unlikely to see your internet speed get close to that during real world usage. 5GB free for EE phone

Though it hasn’t been on the market for long, the Nintendo Switch has been markedly more successful than its predecessor, the Wii U. In just 11 months, more Switch consoles were purchased than Wii U consoles over five years. Using data from Metacritic, Kotaku established that as of December 2017 the Switch had three times the number of games the Wii U did at the same point in its release cycle, and twice that of the Wii. It actually found that, overall, the average quality of the titles was bett

Headline revenue reached $2.91 billion (around £2.1 billion, AU$3.75 billion), a 34% increase compared to the same quarter last year. The firm’s GPU business represented the lion’s share of that money, raking in $2.46 billion (around £1.75 billion, AU$3.15 billion), which was up 33% year-on-year. The majority of that GPU revenue was driven by GeForce graphics cards (the gaming division), which took $1.74 billion (around £1.25 billion, AU$2.25 billion), representing impressive growth levels. And

Alongside the Huawei P20 and perhaps also a Huawei P20 Lite, we’re expecting to see a Huawei P20 Plus at the top of the upcoming range, and we’ve just had a very close look at the possible design. Image 1 of 3 The Huawei P20 Plus could have a 6-inch screen. Credit: TigerMobiles/OnLeaks Image 2 of 3 Expect a plain back and a triple-lens camera. A big screen in a small shellAlongside the images we also have information on the size of the phone. The Huawei P20 Plus will probably use a Kirin 970 chi