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Australia’s Digital ID and Age Verification Explained

2025 has been the year Australia moved from talk to action: Parliament passed a national Digital ID Act, regulators ran public trials, and the Social Media Minimum Age amendment to the Online Safety Act requiring platforms to verify users’ ages is taking effect in December. What does that mean for you and your privacy? And… Read more.

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RAS Async Adapter driver

Summary The RAS Async Adapter driver is an in-box, Microsoft-provided driver for Windows, which enables these systems to connect to a network remotely using either Dial-up or VPN technologies. This RAS async adapter driver allows asynchronous data transfers for RAS and facilitates users to establish connections with any remote network-accessible resources, like an intranet of… Read more.

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ACPI Wake Alarm Driver

Summary The ACPI Wake Alarm driver plays a vital role in handling power events in Windows systems. An operating system enabled with this driver will be allowed to wake up automatically from sleep or hibernation at the appropriate time, should it be scheduled for this, hence promoting power efficiency and supporting scheduled tasks. The ACPI… Read more.

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UK’s Mandatory Digital ID: What We Know So Far in 2025

2025 has been notable—if not revolutionary—for the UK’s privacy in both regulation and tech departments: the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) and its age assurance rules are already in force, and Whitehall has started pushing a program for UK digital ID cards—GOV.UK Wallet—that ministers say will (at the very least) be used for things like… Read more.

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Age Verification & Digital ID: A 2025 Privacy Reality Check

More and more governments and big platforms around the world are shifting toward forcing users to verify their identities when using online services, rolling out mandatory digital ID plans and biometric age checks—and at a faster pace than ever. Whether it’s for safety (as they usually justify these developments) or simply for more control, we’ll… Read more.

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HID-compliant game controller driver

Summary HID-compliant game controller-this is a driver that comes along with Windows; thus, the operating system is able to detect and function with normal game controllers. This driver can handle a wide range of gamepads and joysticks, among other gaming peripherals using the HID standard. HID-compliant driver: Automatically allows the video game controller to be… Read more.

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How Outdated Drivers Put Your Corporate Data at Risk

Introduction A lot of companies think of driver updates as just another small IT chore—something you get to when everything else is done. But leaving drivers out of date isn’t a minor thing. It opens up real holes in your network. Hackers love these gaps. They use them to sneak in malware, mess with your… Read more.

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How System Slowdowns Impact Team Productivity

Introduction Every business leans on technology to keep things moving. But over time, systems get bogged down. Old hardware, too many useless files, settings that no one remembers changing — all of it piles up, and suddenly things just don’t run like they used to. Most folks don’t notice the slowdown right away. It’s only… Read more.