I recently updated Firefox, registered my free copy of Ad-Aware, and updated CCleaner. I then found two unwanted programs installed on my PC. One was Mobius (?), to do with mobile apps, and the other was...

Namco Bandai is bringing its brilliant action RPG to the PC, with extra stuff included. And we’re talking to the developers in a couple of hours… Dark Souls – coming to a PC near you, to...

Antivirus software only catches 45% of malware attacks and is “dead”, according to a senior manager at Symantec. Remarks by Brian Dye, senior vice-president for information security at the company,...

I’ve been running Intuit’s Quicken for years: my current version is 2002 Deluxe. It runs fine under Windows 7, but I haven’t tried it under Windows 8, and wonder if it will work under Windows 10...

Faulty computer software could have led to a Chinook helicopter crash that killed 25 of Britain’s top intelligence experts, it was reported today. An internal Ministry of Defence document written...

In recent tests to assess the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds from across the world, the UK ranked 26th for maths and 20th for science, down overall from 28th and 16th respectively in 2009. For a...

Google has managed to persuade the US government that the tech company’s computers – rather than humans – should be defined as the “drivers” of a growing fleet of autonomous vehicles. In a significant...

Twice a week we publish problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Saturday Guardian so that readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best...

Thousands of couples who have settled their divorces in the last 20 months may have to re-open negotiations because a critical fault has been found in software used to calculate financial terms. The Ministry...

For anyone interested in what is laughingly known as “corporate responsibility”, the Volkswagen emissions-fraud scandal is a gift that keeps on giving. Apart from the company’s Nazi past, its high...