If you’re a fan of handheld consoles and want to try something different, here’s something interesting you could look at. An Indiegogo campaign is soon due to launch for a follow up handheld to the Sinclair Vega, aptly named the Vega+.

It’ll come pre-loaded with 1,000 different licensed games on launch, dating from around the time when the Sinclair Spectrum was still being made; and will be marketed by Retro Computers Ltd. of which Sinclair Research Ltd. is a shareholder. It uses low-cost components and software to enable to to run the games and priced at an affordable level, as well as other games being available for download for free to the device.

Product development has already completed and a functioning prototype made, so the campaign fundraising is to help the device enter production on a larger scale within the UK. Backers can even receive their own Vega+ at certain backing levels, as well as some special edition device colours being on offer as well as exclusive backer items.

Interested? You can find more details here: http://igg.me/at/vegaplus/x/9227470

Just last week Chinese pirating group 3DM was saying that from the Chinese New Year (Feb 8th) they would not be pirating any new singleplayer games to see how much it would have an effect on the legitimate sales of games. This led some to speculate that they’d done it because they had previously said that anti-tamper software Denuvo was proving to be difficult to crack.

However the group has made an announcement to dispel the rumours saying that they’re on the verge of cracking the latest Denuvo, which means that games it’s been keeping from being pirated (including Rise of the Tomb Raider and Just Cause 3) could soon be made available for torrenting.

“3DM will soon announce that we have a solution to the latest Denuvo encryption used on games including ‘FIFA 16’, ‘Just Cause 3’, and ‘Tomb Raider: The Rise’,” 3DM leader Bird Sister just announced, via TorrentFreak. “We [made this announcement] because a lot of players believe we have abandoned cracking due to technical problems, but we will prove it is not the case. We have not yet been stumped [by protection measures].”

The way these games will be made available isn’t clear, but it has been said that it won’t be high-profile or an official 3DM release.

Reported today is news on the availability of Fallout 4 mods coming to game consoles. Fallout 4 is a post-apocalyptic role playing game, set across a sprawling world and influenced by the post-war 1950s. The game gives players a huge amount of content to explore and many hours to invest. However, the PC community has been taking things a step further since its availability on that platform.

The PC gaming community is known for making mods to games. Mods are basically community developed game add-ins that can enhance gameplay or add in additional content for almost any purpose. For console gamers, the ability to use Mods has never been available for any game. Things may be looking up for those wishing to have this feature on their Xbox One, however.

In a recent tweet, the official Fallout Twitter account, responded to a fan’s inquiry about Mods on consoles, with:

@Godly_shit1 we’ll be sharing more details soon. stay tuned.

— Fallout (@Fallout) January 25, 2016

While not official confirmation about this feature coming to consoles or when a date has been set, we can have at least a tiny bit of hope that it’ll be sooner, rather than later. With the Xbox One now running Windows 10, we do know that the Xbox One would receive this feature due to running the same OS as its PC counterpart. The goal for Bethesda would be to add these Mods seamlessly into the gameplay with upcoming DLC packs.

With this new information, what mods from the PC version of Fallout 4 would you like to see on the Xbox One or Playstation 4? Let us know in the comments.

Computer users often make very basic mistakes that make more sensible people wonder just what they were thinking. Case in point: passwords. Splashdata recently published its fifth annual list of the most commonly-used passwords by computer users in North America and Western Europe; and many people will be hitting their heads against their desks when they learn that obvious choices like "password" and "12345678" still top the list.

While you can expect individuals to make basic mistakes like these, you would assume actual computer manufacturers would be smarter. But if the latest headlines are to be believed, it seems Lenovo's software developers could do with reading this list themselves. As revealed in an advisory posted by Core Security, Lenovo's ShareIT file-sharing software – built in to their computers – has a very serious password-related flaw.

How bad? The Wi-Fi Network created and used for transferring files between Windows computers "securely" uses a very predictable password: 12345678. Even worse, this password is "hardcoded" into the software, making it impossible for users to change it to something much more secure. The problem is even worse for Android users, where the ShareIT app has no password at all, leaving the network entirely open for anyone within radio range to connect to.

The implications for the security of transferred files is serious. Merely using a web browser to connect to a ShareIT network can reveal all the files currently stored on the platform by the affected user. While the files cannot be downloaded this way, the researchers also discovered that the files are transferred insecurely, without any kind of encryption, meaning the simple use of a traffic sniffer once connected could allow anyone to obtain a copy of any transferred file.

Luckily, the flaws may not exist much longer. Lenovo claim that since being made aware of the issues in October last year, the company has worked to bring the software up to snuff. Those running ShareIT on Windows or Android are now advised to download the latest version of the software from the ShareIT website, which was released this week and claims to resolve all the issues found by the Core Security researchers. Given that this is not the first time Lenovo have been found to engage in shady security practices, however, it may be time to think twice about that ThinkPad.

This article originally appeared on Technically Motivated

Microsoft’s been making a big thing of the Hololens during the VR hype that’s been happening over the last year or so, and now they’ve announced that they’re ready to take orders.

On the site they say that they plan to have units shipping out to developers in the Us and Canada during the first quarter of 2016 and are therefore looking for “creative developers to help us build an active, dynamic community”. The price tag per unit though is a staggering $3,000. Wow.

Applying requires for the applicant to be a resident of the US (including Puerto Rico) or Canada; part of the Windows Insider program so that data gained by the developers can be fed back to Microsoft to help “define the future of holographic computing” and the hardwares and experiences will only be available in English.

Microsoft say that they’ll be contacting certain chosen applicants to let them pre-order soon, with units shifting soon after that with more applications being accepted as more units become available.