By Rhett Jones @ Gizmodo on 9/24/18 Once again, Google has rankled privacy-focused people with a product change that appears to limit users’ options. It’s easy to miss the fact that you’re automatically being logged-in to Chrome if you’re not paying attention… Read more here.
You haven’t been on the seedy parts of the internet recently have you? Naw, I didn’t think so. Guess what… I’ve recently gotten 2 viruses due to infected ads on song lyrics sites. I’ve personally seen proof you don’t have to be surfing p0rn to get malware on your computer, …
Windows 7 — 2018 Edition is the Microsoft operating system you’ve been waiting for By Wayne Williams @ BetaNews.com on 6/18/18. Windows 10 is a very good operating system, but despite Microsoft initially offering it as a free upgrade, many users were reluctant to switch from Windows 7, and it’s easy to understand …
By Devindra Hardawar, on 5/15/18 @ Engadget.com “Microsoft’s Surface Hub 2 is a bold attempt at changing how we work It’s a huge collaborative screen that can rotate into a portrait mode.” Read more: https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/15/microsoft-surface-hub-2/
By Romain Dillet, on 4/13/18 @ https://techcrunch.com Google is working on a brand new design for the web version of Gmail. TechCrunch’s tipster Chaim also discovered an interesting new feature in the new Gmail. You’ll soon be able to send expiring emails. Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/13/google-is-testing-self-destructing-emails-in-new-gmail/
By Stephen Achenck, 3/30/2018, from Android Police Google Duo is a little unusual among the company’s apps, as it identifies users not based on the Google account that connects you to everything from Gmail, to YouTube, to the Play Store, but instead uses your device’s phone number. Pretty much ever …
From GIZMODO on 4/10/2018, by Sam Rutherford: Passwords are pretty archaic. Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of companies including Google, Apple, Facebook and others, no one has figured out a uniform standard that would make it possible to do away with them entirely. Until, perhaps, now. Read more: https://gizmodo.com/this-new-web-standard-could-finally-kill-the-password-1825141127
Posted by James Fisher on 4/7/18: I recently received an email from Netflix which nearly caused me to add my card details to someone else’s Netflix account. Here I show that this is a new kind of phishing scam which is enabled by an obscure feature of Gmail called “the …
From GIZMODO, by Rhett Jones, 4/5/18 Since the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal first broke last month, Facebook has tried out a number of PR strategies to address the growing outcry. At this point, the social media company is just going for broke, telling the public it should just assume that …
From Stratechery, on Monday, April 2, 2018: The story of Windows’ decline is relatively straightforward and a classic case of disruption: The Internet dramatically reduced application lock-in PCs became “good enough”, elongating the upgrade cycle Smartphones first addressed needs the PC couldn’t, then over time started taking over PC functionality directly …
