Buoyed by the popularity of its On This Day feature, Facebook is launching Memories. This is a new page dedicated to reminding you of your past, or at least the past you’ve shared with Facebook. Which, given the Cambridge Analytica scandal, is probably too much. On This Day, Facebook’s blatant Timehop ripoff, has been reminding […]
Continue ReadingThe massive Spectre/Meltdown revelations the opened 2018 shook the computing world. While the vulnerabilities are now firmly out of the main news cycle, that is about to change. Security researchers have uncovered eight new Spectre-style vulnerabilities affecting Intel CPUs—propelling Spectre back into the security limelight. Let’s take a look at the new Spectre vulnerabilities, how they […]
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Google Home is tremendously convenient, giving you the power to find out what’s going on with your day, hear the latest news reports, or catch some music simply by issuing some simple voice commands. But this being Google, all of the data from your questions hangs around your account for analysis and processing. The premise, as with most […]
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It can be tough to remember the passwords of all the Wi-Fi networks you’ve connected to and disconnected from in the past. Maybe your corner coffee shop, or the town library, or the passwords for the home networks of your friends and relatives. You knew them and then forgot. You can always ask for them […]
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