There’s a lot of justifiable fear out there. This is to hopefully increase your knowledge and decrease your fear. Yes, I know that isn’t easy. The first time I encountered the saying “Knowledge Prevents Fear” was at the entrance to the wonderful Disneyland known as Jump School. My first reaction (and others’) was “R-i-i-i-i-ght!” (Cosby inflection here). We’ve known about it since 1976 when it first emerged in 284 peopl...
Yeah. Who do you think you are, the NSA, GCHQ, etc.? They summons any of your info they want. They hire hackers to program the most intrusive applications possible, etc. In this post 9/11 world with news about hackers every day, sabotage of Iran’s centrifuges, Sony, Home Depot and Target data losses and you running around changing passwords everywhere, who’s going to argue? They create laws to prove how much they honor the Fourth Amendment or your privacy…and &...
OK. You decided to install the Windows 10 Technical Preview on a secondary machine. Just because the OS is going to change and you should expect hiccups and problems. So, lifeHacker put together a nice guide. You can find it here: http://lifehacker.com/windows-10-technical-preview-now-available-for-download-1641212531 Also, please read Island Dog's post in this section today. You can find it here: https://forums.wincustomize.com/458063/page/1/#34970...
Apple has more bad news for folks, it seems. My birthday wish? That none of you folks have had this happen to you… “Apple has had a very rough couple of weeks. From reports of bending iPhones to the EU accusing them of not paying their taxes, and bugs ruining their iOS8 launch, the Cupertino company can’t seem to catch a break. And now another serious iOS bug is seemingly making the rounds and annoying users. MacRumors is reporting that a number of their members have ...
This out of Softpedia , reporting on an interview with MS Indonesia President Andreas Diantoro. During this interview, he reportedly said that Windows 8 would update to Windows 9 Technical Preview (original story at detik.com). This comes after MS France’s President said that the preview would be coming this week. Apparently, W8 will update to W9 without the need for a clean install. MS is neither confirming nor denying this (Google Translate of the original): “It’s ea...
Russia has demanded that Google, Facebook and Twitter comply with Russian censorship laws and store all data locally. In fact, Putin signed that into law in July, 2014. Before screaming (justifiably), we should probably realize that we (the NSA), the British (GCHQ) and so many others demand and/or do the same already. Also, it’s not like Google, et. al. don’t do the same (even censorship to some degree), only for profit. Well, in China Google sidestepped it by se...
Neowin just published on this. This one’s worse than “Heartbleed”. Even if you aren’t running the above OSs, hackers can take control of any device running on operating systems that make use of Bash for command line operations. Also, some networking equipment such as routers and switches running on Linux variants also make use of Bash. “The severity of the bug has been rated 10 out of 10 by Cybersecurity agency, Rapid7, due to its high risk and low complexity combinati...
I felt really good when I read gHacks about this topic, since it’s something I’ve been doing for years. There are two basic situations: The first: You’ve decided that for the type of purchase you’re making, it’s better to have a direct connection to the brick and mortar merchant, and the second: You’ve decided that the discount or local availability dictate you shop online. For the second, this article doesn’t apply. For the first, there are several ways to pay for things. ...
I like that Sci Fi ‘inventions’ become real. Exoskeletons (a normal attribute for insects and crustaceans) are now finding their way into mankind’s world. They exist…for medical and industrial as well as military uses: The first is the ‘Walker’ for paralyzed people which is undergoing medical trials prior to FDA approval. The second is ‘HULC’ ( http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2011/june/LockheedMartinsHULCRoboti.html ) hel...
First of all, it’s in Beta, but supposedly runs just fine but only for Chrome, and Chrome based browsers. The review of it is here: http://www.ghacks.net/2014/09/12/google-software-removal-tool-for-windows-released/?_m=3n%2e0038%2e1365%2ehj0ao01hy5%2e1ew6 I agree with Martin Brinkmann that this should only be used as a last resort, if only because Google doesn’t list exactly which programs it scans for and removes. It does it for those it considers “suspicious”. ...
Everybody signs up for free stuff or services, goodies, whatever. It’s only human. Fort me, it’s graphics, fonts, photography sites, digital art sites. What can I say? Things pile up really quickly, and your inbox looks like World War Z around the walls of Jerusalem. So, it’s time to get rid of stuff you no longer need. Like “accounts”. MakeUseOf had a good article ( http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/make-4-changes-delete-online-account/ ) which gives four steps b...
Microsoft calls this build Windows Technical Preview and the build number is 9834 (Windows 8.1 is 9600), not Windows 9. So maybe it won’t be called Windows 9 after all? There’s a video of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--wgAsHWNRE#t=16 There’s also a review of the new features revealed in the video and a fair critique here: http://www.ghacks.net/2014/09/12/what-the-leaked-windows-9-screenshots-reveal-about-the-operating-system/?_m=3n%2e0038%2e1364...
Just saw this…so, passing it on. “According to the Daily Dot, nearly 5 million usernames and passwords to Gmail accounts have been leaked on a Russian Bitcoin forum. Here's what you should know. The list has since been taken down, and there's no evidence that Gmail itself was hacked—just that these passwords have been leaked. Most sources are saying that lots of the information is quite old, so chances are they were leaked long ago—though others ...
A cool concept…by making it windowless, there will be a great savings of materials producing a lighter and stronger airframe. So, no one wants to be shut in that way, without a way to look out and see the world, right? Well this baby will have cameras outside with 360 0 pano view and the cabin walls will be screens…with possibilities for video conferencing, etc. Spike Aerospace has won design prizes with this revolutionary plane design. Pretty cool! ...
Meetup, Mozilla, Reddit, Etsy and Kickstarter and other big website owning net neutrality backers will be displaying the dreaded large spinning wheel (‘Please wait – site loading’) this Wednesday, five days before the FCC second round deadline for public comments. This will be to show folks how their net will look if the FCC doesn’t pass strong net neutrality regulations. The point being without those regulations, the web will develop ‘fast’ (higher fee) lanes and ‘slow’ pe...