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9to5google.com 5y ago

Sources: Google plans to eventually replace Duo with Meet

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www.theverge.com 6y ago

T-Mobile explains why its network went down, hard, on Monday

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www.humblebundle.com 7y ago

Humble Book Bundle: Python by O'Reilly

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www.humblebundle.com 7y ago

The Humble Book Bundle: Web Programming by O'Reilly

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www.theverge.com 7y ago

California just became the first state with an IOT cybersecurity law

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arstechnica.com 8y ago

The “unpatchable” exploit that makes every current Nintendo Switch hackable

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www.theverge.com 8y ago

John McAfee reveals he charges $105,000 per promotional cryptocurrency tweet

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www.bloomberg.com 8y ago

Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel

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arstechnica.com 8y ago

“Patent troll” doubles down, now accuses Clicker Heroes maker of libel

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www.theverge.com 8y ago

A new Netflix show wants to manipulate people into committing murder

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arstechnica.com 8y ago

Winter Games opens with “destructor” attack against Olympics network

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gizmodo.com 8y ago

Sacramento Bee Leaks 19.5M California Voter Records

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www.theverge.com 8y ago

Uber is just too underhanded to play the underdog against Waymo

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www.billboard.com 8y ago

Best Buy to Pull CDs, Target Threatens to Pay for CDs Only When Customers Buy

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www.theverge.com 8y ago

MoviePass’ claims about its importance to AMC Theatres are grossly deceptive

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arstechnica.com 8y ago

Transmission – BitTorrent users beware: Flaw lets hackers control your computer

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arstechnica.com 8y ago

Meet “raw” water – ludicrously priced unfiltered water with random bacteria

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fail0verflow.com 8y ago

Dumping a PS4 Kernel in “Only” 6 Days

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www.theverge.com 8y ago

Meet the judge who codes – and decides tech’s biggest cases

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threatpost.com 8y ago

Seven More Chrome Extensions Compromised

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nakedsecurity.sophos.com 9y ago

The Chrome extension that “Firesheeps” you by choice

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www.fastcompany.com 9y ago

Startup Helix Wants to Create a World of Personalized Products from Your DNA

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arstechnica.com 10y ago

Jury: Apple must pay $626M to patent troll VirnetX

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steamcommunity.com 11y ago

Removing Payment Feature from Skyrim Workshop

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arstechnica.com 11y ago

ICANN e-mail accounts, zone database breached in spearphishing attack

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arstechnica.com 11y ago

Startups can now buy insurance against threat of patent trolls

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www.theverge.com 11y ago

New iOS malware targets devices through Chinese app stores

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arstechnica.com 11y ago

Drupal sites had "hours" to patch before attacks started

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www.theverge.com 11y ago

New project from Apple and Google alumni aims to fix an annoying Android problem

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consumerist.com 11y ago

USPS Gets Go-Ahead to Expand Deliveries of Groceries and Other Stuff

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Ars Technica followed up with Amazon and got this response:

"In the fall when we released Fire OS 5, we removed some enterprise features that we found customers weren’t using," Amazon told Ars. "All Fire tablets’ communication with Amazon’s cloud meet our high standards for privacy and security including appropriate use of encryption."

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/03/amazon-removed-device...

At least for detection (from the article): "During installation it is extracted into /Library/Application Support/JavaW, after which the dropper generates a p-list file so that the backdoor is launched automatically."

Fake Name Generator 13 years ago

MacPorts does not use system libraries for good reasons:

"There are several reasons why MacPorts uses its own libraries. It makes ports more consistent across different versions of Mac OS X. For example, if we can rely on openssl 1.0.0 from MacPorts, we don't have to test every port that needs ssl for every available openssl installation. Apple's software tends to break from time to time (e.g. openssl refuses to build with an old zlib, but for awhile Apple shipped the old headers of the vulnerable zlib version). Even if Apple's versions aren't broken, they're rarely up-to-date. Apple has a habit of not updating the libraries in Mac OS X until absolutely necessitated by a security vulnerability." [1]

[1] https://trac.macports.org/wiki/FAQ#ownlibs

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