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1. Google wants to make it impossible to block YouTube ads as they may be inside videos

   By Karlston, June 13, 2024   

   • youtube
   • ads
   • 5 comments
   • 751 views
   • 
   • Comment by UberGeek
   • June 15, 2024

2. UK charity group files complaint against YouTube for illegally collecting data on children

   By aum, March 1, 2023
   • 0 comments
   • 660 views
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   • Added by aum
   • March 1, 2023

3. Fruits and vegetables company Dole suffers ransomware attack

   By aum, February 24, 2023
   • 0 comments
   • 634 views
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   • Added by aum
   • February 24, 2023

4. Germany could join Italy in banning ChatGPT from being used in its country

   By Karlston, April 4, 2023   

   • chatgpt
   • 0 comments
   • 1,071 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • April 4, 2023

5. Elon Musk is silently training his Grok AI on your X data, but you can stop him

   By Karlston, July 27, 2024   

   • twitter/x
   • 3 comments
   • 954 views
   • 
   • Comment by Akaneharuka
   • July 28, 2024

6. Losing SMS authentication on Twitter? Here's how to keep your account secure for free

   By Karlston, February 20, 2023   

   • twitter
   • 2fa
   • 0 comments
   • 1,058 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • February 20, 2023

7. You may soon add notes to passwords in Google Chrome

   By Karlston, February 20, 2023   

   • google chrome
   • passwords
   • 0 comments
   • 576 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • February 20, 2023

8. 1Password does away with passwords, shifts to passkeys

   By Karlston, February 10, 2023   

   • 1password
   • 0 comments
   • 1,206 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • February 10, 2023

9. A security group found a Microsoft server with key data that was not password protected

   By Karlston, April 10, 2024   

   • microsoft
   • 1 comment
   • 866 views
   • 
   • Comment by The Boca Deb
   • April 11, 2024

10. Tor Project welcomes Tails OS to improve user privacy and security

    By Karlston, September 26, 2024   

    • tails
    • tor project
    • 0 comments
    • 743 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • September 26, 2024

11. Move back to Windows 10 from Windows 11 sees Defender do well again in AV-TEST's results

    By Karlston, December 15, 2022   

    • microsoft defender
    • av-test
    • 0 comments
    • 899 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • December 15, 2022

12. Multiple Microsoft 365 services are facing another outage

    By aum, July 30, 2024
    • 0 comments
    • 519 views
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    • Added by aum
    • July 30, 2024

13. India's telco authority plans to implement AI and ML-based solutions to curb SMS spam

    By Karlston, November 29, 2022   

    • india
    • sms spam
    • 0 comments
    • 778 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • November 29, 2022

14. UK phone companies will have to identify and block spoofed calls

    By Karlston, November 15, 2022
    • 0 comments
    • 525 views
    • 
    • Added by Karlston
    • November 15, 2022

15. Ongoing antitrust evidence reveals Google's strategy to 'crush' its competition in ads

    By Karlston, September 12, 2024   

    • google
    • antitrust trial
    • 3 comments
    • 731 views
    • 
    • Comment by aeri
    • September 15, 2024

16. Mozilla enables Total Cookie Protection Firefox feature for Android by default

    By Karlston, November 14, 2022   

    • mozilla firefox
    • android
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • mozilla firefox
      • android
      • cookies
    • 0 comments
    • 787 views
    • 
    • Added by Karlston
    • November 14, 2022

17. Buying ads on Twitter "high-risk," says world's biggest ad company

    By Karlston, November 16, 2022   

    • twitter
    • ads
    • 0 comments
    • 711 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • November 16, 2022

18. Microsoft Edge reportedly steals data from Chrome without user permission

    By Karlston, January 29, 2024   

    • microsoft edge
    • google chrome
    • 0 comments
    • 896 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • January 29, 2024

19. Latest Patch Tuesday mends Spectre V2 vulnerability affecting AMD Ryzen Windows PCs

    By Karlston, November 9, 2022   

    • amd
    • 0 comments
    • 646 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • November 9, 2022

20. Mozilla fixes critical Firefox vulnerability exploited in the wild

    By Karlston, October 10, 2024   

    • mozilla firefox
    • update
    • 0 comments
    • 788 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • October 10, 2024

21. Microsoft finally killing 1024-bit TLS so Windows stops loading old outdated shady web apps

    By Karlston, March 16, 2024   

    • microsoft windows
    • tls
    • 0 comments
    • 1,016 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • March 16, 2024

22. PayPal goes passwordless with support for passkeys

    By Karlston, October 25, 2022   

    • paypal
    • passkey
    • 0 comments
    • 856 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • October 25, 2022

23. YouTube confirms that it is testing out blocking ad blockers on the site

    By Karlston, May 11, 2023   

    • youtube
    • ad blockers
    • 0 comments
    • 1,056 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • May 11, 2023

24. Google Chrome on Windows will get a new layer of protection for cookies and passwords

    By Karlston, July 31, 2024   

    • google chrome
    • 0 comments
    • 509 views
    • 
    • Added by Karlston
    • July 31, 2024

25. Meta faces new AI copyright infringement lawsuit in France

    By Karlston, March 12   

    • meta
    • copyright
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • meta
      • copyright
      • france
    • 0 comments
    • 430 views
    • 
    • Added by Karlston
    • March 12