Category: computers
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Planet of the Apps
The Outline has got this video picking apart Apple’s incredibly shitty Planet of the Apps. Like most things from The Outline, it’s not that great because it mixes useless cheap shots poking fun at Eddie Cue and the way will.i.am excitedly describes things, with legitimate issues the show has. The Outline also pokes fun at…
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Variety’s Janko Roettgers Interviews the Latest Hollywood Studio That Got Hacked
Some time last year the audio post-production studio, Larson, got hacked and the attackers leaked Netflix’s latest season of Orange is the New Black. Variety’s Janko Roettgers has an interview with Larson’s folks to talk about the attack. It’s not an incredibly technical overview, but it is fascinating to read. After reading the article I…
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Apple’s WWDC 2017 Press Event Notes
Every year Apple has at least two big events, their iPhone event in the second half of the year and their developers conference event in the first half of the year. Each event has it’s own press briefing, here are my notes from today’s WWDC 2017 press briefing. It is long as hell. The show…
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HP’s Built-in Keystroke Logger
Many HP laptops have a built-in keylogger in their audio drivers according to computer security firm Modzero AG (via Ars’ Dan Goodin). Keyloggers record what you type, typically covertly, for the purposes of someone else getting access to that text data later on. In this case the researches did not find any malicious capability in the driver…
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Windows 10 Something Went Wrong Edition
Microsoft just announced a new laptop Surface device, it’s $1000 and comes with an intentionally broken version of their Windows 10 operating system. Matt Weinberger: The one thing to know is that the Surface Laptop is the poster child for Windows 10 S, a new version of the operating system that Microsoft says is more…