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I just learned of this dispicable Comcast practice today and I am livid. Comcast began injecting 400+ lines of JavaScript code in to pages I requested on the internet so that when the browser renders […]
Last week, we reported that Dell had become the first major OEM to sell laptops that didn’t use the Intel Management Engine. The move was significant, both because of Dell’s size and because the other […]
San Francisco has been home to many quirky, forward-thinking technology startups over the years. There have been services that will fill your gas tank, mail you rolls of quarters, and even more ridiculous things. But […]
OEMs aren’t particularly good at security, but HP’s recent problems deserve some kind of award. The company has been shipping a keylogger on at least 460 laptop models, and while it’s disabled by default, enabling […]
Silicon love machines can now be built to satisfy the kinky requirements of their owner A sex robot designer is now making robots which cater to every fetish and can be fitted with anything from […]
In December 2008, the internet welcomed Google’s Incognito Mode, a privacy option for Chrome, with open arms. The feature offered protection against overbearing browser-history snoops at a time when many of us considered getting caught […]
If someone secretly installed software on your computer that recorded every single keystroke that you made, would you be alarmed? Of course you would be, and that is essentially what is taking place on more […]
The Federal Communications Commission will announce a full repeal of net neutrality protections Wednesday, according to the New York Times and several other media outlets. It is possible that a committee of telecom industry plutocrats who have […]
Over the last two months, we’ve seen a rapid proliferation of websites that mine cryptocurrencies while users visit. While some of the guilty sites are less reputable, we’ve also seen this behavior from companies like […]
Using bcache to speed Linux 4.14? Stop if you want your data to live Source: ‘Urgent data corruption issue’ destroys filesystems in Linux 4.14