Miscellaneous Tech News
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Google Chrome wants to stop back-button hijacking
Chrome's back button will skip those shady redirects, actually go back.
A new commit on the Chromium source (first spotted by 9to5Google) outlines a plan to stop weird website schemes like this, with a lockdown on "history manipulation" by websites. The commit reads: "Entries that are added to the back/forward list without the user's intention are marked to be skipped on subsequent back button invocations."
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Ohio Congressman: We can fund border wall with “WallCoin”
As President Donald Trump threatened to allow a government shutdown if Congress did not provide funding for his proposed wall along the Mexican border, a Republican congressman from Ohio offered up alternative routes to getting the wall built: through Internet crowdfunding or through an initial coin offering.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Ohio Congressman: We can fund border wall with “WallCoin”
As President Donald Trump threatened to allow a government shutdown if Congress did not provide funding for his proposed wall along the Mexican border, a Republican congressman from Ohio offered up alternative routes to getting the wall built: through Internet crowdfunding or through an initial coin offering.
Basically asking hard liner Republicans to fund the wall. Not a bad plan, other than environmental concerns, if people want to self fund the wall, go for it.
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Facebook apologizes again, new photo bug affects millions
Another day, another privacy issue with Facebook.
The company announced Friday morning that a photo API bug might have resulted in millions of people having their private photos become improperly accessible by up to 1,500 apps for a period of 12 days in September 2018. -
WallCoin would almost certainly funnel a massive amount of US money into Mexico as Americans voluntarily pour money into building a wall that will be certainly, at least partially, be built by foreign companies and/or labour. LOL
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FCC panel wants to tax Internet-using businesses and give the money to ISPs
A Federal Communications Commission advisory committee has proposed a new tax on Netflix, Google, Facebook, and many other businesses that require Internet access to operate.
If adopted by states, the recommended tax would apply to subscription-based retail services that require Internet access, such as Netflix, and to advertising-supported services that use the Internet, such as Google and Facebook. The tax would also apply to any small- or medium-sized business that charges subscription fees for online services or uses online advertising. The tax would also apply to any provider of broadband access, such as cable or wireless operators.
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and just like that, netflix raises prices everywhere
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
FCC panel wants to tax Internet-using businesses and give the money to ISPs
A Federal Communications Commission advisory committee has proposed a new tax on Netflix, Google, Facebook, and many other businesses that require Internet access to operate.
If adopted by states, the recommended tax would apply to subscription-based retail services that require Internet access, such as Netflix, and to advertising-supported services that use the Internet, such as Google and Facebook. The tax would also apply to any small- or medium-sized business that charges subscription fees for online services or uses online advertising. The tax would also apply to any provider of broadband access, such as cable or wireless operators.
TL;DR FCC wants to tax Americans to fund private companies.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
FCC panel wants to tax Internet-using businesses and give the money to ISPs
A Federal Communications Commission advisory committee has proposed a new tax on Netflix, Google, Facebook, and many other businesses that require Internet access to operate.
If adopted by states, the recommended tax would apply to subscription-based retail services that require Internet access, such as Netflix, and to advertising-supported services that use the Internet, such as Google and Facebook. The tax would also apply to any small- or medium-sized business that charges subscription fees for online services or uses online advertising. The tax would also apply to any provider of broadband access, such as cable or wireless operators.
TL;DR FCC wants to tax Americans to fund private companies.
That's something new?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
FCC panel wants to tax Internet-using businesses and give the money to ISPs
A Federal Communications Commission advisory committee has proposed a new tax on Netflix, Google, Facebook, and many other businesses that require Internet access to operate.
If adopted by states, the recommended tax would apply to subscription-based retail services that require Internet access, such as Netflix, and to advertising-supported services that use the Internet, such as Google and Facebook. The tax would also apply to any small- or medium-sized business that charges subscription fees for online services or uses online advertising. The tax would also apply to any provider of broadband access, such as cable or wireless operators.
TL;DR FCC wants to tax Americans to fund private companies.
The Actual answer is
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Report: FBI opens criminal investigation into net neutrality comment fraud
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the use of stolen identities in public comments on the government's repeal of net neutrality rules, BuzzFeed News reported Saturday.
The investigation focuses on "whether crimes were committed when potentially millions of people's identities were posted to the FCC's website without their permission, falsely attributing to them opinions about net neutrality rules," the report said.
But they aren't investing Pai and his claims?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Interesting tidbit from Wikipedia about Halloween in the west: "In contrast to Japan, the wearing of costumes in public is more accepted in the United States and other western countries. These countries have a longer tradition of Halloween costumes, fan costuming and other such activities. As a result, for example, costumed convention attendees can often be seen at local restaurants and eateries, beyond the boundaries of the convention or event."
Speaking of that - a friend attended the Star Wars Con in Tokyo about 8 years ago - He said from the outside - you had no clue there was a convention going on, let alone a Star Wars one happening.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Good - kill SMS and any other carrier based messaging!
Good lucking getting them to get tax info for the likes of What's App or FB Messenger.
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The Windows 10 October 2018 Update is now fully available—for “advanced” users
The rollout of Microsoft's beleaguered update will become a little faster now.
Microsoft is saying that this upgrade route is for "advanced" users. Everyone else should wait for the fully automatic deployment, which doesn't seem to have started yet. That'll have its own set of throttles and perhaps even new blacklists if further problems are detected. A number of the remaining compatibility problems are more likely to strike corporate users, as they involve corporate VPN and security software. Companies will need to apply the relevant patches for the third-party applications before they can roll out the Windows 10 update.
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Researchers make RAM from a phase change we don’t entirely understand
Two ways to switch tiny patches of a material from semiconducting to metallic.
We seem to be on the cusp of a revolution in storage. Various technologies have been demonstrated that have speed approaching that of current RAM chips but can hold on to the memory when the power shuts off—all without the long-term degradation that flash experiences. Some of these, like phase-change memory and Intel's Optane, have even made it to market. But, so far at least, issues with price and capacity have kept them from widespread adoption.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The Windows 10 October 2018 Update is now fully available—for “BETA TESTERS” users
The rollout of Microsoft's beleaguered update will become a little faster now.
Microsoft is saying that this upgrade route is for "advanced" users. Everyone else should wait for the fully automatic deployment, which doesn't seem to have started yet. That'll have its own set of throttles and perhaps even new blacklists if further problems are detected. A number of the remaining compatibility problems are more likely to strike corporate users, as they involve corporate VPN and security software. Companies will need to apply the relevant patches for the third-party applications before they can roll out the Windows 10 update.
FTFY since Microsoft has clearly gone from "let's develop and release a product that is usable to let's develop anything and just release that"
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
The Windows 10 October 2018 Update is now fully available—for “advanced” users
The rollout of Microsoft's beleaguered update will become a little faster now.
Microsoft is saying that this upgrade route is for "advanced" users. Everyone else should wait for the fully automatic deployment, which doesn't seem to have started yet. That'll have its own set of throttles and perhaps even new blacklists if further problems are detected. A number of the remaining compatibility problems are more likely to strike corporate users, as they involve corporate VPN and security software. Companies will need to apply the relevant patches for the third-party applications before they can roll out the Windows 10 update.
But, ... it's not.
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Microsoft issues emergency update to fix critical IE flaw under active exploit
Memory corruption vulnerability allows drive-by attacks.
The memory-corruption flaw allows attackers to remotely execute malicious code when computers use IE to visit a booby-trapped website, Microsoft said Wednesday. Indexed as CVE-2018-8653, the flaw affects all supported versions of Windows. The vulnerability involves the way Microsoft's scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer.
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft issues emergency update to fix critical IE flaw under active exploit
Memory corruption vulnerability allows drive-by attacks.
The memory-corruption flaw allows attackers to remotely execute malicious code when computers use IE to visit a booby-trapped website, Microsoft said Wednesday. Indexed as CVE-2018-8653, the flaw affects all supported versions of Windows. The vulnerability involves the way Microsoft's scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer.
That explains why my computers rebooted last night.
