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Programmatic technology company Jelli announced an expansion for its offices. It has opened two new offices, one in New York City and one in Boise, Idaho. Jelli also hired streaming advertising veteran Eric Ronning, to run operations in NYC as its new vice president of strategic accounts. Continue Reading →
The public got a rare view into how Facebook tries to keep offensive and dangerous content offline in a report published Sunday. Leaked confidential documents exposed the secret rules by which Facebook polices postings on issues such as violence, hate speech, terrorism, pornography, racism and self-harm, as well as such subjects as sports fixing and cannibalism.
At least 40% of Australian households now have at least one home "Internet of Things" device. These are fridges, window blinds, locks and other devices that are connected to the internet.
Driving on open country roads can lull you into a false sense of security — with so few cars around, it's easy to stop paying close attention to the road. Luckily for this driver, that lapse didn't cost them.
Appeal following fatal traffic incident on the M3 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision on the M3 yesterday morning (Monday 5 June). Fatal road traffic collision in Odiham 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We’re appealing for information following a fatal road traffic collision in Odiham. Bravery and dedication celebrated at our Chief Constable's Awards 2 Jun 2017 - General news From a dramatic rooftop rescue, to the brave capture of a knife-wielding robber - there was plenty to celebrate at the Chief Constable's Awards. Summer drink and drug drive operation 1 Jun 2017 - General news Too many people are still taking the risk to drink and drug drive and that is simply unacceptable – Superintendent Simon Dodds. Policing plan for a safe Isle of Wight Festival 2017 7 Jun 2017 - General news A dedicated policing plan is in place to ensure residents and visitors stay safe on the Isle of Wight during this year’s Festival season. Man given life sentence for assaulting officers 26 May 2017 - General news When police officers put on their uniforms, they don’t expect to end their shift lying in a hospital bed.
CLEVER Portland Deploys Thief-Proof Bike Racks 16 diggs citylab.com Design Unless you encase your bike in concrete and chip it out whenever you need to use it, there’s no way to 100-percent guard your cycle against theft, but Portland's clever new bike racks are a good start.
The manifesto even suggests that the government might stop search engines like Google from directing people to pornographic websites. "We will put a responsibility on industry not to direct users – even unintentionally – to hate speech, pornography, or other sources of harm," the Conservatives write.
As mundanity mingles with tragedy, we confront the inevitable Popian letdown: Do we care enough? Do we have the right to our local contentment? Our joys can seem at once shamefully full and depressingly empty. I have online friends on both sides of the Atlantic, and, looking down my News Feed, I’ve often felt the heedlessness of one continent in the face of the other’s torments.
A 7-year-old flaw in Intel chips could enable hijackers to gain total control of business computers and use them for malicious purposes. The Intel AMT vulnerability is the first of its kind, according to Embedi, which released technical details about it last week. Attackers could exploit the flaw to get full control over business computers, even those turned off but plugged into an outlet.
"Depression, fear, pain, anxiety — you name it," Wim Hof’s voice boomed through the speakers. "We are able to get into any cell and change the chemistry. We are able to get into the DNA."
Get updates via RSS feed Appeal following fatal traffic incident on the M3 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision on the M3 yesterday morning (Monday 5 June). Fatal road traffic collision in Odiham 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We’re appealing for information following a fatal road traffic collision in Odiham. Bravery and dedication celebrated at our Chief Constable's Awards 2 Jun 2017 - General news From a dramatic rooftop rescue, to the brave capture of a knife-wielding robber - there was plenty to celebrate at the Chief Constable's Awards. Summer drink and drug drive operation 1 Jun 2017 - General news Too many people are still taking the risk to drink and drug drive and that is simply unacceptable – Superintendent Simon Dodds. Policing plan for a safe Isle of Wight Festival 2017 7 Jun 2017 - General news A dedicated policing plan is in place to ensure residents and visitors stay safe on the Isle of Wight during this year’s Festival season. Man given life sentence for assaulting officers 26 May 2017 - General news When police officers put on their uniforms, they don’t expect to end their shift lying in a hospital bed.
Facebook has announced the beta launch of Facebook Spaces, a new app that allows users to connect with friends and colleagues in an interactive virtual reality environment. It provides a way for social media users to hang out as they might otherwise in person -- even bridging great distances -- noted Rachel Franklin, head of social VR at Facebook. An avatar represents each user in the VR world.
Microsoft on Thursday announced Mixer, a rebranded version of its game-streaming service previously known as "Beam." In addition to the name change, the service will include a number of new features designed to attract more gamers. The added features will unlock new possibilities for social streaming, while also helping viewers find specific content across the service, according to Microsoft.
The agency instructed the operators of mobile and online news services to dismantle “current-affairs news” operations on Friday, after earlier calling a halt to such activity at Tencent, according to people familiar with the situation. Like its peers, Asia’s largest internet company had developed a news operation and grown its team. Henceforth, they and other services can only carry reports provided by government-controlled print or online media, the people said, asking not to be identified because the issue is politically sensitive.
The mutation of a meme can sometimes be telling. In 2014, a post began making the rounds on Facebook, urging people to fill their timelines with links to music, to break “the monotony of selfies and sensationalism.” By late 2015, the form of the monotony had changed; now it consisted of “nasty, divisive headlines and negativity.” Soon it had become “the monotony of politics and posts about people killing each other.” This most recent revival of the meme bore witness to the early summer of 2016, with its seemingly endless litany of bad news—Baghdad’s worst bombing in more than a decade, the Orlando night-club massacre, the Istanbul airport explosion, continued police shootings in the United States, flares of terrorism and far-right nativism across Europe, and a farcically ugly U.S. Presidential election, all set to the relentless bass line of climate-change reports, which counted out one record-breakingly hot month after another.
Featured General news Witness appeals Missing people Your local area Campaigns Collections Get updates via RSS feed Appeal following fatal traffic incident on the M3 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision on the M3 yesterday morning (Monday 5 June). Fatal road traffic collision in Odiham 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We’re appealing for information following a fatal road traffic collision in Odiham. Bravery and dedication celebrated at our Chief Constable's Awards 2 Jun 2017 - General news From a dramatic rooftop rescue, to the brave capture of a knife-wielding robber - there was plenty to celebrate at the Chief Constable's Awards. Summer drink and drug drive operation 1 Jun 2017 - General news Too many people are still taking the risk to drink and drug drive and that is simply unacceptable – Superintendent Simon Dodds. Policing plan for a safe Isle of Wight Festival 2017 7 Jun 2017 - General news A dedicated policing plan is in place to ensure residents and visitors stay safe on the Isle of Wight during this year’s Festival season. Man given life sentence for assaulting officers 26 May 2017 - General news When police officers put on their uniforms, they don’t expect to end their shift lying in a hospital bed. See more news
With shadowy botnet armies lurking around the globe and vigilante gray-hat actors inoculating susceptible devices, the appetite for Internet of Things security is stronger than ever. "If you throw IoT on a con talk, you've got a pretty good chance to get in," remarked information security professional Jason Kent, as he began his presentation at Chicago's Thotcon conference last week.
This vignette gets its bathetic comedy from the collision of two scales: the immensity of war and its mass casualties hitting against private comforts. Proust mercilessly shows how thinking small can trump thinking big, how a buttery morsel can dwarf life’s grandest horrors. Pope writes in his mock-guide for bad poets that their eyes “should be like unto the wrong end of a perspective glass, by which all the objects of nature are lessened.” Alas, Madame Verdurin’s sinking feelings are not hers alone, since who among us isn’t implicated in this moment of tactless pleasure? It is part of our hourly adventures in the News Feed, with its blithe slide show of photogenic pastries and bloodied refugees. This digital bathos, the deflating consequence of an amoral algorithm, no doubt contributes to our general sense of unease about the social-media project. For in these continual descents from the tragic to the whimsical, we are troubled both by the sufferings of others and by our own placid, treacherous consolations.
Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: The unspoken cruelty of HGTV, a climber who will give you sweaty palms and why you should never play guitar on a date.
Microsoft executives, led by CEO Satya Nadella, introduced a series of enhancements to the company's critical data and cloud services at the kickoff of its annual Build conference, demonstrating new ways to expand adoption of artificial intelligence, personal digital assistants and other innovations. There will be more than 25 billion intelligent devices in the world by 2020, Nadella said.
Seven months ago, Brazilian underdogs Chapecoense boarded a plane to play in the game of their lives. Instead, their biggest moment turned into a tragedy no one can forget.
"This combines two of my pet peeves," Robert Kosara, a research scientist with Tableau Software in Seattle, says. "Maps being used in weird ways, and rankings."
The change in the guidelines on original reporting also comes weeks after China replaced its chief internet regulator. Xu Lin, a former Shanghai propaganda chief who worked briefly with Xi during his half-year stint as Shanghai party boss in 2007, succeeded Lu Wei in June as head of the cyberspace administration.
All of the major video game developers, publishers and console hardware makers, as well as many retail buyers and the gaming press, will descend on Los Angeles for E3 2017 next week. The annual event -- a showcase for computer, video and mobile games and related products -- will kick off officially on Tuesday and run through Thursday at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Most people who spend time on the Internet will likely have asked themselves whether things are really getting worse, or whether it just feels that way. Constant online exposure to the world’s troubles no doubt encourages an end-of-days mood, but the consequences of using social media as a news channel are more complex than your run-of-the-mill existential dread. To blame “monotony,” a blasé description in the context of “people killing each other,” is to miss that the defining feature of social media is a mismatch of scale. The feed is where we go both to be informed about the world and to escape its violence. It is designed to accommodate the personal and the planetary, political awareness and head-in-the-sand retreat. These opposite poles of life are dressed in identical trappings, and we’re invited to react to them with a single, limited set of coded responses. The same thumb goes up when friends post photos of their Canadian camping trip and when they check in safe after an attack in Brussels or Nice or New York or Berlin. As a result, the social-media news cycle demands of us a bifocal gaze, one that comes with a particular emotional toll.
Internet security at Mar-a-Lago -- the private club President Trump owns and has dubbed the "Southern White House" -- is weak, based on a recent investigation. Trump has used the resort to meet with staffers and foreign heads of state on official business. In February, he took a call about a North Korean ballistic missile launch in Mar-a-Lago's dining room, with members and waiters present.
The regulator has since tightened its grip on online news reports, such as by warning news or social network websites against publishing news without proper verification. In another sign that the government is exerting influence over information, the publishers of a private purchasing managers index suspended that popular gauge without explanation.
Google Translate recognised the word as Samoan, though could offer no English translation. A BBC reader has written in to debunk any suggestion that the president is a secret Samoan speaker. Among many other reasons for this, the language does not even have a letter C.
Cortana can now help you score deals through Microsoft Edge By Parker Wilhelm Microsoft augments the Edge browser with another Cortana feature to save you a few bucks shopping. A fitting name for your website – finding the perfect domain name By Sponsored TechRadar Pro Finding the perfect name for your business just got much easier. Ethical hackers show that Windows 10 isn’t immune to WannaCry By Darren Allan Here’s why a future WannaCry-style assault could well hit even Microsoft’s most secure operating system. Apple cuts the cost for 2TB of iCloud storage in half By Michelle Fitzsimmons Flying under the radar of all the new hardware at WWDC 2017 is an iCloud price change. Samsung is about to launch a mesh Wi-Fi system of its own By Parker Wilhelm For those looking for a new home project, Samsung has announced pricing and release date for its new Wi-Fi hub. Google is adding an ad blocker to Chrome in 2018 By Michelle Fitzsimmons Tired of annoying ads? Starting next year, Google will remove all ads from sites that don't fall in line. Gmail gets new powers to fight phishing, ransomware and more By Darren Allan TechRadar Pro Google’s webmail service can now block malicious emails with an incredibly high accuracy. How to hide your identity from snooping ISP's By Sponsored TechRadar Pro ISP's have started tracking user data – but you can stop them if you encrypt your online activity. Twitter just changed the way you can receive Direct Messages By Michelle Fitzsimmons Want greater control over your DMs? Twitter introduces Accept and Delete for missives from users you don't follow. Google makes it easier to find your own stuff from the search box By David Nield In a significant update to its search engine, Google now helps you search your own content as well as the web.
A technician hurriedly slings his backpack over his shoulders, straps on his M9 pistol, and bolts out of the transport with his squad of commandos in a hail of gunfire. As soon as his team reaches the compound, he whips out a laptop and starts deploying a rootkit to the target server, bullets whizzing overhead all the while. Army Cyber Institute's recruits are training to do just that.
“Current-affairs news” is a broad term in China and encompasses all news and commentary related to politics, economics, military, foreign affairs and social issues, according to the draft version of China’s online information law. The amended draft of the regulation is currently seeking public feedback on the CAC’s official website.
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Programmatic technology company Jelli announced an expansion for its offices. It has opened two new offices, one in New York City and one in Boise, Idaho. Jelli also hired streaming advertising veteran Eric Ronning, to run operations in NYC as its new vice president of strategic accounts. Continue Reading →
The public got a rare view into how Facebook tries to keep offensive and dangerous content offline in a report published Sunday. Leaked confidential documents exposed the secret rules by which Facebook polices postings on issues such as violence, hate speech, terrorism, pornography, racism and self-harm, as well as such subjects as sports fixing and cannibalism.
At least 40% of Australian households now have at least one home "Internet of Things" device. These are fridges, window blinds, locks and other devices that are connected to the internet.
Driving on open country roads can lull you into a false sense of security — with so few cars around, it's easy to stop paying close attention to the road. Luckily for this driver, that lapse didn't cost them.
Appeal following fatal traffic incident on the M3 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision on the M3 yesterday morning (Monday 5 June). Fatal road traffic collision in Odiham 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We’re appealing for information following a fatal road traffic collision in Odiham. Bravery and dedication celebrated at our Chief Constable's Awards 2 Jun 2017 - General news From a dramatic rooftop rescue, to the brave capture of a knife-wielding robber - there was plenty to celebrate at the Chief Constable's Awards. Summer drink and drug drive operation 1 Jun 2017 - General news Too many people are still taking the risk to drink and drug drive and that is simply unacceptable – Superintendent Simon Dodds. Policing plan for a safe Isle of Wight Festival 2017 7 Jun 2017 - General news A dedicated policing plan is in place to ensure residents and visitors stay safe on the Isle of Wight during this year’s Festival season. Man given life sentence for assaulting officers 26 May 2017 - General news When police officers put on their uniforms, they don’t expect to end their shift lying in a hospital bed.
CLEVER Portland Deploys Thief-Proof Bike Racks 16 diggs citylab.com Design Unless you encase your bike in concrete and chip it out whenever you need to use it, there’s no way to 100-percent guard your cycle against theft, but Portland's clever new bike racks are a good start.
The manifesto even suggests that the government might stop search engines like Google from directing people to pornographic websites. "We will put a responsibility on industry not to direct users – even unintentionally – to hate speech, pornography, or other sources of harm," the Conservatives write.
As mundanity mingles with tragedy, we confront the inevitable Popian letdown: Do we care enough? Do we have the right to our local contentment? Our joys can seem at once shamefully full and depressingly empty. I have online friends on both sides of the Atlantic, and, looking down my News Feed, I’ve often felt the heedlessness of one continent in the face of the other’s torments.
A 7-year-old flaw in Intel chips could enable hijackers to gain total control of business computers and use them for malicious purposes. The Intel AMT vulnerability is the first of its kind, according to Embedi, which released technical details about it last week. Attackers could exploit the flaw to get full control over business computers, even those turned off but plugged into an outlet.
"Depression, fear, pain, anxiety — you name it," Wim Hof’s voice boomed through the speakers. "We are able to get into any cell and change the chemistry. We are able to get into the DNA."
Get updates via RSS feed Appeal following fatal traffic incident on the M3 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision on the M3 yesterday morning (Monday 5 June). Fatal road traffic collision in Odiham 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We’re appealing for information following a fatal road traffic collision in Odiham. Bravery and dedication celebrated at our Chief Constable's Awards 2 Jun 2017 - General news From a dramatic rooftop rescue, to the brave capture of a knife-wielding robber - there was plenty to celebrate at the Chief Constable's Awards. Summer drink and drug drive operation 1 Jun 2017 - General news Too many people are still taking the risk to drink and drug drive and that is simply unacceptable – Superintendent Simon Dodds. Policing plan for a safe Isle of Wight Festival 2017 7 Jun 2017 - General news A dedicated policing plan is in place to ensure residents and visitors stay safe on the Isle of Wight during this year’s Festival season. Man given life sentence for assaulting officers 26 May 2017 - General news When police officers put on their uniforms, they don’t expect to end their shift lying in a hospital bed.
Facebook has announced the beta launch of Facebook Spaces, a new app that allows users to connect with friends and colleagues in an interactive virtual reality environment. It provides a way for social media users to hang out as they might otherwise in person -- even bridging great distances -- noted Rachel Franklin, head of social VR at Facebook. An avatar represents each user in the VR world.
Microsoft on Thursday announced Mixer, a rebranded version of its game-streaming service previously known as "Beam." In addition to the name change, the service will include a number of new features designed to attract more gamers. The added features will unlock new possibilities for social streaming, while also helping viewers find specific content across the service, according to Microsoft.
The agency instructed the operators of mobile and online news services to dismantle “current-affairs news” operations on Friday, after earlier calling a halt to such activity at Tencent, according to people familiar with the situation. Like its peers, Asia’s largest internet company had developed a news operation and grown its team. Henceforth, they and other services can only carry reports provided by government-controlled print or online media, the people said, asking not to be identified because the issue is politically sensitive.
The mutation of a meme can sometimes be telling. In 2014, a post began making the rounds on Facebook, urging people to fill their timelines with links to music, to break “the monotony of selfies and sensationalism.” By late 2015, the form of the monotony had changed; now it consisted of “nasty, divisive headlines and negativity.” Soon it had become “the monotony of politics and posts about people killing each other.” This most recent revival of the meme bore witness to the early summer of 2016, with its seemingly endless litany of bad news—Baghdad’s worst bombing in more than a decade, the Orlando night-club massacre, the Istanbul airport explosion, continued police shootings in the United States, flares of terrorism and far-right nativism across Europe, and a farcically ugly U.S. Presidential election, all set to the relentless bass line of climate-change reports, which counted out one record-breakingly hot month after another.
Featured General news Witness appeals Missing people Your local area Campaigns Collections Get updates via RSS feed Appeal following fatal traffic incident on the M3 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision on the M3 yesterday morning (Monday 5 June). Fatal road traffic collision in Odiham 6 Jun 2017 - Witness appeal We’re appealing for information following a fatal road traffic collision in Odiham. Bravery and dedication celebrated at our Chief Constable's Awards 2 Jun 2017 - General news From a dramatic rooftop rescue, to the brave capture of a knife-wielding robber - there was plenty to celebrate at the Chief Constable's Awards. Summer drink and drug drive operation 1 Jun 2017 - General news Too many people are still taking the risk to drink and drug drive and that is simply unacceptable – Superintendent Simon Dodds. Policing plan for a safe Isle of Wight Festival 2017 7 Jun 2017 - General news A dedicated policing plan is in place to ensure residents and visitors stay safe on the Isle of Wight during this year’s Festival season. Man given life sentence for assaulting officers 26 May 2017 - General news When police officers put on their uniforms, they don’t expect to end their shift lying in a hospital bed. See more news
With shadowy botnet armies lurking around the globe and vigilante gray-hat actors inoculating susceptible devices, the appetite for Internet of Things security is stronger than ever. "If you throw IoT on a con talk, you've got a pretty good chance to get in," remarked information security professional Jason Kent, as he began his presentation at Chicago's Thotcon conference last week.
This vignette gets its bathetic comedy from the collision of two scales: the immensity of war and its mass casualties hitting against private comforts. Proust mercilessly shows how thinking small can trump thinking big, how a buttery morsel can dwarf life’s grandest horrors. Pope writes in his mock-guide for bad poets that their eyes “should be like unto the wrong end of a perspective glass, by which all the objects of nature are lessened.” Alas, Madame Verdurin’s sinking feelings are not hers alone, since who among us isn’t implicated in this moment of tactless pleasure? It is part of our hourly adventures in the News Feed, with its blithe slide show of photogenic pastries and bloodied refugees. This digital bathos, the deflating consequence of an amoral algorithm, no doubt contributes to our general sense of unease about the social-media project. For in these continual descents from the tragic to the whimsical, we are troubled both by the sufferings of others and by our own placid, treacherous consolations.
Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: The unspoken cruelty of HGTV, a climber who will give you sweaty palms and why you should never play guitar on a date.
Microsoft executives, led by CEO Satya Nadella, introduced a series of enhancements to the company's critical data and cloud services at the kickoff of its annual Build conference, demonstrating new ways to expand adoption of artificial intelligence, personal digital assistants and other innovations. There will be more than 25 billion intelligent devices in the world by 2020, Nadella said.
Seven months ago, Brazilian underdogs Chapecoense boarded a plane to play in the game of their lives. Instead, their biggest moment turned into a tragedy no one can forget.
"This combines two of my pet peeves," Robert Kosara, a research scientist with Tableau Software in Seattle, says. "Maps being used in weird ways, and rankings."
The change in the guidelines on original reporting also comes weeks after China replaced its chief internet regulator. Xu Lin, a former Shanghai propaganda chief who worked briefly with Xi during his half-year stint as Shanghai party boss in 2007, succeeded Lu Wei in June as head of the cyberspace administration.
All of the major video game developers, publishers and console hardware makers, as well as many retail buyers and the gaming press, will descend on Los Angeles for E3 2017 next week. The annual event -- a showcase for computer, video and mobile games and related products -- will kick off officially on Tuesday and run through Thursday at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Most people who spend time on the Internet will likely have asked themselves whether things are really getting worse, or whether it just feels that way. Constant online exposure to the world’s troubles no doubt encourages an end-of-days mood, but the consequences of using social media as a news channel are more complex than your run-of-the-mill existential dread. To blame “monotony,” a blasé description in the context of “people killing each other,” is to miss that the defining feature of social media is a mismatch of scale. The feed is where we go both to be informed about the world and to escape its violence. It is designed to accommodate the personal and the planetary, political awareness and head-in-the-sand retreat. These opposite poles of life are dressed in identical trappings, and we’re invited to react to them with a single, limited set of coded responses. The same thumb goes up when friends post photos of their Canadian camping trip and when they check in safe after an attack in Brussels or Nice or New York or Berlin. As a result, the social-media news cycle demands of us a bifocal gaze, one that comes with a particular emotional toll.
Internet security at Mar-a-Lago -- the private club President Trump owns and has dubbed the "Southern White House" -- is weak, based on a recent investigation. Trump has used the resort to meet with staffers and foreign heads of state on official business. In February, he took a call about a North Korean ballistic missile launch in Mar-a-Lago's dining room, with members and waiters present.
The regulator has since tightened its grip on online news reports, such as by warning news or social network websites against publishing news without proper verification. In another sign that the government is exerting influence over information, the publishers of a private purchasing managers index suspended that popular gauge without explanation.
Google Translate recognised the word as Samoan, though could offer no English translation. A BBC reader has written in to debunk any suggestion that the president is a secret Samoan speaker. Among many other reasons for this, the language does not even have a letter C.
Cortana can now help you score deals through Microsoft Edge By Parker Wilhelm Microsoft augments the Edge browser with another Cortana feature to save you a few bucks shopping. A fitting name for your website – finding the perfect domain name By Sponsored TechRadar Pro Finding the perfect name for your business just got much easier. Ethical hackers show that Windows 10 isn’t immune to WannaCry By Darren Allan Here’s why a future WannaCry-style assault could well hit even Microsoft’s most secure operating system. Apple cuts the cost for 2TB of iCloud storage in half By Michelle Fitzsimmons Flying under the radar of all the new hardware at WWDC 2017 is an iCloud price change. Samsung is about to launch a mesh Wi-Fi system of its own By Parker Wilhelm For those looking for a new home project, Samsung has announced pricing and release date for its new Wi-Fi hub. Google is adding an ad blocker to Chrome in 2018 By Michelle Fitzsimmons Tired of annoying ads? Starting next year, Google will remove all ads from sites that don't fall in line. Gmail gets new powers to fight phishing, ransomware and more By Darren Allan TechRadar Pro Google’s webmail service can now block malicious emails with an incredibly high accuracy. How to hide your identity from snooping ISP's By Sponsored TechRadar Pro ISP's have started tracking user data – but you can stop them if you encrypt your online activity. Twitter just changed the way you can receive Direct Messages By Michelle Fitzsimmons Want greater control over your DMs? Twitter introduces Accept and Delete for missives from users you don't follow. Google makes it easier to find your own stuff from the search box By David Nield In a significant update to its search engine, Google now helps you search your own content as well as the web.
A technician hurriedly slings his backpack over his shoulders, straps on his M9 pistol, and bolts out of the transport with his squad of commandos in a hail of gunfire. As soon as his team reaches the compound, he whips out a laptop and starts deploying a rootkit to the target server, bullets whizzing overhead all the while. Army Cyber Institute's recruits are training to do just that.
“Current-affairs news” is a broad term in China and encompasses all news and commentary related to politics, economics, military, foreign affairs and social issues, according to the draft version of China’s online information law. The amended draft of the regulation is currently seeking public feedback on the CAC’s official website.
https://newsklic.com
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