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Social Media Harmful to Children

“A growing body of research demonstrates that excessive use of digital devices and social media is harmful to children and teens, making it very likely this new app will undermine…

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Significant contribution by Google engineers regarding Spectre

Consumers are currently living with multiple CPU hardware security flaws across multiple brands of CPU's. At the same time CPU's also have built in "spyware/Management Engines" and Intel already released…

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Billions of South African Rands exported every year

More security issues from Intel (Over and above Spectre and Meltdown). Regarding ME (Management Engines) the Intel CPU manufacturer said a few days ago: Intel has identified security vulnerabilities that…

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More details on Spectre

Here is a downloadable PDF about Spectre from https://spectreattack.com Also see: Living with Spectre Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution∗ Paul Kocher(1) , Daniel Genkin(2), Daniel Gruss(3) , Werner Haas(4), Mike…

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You need legal advice to use Nvidia GeForce products

Nvidia changed, or 'updated' their licensing in 2018. The Nvidia software drivers and software is still closed source, proprietary and "secret" software. But there is now more... If you decide…

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Living with Spectre

The Meltdown CPU hardware issue can be mitigated by software, although at a processing cost. (My own system is already patched against meltdown) Spectre however, is a design flaw and…

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Major CPU security issue details released

All CPU's are vulnerable to a major and critical hardware security issue. The issues, as more becomes known, are being patched by software updates (as updating your CPU requires you…

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Global News Embargo on major CPU security issues

There is currently a global security embargo on the latest huge global security threat which some are calling by some variation of the term "CPU" (central processing unit) All CPU's…

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Apple admits to slowing down older devices

Various techies claimed that Apple slows down performance of older devices, on purpose. The claims were always defended as old devices building up lots of garbage, slow internet connections and…

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Apple tightens the noose

The new Apple published App Store Guidelines includes 4.3 and more specifically 4.2.6:  "Apps created from a commercialized template or app generation service will be rejected" This makes it much…

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