Microsoft Changes The Terms On It’s Bing AI Services
If you make use of Microsoft's Bing AI Services you should be aware that the terms of use have changed, and not necessarily for the better. There are two of the terms…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Aug 16, 2023 | General Tech | 0
If you make use of Microsoft's Bing AI Services you should be aware that the terms of use have changed, and not necessarily for the better. There are two of the terms…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 29, 2022 | General Tech | 3
A large team of researches from the University of Washington, University of California-Davis, University of California-Irvine, and Northeastern University have published a paper titled, "Your Echos are heard: Tracking, profiling, and ad-targeting…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 23, 2021 | General Tech | 0
Your Firefox won't look very different today but there has been a change behind the scenes which may please you. In order to mitigate the privacy concerns which the continual evolution of…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 29, 2020 | General Tech | 1
The EFF and other privacy minded individuals and organizations have had a few problems with Amazon's Ring products and it looks like that is not going to be resolved any time soon. …
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Jun 29, 2019 | General Tech | 1
Track THIS is a website that will give advertisers an interesting (and probably wrong) view of who you are. Once you select a persona, the website will launch a...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 10, 2019 | General Tech | 0
The upcoming version of Firefox will include anti-fingerprinting technology to increase your privacy when browsing the web. Fingerprinting is a bit different from dumping a cookie on your system, instead advertisers can…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Dec 5, 2017 | General Tech | 2
Google has responded to the news stories posted last week at various news sites about the secretive data collection many apps on Google Play indulge in. Developers of Android apps...
Read Moreby Tim Verry | Oct 28, 2016 | Editorial, General Tech | 12
It has been some time since I last looked at Opera, and while I used to be a big fan of the alternative web browser my interest waned around the time that…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Apr 4, 2016 | General Tech | 33
As expected, Facebook has added some questionable features to the Oculus Rift and if any of it surprises you then you haven't been paying attention. The Register went through it...
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Jan 28, 2016 | General Tech | 20
Microsoft is revisiting an old issue with private browsing which we have seen too many times unfortunately. In 2010 Firefox's private browsing broke and left site visits on your computer and in…
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Dec 31, 2015 | General Tech | 9
On Christmas Day, Valve had a few hours of problems. Their servers were being overloaded by malicious traffic. The best analogy that I could provide would...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Nov 18, 2015 | General Tech | 15
UPDATE (Nov 19th, 12pm EST): Ed Bott emailed me to clarify a few points. First, PINs for BitLocker are not required and will not be…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Feb 18, 2015 | General Tech | 2
Kansas City got Google Fiber back in 2012 and not surprisingly a lot of users jumped to this ~$70 service from their current ISPs the moment they could. Two of the incumbent…
Read Moreby Jeremy Hellstrom | Oct 14, 2014 | General Tech | 1
GM's Predix asset management platform has been used for a while now, after they came to the realization that they were in the top 20 of the largest software developers...
Read Moreby Scott Michaud | Aug 1, 2013 | Editorial, General Tech | 0
Mozilla Labs is researching a new approach to the problem of privacy and targeted advertising: allow the user to provide the data that honest advertisers intend to acquire via tracking...
Read Moreby Tim Verry | May 2, 2013 | General Tech | 0
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released its annual Who Has Your Back report, which highlights Internet companies that (do or do not) defend user’s online privacy rights. The EFF looks...
Read Moreby Tim Verry | Feb 26, 2013 | General Tech | 0
Mozilla’s Firefox web browser continues to add new features. A recent patch submitted by Jonathan Mayer proposes an interesting change to the way the browser handles third party cookies. The...
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